The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-08-23
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The condition Of affairs III the Southern
States appear not only not to brighten,
but actually to become, day after day,
more gloomy. About four months have
elasped since the surrender Of General John
sston had given US technical peace Us far
south Dis tile Chatahochee. And yet here
We find ourselves still as far as ever from
tile application of that technical fact to any
Of the substantial uses Of civilized society.
Civil governments have been dethroned to
make way for nsurpations that, however
well-inteuded they may be, are crippled for
all the purposes Of order and prosperity by
the malignant madness which threatens to
disorganize all civil society at the South by
q system Of universal confscation. Even
where the population Of the Southern States
live in harmony We, thus see the counsels Of
evil men urging on measures that, fear
ried out as now threatened, viii assuredly
result IN plunsing one half the country into
the horrors ofan agrarian war
81 While the harmonious population Of the
tSoutlrare threatened with Reorganization
BY aggressive violence, the States when PEG.
pie are divided BY border passions, are be-.
ing torn into anarchy by bloody handed fac!
ton. In Missouri the condition Of society can
hardly he said to be that ofciyilizsd life.
The adoption u the atrocIous instrument
called the Constitution Of that State,is 3
painful illustration of the faet that Nilsson.
n is being rent assunder W the devils with.
which she became possessed from the
opening Of the he'll ofciyil war.
The special horrors which came in the
declaration Of anarchy in Missouri, are
crushed into silence under the iron heel Of
terror. The general fact is, however, M
questionable, apart from such special proofs
which accidently find their way to the
knowledge Of civilized society alter the fash
ion Of the statement in Yesterdays News to-
the effect that Confederate soldiers, retur-
ning under the terms Of their surrender to
their homes IN Missouri, are put, by the
hands Of q ferocions lawlcssness, to violent
deaths. There reigns, 10 fact, condition
of things in Missouri, which, as The st.
Louis. Republican informs US. is neither
llloIs ny ltss wan le'gn y .ultor. llle
u ,'e ailu sne nasiye poi'ua,'ul " cef-
tain counties the State have their differ
ences Of birth aggravated into bloody hates
by corresponding differences Of political
sympathy: and the loyal Germans, inaam-
ed By all the fierce passions Of the aloyal
lf,x, ~ n {krnot an, Cn CT ouso I1o,,., Iii
,s,ss rs ) ',naars,ans ~ ~ ada !. ~ g..
s oc;tu ~ nol;tinal hstse 4ha od,;;t;onsl s.ra
civ If . conflict If raecsP
Turning from Missouri 10 another State
of divided observation-disclosures the pic
tture is equally gloomy. aParson" Brown.
lows accession to the pos,tion Of Governor
Of Tennessee must have satisfied every one
who knows anything Of his character, that
from that moment the State had, with oil
its elements ofsocial combustion. been han
ded over to the flames Of the worst passions.
The incendiary proclamation Of the aPar-
SON, calling on all @loyal' men to make.
good the deficiencies ofthe civil courts with
bloody hands, pointed plainly to the direc-
ton 81 events ii Tennessee. The open
innate State, especially 81 the so.ealled
Union men ofits -eastcrn division, and fur
thermore, thejudicial murders confessed 10
such Improvements as the following from
yesterdays dispatches, show but few Of
the painful features If tile political eondi.
ton ofaennessee.