Year: 1875

With just understanding of the
situation at the South by our north
ern brethercn and a cessation Of per.
secution on the party of alilgnant
party leaders of the radical faction,
we may look for an era of prosperity
as well az peace. Already has this
frsternal feeling developed itself to a
remarkable extent in so short 4 time.
The "tidal wave' of "good will" has
made itself felt even in the White
House and the stubborn President has
been at last made to yield to public
opinion, to begin his unloading Of
the Slysters." This, in itself, is a
grand victory, for up to this moment
lie has stood blinlly and stubbornly
still and saw his party driven to de-
feat and death a mighty and grand
monument of stupidity and indiffer-
ence amid the wreck and destruction
of the "great" party of the Nation.


No one can deny that among the
causes for this great change none can
be reconcd of moro, or even rs much,
magnitude than the action Of the
party satellites in Louisiana. Butler
ism, sanboynism, Indian rings, bribe
taking (gifts so-called) and tho tllous-
aud other villainies arc but single af-
fairs in themselves disgraceful; but
when the sanctity of the Legislative
Halls of a sovering State arc invaded
and the bayonet used to destroy that
sovereign government, at that mo-
mcnt blew is at once struck at the
liberty of the people and the genius
of our institutions. Louisiana then
is the rock against which the fanatical
horde hurled their strength and upon
which they were utterly wrecked.


The idea Of losing liberty by a
worship of a war hero has at last
developed itself to the North and we
recognize in the expressions of such
men as Vice. President Wilson, Kelley
and a host of others, heretofore lead
ing republicans, a returning scnce of
justice to us, a knowledge at last &C.
quired that to preserve their own free.
dom, preserve the republic, a decent
and equal right to enjoy the benefits
Of liberty and government must be
accorded to the South.


We only ask at the hands Of all
parties simple justice, We have been
ravaged by war ; but worse than this
is the vile horde Of plunderers that
has -feasted and fattened upon us for
mere than eight years, encouraged,
fostered and sustained by tho strong
arm Of government. We have had
abuses heaped upon US, outrages COM
mitted against our persons and liber-
ties, sufficient to make any people,
not educated as ours, hate the very
government we live under and drive
them to revolt against it's authority
but no such feeling stirs the blood o,
any true Southern man, we desire to
prove our loyalty to the Union, our
love for the Constitution for which
the blood OF southern people was shed
as freely as those Of the gallant sons
of the North. Our conduct under all
tho difficulties We have labored for the
past years since the war closed, arc
more than sufficient to prove these as.
sertions. as- 81 s + !"
Louisiana then under the benign
rule Of her own Sons, strengthened
and encouraged by the cheering
words of our Democratic and Conser


vative brethern of the North. will girt]
on her armor anew and push herself
to the front rank of improvement
among her sister States. With a eli
mate and soil unsurpassed by any
county in the world, we'll may she be
termed the 'Eden of America" Let
her sons make her all that natare and
natures God intended she should be
blooming as the rose, the land Of
the orange and tho myrtle, the, flow
cry gem in the diadem of the Union.


The well known and justly popular