The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-09-25
Opinions of Democratic and
White League Newspapers.

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ing a few words to these newspapers
generally of the Obscurer and more i'm
pulsive ~sort-which have persistently
quarreled with our appeals for the SUI
premacy of home rule, and %unthought-
eddy described our efforts to establish
internal peace and order in the South as
encouraging to Radicalism, when III
reality, they themselves, by their incen-
diary violence, were not only furnish
ing campaign material to she Radicals,
but attempting to lead the , Southern
people farther and farther from those
moderate and just principles of local
government ON which home rule can
alone exist.
We have never believed that any par
ty in the North friendly to the South,
and least Of all the Democratic party,
could get on unless supported by great
fOrbearance and patience on onr part.
We have never believed that any party
could get on at home unless supported
by its own adherence to good govern
administration Of power. We have al
borne ont by the facts, that ontlawry
on this side Of the line must prove fatal
to us. No matter for the ]provocation,
no matter for the excuse, the South has
had hope only in the law. 0 fthis mind,
W. have steadily stood by the usages Of
Civilization and the conservative inter
ests of society, while our assailants, ac-
cuslng Is of all manner of shOrt-cOming,
have breathed fire and birthstone. They
may have been right we may have been
wrong. The whole business was ex-
pcrimental.
Our advice has certainly not been
potent enough to spread over and con-
troll the whole South, and we see in
Louisiana the actual state of civil war
which has been all along the logical con-
sequence OF the policy urged by our
critics. IT they were right and We were
wrong, this civil val should be main
tanned to the death. It were better that
the federal government be required to
call out 100000 men to suppress it, Civ
ing the country at large a full cOmpre-
henslOn Of the situation of the South,
than that it be snutfed out like Il tallow
candle, with a little puff Of smoke and a
foul smell. The counsel of Polonius
comes in here:
OF entrance to a quarrel but, being i'll,
Bear't that the opposer may beware of thee"
If the South can not control itself-if
it must needs exc out its destiny from
day to day-a sort of MahOmet's coffin,
slung betwixt theheavens and the earth !:
a miserable, poor devil, o~scilating be-
tween hell and the iron wOrks-neither
fish, flesh, O. fowl, with the republic
Verglng nearer and nearer upon the one
man poWer-if, we say, the South can
do no better than this, it had better end
1t oil in a grand effort at destruction.
1t had better live for revenge and die
through despair, happy if it carry its
enemy with it down to ruin. Anything
is better than the life we have led the
last ten years, and as the belligerents
have a chance in Louisiana, let us see
what they will do with it. They can
to be stamped out. They can not es-
cape the most merciless punishment.
Will they make themselves terrible
while they last? Will they die rather
than surrender? They should have
known, when they went in, that they
were engaged ina desperate enterprise.
W1ll they carry it desperately? Will
they force the North to a total and open
abandonmentoft the sham Republicanism
the North has been pretending? VIII
they keep 1t up long enough to make
General Grant a. necessity i'm 1876?
They need expect nothing Of Northern
Democrats. That chicken will not
fight.
We shall see. We shall see what we
shall see but II thing we hope not to
miserable breakdown from those
who have been abusing us for " pander-
ing" to the Radicals matchmaking capt.
tai = against the Democrats. We are
ready to face the logical consequence of
our writing. Let our critics now move
with the music and meet the logical
consequences of theirs. -'
The Baltimore Sun says:
The Late sudden uprising IN Louisiana
was unexpected, Notwithstanding the
oppression ~andinjustice which have led
to it. What is to be gained in Louis
lana or elsewhere in the South by such a
resort remains to be seen,
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Nothing could be more deplorable,
however, than the resort to bloodshed.
The Houston Telegraph says:
From what appears to us only evil
from these, and all such events, can
possibly result tOrthe country, and cs-
pecially to the South.
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What have they to hope from armed re-
.sistanee +? II this movement has for it's
the bringing about of martial law
as a relief from the intolerable opnres-
sions of the Kellogg tyranny, it is hard
~ possible that they may accomplish
their object. But we ~apprehend that
even in this they will be disappointed.
The presumption is, that the General
having recognized the gov
ernnent of Kellogg it will defend and
uphold it.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Herald says:
IT permitted to go unrebuked the dam
gerous precedent would be established
of upsetting obnoxious administrations
by the bullet instead of by the ballot.
It would be the introduction of South
American political practices into the
Union; the setting up OF brute force as
supreme arhiter; q paving of the
way to political anarchy with it's inevita-
Bile sequel of a military depotism. \ y
Once let the principle of armed revOlu-
lion take its place in our domestic poll |
tics and there is no knowing to Whatex-
tent it may be carried.
We have no care for the Kellogg adj
ministratiOn, but we have for the peace
IF every State in the Union, endangered
BY the setting mp of this dangerous pre-
cedent OF armed revolution.
The st. Louis Times says:
Neither party now claiming power in
Louisiana can help her to prosperity or
peace. One iscommitted to tyranny and
corruption, the other to vindictive policy
If ostracism and intimidation, to new
lots in election time, to outrages like
which disgraeed the parish of Cou-
and which MeEnery is still exeit-
ng by frothy and incendiary speeches.
The McEnery and Mari faction must be
ted TtmlIsts he fauphE TINT II cannot