The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-09-17
C0MMUNECATI0N,

Late success is. usually the most
complete and lasting, because it is
achieved by energies exalted, and
wisdom matured by previous mis-.
takes and defects. "There is no use
says feeble and Responding mind,
when its first attempts are thwarted,
Il will try again." says mind Of
another and a superior order. 81
think l see my former failure, and
will guard against it," One OF the
projectors of great public charity
beheld the building which he had
erected at an immense cost and by
years Of labor, wrapped in fames.--
When every means to extinguish the
contlagration had proved unayailing
he stood amid The panic-stricken in
mates and neighbors, calmly survey
ing the terrible spectacle. At length
he said, "There were defects in thai
building which I shall remedy in the
next" There spoke the iron will
the unconquerable purpose, which,
even from disaster and apparent ruin
derive the incentive and the oppor
Etunity to higher and more brilliant
success. And lie did erect another
building, corrected and improved as
he had proposed.
Once more into the breach, Demo
Gratis of Rapides, once more. Moth
ing is worth doing at all, which is
not worth repeated efforts, aud moth
ing is worth doing, which is not te
be done through opposition, Difficult
ty, ridicule, and by consequence
many defeats and failures. Our last
in Rapides, we oyercame in Noyem
Der last and once more is her Democ
racy called on to try again. But
Mr. Editor, that try again has al
ready commenced dripping from the
same stench-pot, and is again feebly
| sprayed against our best and purest
and they are already selected for the
maleYolence of tue gangrened and
disappointed, and the medium is The
same old one. And right at the star,
Eyour correspondent desires to put in
his disclaimer against this vicious
unfair and puerile manner of attack
1t starts not now with "the cartridge
boxes" of last canvass, nor has Sit
1ting Bull been as yet called upon, bu,
the base and slaDderous charge OF the
"shot gun brigade" is the threaten.
ling slime Of the viper, not altogethcl
concealed in the grass. With these
initiatory hissings OF the reptile, dir,
ty ami false charges are already re
yamped against the good and true
men of Our party, which can have DC
|possible bearing on the present can
vass, were they even true, and at one
fell swoop our jewish fellow citizens
WHO are our best people, and mos,
consistent and trustworthy Demo
Gratis, are STACKED willfnily and with
malice Rfore thought" as '.foreign
huXter Dealers Ehis last calumny
lis an old, stale, and with all the res
possibility attached to the assertion,
let me say, Mr. Editor, comes from
an old defeated one, whom the peo-
pie refuse to take up, and he now in
turn reiterates it to his free and easy
henchman, that he may belch it forth
in his lunatic Examinations. But,
Mr.. Editor, I in turn, dash the petty
calumny back to his own nostrils,
and there let the stencil he prepared
for others, nauseate his own foul
stomach. These "foreign huxters''
as he and his new fedgling term the
Jews of Alcxandria, have no fears OF
him, his aspirations or the threats OF
his henchman, look upon both with
contempt and pity, and in the even
tenor OF their duty, ask no pardon
for their past conduct, and will be
sure to remember these slanderers,
But, Mr.. Editor, I am writing too
much for one issue of your paper,
therefore, close this up, but our old
foe with it's garb Of many hues, will
certainly hear from me often before
December. MER1Dos1A.
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