The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-03-15
OUR LADIES.
LacOste's Hall 4 Blaze OF Beauty
They Welcome Our ''Boys'' Home
Presentation OF q Beautiful
Banner-Speeehes BY
Prominent Gen.
tlemen.

Lacoste's Hall WIS a blaze Of beauty
and manhood on Tuesday night last,
when our ladies' presented to the return
ed, vindicated patriots beautiful banner
wrought BY their hands on which was
inscribed appropriate notices.
Miss Hertzog on the part Of the ladies
presented the banner, made Of handsome
material on one side of which was work.
ed in golden letters
"wELCOME TO OUR PATRIOTS,
March eth, 1872"
And on the reverse
SEPTEMBER 21st, 1879"
Misc Cecile Hertzog with the follow.
ing appropriate words rendered the flag:
Citizens, Relatires, FrieNds-Chosen by
the Ladies Of NatchitOches. l express their
united sentiments in saying: We are
rejoice! to greet your return again to
your happy homes with wOman's true
and heartfelt welcomes. Although her hand
could not aid you, her heart was with
yOn in your patriotic and successful ef-
forts to crush'a foe whose career for years
that are passed, has been oppression, de
graduation and corruption. With you
have our hopes clustered in your every
effort with yOn and for you have our
anxieties, our sympathies and our prayers
been blended during the trying ordeal
through which you have triumphantly
passed. In the sacred cause of liberty
we are alike interested with you. In its
preservation and perpetuatiOn We with
you are equally identified, and for your
noble efforts in its cause which is alike
the cause Of oman, her garlands Of af-
lection shall mingle with the gratitude
OF her heart-ever cherishing your mem.
Dry as noble defenders of the right aud
brave avengers Of the wrong.
YOu-yOu-Brave men, true to your
trust were the marked victims of q cor
rupt and partizan government. You
were the targets at which power, cor
ruption and persecution aimed. But
you were too high to reach-there was
not enough strength in the bow to bring
the arrow to the mark. Mental and
perjured hirelings have failed to attach
to your hOnOred names the stigma of
crime, and to your persons tho Odium of
punishment. The fair daughters of our
loved Louisiana may we'll boast of such
noble defenders Of her character and her
rights.
Throughout the length and breath of
our land, freedoms battle is again begun
and its victory is already recorded a.
though written with sunbsams upon the
sky.
Welcome, welcOme-countles Welcomes
are yours,
We greet you with the best offerings of
the heart,
You need no decorating chaplets from
wOman's hand;
You need no laurel wreath for her to
twine upon your brows,
The laurel and the wreath arc substitu.
ted by woman's heart.
And within that heart-thst laurel and
that wreath shall never wither nor fade
NJ long a. woman loves tho noble. the
patriotic and tho bravo.
In behalf Of the ladies Of Natchitochea.
with pleasure and with pride, this ban.
ner il presented to you aud through Won
tn our patriotic friends ~ . token OF
their highest respect, their true regard
and exchanging confidence.
Mr.. Cosgrove, for tho returning pris.
Oners, accepted from tho handsome donor.
tue banner "a follows:
Aiss Hertsog and Lsdiss-Your honor IA
overmnch-but vslor. if may claim such
virtue for my comrades, need. no nobler