The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-09-11
LAS We Sow, So shall We Reap
from the New Orleans Times.


The hot blooded simpletons who have
been.so busy OF late sowing the wind
now begin to see signs of the whirlwind
they are to reap. They have proved
themselves false ~prohphcts and foolish
strategists, and have thus earned a CON
tempt which must eventually crush them
into SO utter an insignificance that they
will never again be heard of.
"A few months ago we had u fair and
favorable outlook for redemption intlIis
State, Congress had voted supplies for
the relief of cur suffering people, and
had all but committed itself to the great
measures of opening a sufficient outlet
between the Mississippi and the sea, and
the reclamation and protection of our
alluyial lOwlands. Throughout the
North and West popular opinion had
become so changed as to condemn the
rascalities of ultra Radicalism, and a
wholesome conservative reaction was
everywhere becoming intensified into
Il " sober second thought" The negro
as q ruler and legislator had proved q
gFievOus failure, and q general eonvic-
ton had arisen that enough had been
done for him. Those vital sympathies
which hadforyear been expended upon
him and his cause were transferred to
the oppressed white people of the South,
and to these latter a way was opened
for the, peaceful assertion of all the
rights, privileges and immunities of
self-gOverllnent.
This opportunity has been reckhssly
thrown away. An insignificant coterie
of heroic marplots, rendered prominent
by the defeats they had successfully or
ganized in previous campaigns, were
permitted by better men to band them
together in the bitter ties Of prejudice.
This done, they bravely turned the
brightest promises of successinto omens
of disaster. s. q f417 faa *@5@s~-4
When redemption was a necessity Of
the people of the State, and more, espe-
ciaify OF the white people,, the promi-
hence given to the term q white " i'm the
Baton Rouge platform was not only an
expression of White League preiudice,.
but a defiant challenge to colored oppo-
sition. Then, the ridiculous opposition
to constitutional amendments, entirely
in the line of restoration and redemp-
ton, seems to indicate n contempt for
that strong commercial and liberal sup
p0rtrepresentedby the Chamberof COM
meree and a whole army of taxpayers.
Instead of the Macedonian cry, acome
over and help MS! Y. the practical utter
ance of the Convention was, :" Avaunti
We have taken this matter into our own
hands, and bytlie beard of Mal0nnet and
the hutterings of the White League ban
nep we will achieve success or die in Our
own last ditch" And then tointensify
the spirit of opposition blatant excres-
cenceon respectable Journalism was per,
mitted to eulOgize bI0Odshed, when
done in a certain party interest, and to
rejoice with 10y u~nspeakable because the
Government troops that went out to
qnell q disturbance in Kentucky " were
fired into with a promptness and cor
duality quite Instructive To further
show his Hotspur bravery, this eccentric
advocate of rebellion is permitted to say
that = the most abjeet spectacle we can
imagine is that Of d regiment of able
bodied human beings crouching and
whimpering before the effigy of the
United States army.
There is an old saying that g fools ven
ture in where angels fear to tread ! and
while so many fools are still alive the
saying. will not lack confirmation.
The Federal troops are coming. Let
ms see what this doughty warriorwill do
to exterminate them.
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