Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-04
WHAT TO DO and VOW TO DO TT.

ont of chaos in reducing the disturbed
elements OF our civil fabric to some
thing like systematic government, is
question which greatly puzzles and
perplexes our political wiseacres. 1t
is amusing to read the thousand and
one essays which are launched forth
on the subject, and to note by way
of contrast, the quiet easy manner in
which some dispose of it, and the
! rueful despair with which others
| tread it's labyrinthine mazes, every
step they take seeming to make
confusion worse COMPOUNDED" And
yet, the subject is certainly one of
very grave import, requiring all the
concentrated craftsmanship of the
land to cope with it and finally to
settle it on basis of equal and ex-
act justice to all"
There is set of radical politicians
in the North who are never satisfied,
unless they can be dovetailing their
peculiar notions and theories into
matters of State and the private
business of individuals. They aim
to be the Alpha and Omega OF every
movement that is set on foot tor
ameliorating the affairs Of the coun-
try. They affect to know more about
what should or what should not be
done down South than the people of
the South themselves, or than Presi-
dent johnson himself dares to know,
lie being lifelong Southerner and
they knowing very little personally
about the South. This set of Inn
practicals have essayed for the sake
of political power, to take the Presl-
dent into their special keeping. whilst
be has had the manliness and indie
pendence to fix limit to their inn
pertinent iutermeddling and to give
them plainly to understand that he
is not their President but the peop5e's
President. Failing in their plans to
forestaIl has plans, or to bias his con-
ceptions Of right and wrong, they
rail out against the world, and like
Mr.. Wendell Phillips advocate a re-
pudiation of the national debt unless
the right of suffrage be conceded to
the esltranchised slaves. Such men
are natural born fanatics, who care
at heart very little about the blacks,
only so far as they can make use OF
them as stepping-stones to mad
ambition. They consider that the
best use they can put the elephant"
to now is, to make him voter, hop
ing thereby eventually TO scale the
high walls which fortunately shut
them out from political preferment.
On the other hand, we find in the
North majority of sober thinking
people, who are not running valnly
after shadows, but are quietly attend
ing to their own business and firmly
bent on sustaining a more conserva-
tive principle in treating of the vexed
questions at issue before the country.
They abstain from foisting upon the
President anything Of an officious or
intermeddling character, and are will
ing to trust him in his dealings with
the Union at large and particularly
with the Southern portion Of it, to-
wards which, from his present pecu-
liar coordinate relations thereto, be
| is better fitted to act, they conceive,
than they are themselves. So long
as President johnson manifests a
| determination to unhand himself from
the shackles of radicalism and to
exercise in a constitutional way the
powers with which he is invested, so
| long have they made up their minds
to give him their countenance and
aid him in his policy of re-organiza-
ton.
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