National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-11
STARVING LouISIANIANS.
The People OF Several Parishes without
Anything 10 Eat.

Anything TO Eat.
NEW .ORLEANs Feb. 10.-The Times Democrat
publishes to-day the proceedings of a meeting
held at Columbia, Caldwell Parish appealing for
assistance for the people of 0uachita, Richland
Franklin, Caldwell, Vim, Grant, and portion of
Jackson and Conoordia Parishes. Their condition
is set forth in preamble to the resolutions, as fol-
lows:
Whereas the unprecedented drouh of last summer
and fall causing failure in the crops of corn potatoes
pease and even grass and very short crop of cot
ton has brought state OF almost universal destit
ton and want upon the community of this and nd.
Joining parishes and
and hardly man Of means to furnish money sup
plies to even partially alleviate the restitution Of the
people, and that to-day nneteen-twentieths of the
people, including both coors and all classes Ofour c
fe team NO bread no credit nowhere to CO. and no
Ing to go with that hogs have been dying Tor 81 least
two months In the hill portions of this and adjoining
parishes because OF entire failure of mast and grain
whereas this condition of desltution and want has
arisen from any iault neglect of the farming
or lahOring community but from Providential cir
RcsOiUCd, That common humanity dictates that aid
should be afforded TO prevent pro9aSie starvation OF
and we deem that the restitution of large portion of
an important class OF our iellOwcltlzGnS challenges
the attention and should command the aid OF the
Government to avert an imminent calamity.
The resolutions further state that large section
of country Is suffering from the overflow and that
stock and people are on the point OF starvation.
The Times Democrat says edtorially that this con-
diton af affairs was predicted in its columns some
months ago, when IL was found that the people of
that section selling off their stock and cattle
at sacrifice but thinks the situation exaggerated,
and suggests that the people of Louisiana should be
called before app aling to others for assistance
Governor McEnery has ordered an investigation
| InfsdeIIty as Taught ira the GARDEN 0fEden
| 70 the Editor OF The REPUBLCAN:
The Rev DR.. Talmnge iii one of his recent ser.
mons asks, What has intidelity done for the good
ofthe world?" We hre indebted to infdelity fol
all human inventions and discoveries, When
men doubt they investigate, when they investi-
gate they discover truths, and these truths have
enabled us TO construct telephones, sewing ma.
chimes, telegraphs, Toaping- machines and thou
sands of other machines useful TO the human race
The spirit Of inhdelity or doubt was taught us In
the Garden of Eden by God himself for He told
our first parents the day they partook of the fruit
OF certain tree they would surely die, knowing
at the same time that the serpent or devil would
tell them TO the contrary, and that would make
them doubt.
AS THEIR EYES WERE NOT YET OPENED,
there was no possible way TO ascertain which had
told the truth except by making the experiment.
They made 1t, and their eyes were opened. AS
| God himself says; Behold the man Is become
as one o. us SHOWING gooG ana eyi es' hS pnd!
! eat-live forever" God drove the man out of the
| garden and placed chcruhims and ATTAINING sword
| TO keep them away nom the tree. Why did He
wish them not TO repent of the sin they had com.
| mitted2 They would doubtless have done so Il
not prevented by the Maker himself Then only
| blame the man. Would the act be Justihable in d
human father to strike the antidOte from the hand
| Of his children who had by mistake or wrong ad-
| vice swallowed a deadly poison? II not, how
| Again the Rev. Talmadge says: 1.-THE Bible has
| COmlorted in trouble untold millions. Why
! then, take IL awHyY Because IL dOOms two.
| thirds of the human race 70 eternal punishment
which Is not consistent with un all-wise and just
| God. Give us one fact to prove that man
HAS A FUTURE STATE OF EXISTENCE
| and we are converted. If the Bible were true
that is to say, II the Maker Of this vast universe
| were its authorize two men could have mis-
| taken its true meaning; IL would have been self
| evident. Do We doubt when we see the sun shin
! ing9 No; because It 10 self-eyident. Or do we
doubt when II rains2 MOI because II is not len Ia
! belief but IL knowledge. Therefore, II the Maker
| were the author of the Bible il would have been
written in letters OF fire upon the clouds, so that
| every man, woman, and child, no matter what
| language they spoke would all arrive at the same
out we have right 10 doubt the authority oft
MORALlST