Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1877-05-05

~ cXlSCS an uneQual1Cy amongst us
an inequality that is common to al
times, countries and people,-thI
necessary inequality between thu
good and bad, the wise and tool
the learned and ignorant, the one
who is honorable and the other who
is not. The intellectual and mora
superiorities are from God. The le
vel of Ignorance and Irresponsible
ty would he Il level of shame and
slavery. As to the rascal, whethe,
he may be, white OF black, poor 0,
ricil, he IS everywhere the inferior
to every one; and if he possesses
the rights Of all, common justice dc.
prives him of all kind of respecta.
bility.
Those things are elementary, the
A.. b. &. Of our moral alphabet.
Now, let us take another bull by
the horns.
1t seems that the Representatives
of Louisiana, those who style them.
selves republicans, radicals and else,
dc rctoW from New. Orleans, and
having a certain surmise shat they
could not meet the appreciation and
gratitude Of their CONSTITUENCIES
their people, as they say, because
their people is not the people-have
thought proper to call their cons
tituents, principally the leaders, in
public meetings and assemblies in
order to explain them their conduct,
their votes, their variations and So
netting else.
Explanation, indeed, was neces-
sary and difficult.
For it belongs to the facts, as a
thing known even in the Rocky
Mountains, that they had unani-
mously sworn, before Christ and
God, to live, to fight and to die on
the side Of the magnanimous Pac-
kard, who had been elected govern
or of Louisiana by the Returning
Board of Wells and Anderson; and
it belongs also to the facts, histori-
cal facts, that the magnanimous
Packard, ignored by Hayes, having
no md bayonets to support him
and l6 more money to pay his Sci
wants, has been hastily abandoned
by his true and faithful followers.
And none Of those who would die
for Packard have even had the nose
scratched and the ear cut. Packard
is alive, Demas is alive, they are
all alive, and if Packard has not
been rewarded, being the victim
and lie bent, as the Frenchmen joe
ously say, his supporters, servants,
friends, followers and Legislators
have received frcm the new govern
ment, the legitimate and legal gov
eminent, Nichols we mean, the per
diem honornM ct labovum 81 we'll adap-
ted to their faitlfulneSs, consisten-
and works. Receiving ffG1n right
and left, because / have been u good
patriot and Il firm republican, this
is according to wisdom.
Now, it is not our task and duty
to prove how right, manly, republi-
can, generous and moral may be
such q political conduct. Qu'ils Sc
d6barbouillcnt, s'iLs 6 peurent.
Notwithstanding, knowing what
know, approaching the civil cou-
rage as the true and real courage,
and considering the consistency for
a jewel, the jewel Of conscience and
honor, we sincerely hope that the
Honorable Representatives and Sc
majors, to whom we allude, and who
boast of their patriotism republican
ism and militarism, will sufficiently
prove to their people and eonstitu-
ents that they have lost the battle,
but after having made a gallant,
generous and republican fight. They
may write,if they please and if they
can, to their people and their moth
ers, like Francis the first, after the
of Pavia: Tout est perdu, fors
M'6tait plus 4 perdre,
answers the echo.
And to say that there is a political
market, in which some politicians
may be sold, bought and paid, has al
ways been at two thousand and two
miles from our mind.
How could we suppose that they
have sold their honor, conscience
and dignity! We believe in homes
ty, in sincerity, in purity, in incor-
ruptibility and in the wilderness of
the souls. And we believe also, as a
poor ignorant country editor and
like a miserable Frenchman who is
nnacquainted with the language Of
and Dickerson. que Ia OF IL
m'y6 wen, le roi peyd ses dyoits.
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