Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-07-03
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crat contains a communication signed
Ciris, wherein the writer charges to the
account of Universal Suffrage, the abns-
es existing in the Government of the
American Republic. 1T cannot but be
wrong, lie says, that men who have no
property or education, foreigners who
come here Only to make money with the
intention of going elsewhere to spend it,
mcn who are strangers in our midst,
| should elect our rulers and law Makers
Will Girls tell us from whence have
come the fifty millions of people, who to-
day inhabit magnificent cities and towns,
linked to ono another by bands of steel,
spread from ocean to ocean, where hum
dred years ago roamed but the Red Man
in the the virgin forests and juugles Of
North Americas
He says further, 'thus we SEQ that the
scum of Europe, the paapers, the bcgga-s,
| the criminals, adventurers of every do
scription, as soon as they become natur-
allied citizens of America are allowed by
our laws to dictate to us who shall be
our rulers and who shall mako our laws
Has 'Civis forgotten that the bulk Of
the emisrants who originally settled the
colonies, were composed Of the very ele.
ment that he is pleased to call the scum
of Europe;' and that tho mother of States
| and statesmen, Virginia, with her proud
+. F. VS. grew from the very seeds which
| he now holds in contempt. And the sto-
~ of Virginia is the story of every other
l 81 Co. S,,f0 r,10oo
bosom is pouring the stream of those adj
! ven,urers! Where the tents Of the mi
ner's camp were seen yesterday, to-mor-
row, as if by magic, will arise the bauti-
| full city of gorgeous structures and edifi-
ces-an oasis of civilization in tho once
arid desert!
| THAT is the work of UNIVERSAL SUF-
FRAGE! In the hamlet, in the crowded
centres of old Europe, where education
and wealth cling to the old idea that the
sccptre of government belongs to them
car be heard the tramp of numberless
and constantly increasing battalions OF
armed men. Why, in Gods name, are
these millions of soldiers taken from the
fields and the workshops? Is it not tt
preserve in tho hands Of the few the con
troll Of the manyt
Through the forest of cleaning bayo
nets and sabres the masses of the Caucas
ian race from whence the American peo
pie have sprnng, here that the Lan(
of Liberty is here, where the son OF tho
Plebean is the equal of the son OF the IA
trician. Here in the United States thu
strong arm Of industry wins the respec
of fellow men and leads oftimes to wealfl
and station. Here, they have been toll
that q Tennessee tailor boy educated
himself and rose from station to station
in life till he became the Chief Magis
trate Of the Nation.
Girls would destroy this. He VIII
holds the dollars, would be the Patricia
and rule the land. Wealth and educatlo
can take care of themselves. What pre-
lection will you give to the masse
E. against the arrogance of the most fort'
: nate classes, if you rob the other OF tn
ballot7
All! we'll do we remember 1861.
t was then held to be the duty Of crery ma
~ to march to the front of battle, eve
Il those who have no property or educ;
n ton, Was it to establish and perpet'
s ate favorite class in this conntryT II
poor couscript was little sh 'rt OF GRIM
nah while he was being dragged ava
from his mountain or valley home, fro
his wife and his little ones, to defend tt
d property and the institutions OF the ed
Gated of the South.
g. His blood belonged to the State tn
y Ciris would have deprived him OF the rig
r. to raise a voico in governing.