Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-09-22

which at fhe close VI tAo wal A1"U "
larger stock in trade than Noah when ne
grounded the ark on top of Mount Ara
rat, and which from; that day until the
in Inauguration of President Hayes has new
or felt solitary ray of constitutional
sunshine! Despite these legal testimo-
MES to their deep devotion to the princi-
pies Of rational liberty. and the traditions
Of Constitution which once had spread
its ample folds upon their fathers, pre-
iudice and detraction will still carp and
sheer at us as the chosen home and abid-
ing-place of those Apollyons of the bot
tomless pit, the numbering, destroying
BULLDozERs "a class of unfortunates
who seem to have been pillored in the
niche of the National Pantheon especially
assigned to the demons of smallpox and
murder! Even the omnipresent COURT
R-JoUINAL, which is presumed to know
all sort of people, has no personal ac-
quaintance with the bulldozers, and per-
haps desires none. Permit one who knows
them from the sole of the foot to the
crown of the head to introduce them as
they are, extenuating naugut, nor setting
and parcel of the social body, which
holds in tlust the destinies material,
moral, and political of these eight Florida
parishes; tract all the more sacred to
them as it was transmitted by sires who
had fought through two revolutions, to
wrcst it. from the British and Spanish
monarchies; and it was only after the
temple of national liberty and social
order had been repeatedly assailed by
armed mobs, poisonings and by incen-
diarism, and after experience had con-
clusively shown that all the ordinary
avenues of redress were closed against,
them, that the bulldozers formed them
selves into separate organization for
| the defense of the threatened institutions
During their brief career they acted
! chiefly as a skirmish line for the main
body of the friends of social order and
| Christian Civilizations; having, by one OF
| two effective blows beaten back the en-
croaching waves of ignorance and semi :
barbaris.n; having, by the shooting of a
propogardist of incendiarism, and the
hanging of self-confessed practitioner
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sanitary reverence for the strength of
civilization, when exercised without its
mercy; they were authoritatively recall
ed by the voice of social order, and, to
their credit be it spo ken, by one who was
loudest in sounding the recall, they
promptly responded, and fell back into
the ranks of the main body where they
remain to this day among the most or
derby and most effective soldiers of social
order. Such .ara the far-tamed bull-dO-
zers, as they are at home, in their every
day garb OF solid citizenship. II You
fail to recognize in them the type of the
bloody buccaneers and fierce corsairs
which have been painted by the fanciful
creations of prejudice. may it not he at
| :ributable to a prejudice, to'a pertinaci-
Gus partisan effort to prevent an average
record, by the same devices reso tied to by
the unprinciplcd Snowman who transform
ed the two-foot RATHER which were suar
ed in Uncle Jcrry's field into the Grea
| California Cassowarys :, as big as i"y can
! dies
If my appeal to fact has III any manner
| shaken the tyrany Of long accepted
fiction: it has. contributed to remove the
scales of prejudice Which has 80 long OBJ
scured the 0ublic judgement upon tn.
soil and people of this much calumniateo
region, shall not have written liz vain.
HENRY SK1PWITH.
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