The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-15
MISSOURI TO LOUISIANA.

If any Of our readers want to experience
the peculiar and no. unpleasant sensation o.
laughing and crying at one and the same
time, let them read the following editorial
from the pen Of that whole-souled gentleman,
and pure minded and earnest patriot, Col. p.
Donan, of the Lexington, (Ao.) Caucasian.
You will laugh at the quaint manner in which
he expresses his delight at our victory, and
shed tears of Joy in reading such warm, sin
cere and cordial words Of encouragement and
cheer from a stranger in far off Missouri.
We owe much to Col Donan for the gal
liant and fearless manner in which he has
fought Radicalism for the last nine years, and
about the tremendous revolution which has
overturned the party in power as any other
agency whatever.
Our eyes are too full Of happy tears to thank
you, Colonel but there is not a heart in Lou.
isiana that does not beat in heartfelt gratitude
to you for your kindly and cordial words of
sympathy.
Louisiana, queenly and beautiful in the
weeds of her widowhood, in the shackles of
her captivity, in the ashes of her desolation
and humiliation Louisiana, bright land Of
the olive and vine, Of the pomegranate, myr-
tie and pine, long bowed beneath the foul
oppressors yoke-Louisiana is free! Breth-
rem, sing The whole Democratic State ii cket
and five out of six Congressman elected. Ju-
bilate, thank God Such tidings should send
a thrill Of sympathetic JOY tingling to the
heart of every true man in America Since
the days Of Beast Butler Louisiana's proud
people have endured every indignity, every
iniquity, every outrage, that the ingenuity Of
yankees, niggers and fends could devise.
Her rich plantations have been laid waste.
Her hospitable mansions have been
burned. or rendered dwtlling-places for
the owls and the bats Her beauteous gar
dens have been made desert. Her magni1i-
cent forests have been hewn down. Her very
affairs and graveyards have been desecrated
by official ruttians, omnipresent vandals,
blasphemers and body-snatchers. Her lands
have been mOrtgaged for more than taey are
worth. Her commerce has died. Her credit
is gone. From the front rank of the grand
sisterhood of States, she has sunk to a weed
draped beggar, craving pity and aims along
the wayside of the world. From the noble
seat OF a sovereign and Independent common
wealth, she has been dragged down, a chained
and groaning captive, trampled under foot,
spurned and spit upon, by the foulest scum
of Africa and Yankeedom. From her impe-
rial position of wealth and power, she has
been crushed into abject woe and pauperism.
All, all that was good or desirable has been
torn from her, but her honor and the brave
hearts OF her sons.
And these stout, hero hearts have saved
her. In all her hours of deepest darkness i'm
all her anguish and bittersKrongs they have
never faltered. Though their streets have
been patrolled by hireling soldiery, the coun-
try secured by Barbarian dragons, their
rivers guarded by hostile eunboats-in spite
OF bayonets, sabres and chains, in spite Of
brutal jailers and prison cells they, the true
their martyr-like fealty to their suffering !
mother State. They have hoped, when hope
seemed insanity. They have prayed, when |
prayer seemed mockery. They have strug-
gled, when struggling BODIED but destruction. |
And at last, at long, long last, they have tri-
umphed. Victorys glorious eagle nestles
with the pelican upon their banner. With
the world, the flesh and the devil, Grant,
carpet-baggers, niggers, the army and navy,
all against them, they have conquered The
great God of nations and of battles be
thanked!
Brethren of Louisiana! Ten millions Of
sympathizing hearts send you greeting and
congratulation. Half q hemisphere joins in
the prayer and hope that your arms may be
strengthened, your sublime faith upheld, un.
til the invader, the despoiler and the tyrant
are utterly driven from your beautiful land.
You begin life again with naught but the
wreck of what has been around you Your
progress will be slow for a season. But let
the same dauntless resolution and devotion
which have made memorable your history
during the past nine years still animate your
souls and nerve your hands. Let the same
patriot wisdom still guide and control you.
And your future is secure. The halcyon days
will return. The sunlight Of prosperity
will Danish your gloom. The snowy standard OF
King Cotton will be unfurled in all your fields. 8
The waving cane will yield its sweetness, as Of
old. Your gardens will bloom with exultant {
gladness Commerce will rear her forest Of 7
tapering masts along your levees. The hum
Of industry and the song Of contentment,
will resound in city and hamlet. The white
incense fsteam will ascend, like glad thank
offering, to heaven for the good times come |
again. The cares that have infested your nine
years night, shall vanish forever. And Louis
lana, redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled,
shall rise, as fresh and beauteous maiden, to
resume her rghtful place in the Union Sister
hood, peer OF the fairest and noblest of them
Ill
A YANKEE esterday evening we 4
Jaw an old negro greatly incensed against
some OF the leaders OF the Replblcans party -
IN this city. He lives in Baldwin county, it a
'eems, and was induced to come over here
md bring a number of voters by promises Of :
provisions. He kept his word, and after
7oting with his crowd;;he went to headquarters
or his rations. He was told that they had
nothing except a barrel Of sugar and ham
eft, but as he had worked so energetically for :
he cause he was welcome to them. The :
aithtul old "people" was thankful to get That L
much, and soon had them in boat pulling I
apidly and earnestly for Blakeley.
When he reached his cabin with the barrel {
md the ham, the ''old CONAN" was delighted.
md knowed dat the Publican party was
he friend of all the culled pussons." While
lie was opening the barrel, laughing and grim
hing, his wife was cutting the canvas from 3
he ham, smiling as pretty As was Washington a
Higgins in the recent show when his man was
nominated by accramation." "Why, look "