Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-08-29

| "e Aoho"'S "ii'OiC i'o'h ths
New Orleans Daily Times espresso.
so forcibly our own views that VIC
take pleasure in reproducing it in
our columns, feeling well assured
that the views therein expressed
will I've heartily endorsed by the ma.
Ijority of our readers:
The young men Of the South must
realize that the historical period of
reconstruction is at an end, and
that a new era is upon them. The
disappearance Of the woful rule of
the adventtlrer, the negro and the
bayonef, frees their hands from the
struggle with their own wrongs.
Theirdisenthrallcd section suddenly
lifts its eyes from the contemplation
of its long bleeding, but nov healing
wounds, and finds Itself merged
into the new nation. partaking of
the nations life, and possessing a
vast but as yet latent influence in
national affairs. Shall she step 10
the front with steady tread and
hold her own upon this higher plane.
or shall her sudden eSaltation make
her dizzy, distract her counsels.
narrow her policy aud cause her te
relapse into provincial insignili
canoe 1t will not do for the Young
men Of the South to give them. .
serves up To rejoicing aud office. .
holding. They are the light of her
future life, her brains, hear heart .
and her hope, and her leaders in a
new and brilliant epoch of the coun.
try's history, as unlike the past as
night is unlike day. They have
serlons work to do.
1t is their duty to show the world
that the overthrow of negro rule is /
not u reaction in the direction of
but n progressive forward
movement. 1t was the necessary
lrctude to the establishment of fra. t
ernal relations and to the beginning
u the decay OF sectional anilnosity.
he brave men OF the North and the
'ontl learned to respect each other
n the battlefield, and undoubtedly
acll section stands TO day far higher |
Inc others esteem than it did &
eiore the war. The time is auspi.
lous, therefore, for ccmcnting the ,
rctlons into an enduring union !
lasting basis. i
inc North at last distinctly an. 4
ounces its desire to receive tho
outh in the national councils, not
conquered foes and repentent
hncrs upon trial and toleration. l.
Ut upon the fullest equality. as r
'oud men coming with no apolorirs .
make. This generous inyitation "
le ionng South accepts, and turn. II
z her face 20 the future she bids f,
&c good old times" forever fare. i,
Ell. slavery is gone, and all that =
lett OF It's spirit must also 60. Its !"
lrit was necessarily hostile TO i'm. W
lgratlon. The Young South throws &C
doors open to all the world. and !,
'ltcs the children of every land 70 ;"
me ana share her brilliant prom.
of fortune.
Inc Young South, whose motto is
p with the schoolhouses and down
IN the revolver" will bend its III
nrg'es to providing every child in
IN ut least the rudimen,s of an r.,
hcation, so that it will be ms well T..
lippcd tor the battle of lite rs if ~
'ad been born in the centre Of fr
" England. The Young South Il,
snort, will push ahead like the mi
Est. She need not cease ~ Il. 49,
.ei for chivalry and hospitality. ="
she should grow and be powerful nv
| her Influence in shaping the or
'tlhy OF the. nation will be greater fra
N it was even in the palmiest 49,.
) Ut the slave regime. W.