The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-10-03
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5aresche, q prominent lawyer 1f
that city. 1T was iii Substance as
Follows
You viii bear me witness that /
do not urge people to FIGHT, but /
do say that if Louisiana ii to bs
drenched ii blood, better Ist every
lCue Of her people die than to sub.
nit to the usurpation Of a GOV
ernment that the President may
force upon an unwilling people.
ard 1 wish it proclaimed that.
while 1 am no .sman to urge civil
commOtiOn and sedition, Z say as
an American citizen, the protso-
tion Of the liberties De TIE people
LOT Louisiana will Be cheanlv
bonght, if they have to lay down
upon the soil Of their State the
blood Of every son whose heart
has ever beat responsive to the
call to defend their rights. nv
sympathies are with the people.
and my parse is open to them,
and if in their struggle the Presi-
dent dares ID interfere, 4 say let
slip the dogs Of war. and damned
be he who frstcries hold, enough.
/ do not forget how Kellogg got
into power, sneakine under The
guns of d United States frigate.
and he now slinks from che out
ragged people whom he has perse-
cuted and oppressed, and sneaks
into the United States custom
house Under Tie proteeH0n 81
Casey, the brother-in-Iaw of Ulys
sys the First.
! say let him 90 and lei Grant
provoke the contest. Let him
send his regiments. Let him ex-
pose the Texas frontier to Tire at
ticks of Indians, and send ten
thousand troops there. They can
not stay the arm Of the people of
Louisiana IL liberty IL to be.
suppressed, If free State govern
ments are to be wiped out by tie
dictates Of .an Imperial govern
ment residing at Washington,
their tyranny NAV be ours, n We
do not cease To obey the Imperial
mandate. know what resolution
You have passed, but If yon have
not passed this resolution embodv
II now, that, IL it be- necessary
for The struggle Of Louisiana, and
the triumph Of State s0vereigntY
in Louisiana, involving the per
petuati0n of our own liberties. I
say, let every man in the crowd
swear, as am willing to swear,
that all my aid viii be Given to
protest the people of Louisiana
and uphold them Ill this struggle.
which they will maintain against
the authorities and against ths
government Of the United States.
We have stood in silence. Me
hare submitted To- every wrong
We have seen that people murder
ed and persecuted and their wo-
men rayished, and i say now, there |
ls nothing left but honor 81 dis
honor, and better die than sabmit
to dishOn0r.
1t IS 8 question of do or die. /
They have unfurled their flag and /
taken as their motto, "Ha who /
would be free must himself strike I
the blow. I tell You, with alII
sobrietys God speed Louisiana.
and if she wants troops or m0neY
let her call On the Uuion. and let
the Union respond, for II il TUE
battle-cry 0f freedom. It ~
craven Thought Inst would urpe
upon us, "glh. it is not our battlel
lt il our battle. Lat one State is
dang from tie Union ind pnt un
der the heel 81 desnoi ana i
say every man who submit to It
ard sanctions the principle pre-
1ares his own neck fof tho halter |
hope that that noble creole blood
hat has never proved itself recre
Anf against which the tnger 81
loNaE0ice has never set been
"a tho baAlle field, will
lroclaim that death il may ha
1ua dishonog y shsll ba. ana
ha President ands bis mini0ns