Louisiana capitolian., 1879-12-13
ADy1sER p1HoHBAoK.

u IldVC UCCOuO " AAU"'S' AN WV
the handwriting on the wall: "YouN
haze to ,cork!" Nevermore will poor
"Pinch" play the role of Governor of
Louisiana, in company with the Muir
rells, the Antoines, ct. ais! Such is
the dreadful alternative!
Since "the cruel war has been over"
the cabin boy remembers that legis-
lative halls and executive mansions
have resounded with his utterances
that newspaper reporters have taken
down his words to transmit them over
telegraphic wires from one end of
these broad United States to the
other
Presto change!. These internal
Democratic majorities have produced
the same appalling effect on his
dreams of future elevation that the
flames of Moscow did upon Napoleon
the First. Thus far and no farther,
Pinchback, shalt thou go
Retrograde to his level with the
mass of struggling humanity towards
some prosaical avocation, where by his
wits or industry he must earn liv-
ing side by side with the eight hun
dred and ninety-tive thousand Others
who have been doing the voting and
producing the substance from which
he has obtained a luxurious exis-
tence!
Perish the State and all its insti-
tutions rather than descend from the
lofty pedestal over which he once
shone as brilliant as the sun at noon
time. If his brethren are to furnish
naught but Democratic majorities in
North Louisiana, why they'd better
20 to Kansas or anywhere else. Pinch
is a patriot, and verify he would sac
ri6ce all his relatives for the cause, 50
that he might remain the one reful-
gent star he was "once upon time D
In lower Louisiana though, where
Republican majorities arc undisturb-
ed, Pinch don't see any necessity fol
his people to disturb themselves
They are very we'll there. Demo.
cratic government won't hurt neal
the Gulf Coast, but its an awful ca
lamity in the hill country!
Can any one imagine how the
Wilt administration will be differen
in this portion Of the State from wha
it will be in the other7 We frankl.
confess that we fail to see it.
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If Pinchback is not , frst-clas
fraud HE will be the Moses who vii
lead his race across the Red Sea t.
the promised land of Kansas, wher
he will bravely take hold of the plow
handle and show them how muc
wheat he can produce to the acre!
Ha! ha! but Pinch wont do thai
He'll never leave the sweets that tn
Crescent City affords him. Not s
with the poor ignorant labore1
What cares he to see the followers h
! has SO often deluded 60 to strane
and inhospitable cline, where the
> bleaching bones will soon mark tn
spot which afforded them nothin
but want and misery!
We will tell Mr.. Pinchback what
f true: Under the new constitutio
: that he proclaimed one Of the mo-
!, liberal in the Union, a Democrat
0 government is about to tighten I'll
;, burthcns under which a 'rhole peop
= y have been groaning; PEACE an
IS PLENTY will be the blessings that Al
- will enjoy. There will be protectio
for life and property, while the san
" rights that are enjoyed by one wi
be vouchsafed to another. The CO
- ored people will no more be slaves
North Louisiana than in the Southe1
" portion of the State. 'Tis true th
= the occupation of many selfish pol
" ticians, such as he, will be gone; b
the man who, in the past, earned h
- :, living by the sweat of his brow, W
~ ~ find better opportunities in the f
ture.
.' Let Pinch come here; for instane
- in East Baton Rouge, and ask-n
~ " of the broken down politicians of |
!" race, but of the industrious labori
men-whether Democratic offici'
y have not given more protect
=" ~ to their persons and liberties tn
"a his partizans did in the days when
was the Lieutenant of Warmoth, t
man who saved a half million of d
lars out of four years OF salary
VI eight thousand dollars per annum !!
,o Don't tell your brethren to
ho Pinch, while you intend to rema
Your object is too transparent. LIZ
,;s on like man and patriot, else h
hv your peace, for if you can live uni
~ Democratic rule in Louisiana, sur
~ ~ every other man can do the same!