The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-26

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He would have such q policy Of reconstruc-
tion as would allow the return of the sece-
ded States into the Union rs friends, and
not as enemies. -
The Louisiana Experiment.
New Orleans and sstAe Department OF
the Gulf" being the chosen field for the
first endeavor to reduce to practice Mr..
LINcoLN's so.callsd reorganization system
of the (aboIition) basis Of one tenth Of
the population-it is worth while to keep
an eye on the process in its preliminary
stages. Of course, nobody at all familiar
with the sort of influences which con-
troll the local press of New Orleans, is
green enough to look for candid or indie
pendent statement as to the popular feel
ing on the subject there, and 10 We must
have recourse to the more candid and out.
spoken writer's from the Northern journals
New Orleans Correspondence of the World.
GEN. RANKs's ORDER FOR AN ELECTION.
1t seems to have been, in fact, one of the
objects for which the steamer Morning
Star was detained that the General com
manding should be made to take part in
the jugglery by which a so.called State
Government is to be fixed up under pre-
tended voteof the people. 1t is apparently
ordered here but this is not the case; it is
ordered from Washington. Indeed, there
is a delicate admission Of this in the open,
ing sentence, where Gen. Banks says that
he issues his order Gin pursuance Of au-
thority vested in him by the President Of
the United States" have good reason to
say that the poiitico- military authorities in
Washington made this step military
necessity" for Gen. Banks to take.
The great object of this movement is to
iusure and perpetuate power. With the
administration 1t is the greatest move yet
made on the chess board, for when onoe
carried into effect it will be impossible
during the next quarter of a century to dis
place its friends from the controlling offices
of the country. In every southern state
where the federal armies may have foot
hold, state governments are to be organi-
zed, the voters Of which are to be only those
who can pronounce the shibboleth of the
administration. The slavery texts employed
now, because it is the most distasteful, and
will exclude all but the most debased and
cringiDg of the subjugated.
A tenth of such materials calling in the
aid of sojourniug teamsters, suffers, specu-
lators, and even soldiers, if necessary, to
make up the number will send representa-
tives to Congress, elect legislature which
will choose senators and electors for Presi-
dent Of the United States. 1t will come to
pass in those days that Father Abraham
will have the unanimous vote Of all the Sou
thern States. which will be represented on
the total population basis by this vote not
only in the electoral college, but in Congress
and in the Senate. With this assurance Of
strength in his hands, with his "rotton
borougs" to Offset against any opposition
which may be made factiously against him
by New York or Pennsylvania or any other
Northern State, he can triumphantly meet
bis enemies at the polls secure OF VIC
tory.
When Mr.. Seward declared that: Mr.. Linz
coin must remain President until he was
elected by the whole United States, many
thought he foreshadowed violent reten
ton ofthe office as military measure;' but
it is now evident that it was intended by
shams-which should represent republican
governments, in which the men, stipenda
ries Of the Government and paupe;s fed on
the refuse of its camps; are the puppets
which appear to put them in motion-tO
cause the ostensible vote Of the Southern
States to be cast for him.
The great object now sought is to prevent
the Southern people from returning to the
Union fold in sufficient numbers to control
the elections in their several States. BY
placing before them a degrading and un-
necessary condition to their exercise of tho
elective franchise this end is attained
With military governors and department
commanders, and the whole civil and mill
tary authority of the administration to pre-.
vent any dlssentient expression of opinion,
there is little likelihood that any will have
utterance; thus in su6jugating the South
he also controls the North, and that, too,
by the Republican expedient of the ballot
box. Every man is rebel who does not
vote to sustain all the war measures. One
of these now is to enable these new tangled
Southern State Governments to control the
closely balanced divisions at the North.
Real Union men-lovers Of the Q nion for
the sake, not for the "spoils," but for the
Union itself-were abundant in Louisiana
awhile ago; but the following, on the same
authority, shows how thoroughly Abolition.
ism has crushed them out:
THE ABANDONMENT OF THE TEcHE COUNTRY
The region known as Attakapas, lying
beyond Berwick's Bay, has at last been
abandoned by the Federal forces, few out
posts only, as. rear guard, being near
Franklin, which are to be withdrawn as
soon rs Notifications are thrown up at Bra
shear City, this side of Berwick's Bay.
which is to remain the western limit for the
winter of Federal possession in Southwest.
ern Louisiana. Alas! for the unhappy Union