The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1876-11-11
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LOUISIANA REDEEMED.
The clans have met in the shock OF
battle. The crisis Of our fate is past. the
long agony IL over and tie nation stands
redeemed In the morning light of
tuesdays battle, The bugle call sum
moned tho sonied ranks Of Democratic
leEions to the hoodicss fray. They
rallied from the mountains and the
valleys, iron, pIains, and lakes, and riy-
ers and oceans, from the farms aud
work shops, 70 redress the wrongs Of
ittcen years. aud to huFi from power
that party whose oorruptious have
brought disgrace upon this republic at
home ana abroad They came under
40 new banner. hut with the old stars
and stripea pniurled, having inscribed
upon il IN letters of living light peace
and reconciliation They come, not as
the conteuding lesions of 1861. with
cannon. and shot, and she'll, aud all the
imp! nents Of death They came, no,
To crimson our streams aud rivers with
American blood, shed by American
hands. No. they came armed with
"a weapon armer set,
And surcr than the bsyonet--
The ballot, that fails a. stiu
As snow -iake on the frozen sod.
Eut executes freeman VIII,
n ugainii,g does the viii OF Cod
That will, the viii Of freemen, the
viii Of a mighty people has been exc
cuted. and che nation stands olsen.
thralled In that grand struggle,
whether provideutially ornot, we cannot
say Louisiana grandend suffering Louisi-
ana. seems to have been pivotal State,
upon tie vote Of whose sons rested the
iestinies Of the republic
il is said that the old Napoleon, in
one Of hi. great battles, stationed Mar.
shall Murat, with his long line in front
1t the Austrians, and said TO him. Mar
shall hold the position without firing,
without advancing. without retreating;
stand there aud take this fire Mar.
shall Murat drew his men up in line
and soon the artillery of the AustrIans
opened upon it, and deep gaps were
ploughed through that were filled
by the closing up from the right and
the left; deep gaps were again ploughed
and closed finally, Marshal Murat
called his aide 10 his side and he said
20 and tell the sire that it is impossible
to hold tins position any longer Ma
polcon received the message and re-
Piled TO the aide 90 back and say to
Marshal Murat, hold this place. The
Marshal appealed to his men, and di-
rectly when the artillery fire had ceased,
aud the small arms came within range,
and his men began 10 fall like the for
est before the storm, he called his aide
again, and said, go and tell Napeleoa
that 1t is impossible to control the men
/ here, he must allow Us 10 return til
fire. TO make . charge or retreat, or
these CA will abandon his standard.
said Napoleon to the aide, go tell Mar
shall Murat to hold his place Murat
| received this message, and he walked
out in front OF his men, and folding his
arms over his breast, said to them,
Freuchmen, see how n marshal can
die in the discharge Of his duty" and
his men stayed there, and the sun went
down that day with Napoleon's banners
waved in victory over all that field.
So it was with Louisiana She kept
the peace With cleaning bayonets
among her voters, with frowning iron
clads menacing her chief city, with in
solent varabonds firing the hearts o.
her negro voters, she stood firm until
the streaming rays of Tuesdays setting
sun rested gloriously and lovingly upon
victorious banners, with n grand cd
trampled commonwealth risen from the
pit Of her degradation, proud great and
free. seated at Liherty's feet, smiling
with hope, intoxicated with joy and
crowned with immortal honors. No
longer viii we find kellogg with an
army at ms back, with lust and rapine
in advance, with hate following in the
rear, with the torch Of the inoeudiary
and the knife of the assassin. No Longer
will we Cad furies rejoicing in their tri
umph and dancing in her path. Nc
longer viii we find black-wiuged hsrpie'
Haunting their unsightly plumagc
and rioting in her woe. Nc
longer will we find commerce choeed
from her shores. science and art recoil
ing from her Crescent City. No Longer
will we witness gallant State PROSTATE
beneath the heels of freedmen, with th'
civilization OF the IIugsnot and th'
Puritan, the Roundhead and the Cava
lier, trampled in the dust
Well can Louisiansns exclaim witt
Merriam, the beautiful Jewess Miriam
Sing unto the Lord new song, for III
hath triumphed gloriously; the hors'
and his rider hath He whalmed in th'
sea" The dark exhalation has passed
from beautiful land; white-wingeC
peace will now welcome the brides o
the sea as they float commerce TO he
wharves; the plowman viii sing as h
splits the furrow; sweet flowers wil
spring up behind him, and the republi
ard its patriots will witness State re
stored. with the promise Of future :,
grand so glorious, that all the trials O
the past shall be but as the night which
! prcsedes the eternal day
X BIGGER.
w JEEsNnu ". TO- Ny bowels. m!
Abowelsl am panied at my very heart