The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-06-12
A Fragment.
BIT ELIZA COOKE.


The debt of gratitude
Is not the best remembered where the lips
Pour forth their voluble and fluent tide
Of warm acknowledgement. Fair-spoken
phrases,
Graced with courtier's bow, are pleasant
things,
But rarely hold much more of grateful truth
Than the bright slime that cunning reptiles
spread
To catch their prey-and they who oftenost
In fierce reeOl upon the helping hand,
Are Oftenest those whose hollow hearts have
sworn
A ehangeless sense of benefits received.
The breast where Gratitude is firm and deep
Gives least expression to the one it serves;
As trees that bear the heaviest of fruit
Yield the least rustling to the cherishing
Prayer has its decalogue and well-set chant
To say or sing; but prayer can offer up
A purer tribute to the mighty One
Who rules the thunder and restraints the
waves
Than ever clustered walls responded to.
The lonely orphan child, who steals at night
Where the round moon shines on mothers
grave,
Knows little how to mould his trusting faith
In proper sentences; but the dim eye
That sheds its blind tear upon the turf,
And then looks up to the fair silver stars,
Carries ray of holy fervency
That viii not be rejected at the throne
Of Him who suits the wind to the shorn
lamb
The erring one, whose right arm has been
strong
In working evil, may repent, "and save
His soul alive" He cannot frame his thoughts
m ant no nal
brow
That droops in silene, pentitence and shame,
Shall plead for him at the eternal bar
Where boundless mercy fills the Judgment
seat.
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- The following is an extract
from an article in the New Orleans
Tribune, organ of the colored PEG.
pie of this State.
To careless, occasional reader
of our journal, we mightsometimes
have seemed to agree with ou1
Democratic contemporaries in
their opinions of the Yankees
We, as well as they, have spoken
in no measured terms condemna
ton of carpet baggers and id Ontnt
genus, who have floated down here
from mere Northern regions, hop
ing for something to turn up.r
and who, for lack of better game,
took to office-hunting, and who
finally combined with whatever
congenial element they could find
to form "rings,' which have be-
come synonyme for consolidated
rascality. Against these we have
warned the people, for if they did
not 'qeave their country for their
c0untry's good" they have con
trived to fasten themselves like
barnacles on an unsuspecting and
but too credul0us people, till the
Republican ship seems well nigh
to laundering. What we predict.
ed, and were condemned and ex.
communicated for predicting, has
become a matter of history, so
that the corruption and mismage.
ment Of party leaders are in every
bOdy's mouth. Our warnings,
which were then so unwelcome,
and which brought down upon us
q showers of abuse and misrepresen-
tation, from which we suffer to
this day, are now openly endorsed,
even by such as repudiated us
who uttered them. The people
now see tkaG with Judge Italia
ferT0 at the head of our State
government, the disgraceful scenes
which have been witnessed, and
the nefarioHs legislation which
has given license and compare
tive responsibility to vice, would
never have occurred. His clear
and we'll disciplined intellect, his
long experience in public affairs
his unsupported integrity, and his
lifelong connection with the State
as q planter, a legislator and {
jurist, would have gone far to save
us from these evil times.
tits plain that the Republican
party of Louisiana is thorough,
demerakzed. The recent social
ed abortive State Convention i,
sufficient The people have los
confidence in the men who mad,
loud prOeessionr which they hav,
not made good.
- Juo. Thompson who wa
lately executed at Sherman, Texa
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