The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-07-24

AA0 ASkSAS VA RNAASA%O 49,
ton, takes the text of YergeTs,
murder of Colonel Crane to en-
volve some of his bilious spleen
against Southern ladies, in the
following choice morceaa;
'sThere is not a soldier who has
seen service at the South, but can
say that the most cruel, yindict-
i've, bloodthirsty creatures he had
to encounter were the women
The witches of Macbeth were hu.
name and gentle by the side of
these lleartless creatures, that,
resembling women, shrek for
blood. This woman may be an
exception, but | doubt it, and am
prepared to believe the story that
tells us that she threatened TO
send "Ned to the Yankee" and
actually urged on the cowardly
assassin"
1--WE sicken at the cant. 1t is
time for our Government to ex-
tend over these demoralized com
munities the iron law of order,
and give its own to the gallOws.
These people shame our civiliza
ton and disgrace our Govern
ment. 1t is nothing to us wheth-
er the negro votes or whether he
does not vote; whether the master
is amnestied or Outlawed. This
is the stupidest sort of trifling.-
What we want is order. We want
something more terrible than the
bowie knife and the revolver. We
want the men cowed and the wo-
men taught that they send their
'Neds' to an immediate and igno.
minous death when they arm
them for street encounters
To say the above is unmanly,
cowardly and indecent would not,
we fear, have much effect upon a
nature capable of uttering it. But
to refute the libel to the world, it
is only necessary to contrast the
Southern women of the war with
such specimens of Northern vir-
tue as produced in DR.. Mary
Walker, Pauline Cushman, and
other ladies (?) of kindredi lk, who,
during that time, filled such a
large space in the eyes of the men
Of the North and the hearts of
their women. If we are to credit
Mr.. Greeley's account of the Girl
of the Period, which we suppose
Don Piatt regards as the type of
social excellence and virtue, we
are left no reason to be ashamed
at the heroic devotion and sacri-
fees by our women during the
war.
| 1t is a matter Of doubt to us if
Don Piatt knows what a really
good woman is, and he certainly
does not, if his ideas upon the
subject have been gathered from
his association with the sex, as
represented in Washington City.
Some excuse may therefore, be
due to the depravity with which
his views af woman kind are, col
ored, but only enough to slightly
illume the contempt all men must
feel for such wretch, with a
shade of pity. To Mr.. Piatt's sat
isfaction and to the honor of his
section be it said that war upon
defenceless women is no new thing
in our bitter experience at the
hands of his Radical friends, and
that our women are not blood
thirsty is certainly not their fault;
1t most probably springs from q
moral refinement and innate vir
tue which he is incapable of I'M
derstanding, solely because it
never came under his notice in
the society he moves in. We
neither expect to effect any reform
in Mr.. Don Piatt's opinions, nor
do we care to, having full faith in
the old Hindostanee proverb-
Though you bind dogs tail in
splints and soak it in oil, tie curl
will never come out of it, Yet
we would still, in view of the ma
ignant indecencv of his attack.
recommend him to secure that
consistency before the world,
which can only be now obtained
by leveling his mothers grave
and scratching her name out of
the family Bible-Kismet.-[N. O..
| Times.
Judge Theard, of the fourth dis
trlct court, Louisiana, has recent
lY rendered a decision in which