The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-09-29
ELOQUENT ADDRESS.


, we regret we have not space to pub
lish it. Below we give the conclud
ing portion of it, and recommend it
special perusal to our readers. 1t il
+ gem of eloQuence and chaste styl
: rarely published in these days:
We have been denounced as a turbu
lent and riotous faction. The lie come.
with aggravated indecency from tina
Republican press, which, inside of oul
lmes on the night of the l4th of Sep
TENDER, published its morning editio,
OF the 10Th, and of the succeeding day;
OF 'Ie McEnery government, without
the loss OF type, or the interruption OF
Its business by a single hour. This
same republican organ, remember, has
been one OF the most Unsuitable Ieecfes
OF the treasury. Year after year it has
Grained enormous sums from the peo-
pie through the printing bill. 1t
houndtd Oh aud applauded every fresh
outrage committed or threatened :
haunted, villiiied and misreprcsented
the White League from tie first hour
OF Its organization. and exultantly pro-
| plesied It's utter annihilation whenever
the metropolitan police and the negro
militia should be hurled against it,
Yet this is the paper, for whose protec-
tlon against long peut up popular in
dlgnation special guard was furnish
ea on the advance of the League,
which, after a paliid acknowledgment
OF our generosity, now repeats its SLAM
Der with accumulated falsehood. Who
does not remember, with just pride and
exutation, that i'll our escape from q
long and bitter thraldom, when some
excess might have been pardoned to the
spirit of liberty with which our people
were Intoxicated, not Il single act of
disorder can be charged against US
Nota person was molested, not store
inyadeti, not a pins worth Of private
property tax or destroyed. For three
days saturnaiia OF freedom riotcd in
our parks ana avenues; yet we exhibi
TED TO the world the extraordinary spec
tacie OF people so restrained by law
III the very revolt of liberty, aud so
sei-respect!ul amid the license Of uni
versal rejoicing, that not one rude word.
even, sullied the whiteness of our I'M
stained triumph. If the White League
Is mob" it is, at the worst, mob of
gentlemen, 'native and 10 the manor
BORN and Identified, for veal or woe
with the history of the State; "ban-
diIfi who have given to society what
ever hostages OF family and fortune
men can pledge.
Ii has been alleged that the League
WAS diverted from its first intent law de-
signing men, WHO insinuated them |
selves into its counsels and oyerruled !
Its original purpose. Violent men! be-
longing TO the class which Cicero des-
trIbes as oppressed with debt, vet ex-
pecting authority, who, wishing to be
possessed Of power, think they can at
tain those hon9rs, the republic being
disturbed, which they woula despair, of
were it quiet save those WHO have |
been promoted from our roster roll TO
the roll OF the immortais, the White
League to-day, in rank and file, as III
Intent ana purpose, stands unchanged !
ny one man or one letter. This COM
knows, as we gratefully remcm-
Der, that after the events of the l4th OF
September last, and in view of the ap
pr"a"hing elections. the most lucrative
office IN the eft OF the people was urged
upon the acceptance OF our Comman-
and could have been his
without opposition. With that senSi-
iiggn"sS OF honor which would have
ieit it as It stain upon his patriotism
Dad he made his service to his people +
the stepping-Sione to place or profit. he
nni ia'iugiy refused the nominal o /:
"a OK In ~ 80
continuously followed by every mem
Der OF the League, whom a people il
ne gratitude OF overlooking hearts
Mcnid lave delighted to honor.
And it is such as these who have
been stigmatizcd as. ''dlstul bors of the
peace" hi the stately rage of Clar-
'ndon we are told of that noble and
cultures! gentleman, the Lord Fak-
and, who fell in The fore front of & @
desperate charge at Newbury. Who. e
loyalty to his king, his class and his
creed knew no shadow OF change,
though he wept as it were tears of
blood for his unhappy and distracted
country who.from the gayest cavalier
,f the court became the sadaest, from
he most tender the most negiectfu! of
friends, from the most courteous of
men the most rude, abrupt and sloven-
y, t at ''when there was any hope or
overture of sense he would be more
rect and vigorous. and exceedingly
solicit"us to press anything which he
thought might promote il; and sitting I
among his friends often, after deep
silence and frequent signs, would with
| s'fill and sad accent, inglemihate
he word, Peace, Peace; and would
,assonately profess that the very ago !,
~ of the war, and the view of the ca ,
antilles and desolation the kingdom
nd and must endure, took his sleep /.
rom him, and would shortly break
lis heart" {
Look into your own hearts and an
,wer how many Falklands walk our
streets to-day But there is one peace :
If life, and another peace of the grave. 7,
There,is peace of health of tue NOR 5
al painlessness of dissolution. There ,
5 peace of ordered government, and (,
,qual rights, and well requlted labor '
lud the security of wife and child, and {
tranquil fresides, and "pure religion
household laws;n and there
S another peace, like that which
eigned in Warsaw, born of terror and
lursed by despotism, the peace of the
Wiling bondman, the peace of the
couIged and silent serf. And he who
would purchase it must pay its price q
# chains and slavery.
Not this they elected, who in one
iery pang passed "to where beyond I
hese voices there is peace" aud car E
led to their patriot sires Of Lexington :,
nd Concord the glad assurance that J.
eslite the lapse of a hundred years
heir children wereestill worthy oftheir
eritage. And who could ask for his