The weekly Louisianian., 1874-10-03

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the war ruined and covered with
woe. Poverty and even extreme
want stalked through the streets Of
New Orleans. and its people were
fed by the charity Of the nation
they had sought to destroy. Its
merchants were bankrupt, it's levees
crumbling into ruin. and but for
the aid Of the too lenient North, the
Mississippi might have flowed over
its richest lands, and its capital
fallen into a blighted waste. But
the Free States lent it their aid ;
its people pledged their!honor to
obey the laws; the prosperity OF
Louisiana seemed about to revive ;
the colored population laborea once
more with new assiduity. a. free
men. It was at this moment that
the White Mans League began it's
outrages, and the new progress OF
Louisiana suffered q fatal check. In
1857 it had given . Republican ma
jority ; IN 1858 90 fearful had been
the system Of terrorism established
by the Ku-Klux that only Eve thou
sand Republicans ventured to vote
for Grant and Oolfax. From chat
time the State has been the scope
of constant assassinatiops, ontrages,
violence, disorder. The life of no
Republican, white or. black, has
been safe. And the people who had
sworn obedieaee-to~the constitution
and the laws have violated every
principle of honor. Capital and in
dustry have fled from the terrified
community. The shops-and houses
OF New Orleans have stood silent
and empty. The Mississippi has
broken over the crumbling levees,
and q large part Of the people Of the
State have once more lived upon
the aims of the nation. The White
League has effected the ruin
of a community that might have
been slowly benefited by Northern
capital and en- terprise, and has at
last completed its crimes BY risingin
a new: rebellion n. Nothing but
severe and. austere justice shoa)d
now be awarded to this Infamous
association. The murderers who in
1868 drove oil the Republican voters
the :polls, whosin 1e72 burned
q hscatomb ofoeaored people
Grant Pariah, andnwhoh ays, re-
slaughtered the United States
officials at Coaahat*a, whose o1fen-
SEES are snsrmoas and undesirable,
have presumed TO- ssiapt tpon tie
city of New 0rleanaI ind. dsfnhe
will Of the:peopla Living upon the
aims Of the government, they have
yet found money, il seems, to pur-
chsse muskets covered with crime,
they appeal to the country for SYM
But the strong arm: Of. the
has already reached them,
aud they will find that tho period
Of mercy is past Rebellion and
must be crushed to atoms
in every Southern State, and so
strict a guard kept for the
future that our country will offer no
asylum for traitors in the guise Of a
White Mans League" -.
We are not certain that our Texas
exchanges will heartily
endorse the last line Of the follow
from Harper's Weakly, Gu
"-Galusha A. Grow, ex-M. ~C.]
md Speaker Of the House Of Rep
resentatives in the momentous
Of 18G1-62, is now a resi-
lent Of Texas, and president Of the
Hudson and Great Northern Rail,
road, the international and the
Brazzoria Tap roads making lines over
I've hui: bred miles through the heart
# Texas. Mr.. Grow is the only
Speaker who has been compelled
y the tnmultaous applause of:the
,alleries to threaten To- CHAR them
the delivery Of his own in,
angural address. i waa On the
memorable Fourth, Of Jply, 1861,
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