New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-09
History duplicated.

History Duplicated.
It is a common remark that history re- |
peats itself. This is pei haps as natural as |
hat great battles should be necessarily |
fought upon the came strategic point. |
But when proelamatiOns, recurring after an
interval of more than half century, cor
res pond 80 nearly in name and nature as
those which we publish below, this reCur-
renee assumes the character of plagiary. We
find in that most authentic life of the Amer
lean hero, Andrew jackson. by John Reed,
the proclaim alton Of Colonel Nichols to the
Southern and Western inhabitants:
Notices of louisiana On you the tirst
call is made to assiet in iberattug from a
fdithleSs, imbecile government your pGteTrtGt
soil SpaniArds, FIenohmeD, Italians and
British, whether settled or residing for
time in Louisiana, on you, also. | call to aid
me in thiR inst cause. The American
usurpation in This country must be abolished,
and the lawful owners of the soil put in
possession.
Such is the exordium OF Colonel Edward
Nichols appealing to the natives of Louisi-
ana to rise against the faithless and i'm
becile government of their paternal soil.
Here is the later appeal of General Fran
els 7. Nichols, sixty odd years later, to the
people of Louisiana;
For nine years a few men, naving 30
Identification with the people of this State,
either in feeling or interest, have shaped
and controlled their destinies.
Colonel Nichols, of his then British
maiesty's troops, thus announces the force
with which he proposes TO abolish the
American usurpation in this country:
lam at the head of q large body of In
dams well armed, disciplined and COM
manded by British officers"
General Nichols might repeat with q
slight variation of phraseology, that the
bulldozers were encsmped out of town, but
the General says:
The people of this State are determined,
and also am determined, that this effort
shall be foiled.
Colonel Nichols thus encourages the ma
tives of Louisiana
You will have no fear of litigious taxes
imposed on you. The peace and tranquil
lity OF your country will be guaranteed you
by men who will suffer no infringement OF
them.
General Nichells offers the same encour.
aging hope
| shall devote every energy to the great
work of restoration and to secure an eff
! ficient administration of pubhe affairs with
the least possible COST to those upon whom
the burdens of tho State rest.
Colonel Nichols, H. B. NJ, A, announcl g
that the Indians have pledged themselves
in the most solemn manner
Not to ipiure in the slightest degree the
person or property of any bat enemies.
General NiohOlls has been pledgiDg the
sacred honor Of the bulldozers to the same
scrupulous regard for the same interests.
He now adds a similar guarantee to the col
/. ored race
1t shall be great object in my admins
tration to promute kindness, sympathy,
| confidence and Justice between the tive
races that inhabit the soil,
The demands Of American citizens by
Colonel Nichols, Il B. M. A., reads thus:
Leave the contemplate few TO shift fol
themselves. Let those slaves of the tyran'
(Grant) send an embassy to Elba Wash
ingtonl and implOre their aid; but let every
honest, upright American epurn them wltt
contempt
General Nichols intimAtes similar con
tempt for the "few men having no identif
cation with this State:"
How nearly the governments erected il
this unfortunate State in the last nine year
have been based upon or have realized thes
ideas, may best be seen in the picture
misery which is reflected on all sides.
Colonel Nichols, H, B. NJ. A., demand
of the natives of Louisiana aud Kentucky
After the experience of twenty-one year
can you longer support these DraWlers 10
liberty, who cail IL freedom when tht II
selves are treet
He recommends that the people shall n
longer "be the dupes" of ''the America
usurpation in this country" and concludes
Accept of my offers. Everything haV
promised in this paper guarantee to 20
, on the sacred honor OF q British officer.
Signed. Given under my hand, at M
headquarters. Pensacola, this twenty mint
! day of August, 1914.
: The coincidence of these documents
. remarkable. The British officer denounct
! the formal and legal government of Louii
ana as an American usurpAtiOn. The La
, Ditch Democratic General uses the san
a terms with respect TO legal governmel
t established over the same country. Ea'
8 seems animated with the same hostility
D a government be does not like, and ea'
) prefers to employ similar agencies to effe
. its overthrown. We apprehend that t
s success of General Nichols against d
Q American usurpatiOn of Governor Packa
!: will be about equal to that of Colon
# Nichclls, II b. NJ A., against old Hickory