Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-08-29

ny checked. must inevitably terminate in the
rum OF all honest people, whether white or
o'ack, aud, doubtless, in the triumph and en-.
f'chment OF Il few inscriptions thieves and
varahonls.
J. Gen'il Esq. followed, and addressed tie
meeting in his native French; aud, we are
not ll%altering him, when we add, in his usual
eloquent, vigorous, fervid, style. Taking as his
text. that sublime sentence which once fell
from Divine lips-''PAX v~obiScum"-we could
no, help contrasting the holy associations
which II recalled, with the arran, hypocrisy
that attaches To a phrase of somewha, similar
import. attributed to the candidate of the Raj
lcal rariy-one giving assurance Of the peace
Of God that peace which the world, with its
batteries and decisions, never can give the
other, with its utterly degrading conditions,
promising nothing short Of national death the
: destruction of Society.
Mr.. Gen'il elaborated his text without
labor (') but not without zoal-lrnons,ra,inc
in a lew rI'hy sentences, that, in Society
peace can have no existence. save In mutual
forhearancr, mutual liberation, and a universal
determination 10 do good, aud be right las FAR
as that desirable condition Of beiou can be
comprised by human Observation-Disclosures tho
consequences to Him who ~AispoScs. while man
proposes.
A feeling of d~e'tcacy forbils us 10 enter
minutely into this specimen Of splendid ora
tory enough, that after cxlorting his hearers
OF both races, TO promote by all means within
their reach, that public peace on which the
security of the social fabiic rests. and without
which neither individual nor national prosper.
lty is possible, the speaker concluded as he
brgan-'Pax vobiscnm''; ''paix a nous paiv
a vonS paix j tous''.
Squire B.. Johnson lrolored) made no eiot,
at ora'"lIca' display. He did wha, was ininl-
iely better he made n brief speech, in rcmark,
ably good English which was still more re.
ma kablc for the sound sense and Wholesome
ADVICE which il conveyed. Fully sensible that
he is now one of the people Of his S%onillern
soil conscious that his interests, and the in.
icresi> OF his race, are irrevocabiv bound np
ana Identified with those IF the white South-
ern people, he declared Hat nat was HE hap
pIest day Of his life, when he beheld The Willie
and black native inhabitants Of the parish,
mating on terms Of amily, aud consulting for
the common good.
Squire Johnson told his coiored friends 10
look the question now before the country,
straight in the tace, and see on which, side
their trne interests lie. He asked them. did
they think that those strangers who are tying
to govern the white population with a roa
OF IRON, wonld be very apt 10 spare the co|nted
man, when they succeeded in getting into
their hands, full and ahsoInle power. If the
Radicals had hitherto deceived aud BETRAYED
the c"'ored people. as they undoubtedly had,
were they likely to do any better hereafter ,
Assured himself, that the carpet bag strangers
were anAlons only FOR a proiracieI enjoyment
OF lle c~moiuments of office earring neither
tor Southern white nor Southern black-,his
sturdy and sensible coIorcd citizen demanded
Of his hearers, in substance, if moi in The
words below given, whether ,hey could .hu,
Their eyes 10 the evidences before ihem-,ha,
the carpet bargers are totally incapable of a
magninons act tina, they are, in short, a
-
Who take for th,ir creed, thar The chief end Of man
Is to keep what lie gets, and 10 get wha, lie can
The whole proceedings were characterized
BY the gentlemanly beating and dcco,um of
every one present.: by the absence Of, a, least.
any outward manifestation of dissent, and by
a large accession of colored citizens to the
Democratic ranks. X. Y. T..