West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-06-02
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WEST FELICIANA, La. May oath, ~.

IApAlolS N,i.NAlNEL.
Was there ever a time since tho war
that the people of Louisiana feel just as
they do now9 The spirit of confidence
seems to be now established between
man and man, and all men of all classes
are anticipating u better time in the fl-
tnre. Time developes all things, and
Louisiana, as n State,wi now unfurl her
banner to the breeze with the motto in
scribed in blazing letters "Come one,
come all" and be welcome to her fertile
soil. No other State has any greater IA
ciIities to offer to emigration, and as the
olive branch is now planted and honest
men are placed in office it becomes the
his power in offering inducements to
white laborers from the denscly popu-
lated North and West, where they scarcely
make IL living; and here, in our alluvial
soil and healthy climate, they can readily
become independent in a few years, by
the practice of economy and industry.
Our Southern farmer is ever too eager
to express himself il doubts as regards
the success of white labor, and how
egregiously mistaken that notion is.
The hite man, where he works, in
every instance makes more cotton and
corn to the acre than the negro. And
here i'll West Feiiciana there are thous-
ands OF acres of cleared lands unculti-
waited that will make from one-half to a
bale of cotton to the acre. These lands
are in their present condition nominally
valueless to their owners, and if induce
ments were held out, in less than five
years we would be making as much cot,
ton and corn as e did prior to the war,
and soon our state, under good laws
which we in the future will have, would
flourish as the green bay and blossom as
the rose. In giving this imducenent to
white labor we do not wish to rid our-
selves of the colored race, on the con-
trary the State OF Louisiana is like an
old fashioned Ne Orleans omnibus, there
is room for all that is i'll it and all that
may come here, except those bad men
that have been il vited to leave on ac-
count of their corruption and we bid
them God-speed to any other cline that
they may decree or proposed to pitch
their tent uoon. We do not want them
with us.
There is to-day better feeling exist
ing between the t, races than there has
been since the carpct-bagger and scala
wager first came in our midst. The
negro is the most tractahie race on the
globe. They have cheerfully accepted
the condition of things is they are at
present, and are working better and seem
to be more contented than for years
past But there are not enough of these
as laborers here. "Competition is the
life of trade in all countries, and were
the colored people to see white emigra-
ton coming in our midst it ould stimu
late them to be more diliyent the dis
charge of their duty and prove a lasting
benefit to all. And it is necessary that
every one should become interested iii
the benefits of his State. We must not
lay slpinely upon our back and hug the
deIusive phantom of hope, but we must
all do something.
The merchants are nobly doing their
part this year. Daniel Dennet, of Ne
Orleans, is laboring assiduously. Let
every land owner offer inducements to
laboIers from abroad and you will see
in a short time what the results will be.
The tide of emigration to Texas would
soon stop. Those who have already
gone from our State, hen Louisiana =, as
oppressed, now wish to God that they
We're back to their native home, where
the evil carpet Dagger is spoken of as the
thing of the past and the scalawag has
gone where the woodbine twinetll and
ere long we expect to see many that are
gone coming back singing that good old
song ~ am going home to leave no more,
etc"
For years past we have had pretty
stormK time of it, but after a storm
there is always a calm, and row "peace
and goodwill toward all men" reigns in
every heart; except, as / said, toward
those men that have done all the mis-
chief; and only ask them to shake
the dust from OIL their feet in getting to
I; more congenial cline; and as they
have lived so long dishonesty it would
he hard to make an honest living now.
They had better go and join the Turks
or Russians. EELICIANA.
ALMOST A FIHE.-On the night of the
Gath ult., a fire occurred at the residence