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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23
Democratic Endurance.

The Democratic party represents
that principle in a republican form
of government which most thorough
ly emdodies civil, religious, and in
dividual liberty. 1t is the party of
the people. 1t is the poor mans
party. 1t is the party Of all who
fear Capitalization, who hate an oil.
garchy, who believe that the masses
are capable Of selfgovernment, and
who know that the concentration of
power in the hands of any man, or
ganization, or assembly is always
accompanied by those stormy con.
WILSON'S OF Observation-Disclosures,
violence and civil war.
But two things on this earth have
ever suffered equally and to the
same degree of torment and perse-
cution. These are the Christian re-
ligion and the Democratic party
The first encountered all Plagiarism;
all that was material in the mythol-
ogy of the world; all that was saw
age and uprooting in old Rome; all
that was luxurious and voluptuous
in ancient Greece; all that was mon.
strous with unnamed crimes and
horrible vices about Constantinople
and the further East. The last has
survived the strain of four wars; the
lifelong conspiracy of John Adams;
the monarchial hate and ambition of
Alexander Hamilton; the crafty
schemes, inscriptions and desper.
ate, Of the old Federal party; the
slave trade; the extension of the area
of slavery; the furious slavery agita-
ton; the exquisite rancor of section
al hatred; the white heat of partisan
disquisition; the savage blow Of
Douglass, dealt when the war-worn
party had its armor off; the split at
Charleston; the rout Of its legions
by Lincoln; the civil war, wherein
the young men were buried by the
old ones; five years Of the civil wars
waste and piliage; the triumph Of
Radicalism or Federalism in its
most vengefnl and crushing form;
the reconstruction of the South,
wherein negroes were made legisla.
tors and penitentiary inmates hand
lers Of the public money; eight
years of Grantism; eight awful
years Of satraps, disfranchisement,
robbery, confiscation; eight mid.
night years Of prescription and car
pet-baggery; eight decimating years
of stealing, taxation and fraud;
eight murderous years wherein Dem.
ocrats were bayonetted, shot at,
bludgeoned, jailed, driven from
the polls, denied the right to vote,
deprived Of representation, swept
away from their State Houses,
given over to the plnnderings OF
Congos crossed upon gorillas, hunt
ed by those ban.dogs of despotism,
infantry and cavalry; counted out Of
elections systematically and defiant
", aud finally robbed of q President
whom they had fought for and gain
ed with an enthusiasm that never
had its counterpart and q desperate
energy that does not usually belong
to politics. The same "wonderful
vitality and rugged power" still ex.
lists, and nothing on earth can keep
it out Of absolute possession of the
government.
John Sherman asks, gravely, ii
the present administration furnishes
any reason why the country should
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

Massachusetts Democrats do not
claim the State this year, but they
say their time is coming.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

With some politicians fraud is
not fraud unless practiced by the
other side.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

Hancock,s election would rebound
to the credit, prosperity and happi-
ness of the people, while Garfeld's
election would prove national dis
aStor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

We are pleased to learn from the
Echo that the town of Lake Charles
is growing rapidly. An unprece-
dented run of business was trans
acted during the past commercial
year. Many new buildings have
just been completed, and many more
are being contracted for, to be
erected at an early day. The bust
ness men are clever, energetic and
accommodating. The site is a good
one, and at no distant day, the town
will rank among the first Of ito class.
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Shreveport.

SOMETHING ABOUT It's BUSINESS AND Sur
ROUNDTNGs
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

Several weeks ago we copied from
The Rural Times" an abstract
of a speech delivered by Hon. T. J.
Butler, at Sparta, in which were
some illusions to Hon. r. n. Ogden,
Speaker of the last House of Repre-.
sentatives. The point which attract.
ed our attention to Mr.. Buffers
speech was his complimentary refer
ence therein to Governor Nichols
and General Fred. n. Ogden, and
not the assault he made upon Mr..
Ogden. Mr.. Buffers speech has
called forth. the following retort
from Mr.. Ogden, which comes to us
With the request to publish as an ad-
vertisement. We regret that we did
not, in first instance, expurgate from
Mr.. Buffers speech all personal al
lusions to Mr.. Ogden, but, as we did
not, we are forced to give to Mr..
Ogden's reply the same publicity we
gave to Mr.. Buffers speech. This
we do, not as matter of business,
but as a matter of fair play. We
wish it distinctly understood that
we do not indorse the uncomplimen-
tary epithets which either party has
applied to the other. Our personal
relations with Mr.. Butler have al
ways been kindly. Having no &C.
quaintance with Mr.. Ogden we Ger.
tainly unwittingly gave publicity to
statements in Mr.. Buffers speech
which he, Mr.. Ogden, has thought
it necessary to repel in such severe
terms.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

# you cannot sleep try Conkling's
last speech. It is fine soporific.
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A CARD.

the Edst0r OF the Vt'edicat0r My
attention has just been called to q
speech made by Butler, of Bienville,
and published in the Sparta Times,
in which, without cause or provoca-
ton, he assails my personal charac-
ter in language c0nsoDant with his
breeding.
Under ordinary circumstances, I
should leave him nnnoticed; but the
unfortunate prominence the good
people Of Bienville have given to
him, together with the fact that re-
spectacle journals are publishing his
billingsgate, render it necessary, in
justice to those who do not know me,
to brand him a q malicious Eay.
The charge that / was in the hab-
it Of iDebriating myself when pre-
siding officer Of the House, or that
be ever propounded any questions to
me is absurlly false. We're it nee
essary, / could call on honorable
gentlemen, members Of the House,
who, while they differed from me on
many important measures, are too
knightIy to degrade themselves by
slanderous falsehood, to prove that
l presided always with dignity and
fairness. The only time that Butler
ever saw me touch q drop, and then
of wine, was while he was enjoying
my hospitality, at my own table with
my own family and friends. He will
recollect the occasion as the one
from which o private conversation
was betrayed and misrepresented
by him for the purpose of cheap no.
toriety. He was compelled after
wards to explain his misrepresenta-
tons. The resolution compliment.
ing me for my dignity and impair
TALLY as the Presiding Officer of the
House, introduced by the Hon. John
8. Billu, Of Lafourche, q gentleman
of the highest character, and my op.
ponent for the speakership, and
unanimously adopted, as will be seen
by reference to the journal, refutes
the charges on this point made by
Butler.
His statement in reference to the
remark said to have been uttered by
Gen. +. N. Ogden, derogotory to me,
is as false as bis other assertions,
and I have Gen. Ogden's oscn assur.
ance that no such language was ever
used by him in connection with my
name.
Butler is one OF those who under
stands the safety of distance. He
would not have dared to assail me
within reasonable reach. There
fore brand him as a liar and cow
ard, meriting the contempt Of every
honorable gentleman.
r. N. OGDEN.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

Neither officially nor unofficially
have the Democrats ever more exal-
ted so-called State Sovereignty or
States Rights than the doctrine was
exalted by the Republican majority
of the Electoral Commission. In
fact We recall no instances where the
Democrats ever made so broad and
striking an application of the doc
trine, as that the nation could not
inquire into the action of a State
official in the matter of the choice of
the first officer of the government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

Massachusetts, has comfOrted her
mill owners by demonstrating tho
fact that in the manufacture of cot
ton goods there is a difference of S8
per cotton bale in favor Of Southern
mills. Labor is cheaper in the
South, and the matter Of freights
counts largely, 90 that if peace and
domestic tranquility are allowed to
continue in the South as they have
existed for the past three years I'M
der the constitutional policy of the
fraudulent President, it win not be
q generation before most Of the cap.
ital invested in cotton manufactures
win migrate towards the Southern
sea-board. It only needs the firm
establishment of this policy by the
election Of Hancock to render pros
perity % great in the Soath a. it has
been in New England and the West.
But We greatly fear that the hundred
thousand offices held by Republicans
are of more Importance to them
than the domestic peace and pros.
perity of the country
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We wonder if the party which pro-
fesees almost . monopoly of the vir-
tue and intelligence Of the country
has ever stopped to consider the
crime which it commits against our
common country by it's system of
studied falsehood and Islander of
their countrymen, the Democrats
Is it doing ones country a service to
constantly and maliciously Islander
and misrepresent not only the posi-
ton but the motives Of the Demo,
cratic party which four years ago at
least constituted a large majority of
our peoplef Does it help ones
country to impagn the patriotism OF
a majority Of its citisensf
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

The more one learns Of the public
and private expressions of General
Hancock, his mode Of thought and
his method Of action, the more one
becomes convinced OF bis peculiar
fitness for the Executive head Of o
great Nation. There is perfect har-
mony between his public and private
expressions and his official actions.
How different it is with Garfield
Always being carried away by his
emotions in the direction of the good,
only to be thrown back to the oppo-
site extreme by his avarice and his
ambition; now carried away with q
good impulse, now being drawn by
ambition to crush his better judg.
nent, and now explaining away his
inconsistency in a oody.goody let
ter to his spiritual confessor, Hins.
dale. Garfeld's record was bad
enough on the face OF it, but seen in
the light Of the private correspond.
ence which his silly biographers have
brought to light, it is not only foul,
but becomes weak and disgusting.
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JOHN N. LEWIS,
Br g X NJ a son.
Bellevue. L.

WIN give prompt attention to Brick having.
such 90 building and repairing Chin.
neys. stove Hues, fire places, DO. Also, digging
ana cnrblng wells, and under pinning houses.
workmanlike manner, and at moierste rates.
~ sssA' feb4
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07
"rHE BLIND MAN ELOQUENT"

Rev. Dr. Milburn delivered his farewell sermon
in the TaylOr-street church on last Sunday even
ing in presence of large audience. Aside from
his blindness there is little about him Except the
iudicious use of printers ink to attract public
attention. He speaks slowly, and with almost
painful deliberation, and, though his word paint
ing is sometimes striking, like zigzag lightning.
and sometimes gorgeous, like the impossible flow
ers in a japanese panorama, his attempts at logic
lack both pith and point The analytical thinker.
who listens for two hours to his mastery disnlav
of mental imagery, goes away with sigh of
relief that ii over, and asks himself What of if
and what does ii amount to- after it is all said?
There are half dozen better pulpit orators i'm
Portland than he, any one of whom, bv iudicious
advertising, would succeed better in Boston. New
York or London than Dr. Milburn succeeded here
for the reason that their sermons would be practi
cal and spirited, and up with the inspiration of
the times. The NEW NORTHWEST believes that
one sermon by President Lambert of Willamette
University upon Natures Religions is worth n
lifetime Of discussion over dead issues. One
learned disquisition by Mr.. Eliot, upon "Ancient
and Modern Theology has more points TO il than
We're considered by DR.. Milbum in all of his lee
lures here, and one Sunday evening address bv
Mr. Cruzan upon practical Christianity" will be
productive of more lasting good among the peo-
pie than five hundred sermons about job or David,
or any other defunct barbarian of Bible davs.
who, if he lived to-day, would not be allowed a
hearing in any church in all Christendom.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07
TEACHERS SALARIES.

4 friend has favored with an extract from
the report of the National Committee on Educa-
ton, from which we learn that the Southern
States of Alabama, Maryland, Missouri, North
Carolina and Tennessee pay very nearly equal
wages to the teachers of both sexes in their en-
ploy, while the Northern States of Iowa, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island and Vermont
pay their lady teachers less than half and in some
instances scarcely One-third, as much for teaching
they pay men for like services. This, at first
sight, would make a favorable showing for the
Southern chivalry; but a little reflection will
prove that there local causes for the difference
Ia the South, there comparatively few teach
ers, and the proportion of men and women is not
only nearly equal, but there are no high salaries
given to anybody. No man Of great intelligence
cOmpetes with women for the position of a peda-
gogue; and the few competitors the sex encoun-
ters not aspirants for very high wages, seeing
they are content to teach for an average of $50
per month In the North, on the contrary, the
position of a teacher is an exalted one Educa-
tional standards rank high and talented men are
ambitious to secure the best positions. Women
largely outnumber men in the North, the state of
Massachusetts, alone containing an excess of
seventy-fve thousand widows and spinsters, who
present the ideal anomaly of a supported and
protected sex" with no masculine supporters or
protectors to rely upon. These hordes of women
being in the position of perpetual minority, need
not hope, while they have official votes to sue
cessfully cope with men who can manipulate
school boards in their own interest and secure
large pay for their services The result is that
women, driven to the wall in the struggle for
bread and butter, are compelled to underbid each
other in the few overcrowded professions open to
them, Of which teaching is the most prominent
When men shall have risen above the idea that
an aristocracy of constitutes a true republic
and shall learn to scorn any position, emolument
privilege which they are not willing to grant
their wives, their sisters, their cousins and their
aunts, the science Of teaching viii be given up al
most wholly to women, who, having equal rights
with their present superors, will no longer be
compelled to crowd each other into toiling for
pttance, while the easy positions and lucrative
remuneration are monOpolized by those who now
have votes.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Rose Eytinge has new play entitled "A Baffied
Widow"
The Lingards will not return from Australia for
several months.
Dr. Tanner failed to draw 500 at his first ap-
peaTance n lecturer.
Adelina PATHS income while singing has been
estimated at = per minute.
The Hyers Sisters have a new play entitled
"Shoddy, or Fun on the Brain
Billy Arlington has given up the lecture plat
form and gone back TO burnt cork
T. w. Keene has created sensation in Chicago
by his rendition of Richard II. He is pronounced
the equal of Barrett as a Shakspearean actor.
The Chief of the New York Fire Department
says several of Gotham's theaters are nothing but
man-tnps, with inadequate means of escape in
case of panic,
= :. Baldwin, the ''eXposer of Spiritualism."
who, 1t will be remembered, visited Portland some
years since, now has travelling company of his
own, known as "Baldwin's BrilGants.'
The san Francisco Chronicle says that George
ID. Chaplin has almost entirely recovered. He Is
sufficiently well, at any rate, to take place
among the travelling company of Two Nights in
ROmen
w. w Keller, a New York theatrical manager
cognlZant of the fact that rake and mOuntebank
will draw when legitimate attractions will fail
has engaged Mayor Kalloch of San Francisco to
deliver course of lectures in the East.
Mrs f. NJ Bates, well and favorably known to
old theater-gOers of this city actress of great
versatility, having played several seasons at the
Orc FinO Theater number of years ago, received
complimentary benefit at the Baldwin Theater
San Francisco, on last Sunday evening. The
lady appeared in "East Lynne and was SUP
ported by the Baldwin company.
Miss Lola O'COnnor the recipient of a ben
eft on last Saturday evening at New Market
Theater The child who is but twelve years of
age, exhibits degree of talent and energy that is
simply phenomenal. If she does not break down
under the too great mental and physical strain
she is enduring mt present. there is no doubt that
she will become a star of the first hstriOnic mag
nitude Her parents ought now, and for the next
five wears, to devote her energies mainly to the
full development of her strength and health. as
there is great danger that she will overtaX her
self and fail physically under her present training
The following from the Chicago Tribune. in
reference to Miss Abbott as ''NirgniaU in Masses
opera, is recommended to the ambitions and
ghty musical critics of Portlands daily press for
careful perusal and study, as some of them NAV
utilize II when the next half-amateur concert
troupe comes along: ''The little diUa caroled last
night an rdUir $ In it fhe romanzal She
is de6onRdire with ali the abandon of a
first love. Throughout she is thoroughly mia
nOnne. Her voice and method are eX-
qusltely adapted TO the sUeItO and in the aria She
displayed sweetness in the susteputO and far he
yond her most brilliant toyiture of other roles in
the final cddenz0." -
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.

From some unknown cause, we are without our
usual letter from the Legislature this week, and
must rely on the brief reports in the daily papers
for information concerning the action the
Woman Suffrage amendment proposed i'm the
Senate by Mr.. Fulton and in the House by Mr.
Iaughlin. The discussion of the amendment was
made the special order in the Senate for the after
noon session on Tuesday, but the Standard states
that the debate was postponed until this Thurs
day evening" on motion of Mr.. Fulton We pre-
sumo the gentleman's reasons for moving post
pOnement were good. In the reported proceedings
Of the House of Wednesday we find no mention of
the matter, though yesterday afternoon was the
time agreed upon for the consideration of the sub
ject The matter stands in about the same posi-
ton that it did week ago
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07

welcome to the President, which closed with a
stirring appeal to the Infinite Good to grant a
lease of life unto His Excellency that might ena-
ble him to see the country advance speedily to
that secure protection Of the Constitution and the
laws which shall guarantee to every man, woman
and child who owes the Nation allegiance the
equal protection of life liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. The Presidents response was able.
comprehensive and kindly. The speech of
Secretary Ramsey was plain, statesmanlike and
candid, and the address of General Sherman was
brief, amusing and popular. The presentation Of
Mrs. Hayes created the greatest enthusiasm. The
lady bowed her gracious Acknowledgements, and
took her seat amid renewed outbursts of tumultu-
Gus delight She is doing more for Woman Suf-
frage than all the platform orators in the land
The women of the future will arise and call her
blessed ASD
Portland, October , 1880