The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
Elundered Louisiana.

Police, and by grace of VIM. Pitt Kel-
iogg, Brigadler General of Militia, with
his "weIl armed and thoroughly dis
cip!ined force of moral and dlsnifed
police" has been having "a Jolly time"
aud was not at all frightened by dis
play OF "half a thousand Arcadlans,
armed with shot-guns and mounted
upon mustangs" He drove his enemy
out OF camp, installed the Dogberry of
the Ieche and severely wounded a
young lady. According to veracous
statement of the Journal that sustains
him, Attakapas was frightened ont of
Its precious wits, newspaper cores
pondents 'sboasted ANONYMOUSLY" un-
III it finally leaked out that there never
had been any resistance, and that at
the presence of the dingy blue uui-
form, people of all ages, sexes and con-
ditions fled precipilately. According
to the same authentic source we will
Doubtless hear that there never was Il
place called st. Martinsville; that Gen.
elal DeBlanc is y myth. his followers
men III buckram, and Judge Train an
unassuming blending of Littleton, Coke
and Sir William Blackstone; who came
originally from that wonderful city
where everybody has good opinion of
himself.
The tax ressters-who never exist
ed-did not decline to precipitate a
war because of their families, because
every dollar they owned lay in that
immediate vicinage, or because an out
break would create q CONNER cial panic,
ruin to their friends, and starvation at
home-they were afraid.
Now. without much fear of contradic
ton. Roundabout will venture to as
sert that there exist to-day, in St.
Mary, Iberia, st. Martins and RIGHT
here in New Orleans, men who have
gone and staid where our Metropolitan
Janissaries would not dare to follow ::
that right here in New Orleans. their
annlhlation. were the movement con-
sidered a judicious one, would be but a
question of hours. He ventures to as
sert, that were the question reduced to
one of personal courage. there are men
who have never participated in poll
tics, never made speech, never sought
an Office, and who have never even
voted, who could sweep them, rs they
would sweep herd oftavenins wolves,
from the face of the earth.
Roundabout has no desire to UNDER
estimate the personal courage of any
man, and is well aware that among
hundreds picked up as promiscuously
even AS were the Metropolitan Police,
there is no lack of pluck, but were per-
sonal courage the question, not Kel-
logg, FOR Packard, nor the scores and
scores of better and worse men who
lave fattened upon the recessitudes of
the people, could withstand the out
burst Of an Indignation, which through
out all the iniQuity of the past, all the
personal trickery and lust for Office.
has never once been thoroughly arous-
ed. Let there be no possible mistake
upon this point.
Of the ship loads and car loads of
ragged veterans, who, in 1865, return
ed to their native soil to make the best
of bad bargain, to recuperate their
scattered resources, and to restore by
honest toll their dissipated prosperity,
a few yet remain. They did not seek
lucrative positions, pander to depraved
tastes, turn lobbyist, ring man, or
whipper-in to political demagogues.-
They accepted their parol in good
faith, locked up their faded gray for
ever, realized the Inauguration of a
new order Of things and went 10 work.
They have plodded day in and day out
since then, Indifferent to the hy-play
of ruin. fraud and spoilation INDUCED
in by the camp followers whom they
never, in the canty days few hours
back, met face to face.
Absorbed in the welfare of their as
sociates, and the little family now
growing up around them, they do not
even know the men who have so sud
denly sprung into undeservedly prom
inence-trusting to the integrity ofo
they could not vanquish, and with an
innate knowledge of their own honor !;
to them the past is as much dead as if
it had never existed.
Is it now proposed to force them from
the land they have so steadtastly en-
deavored to redeem? Is it contempa-
ted that, by a system of tyranny, inso-
lence and exorbitant taxation, they can
be induced to quietly sell out and re-
move to some more favored locality :
Is it on the cards, as time prog. esses,
to test their metal9 Mr.. Badger, and