The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-07-31
Mr.. Taylor Beattic's Letter.
From the New Orleans Republican.

L lplil IIt SlltIltn It'luDlICuk.l
We hasten to correct the statement
of the Bulletin that Mr.. Taylor Beattie
has given his views to the public
through the New Orleans Republican"
The letter was published i'll the Thibo-
Perhaps it was thought that if left to
the obscurity of a village weekly the
manlyavOwals of Mr.. Beattie mighthave
been concealed. AS the circulation of
our neighbor does not go ont of town,
and the Thibodaux weekly has no cir
culation in the city, there is no reason
to suppose that the matter appearing in
one of these sheets could ever be seen
i'll the other. But the letter having got
abroad it becomes necessary to the
"British Blondes that it should be de-
prived of all consideration in the eyes
Of the people of Louisiana. Hence,
writer's for the Bulletin say:
We don't suppose anybody cares i continent
al ShinplaSter for the reasons which pre-
vent Mr.. Taylor Bcattie from giving "his rca-
sons for his very unreasonable Z" course in
going over to the darkeys, body, breaches, CON
science and all.
1t is also added upon the same author
ity that Mr.. Beattie is Il renegade
LOuisianian.n '
We do not suppose that this rather an
OnymOus anathoma will have any effect
derOgatOTy to the character or Obstruc-
tive to the purposes of Mr.. Beattie. Yet
1t furnishes another example OF the at
tempted dictation toward the ey-COn-
fedcrate to whom we referred some days
since. We do not consider that Mr.. Beat
tie is a member Of the Republican party
at all, but it Seems an outrage thus to
assail him for expressing his opinions
ma, Jn,,I1ro 1lol5+ino1 ry,cc4orr
But to repeat ourselves Unjust be that
up in politics as in p0lemics. Has any
white MAJ in Louisiana a right to take
any party position without a DISPENSE
ton and permission from the office ring
in New Orleans? That is the question.
SO long as such men us Beattie shoulder
ed their muskets, left their homes and
gave their lives and limbs in defense of
the home guard, as also of those other
hotel warriors who brayed the perils of
war at Nassau, Paris and Niagara, they
were patted ON the back and called brave
fellows. True, the hotel heroes did
a little when Lee surrendered
some seven or eight thousand muskets
to the superior forces of General Grant,
and General Johnston c%apitulated an
untenable military district to the irres-
istible forced IF General Sherman. These
officers might certainly have prolonged
the wal until the last cargo of cotton
and blockade goods should have been
But when the Confederate SOL
diers in the field who had alone made
the wal formidable, returned home after
the surrender they were at once drafted
by the hotel heroes into the Democratic
State rights party and ordered to vote
NJ nA nn11on and Lrnrl~. p1ni. xrIo~,
they had Just been fighting. They were
next transferred into the Fusion move
ment and assigned to duty under War
moth and Sheridan.
This Liberal brigade having been de-
and demoralized by the Repub- |
Lican victories, the eX-COnfederates were
subject to somewhat contradictory COM
mands. First the Democratic Central
ordered them to report for !
enrolment and orders to Messrs. Zacha-
RE, Booth %(SenatOr), Ellis and others of
the National Democratic party. Scarce
y had these battle worn soldiers been
served with their h]eadquarter assign
nent to duty, when they received i'm
Derative commands from the ex-Demo-
EXPULSION camp to abandon all
other organizations and fall in under
he lily white banner Of the Chambord
BourbOns. These ex-COnfederate mon
Ire soldiers accustomed to discipline
md acknowledging obedience, but they
ire Americans and have the sense and
spirit Of gentlemen. They choose to act
IN their W responsibility and not to
axe direction from the European le-
the blockade runners, the "twen-
1y-nigger" or liver disease exempts. or
my other body OF self-cOnstituted com
handlers. The Republican has explain
ID that the Democratic lease on the
Southern vote has lapsed with the war.
The act OF emancipation is applicable
like to the minds as the bodies of men.
The ex-Confederate like the Granger
of the West, does not belong in
property to the old clique of politicians:
hey can not say. cit is true / have
ost my negro slaves, but thank God,
ny political serfs are as Obedient. as
YER" t-H.
The Louisiana ex-Confederate will no
LOubt act for himself. Being in most
a cotton planter; he can, not see
Why he should shoot the laborer in the
ield, or drive him into the net of u rival
i'll Arkansas or Texas. .-.l
1t will do as we'll, perhaps, for a hero
f Niagara to be without a place in the
'tate House as for the ex-COnfederate
OttOn planter to have fields vacant of
abOr. There would seem from our late
from theSt. Mary parish Enter
rise, q disposition to throw off the rule
t this dictatOrial city, as it. is, called.
he cotton grangers will very likely
1ake their OWL politics and the wal on
ab0r will be no part of their strategy.
We respect Mr.. Taylor Beattie, who
5 to lis only known by reputation. Far
it from us to do him even the injury
f a good word. We protest" that the |
has not commended him,
nd does not intend to commend him..
t will be for Mr.. Taylor Beattie to cut
his paragraph, if he shall ever see it,
ut of the paper and paste it in the
of his hat for ready reference, as
Inclusive refutation of the charge that
e is a renegade harbored by the Re-
nblicans. ~ .-.-.7 .ul,4.ns .a ....t.
The only Isl we have for the letter of
his gentleman is to show that this in
ane combination to intlame capital
gainst labor, to drive all the white men
the plow and all the white ladies to
he cOokstove, is viewed by practical pa
riots as q miscellaneous enterprise. in
Thich no practical patriot win embark |
O~luntarily, and in which no voluntary
omblnation a compel him to embark.
RAISING TURKEYS.-It does not cost
ny more; o much more, to raise q pound
+ turkey than u pound of hen tiesh.g In