New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-02
Letter from ". Jasper Blackburn.
MNDEN, La, September q, 1872.

/ AObLGE EEUHB " ShBpCE DAdChDAEAs
MINDEN, La, September q, 1872.
| EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
| have read the REPUBLICAN of the TWEEN
| ty-fourth instant, and rejoice at its tone.
1t is now almost, if not quite, right; in fact
| it has never been far wrong. l will not say
it has been wrong at all, in either impulse
or intention. /, like you, was willing at the
outset to support fair and square Liberal
| move, in good faith, with the view of cor
recting some evils and throttling some cor
ruptions which had crept into our great Re
publican party; but l found that the sole
purpose on the part of our ancient enemy,
the Democracy, was to get into power, and
reap the spoils alone, and rule the country
in spirit of prescription and persecution
not at all compatible with individual lib
erty and safety to those who opposed trea-
son AID aided to save and redeem the nation
from disintegration sand destruction. You
see this now, as did from the start; and
Of course you go with me now, hand in hand
and soul with soul, as in the past, against
all such power and purposes. And, sir, let
me tell you, that so sure as the sun is more
brilliant than the moon, and truth more
powerful than error, we will triumph.
And will not Governor Warmoth finally
go with us He has good place in his
heart, and is in political faith and hope a
Republican; and is it possible-can it be
possible-that he will go astray after
strange gods, and fraternize with the enc
mics OF his country, with the enemies of
liberty, with those who have heretofore so
bitterly assailed and prosecuted him, and
who are still assailing aud prosecuting his
former best friends and supporters! 1 can
not and will not yet believe this of Governor
Warmoth.
Why, sir, am now lying PROSTATE with
pistol ball lodged in the region of my
right lung, sent there because 1 am Re-
publican, and the defender of human liberty
and human rights-the defender of princi-
pies and doctrines which | have had the
honor of defending and unfolding only in
the recent past, side by side with Governor
Warmoth-sent there, too, by one of those
vile and dirty "bravos" who now help to
fill the chorus of praise to the cause which
Governor Warmoth seems now aiding.
This all makes me teel somewhat queerIy
and could really shed tears, if tears were
of any avail. But it requires sterner stuff
than tears to meet the emergency. And it
will be met.
I will not revile Governor Warmoth-
never have, and never expect to; he has
been my friend, and believe is so yet, and
| am indebted to him for about all the
honors and emoluments l have ever re-
ceived at the hands of the Republican par
ty, and I will never turn and rend or spit
upon the power which lends me succor.
Still would, and do, appeal to him to come
out from the vile political combination with
which he is now associated. For it is not
only vile of itself, but it is as certain to fall
as that Babylon fell; for it contains all and
the same vile and corrupting elements of
self-destruction. and the 'rock of its desc
Iahon" will forever remain as bare and
sterile as that upon which the ancient and
wicked Tyre once stood-the scof even Of
vulgar fishermen.
There is@nO more possibility Of success
for the fused" McEnery ticket in this
State, WITHOUT the most gigantic and in
famous frauds, than there is to keep the
great Mississippi within its original banks
under our present corrupt and swindling
levee system. Not a particle more.
So, now, let us all, who are Republicans
from principle, be Of good cheer in defiance
Of all the threatening elements of proscrip- |
ton and persecution and mob force; for
both right and numbers are on our side,
and we will succeed. |
These lines are dictated, from my bed of |
unjust affection, to my little son Tully, |
who writes them down and will send them |
to you, and pray you to receive them and
publish them, as coming from one who not |
only has undying faith in the destiny of
this great government, and in the power of
truth upon earth, but who also, were he to
die this moment, would leave the world |
Sin hope OF eternal lite, which God, that
can not lie, promised before the world he
that he. would leave behind
no one whom he had ever materially or will
fully wronged.
But l tell you that should survive-and
I feel that will recoverable blood which
has flown from my veins within the last
week or ten days must and shall be in some
way atoned for, and if 1 die, l may leave
behind those who will see to this.
w. JASPER BLACKBURN