The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-10
LOUISIANA REDEEMED.

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LOUISIANA REDEEMED.
Tho clans have met in the shock OF
battle. Tho crisis of our fate Is past, the
long agony is Overland the nation stands
redeemed In the morning light OF
Tuesdays battle, the buglo call sum
moned the serried ranks of Democratic
lcgions to the bloodless fray. They
rallied from the mountains and the
valleys, from plains, and lakes, aud riv-
ers and oceans, from the farms and
work shops, to redress the wrongs Of
fifteen years, and to hurl from power
that party whose corruptions have
brought disgrace upon this republic Mt
home and abroad, They came under
no new banner, but with tho old stars
and stripes uniurlcd, having inscribed
upon it in letters of living light, peace
and reconciliation They come, not MS
the contcnding legions of 1861, with
cannon, and shot, and she'll, and all the
implements of death. They came, not
to crimson our streams and rivers with
American blood, shed by American
hands No, they came armed with
"A weapon nrmcrs0t
And suror than the bayonet-
Tho ballot that falls an still
As Bnow-fiako ON tho frozen sod
But executes n freeman's viii,
AS lightning does the win OF aod."
That will, the will of ireemen the
will OF u mighty people has boon exc
cuted, and the nation stands Olsen.
thralled, In that grand struggle,
whether providontially ornot we cannot
sny, Louisiana grand and suffering LOUISE
ana, seems to have been pivotal State,
upon the vote of whose sons rested the
destinies Of the republic,
1t is said that the old Napoleon, in
one OF his great battles, stationed Mar.
shall Murat with his long line, in front
OF tho Austrans, land saidtto him, Mar
shall hold the position without firing
without advancing, without retrcatiny
stand there and take this fire" Mar.
shall Murat drew his men up in line
and soon the artillery of the Austrlans
opened upon it, and doep gaps were
ploughed through that were filed
by the closing up from the right and
the LETT deep gaps were again ploughed
and closed finally, Marshal Murat
called his aide to his side, and he said
go and tell the sire that it is impossible
to hold this position any longer. Ma.
poleon received the message and re.
piled to the aide, go back and say to
Marshal Murat hold this place, Tho
appealed to his men, and di.
rectly when the artillery fire had ceased,
and tho small arms came within range.
and his men began to fall like the for.
est before tho storm, he called his hide
again. and said, 90 and tell Napoleon ,
that 1T is impossible to control the men
here he must allow us to return th 1,
lire, to make n charge or retreat. or :
'hese en- will abandon his standard. !;
said Napoleon to the aide, 20 tell Mar. I
hal Murat to hold his place. Murat a
eceived this message, and ho walked
ut in front of his men, and folding his !,
rms over his breast, said to them, I
Frenchmen see how marshal can Il
ie in the discharge of his duty" and \
is mon stayed there and thesun went .
own that day with Napoleon's banners "
'aved in victory ov sr all that field, fl
so 1T was with Louisiana. She kept !.
no peace With cleaning bayonets "
mong her voters, with frowning iron n,
lads menacing her chief city, with in. OF
'ient vagabonds firing the hearts of |
er negro voters, she stood firm until Y, ',
ne streaming rays of Tuesdays setting d,
IN rested gloriously and lovingly upon st
'ctorlous banners, with grand cid ii
'ampled commonwealth risen from the VI
II oil her degradation, proud, great and ss
'ee' seated at Liberty's feet, smiling
nth hope intoxicated with Joy, and &C
rowned with immortal honors, No IN IN
niger VIII we find kellogg with on .,
rmy at his back, with lust and rapine OF
advance, with hate following in tho fl,
'ar, with the torch of the incendiarv OF
I'd the knife of the assassin, No longer a. a,
i'll we find furies rejoicing in their tri. m
nph and dancing in her path. No v,
niger will we find black-wiuged harpies :,
uniting their unsightly plumage \,
nd rioting in her woe. No tr
niger will we find commerce choked N,
ON her shores, science and art recoil u
g from her Crescent City, No longer =;