The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-02-19
SOME PARALLELS.
Ooelottsas Courier:


Eiiiior OpeloUsas Courier:
Great Britain was n great country in
1919 so was France in 1893 so are the
United States in 1875. All three were
republics in tho above mentioned years.
Great Britain, undoubtedly, was under
the impression that her government
was unsurpassed; France had not a
particle of doubt that her government
was great success and we why,
every one OF us knows that ours is tthe
best and most glorious government
under the SUM-" Cromwell was great
even the most invc-
tcrate tory, acknowledges that Bona
partc was u great man, whatever
Michelct might have said to tho con-
trary; and Grant is 4 great man--an
Radicals assure us SO. Col. Pride was
Il great man, on Il smaller scale than
his master; SO was Murat; SO is Lieut..
Gen. Phil Sheridan. Arc there not u
good many parallel points between
these three republics and their most
prominent men"
Now let us carry the rcscinblanccs Il
little further, and try to prognosticatc
how our muddlc is going to end,
Judging by the ways they went to
work in our sister republics in by-gonc
days.
In january, 1919, Col. Pride f,urged
the british House Of Commons, eNpcll-
ing everybody opposed to his master,
Cromwell. In january, 1873, sheridan
did his master, Grant, the same service
in purifying the House of Representa-
tivcs of Louisiana. In 1853, Cromwell,
at the head of II squad Of soldiers,
entered the House of Commons, COM
mandeu one of his soldiers to "tal>o
away that baublc," meaning the silver
mace, tho emblem of the authority of
the House, turned out the members at
the point of the bayonet, and closed the
doors. On the 10Th Brumairc in the
year VII. (Nov. 10, 1799,) Murat
entered the hall of the Council of the
Five Hundred with the words: "In
the name of General Bonaparte, tho
Legislative Corps is dissolved. Let tho
good citizens retire! Grenadiers,
advance!' and the members had to
jump out of the windows to escape
being bayoneted. Our parallel is yet to
come. After the turning out of the
purged House of Commons, Cromwell
was declared Lord Protector of Great
Britain and Ireland, with unlimited
power, and the British republic was
dead. After the election Of the Council
of the Five Hundred followed the con-
sulatc and empire of Napoleon, and
another republic was gone. Our paral-
lei will be forthcoming, never fear.
Or is anybody blind or innocent
enough to sec that kellogg, tho miser-
able tool of an unscrupuious set of poiit-
ical tricksters, knew perfectly we'll that
he would be sustained and bolstered up
in everything that he might say or do,
or to believe that the infamous Return
ing Board would have dared to make
such II report as it did, in the face of
the people OF our State and of the whole
American nation, if it had not been
assured of the support of the chief
authority of the land: There can not
be any doubt but that Grant wanted
another revolution of our long suffering
people, as the easiest way for him to
gain the final goal of his ambition bui
happily, the prudence of the leaders of
our citizens frustrated the calculations
of Gen. Grant and his partisans. Now
he will compelled to carry out to the
end the above parallels; his fate drives
him on, and il will hardly be long
before we may hear the voice Of Shcri-
dan or some other American Murai, in
the hall of Congress, giving the word
OF command 'tf;,r3nftfi'lS, en- ur'f,lf -
+. Il.
Nillc Plate Prairie, Jan. 2G, 1873.