The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-09-06

Unless re are greatly mistaken. the signs
of the lines are suspicious Tor the defeat
of the Abolition party. The pendulum
which has been swinging with such tremen-
dous force in one direction, is now, weare
inclined to think, disposed to move in the op-
posife direction. The letter of Gen. Cox,
The Abolition candidate for Governor, oil
Ohio, virtually repudiating the principles
upon which the war has besn carried on, is
the first crack in the iceberg. 1t mast widen
deeper, for ideas are logical in spite of the
politicians What is needed now is sharp
aud concentrated Gre upon the wavering
enemy. They have been, brought face, to
face at least, with their real object, the de-
graduation of the white citizenship to the
level of negroes, and they quailed before
the prospect.
Never before did so greata responsible.
ty rest upon the northern Democracy.
Their brethren of the South are bound hand
and foot, and are helpless in the grasp of The
Abolition monster. Now is the time,
therefore, for the northern Democracy to
rush to the rescue, and save Republican in
situations from destruction. Could the con.
dltion Of any people deprived of the right
Of selfgoTernmcnt appeal more strongly to-
the sympathies of every lever Of Liberty 2;
I'VE abuse England for expressing Ireland.
We hurI maIedictions at Francis Joseph
for his tyranny over Eenetia, and we fairly
curse the Gar for trampling cat the life /
blood OF Poland But here are our own
kitil and kin, /" bone of our bone, and flesh
Of our aesll," brave, gallant, and glorious
people, who have fought for four years
against greater odds than any people before,
at last orerpowered by superior Numbers,
and actually compelled to have their towns
and cities garrisenea by negro treopsl Ire
land Venetia and Poland ale garrisonad al
least With white troops, who cannot full to
have some sympathy for their own race, but
it is reserved for our ova brethren of the
South to be forced to submit to q degrada-
ton which must tax to the very utmost the
mowers of human endurance, Why, if the
insults and outrages which negroes are per.
united perpetrate In southern cites should
lake place in New York, it would not be a
week before every negro that could be found
would be hanged to lamppost! The tenn
yer of our people would not stand it.
How humiliating must be tie rejection
to every man who believes 10 equal rights.
oeYery man who can lay a shadow Of claim
10 Democracy, that one portion OF the coun-
try should be thus tyrahnising over another.
Let every man in the North, therefore, who
has any influence, use it to remedy this
state Of affairs. Weurge our friends in the
CT untry to remember that the time for
choosing delegates to the various Conven-
lions for the fall elections will soon be upon
as See to it that the right men be elected.
Do not leave it for a lew politicians to
manage, but be careful that the delegates
are pledged to demand cessation Of militia
~ rule, and return to the sway of the
Constitution and the Laws. Let our Issue
be our Government as 1t sras. Nothing
short OF this can give us lasting peace
nothing short Of this will satisfy the people,
and nothing short Of it ought to.
ff IN. Y. Day Book.