The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-09
Patience.


heroism than illustrated the Southern rank.
while there remained the least hope; dis
erection never dictated a more prompt and
perfect conformity to the DEGREES of fate
when all hope was gone. With many races
such a war as ours would have kindled pas
sicns. that would have burned up, for years,
i'll the shape of lawless rapine, brigandage,
blOodshed and revolution. When the South
laid down it's arms, it resumed its old posi-
ton in perfect good faith, and shook hands
with the victor. Any other course would
have been passion, not policy. The termina-
ton of the war proved the Southern people
to be as remarkable for sound, over ruling
common sense, as its course had shown them
to be unsurpassed for headlong daring.
They are now on trial for patience
Courage and common sense combined
ought to produce patience. Yet patience is
not merely combination of courage and
reason, for they both can fail and have
failed patience always conquers. The en-
emies of the South would, this day, pay ten
millions of dollars to provoke riot in New
Orleans, for they know if we remain patient
they are lost and the South wins. Will you
please themf Will you fall into the pit
which they dig and adopt the policy to
which they tempt you!
Our people have done gloriously 80 far.
There being no war, they>have pcrsistently
kept the peace, under provocations the
most studied, the most ingenious that reck-
less a1d ruthless enemies could devise,
They have been tempted on their weakest
side. they have been assailed at their ten
derest point. We do not refer to the sud
den revulsion of the social and political
system forced on them without their being
we do not speak of the hostility
OF races which has been so studiously en-
by some parties. and which has
proved 80 signal a failure we refer to
taunts the most insulting, the most maligz \
nant, directed by few strangers and enc
mics against their personal honor and do
nestle security.
When these politician adventnTers had
allied to embitter the former master and
lave against each other sufficiently to pro-
luce collision, they Threatened the high
pirited chivalry of this, citywith the Prov
IS of their Loyal League, and tainted
hem with the excellent reasons they had for
leeping quiet. Now, they grow even holder
n their insults, and openly threaten to
'urn the city and leave our families roofiess
any of our young men permit themselves
o be euticed into violence. Southern re- :
ellionsness is to have some smoking
aohuments to remind it of its iniauity.
his is the genuine rule or ruin policy Not !
cry conciliatory. truly, for those who are
o be ruined.
1t is to be hoped, however, that our people
Understand the stratagem, and will not per-
lit this imported "cuteness" to triumph
yer their clear-sighted astuteness. Shall I
re sacrifice the most valuable and cherished Z
bjects that we have in view for moments
bullition of childish passion The triumph U
the Democratic party in the coming cleo
ons will be the destruction of this whole
stem of reconstruction Of which you COM
lain so much. The horde of loeusts now de
curing the substance of the land will have u
migrate to Mexico. The writ of habeas I"
,rpus will be restored to efficiency, che
syonet will not make a plaything of the IL
blot box and Justice will determine in our III
urts instead of politics. In. q word, the - =,
Intly will be ruled by the people, not by u
roe. '"
But the Democratic party at the North is ~
pendent for success upon the continuan y
that popular current which it now claims u
be setting so strongly in its favor. Any
ing ON our part which can be construed "
to rebellious spirit, hostility to the IL, ,i
Mon, will tend to chill the growing feeling AZ n,
liberality and relzindle the animosities ~
oused by the war. By such acts we fur "
sh our enemies with weapons and dis ~
arten our friends: we deliberately throw ~