Year: 1874

THE Shreveport Times, the faithful
exponent of the sentiments of the
white men of north Louisiana, spurns
the compromise agreed upon by the
conference committee in New Orleans
From its stirring and eloquent editori-
al Oh the subject we extract the follow
ing:


In our opinion it would have been
better had there been no committee
claiming to represent our party and no
compromise authorized or unauthor-
lied. The concession to us OF two
members on the returning board is n
small matter compared with the sacri-
fl ces OH our part involved in the tern. $
of agreements; and all of us must feel
that in entering into negotiations with
the kellogg intamy, stipulating eX-
pressly to recognize its de facto charac-
ter: to protect it and its minions
against acts of violence, and to become
virtually its peace officers, the commit
tee have done what adversely could
not do, and what the federal army fail
ed to accomplish, compromised the
dignity of the fusion cause and drag
ged it into ridiculous position.
Now then, the people of North L. IL
isiana repudiate the compromise.
Thore is no purpose here to perretrate
violence, and no one will be intimida-
ted: but we are painfully aware of the
fact that, from the Kellogg govern
ment, we have no fairness or justice
to expect, and that, through the par
tisan courts of this State, we can OBJ
tain no redress for our wrongs; and if
any parties, white or black, attempt
to reinaugurate the race conflict
among us, to incite the negroes
against the whites, or arouse the evil
passion Of the negroes bN promising
them our lands, and telling them we
propose to re.enslave them, such per-
sons will be most summarily dealt
with. The people of this section of
Louisiana are loyal citizens of the
United States; they cannot be intimi-
dated by the presence of Federal
troops, and carpetbngEers and others
disposed to jncite riots and bad blood,
are no safer here now than they were
Il month ago. If they come here and
behave themselves, nobody will
trouble them, but if they take advan.
tage of the presence OF the Federal
troops to begin again their deviltry,
thew will find when the rope is around
their nccks, that they have made some
niscalculations.


In all this miserable business, how
ever, there is nothing to be alarmed at.
The rumor sent through the dispatches
that compromises similar to the one
made in Terrebonne We're to be adopt
ed all over the state, has no authority,
and doubtlessly grew out of the fears
of a class of men who are always seek
ing to shirl an issue and always have
to le in contests like this, forced into
lire. There will be no compromise in
north Louisiana. The battle line we
formed at the beginning of the cam
paigu remains intact, and there is no
lultering Our banners are spread upon
every hill and cover the heavens Ikea
great white cloud. Yesterday we gave
to the dead; to day belongs to the liv-
ing and its issues:


"Chis is not an hour for lSnells and tears.


But for helmets braced aud serried spears"


Louisiana calls upon every white
man upon her soil to do his duty, end
that duty is now to bend all his ener-
gies to establish within her borders the
supremacy of the white race; the su-
premacy of civilization, of law and
Justice; and he who falters in the strug-
gle is craven unfit to play his part
among men.