The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
Correspondence
PINE PRAIRIE, Oct. 1st, 1894.

EDITORS COURIER:
T. +ae 5lito me space in the old Co..
eIBR A-u93.ee few of the criticisms
r,e, tle SONS de plume of various writ
rs ~ tbs Clarion on the letter OF Old
Cunfrd thatnpDeared in the COURIER of
Sept. is. Old Confed was under the i'm
preston that all the Pharaohs had died
Iong ago, bat horror of horrors, be has
uobbed up 10 the guise Of a white su-
uremacy advocate, and in order to be
sure Of the right cu!prit and Y his
crown has ordered his imps of the pen
to exterminate a number of innocent
citizens of Chicot and Pine Prairie.
The first that Old Confed will notice
IS the rot about the Jews. All / have to
say is / am pleased to know the remark
about the Jews was not made by q citi-
zen of Pine Prairie. AS to the gentle
manly qualifications of Old Confed, OF
any qualifications outside of his soldier
record, be simply leaves that to gentle
men who know him best but let me
say right here that the leaders of the
White Supremacy League are not big
enough to hold sarcasm and criticism
enough to destroy the brotherly love
the old Confeds have for each other
They are proud to know that their
names and deeds will shine as bright as
the MONDAY sun a hundred years after
the names and deeds of the present
stock of politicians and office-seekers
have been obliterated. Soaring the
in Office! What profound ignorance of
the Jews! 1t will take u bigger ele-
plant than Old Confed or the White
Supremacy League to scare the Jews
into pouring their Doodle into the cof-
fers of a lot of rotten politicians and Of
fc~e-seekers. They say Old Confed is
an ofice-seeker. They remind me of
what old Davy Crockett used to call
" the meanest thing on Gods earth-a
darned old coon-dog barking up the
wrong tree" There is no animal on
earth that Old Confed has moro con-
tempt for than a chronic office-seeker.
They say something about the tall pines
around Old Confed's domicil. Gentle
men of the White Supremacy League,
there is nothing more soothing to an ir-
jestic pines. Try it and be convinced.
As white Supremacist" is SO good at
asking questions perhaps he can answer
a fewhimseIf, especially as they are on
matteE-Fhich are no doubt quite fami-
lar. | would ask: Are you not an
nfhce seeker? It not, have you not
been oae9 Did you not try to get an
"fice in this parish, and in 30 doing
played the negro vote for all it wac
worth Do you not trail with the poll
ticians in this parish who favor White
Supremacy il they can't get Sambo's
vote, but have never failed to reach out
for all the colored votes in sight in the
past 2 Perhaps if White Supremacist
would give his name there would be no
necessity for his answering any Of those
rnntiAna- his r,,ltSo 1n~- -s-GA
speak for itself!
But, oh my. that poetic efusion !! That
was 80 paralygipg to Old Confed that be
had to hand it over to Old Nick. Here
is his rebuttal:
TIL devil came up to earth one day,
And into Cpelonsas he went his way
just as an office-seeker with very grave face
Was proceeding to argue the p'intsi In his case.
Vow an ofice-seeker His Majesty never had seer,
For 10 his aorninions mono had ever been,
AAd As Tell very anxious the reason to know
FAs Essae lad Seen aelT to the regions below.
wr9 ID fa;at CT his agents His Majesty
tEGuSaG,
glat aoae sl tse oflce-seekers had never been
And tor MIS- own pleasure he felt q desire
TO come to tbs earth and the reason inquire.
Well, tie af1ee-seeker who rose with visage SO
grave,
Made out his opponent a consummate knaye; 1
And the devil was really greatly amused
10 near the ofnce-seeK ar SO roundIy abused.
But as soon as the speaker had come to a close
The ofhce-Eeeker opposing then hercely arose,
AND ne neapea such abuse on the head Of the
first
That made him a villain of all men the worst.
they auarreled. commended and argued SO
Twas hard to determine which OF them was
.wronR.
Concluding he'd heard quite enough OF the fuss,
II all they have said Of each other be true,
The levi has surely been robbed OF his due;
For these ofice-seekers would ruin the morals
OF hi!
They've sn0e. disguised ds g, the people with their vii.
q I'm free to confess they've Disguised the
NY agents are right to let these fellows alone,
II ! had them they'd chisel me out OF my
throne!"
Now, Messrs. Editors, one of these
writer's in his criticisms on my commu-
.nication in a rather sarcastic tone says
the war has been over go years. That
is surely so; and Old Confed has some
reasons to regret that it didn't end 80
years before he was born.
Well, Old Confed has had fun enough
last him through this campaign, and
he is no longer a candidate for neWspa-
per n0tOriety. While he has nothing to
retract, he hopes that he has not seri-
ously wounded the feelings of any one,
and he nov comes ont from behind that
often used but much hated nom de plume
and signs his name
E. p. CARSON.