The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-04-14
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to neutrality, or, for self-protection,
to act with their old oppressors in
the Democratic party; and the latter
is more probable than the former, as
a peaceful organization for the pur
pose of neutrality would naturally
excite suspicion, surveillance and vi
olence.
There is still one other alternative
to which we are exposed-one which
is truly fearful to contemplate. HUI
man nature is the same everywhere.
There are many varieties of men, but
only one human nature, and tbs pos
slble that, stung to madness and des-
peration by the continued and in
creasing outrages, and seeing no
means of escape, a spirit of retalia-
ton and revenge may be aroused
which will fill the South with scenes
of rape, blood and fire.. To avoid
such catastrophe, we earnestly ap-
peal to Congress for the action al
ready mentioned. We invite sympa-
thy and support to this appeal from
all lovers ofliberty and order through
out the country.
Signed by Fred. Douglas, Jno. NJ.
Langston, A. W. Gibbs, of Arkansas;
Phillip Joseph, ofAlabama; Geo. W.
Price, of North Carolina; committee
and j. A. Emerson, of Arkansas, Sec.
retary.'
These, sir, are the views not of a
few obscure men, but the sentiments
of the representative men of the race.
Rape, blood and fire is to be- their
motto. Fifteen years ago we were
promised peace IN sixty days, and 10
there is no peace. Richlieu exclaimS
ed to the monarch Of France, "Take
away the sword; States can be saved
without it." Cromwell announced to
his Parliament, eye are no Parlia-
ment," and the stamp of his foot
threw tile Commonwealth into a Pro.
tectorate. Napoleon says to the
Council: "You deemed the Republic
in danger; you call me to carry your
DEGREES into execution. Surrounded
by my brethren IN arms I will secure
you. 'Grenadiers, forward In a
moment that hall of Legislature was
cleared, and "Bonaparte was master
of this deplorable field of battle"
Are the lives Of the thousands of
our brave men nothing, that this
horrible interniceen strife is to be
renewed, and with it war of races
supervened? Are the lives of a hun
dred thousand brave men nothing?
Are the tears ofthe orphan, the wall
of the widow nothing in the scale of
our consideration? Are the days of
strife never to cnd2 You, Senator
from St. Louis, have seen and felt
the horrors Of the battlefield. Will
you, can you, uphold, support, aid
and abet a party whose sole aim
seems to be to keep alive the fires Of
hatred and strife? Join with US to
allay the bitterness Of a dying strug-
gle, bind up the wounds Of those 0ies
irae, those days of wrath and blood.
Let the halcyon days Of white-winged
peace spread her downy pinions DER
our once happy land. Let not the
fields of this Republic again be In
carnadined with the blood Of its off
spring. Let the rivers of the South
murmur their peaceful requiem over
the dead slumberers beneath their
waves. Let love supplant hatred in
the land where Eos
"Down by the flow of the inland river.
Whence the fleets of iron have hed.
Where the blades OF the green grass culver,
Under the sod and the dew.
Awaiting the Judgment Day:
Under the one the blue,
Under the. other the grey
Let us remember that love alone
can cement or bind the States of this
Union in one common brotherhood.
and if we do not sternly rebuke those
invasions of the sacred rights of the
people, then, sir, our Union is bound
with a rope Of sand, and you and l,
sir, will see the scenes of Hayti and
San Domingo re-enacted in the sun
ny fields of the fair South, and her
homes desolated with fire, rapine and
blood. Forbid it, Heaven.
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