Shreveport News

As all resistance to the United States authorities have ceased throughout the length and breadth of the late Confederate States, it behooves every citizen to conform his actions to the new order of things.

Further resistance will be fruitless, heartburnings and a rancorous hatred impotent, and a retirement from all interest in public concerns impolitic.

The country is still our home and must be that of our children through all future years.

Then let us act like men; men whose honor and interests are inseparably interwoven with our country.

For three quarters of a century we lived in harmony, under the same government, with the people of the North. True, we had our political disputes and party strifes, but such are inseparable from all free governments.

During the seventy-five years of national harmony, the country rose from poverty to wealth: from a state of comparatively infantile weakness, to a vigorous and noble manhood, equal in all respects to the greatest nations of the earth, ancient or modern. A country of such vast capabilities, inhabited by a race so vigorous--so manly--so self reliant must have a glorious future, and we have every reason to believe from the indications of public policy, that our rulers will heartily co-operate in all movements designed to promote the public welfare.

Let our people everywhere, in town and in country, lay aside their prejudices if they have any, divest themselves as quick as possible of all feelings inimical to the public authorities, and as one man, commence a new career of industry, prosperity and happiness. This course will lead to prosperity, to happiness, to a glorious future. The opposite will lead to poverty, to ruin, to misery.

The ligaments that bind the Union are now stronger than ever before, having been strengthened and hardened by the ordeal of four years of terrible and bloody war.

There are now no cowards in the broad extent of our land, no sickly scions of wealth too feeble and delicate to maintain the honor of this country on the field of battle. In every corner of the land, north and south, the people have proven themselves to be equal, in all the attributes of manhood, to any people on the face of the earth. Such a people must respect each other, must love each other, and in after years, must desire to live together in peace and harmony.

The emancipation of our slaves will not prove seriously detrimental to the country, if proper regulations are adopted to enforce good order and industry among the blacks, and this, we are assured, will be the case.

In a word, we have much to cheer us on in the future, and nothing whatever, to darken our prospects.

We hope that the proper steps will be taken immediately to place us in communication by mail with the principal cities in the Union. This is a matter of much importance to a people who have been entirely cut off, as it were, from the world.

The smiling countenances of our people, betokens that they are not only pleased at the termination of the war, but that they will yield obedience to all the laws of the United States. Let the past be forgotten, and devotion to the future be the aim of all. Those who cannot conform to the new order of things should leave the country and endeavor to be content elsewhere.