The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-01-02
II. PIerSon,s Dcath-Thc Times.

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outward fairness, but which carries in
it's belly more pernicious and traitorous
principles TO Louisiana than did the
famous wooden-horse enemies to Troy
u journal that holds to the lips OF Lou
isiana sparkling, foamy chalice, seeth-
ing below with hidden poisons, In an
article headed Person." stabs the
people of this Commonwealth under
the assumed garb OF friendly counsel
and anxious solicitude for the public
peace.
The Times, In effect, endeavors from a
private difficulty in which one Pierson
lost his life, to porpetrate slandcr
upon the people of Louisiana, and es-
pecially the community Of fNatchitoches,
by creating the impression that Pierson
was killed on account Of his political
opinions. 1t conveys the idea that the
act was in effect a political murder, and
then this gracious and ambidextrous
sheet, like that crafty Israelite who de-
serted the Hebrew faith without en-
bracing the Christian, OF whom 1t was
said, che resembled the blank leaf be-
tween the Old and the New Testa-
mcnts, belonging to neither and yet
covering both," expresses " its pity that
the poor young man was not permitted
to live"
| 1t moreover declares that 'the shot
that let his lifeblood flow will echo far
and wide with danger. TO the fame OF
\ Louisiana and the South" We do not
propose to say anything of the "young
man Person." however cruelty he may
have betrayed the interests Of his State
and people-"we war not with the
dead" but we hurl back the covert
slander of this journal upon our people,
contained in the assertion that his
death was occasioned by political per-
secution, and that men are prosecuted
and murdered in Louisiana for their
political opinions. fe
| This people have groaned under the
rule Of the most knavish villains that
ever stood in the darkened highways OF
any country plying the vocation Of rob
berry, and yet they have tolerated 1t;
they have been stripped Of property,
liberty and life, and yet they are pa
tient and law abiding. The robbers,
tyrants and oppressors walk the streets
and thoroughfares of our cities and vii
lagos unmolested; men whose black in
famies and base treacheries would in
other lands have long since consigned
them to the hangman' s rope or immured
them in the too patient walls OF a peni-
tentiary. These wretches, crawling on
Gods earth seemingly unblistered by
His curse, taunting US by their daily
presence, give an absolute denial oi
these slanders upon the people.
| But little over year ago this people,
when they were robbed and plundered
and imprisoned in open day, .rose. and
struck down the tyrants at a blow. 1And
what followed? We're these prosecutors
taken out and hanged, as they ought to
have been? Mo-! prudence and mod
Grafton prevailed, and in the eloquent
language OF one of our most gifted citi-
zens, SIN our escape from. a long and
bitter thraldom when some excess
might have been pardoned to the spirit
OF liberty with which our people were
intoxicated, not q single act of disorder
can be,charged against us. Not a per-
son was molested, not store invaded,
not pins worth of private property
taken or destroyed. We exhibited to
the world the extraordinary spectacle
Of people SO restrained by law In the
very revoftof liberty, and so respectful
amid the license Of universal rejoicing,
that not one rude word even sullied the
whiteness OF our unstained triumph.
If this condition of things prevailed
in the moment of revolution, when the
worst and widest passions Of men were
excited to vengeance for long and helm.
Gus wrongs committed against them,
what would be the moderation and for.
bearance in times Of peace toward the
enemies Of our land? sl efa q.
Our sufferings and toleration have
been the forbearance of martyrs. We
have stood at the stake almost unmur-
muringly when the helIish flames have
seethed around us, licking up our SUBJ
stance, parching our blood, destroying