The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-26
Communicated .
The Starving Out Proposition.

In the Bulletin of the nineteenth in,
slant" Blanc" sends up a most lugub,
rious wall, which he calls "a voice from
the people,"
I am somewhat at a loss to determine
what people" " Blancn refers to. Il
can not be "the people" whom the
Plcayune claimed to represent, for the
constituency of that cratic sheet was
proclaimed to be F" the Oldest and best >
and Blanc's constituency are, according
to his own statement, to b efound among
the politically and socially degraded.
BLANC a not be a Republican, and it is
equally impossible that the Picayune's
" people" should be the degraded class
of whom he speaks.
But Blanc has found a panacea fol
the pangs of disappointed political as
pirations. He proposes to starve out
the negroes, forgetting that while the
negroes starye the whites must starve
with them. Here was a dilemma, and
in endeavoring to solve the difficulty
Blanc unwittingly stumbles on the sure
and only liz for the unfortunate class
which he represents but the difficulty
will lie chiefly in persuading his constit-
uents to apply the remedy which he
proposes. E5
Blanc's proposition reminds me of an
incident that transpired in u little vii
lage in central Mississippi before the
war. ..#ge "~.
Jones was postmaster, and Jones,
like a great many other unfOrtunates,
had a mother-in-Iaw. This mother-in-
law had fits, not the kind that all
mOthers-in-law are subject to, however.
Well, the family physician was consul
ted, and he, thinking the old lady;s
ailment arose from a disordered diges-
ton, compounded something powerful to
move the bile. 1t doesn't take much to
stir a mother-in-law's bile at best, but
the doctor gave a strong dose. Jones
went for the medicine, and asked the
doctor what he called it, who laughing
ly replied "fitifuge,'' and Jones went
home in triumph. But when he came
to administer the pills of which there
were quite a number, the old lady took
a fancy that Jones wanted to poison
her, and refused to take them unless
Jones would take two to her one.
Jones, i'll the innocence of his heart
and to prevent the pills being wasted,
did so, and retired to his virtuOus couch
to sleep the sleep OF the just, in bliss
full ignorance of the stirring time to
Lcome. Suffice it to say, Jones slept
badly, and at sunrise The doctor was
called to his bedside. why, Jones,
what is the matter % cried he. Bent
almost double with pain, Jones means
out, ooh, doctor, that fitifuge will be
the death of me.n The mother-in-law
escaped with slight injury, but persis-
ted to her death in believing, and as
sorting whenever it came handy, that
Jones attempted to poison her on that
occasion, and that only by her presence
of mind was she saved. One good eff
ffectUf the dose, however, was to cure
Jones OF q liver complaint with which
he was suffering.
Now, in order to starve out the negro,
Blanc and his friends must go to work,
themselves. Like the " itifuge,n it will
almost be the death of them, but then
it will certainly cure them Of their
laundering for office, if it don't starve
the negro. By all means, let Blanc try
it. / don't believe he ever has, and it
will be a new sensation. If. he gets to
work on a farm there will be one idle
mouth the less to feed, and il his. con-
stituents do the same the barrooms will
be deserted. Come, DR.. Blanc, try your
= ftifuge.7 EMERALD.
THE WHITE acknowledgements
in this parish to organize q white
League has already met with serious
opposition. It would seem necessary,
to insure the least success, that all the
white people should be enlisted in the
cause. lie this cannot be accomplished
and its agitation has the effect of divid-
ing the whites, the movement will prove,
a failure. Many white citizens express
the conviction, hatthe evilscomplained
of, might be more safely and surely COR
rected by other means and that the des-
perate remedy proposed by the League,
is very questionable aud dangerous.
Such questions as these are frequently
asked: Supposlng all the whites band
together against the Republican party,
what can they accomplish Would
that reduce the Republican majorities ?
Would it secure better local officers in
the parishes where the whites are In the
minority, or even where they are in the
majority 2 Win not this movement
naturally increase the distrust and es-
arrangement of the blacks towards the
whites? liz the objects OF the League,
land its advocates do not deny it, tend
to excite and precipitate a war OF races,
whatwould bethe horrible consequences
OF such a calamity
As these and other, questions and the
policy of this movement, we presume,
viii be fully discussed, our readers will
be duly prepared to form an opinion
of their oWn.fLafayette Advertiser,
June 20.
POLITIcs.-From our exchanges. the
fact is ascertained that the clans are
marshaling their hosts for the Fall cam
paign.
The Republicans are resolving at
their primary meetings, that their
candidates must be me OF integrity
and whose private characters are ire
proachable.n
H this programme be carried they
will have to bring an almost entirely
new set of candidates in the field, es-
pecially for Legislative honOrs. The
opposition have not accomplished much
far.
The Z White League in the Attaka-
pas and Opelousas Parishes-and In
Rapides meets with favor In various
sections 0frthe State, with but dim
prospects in their horizon.
The Democracy are q~liescent, per-
lsaps that party has begun to under
stand that it is dead-dead.
Under what king, B~enzonianq is the
question now.-lThibodaux Sentinel.
The New York Herald does not seem
to have great faith in the Democracy,
unless it subjects itself to q process OF
renovation and reconstruction. 1t de-
claFes that /" there are two wounds on
the brow of Democracy id bloody and
fatal as the paslies which marked the
gIlostIy BaTIuu0.s These are TaHmaTy
and Secession No party can win that
has been SO fatally wounded. No mat
ter what the Republicans may have
daua-and their record In dismal and