The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-24
0REBELLEON RAMPANT, GAN
OTHER WAR IIBIINENT.s'

The war has been begun de n05O. The
rebellion Is in full blast The South has
gone and seeded again. Ex-Governor
Brown, Of Mississippi, has again fulmina-
ted another proclamation and 'precipi-
tated revolution" Yancy lives. no more,
but Bob Toombs bowls and roars like
Nemean lion over in Georgia. South Caro-
lima dances hompipes and breathes fame and
smoke, and North Carolina is like tarkiln,
inaugurating war and locking for Sumter
to fire and-smoke at These facts are
well ascertained by all the correspondents
ofall Radical papers now in New Orleans and
Vicksburg. Governor Wells hearing about
it, through these watchful agents of I'M
sullisd patriotism, has adjourned the can
wasting hoard and fed to the swamps of
Plaquemine. That the war has broken out
in New Orleans no patriot of the E. ].
Davis sort, North or South, can doubt, and
we don't see why all the ferocious Radicals
Of Texas are not travelling North. Cover
nor Wells and the canvassing board are
endeavOring so to manipulate the election
returns that Radicalism may control ma
jority Of the Legislature, when it is known
that the Democrats have large majority in
both the Senate and the House. Wells and
his associates are conscious that they are
engaged in villainous transaction. When
Wells was casting about for a pretext 10
give up the job as hopelessIy impossible, he
cast his leaden eyes down the street from
out the window Of the hotel occupied by
his board, and beheld a pair of light Parrot
guns moving. toward him. The guns had
been borrowed from Federal soldiers for
use in some sensational drama on the boards
of q New Orleans theatre, and the manager
was sending them back to the garrison A
happy thought struck Wells, as a happier
cannon shot should have done. He
became suddenly terrified. he suffered his
underjaw to drop down to its fullest extent;
his rusty hair ratified and stood on end; his
glorious, greasy, leadden, oceular orbs pro-
truded to such an extent that they might
have been knocked out with elapboard,
brought down perpendicularly along the
line Of his Jove-like brow Weiss stu
pendous aspect brought his heroic and pa
triOtic colleagues to their feet. lie pointed
70 the Parrot guns, and waving his hand,
shrieked out, 1.-THE rebellion has bursted
loose againia 'sThis board stands adj
journed, and viii fly for its virtuous life.
They stood not on the order of their
going, and consequently the war rages-
We suppose It does-and it only re-
mains for all the knaves, Wells and
kellogg and Ames to howl "rebellion!n
srebelliont' OF, "there's negro killed ~
to set the North in an uproar, and inject
new life and force into moribund Radi-
calism. But the rebellion has been rein
augusated so often and so constantly, and
Wells and Davis and Kellogg and Ames
and Moses and Cardoza, and the rest, have
so often cried "wOl, when there was no
wolf, - and the character and worth of the
negro as citizen and violator Of the coun-
try's laws is ct last SO justly appreciated,
that Wells's terror Is all in vain, and exae.
tons made by Ames and his stupid Legisla-
turo upon Northern sympathy and credulity
VIII never Oe conceoeo. ~ - Niso - ue e""'
many OF the most virulent Of Northern Radi-
cal journals, even Forney's Press, while de-
ploring the slaughter OF negroes at Yieks-
burg, states that they were culpable, though
too many were killed. The Legislature
Of Louisiana win meet; the members known
to be elected viii occupy their seats Kel-
logg win be elected and Penn invested
with Office; and then, unless Grant inter-
vene to protect the villains, Louisiana wall
be frce and the States prosperity restored.