The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-27
An Appeal from the Women Of Louisiana
to the Men and Women OF All the
LOyal States Of the Union.

Loyal States Of the Union.
| We, the women of Louisiana. appeal to
you "brethren of our blood and cause to
YOU, who know what home and happiness is
to raise up your hearts to God and your
voices to your Chief Magistrate, the Presi-
dent of the United States, in our behalf. We
have obeyed in vain we have plead in vain.
1t is no more our insult than it is yours. Our
condition is national affront, a national
shame and insult; that when we ask bare
| Justice" and when the 50 law allows it, and the
| court awards it." we should be beaten down
and compelled to obey cowards-that Is
the bitterest of all to proud, brave people
and do you, as the peoples rightful tribunal,
call the author of this to account for Lis mis-
rule.
| Men and women of the Union, let him not
say that F." he knew not" Make him hear
your protest. Repeat it again and again.
oeak for us with the chivalry that once be-
longed to us rs nation, until the tidings
shall roll from State to State, and throughout
the length and breadth OF the country the
echo shall thunder-t that Right is might, "
and the pillows of the ocean in wrath shall
take up the refrain and tell it to the world
Tell hi a, your President, for he will not
hear us) that 'your flag is our flag and that
your sister State, "poor Louisiana" with
bleeding breast and dauntless heart, looks
sadly vet bravely at our national heraldry
Saw for MS that we know with bitterness the
stripes on our countrys flag, for they are
stained with our blood.
Saw, that the stars on the National flag
americas tag floats above glittering bayou
cts that are fixed for our destruction if we dare
maintain the law. Out on the dark waters OF
the Mississippi the true stars in heaven look
Gil on6 renroach
their cruel representatives, that wave above
gunboats bristling with cannon, ready to tear
us down, if we do not yield obedience to wrong.
Remember that eternal vigilence is the
price of freedom" and guard yourselves, or
another year may see Kellogg in yosr midst.
In any happy anniversary-in any pro I'd and
happy hour of your home or State life-re-
member us. Many of us hold our little ones
to our breasts with fast-falling tears; mourn
ing with womans-the dead father, brought
home but yesterday-shot through the head
or breast, or both, for fulfilling his duty
"Home they brought her warrior dead
she nor swoond nor uttered cry;
All her maidens watching said,
She must weep or she will die.
"Then they praised him, soft and low,
Calrd him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe
Yet she neither spoke MOI moved.
"Stole maiden from her place,
Lightly to the warrior slept,
Took the face cloth from the face;
Yet she neither stirred nor wept.
"Rose nurse Of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee
Like summer tempest came her tears
Sweet my child, live for thee"
Speak for us tell this man who thus per-
verts the nations law, and issues his cruel
orders, that he stands like Samson in the
old scriptural story, blind, but self-blind, with
his arms about the columns that support the
temple Of liberty and the sacred edifice
trembles, trembles at his strength; but bid
him take hee l, lest he destroy himself, the
temple and the sacred principles committed
to his guardianship, lest he crush the ina
ton" and we pass out of the worlds history
of honorable nations like lost star. We
thank the press of the country for the many
kindly words spoken for "poor Louisiana"
now national life-word and proverb. We
ask so little. The United States troops are
welcome here, but many Of them obey as We
do, with sorrowful hearts.
Give us a military Governor until Congress
shall redress our wrongs. We are neither
braggarts nor towards, but we have suffered
so much that unless you exercise your right,
and help us, we are lOSt, "a living Sacrlnce
to the law" 1t cannot be that you will forget
us in this hour of undeserved affection and
humiliation. We should never have raised our
voices so loudly, but that our President has so
outraged law. "God fulfills himself in many
ways and we, the down-trodden people OF
the South, will show you, that zoe, whom you
called rebels, are your most faithful citizens
And do you in return, with brave and faith
full hearts, enter your protest against our cruel,
our unlawful treatment.
THE WOMEN OF "POOR LOUISIANA"