The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-07-19
s'BEAUREGARD'S APPEAL"
(From the Mobile Kegister.)

| III inc very agony OF tnat terrlOle
| struggle in which Gen. Beauregard
! won his renown he issued that famous
order calling upon the planters of the
| South to send their bells to the furnace
to he melted into cannon. Not only
the plantations, but many churches
also, responded promptly to the call T.;
and the grandeur Of the subject melted
poems that were read in many a broken
home and round many Il battle-eve
campfire. q Beauregard's Appeal :"
! was the most noted Of these, coming, as
it did, from his poet-aid in the Sumpter
preface of the war, Paul Hayne. Far
| different is the Beauregard's appeal we
, publish in another place. We give the
remarkable address of the ex-Confeder-
ate General entire; for we believe the
whole of it must be read i'll order to
compass its Wondrous weakness as Il
political paper. The writer appeals to
the people of Louisiana to "save their
State;' he tells them the trite verify
that they are oppressed, that the Gov
ernment sympathises with their op-
pressors, and that they can hope for
no help from their sister States. This
is the sum total of the statement of the
paper; and Il close reading fails to show
us one tenable--or even tangible--nr-
gument in all the words.
Heaven knows that we synpathize
with our sorrowing sister from the
depth Of onr heart! Wewould give her
every aid in our power in her effort to
save eherselffrom oppression, usurpation
and State murder. We have even
paused to wait developments OF this
| "Unitication' scheme, with the faint
hope that we might find some gIeam of
light from its darkness. But tho closer
we peer into it, the darker and filthicr
appear its depths; and we should feel
recreant to our first duty to our whole
people, did we not set our face as flint
against the unclean thing i'll its conccp-
ton, its birth and it's present sicl<ly
effort to crawl.
We have one fixed belief which will
only leave us with our life: The South
can never assert her honor nor her
rights, by affiiatio1r with or imitation
of the vulture-horGe that now battcns
on her PROSTATE body. She can never
become free by selling herself into more
abject slavery; she can never retain
her place among the civilized races of
men by copying the horrors of Hayti.
If her redemption is to be wrought, it
will be wrought through the patient
endurance and long-sudering constancy
Of her White Race; mere, by their clasp
ing to their bosoms all vile and Shiny
things they touch in their blind crop
ing out into tho darkness of their poiit-
ical night.
And yet General Bcauregal,l and his
associates ask the white men of the
South to do these very things. They
ask them not alone to commit hari-
kari upon the body polite; but, before
that sacrifice to brand their brows in
dciibly with the mark of shame and to
parade it before all the peoples Of the
world. This they ask in effect, almost
in words; and, while we can feel with
curaling blood the wrongs that have so
wholly blinded such men, yet can we
not refrain from pointing to those who
would follow them that they are blind
"Unification'' means but one thing =:
following in the footsteps of the thieves
! and tyrants who now control the negro
| of Louisiana, in the weak attempt to
| beg the black vote over their shoulders.
In every sentence and in every line OF
Gen. Eeauregard's "Address" this pur-
pose is plain and clear. He tells the
| White Race of Louisiana that thcil
State is doomed to perpetual slavery
| without the black vote. We do no.
admit the premises; we hold that it i!
doomed to perpetual degradation ~Hj
the black vote, gained by such means
| But, admitting that we are wrong ano
thai Gen. ISeaurcgard is right, by wha
means. docs hcurgc the people he ad
dresses TO compass tho end in view:
Simply by saying to the negro, " You
| arc Il power in the land; YOU vote anI
hold office and make the governors O
this people. SOu do this because yOl