Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-21
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ticed a few years ago an account Of
one of those worlds conventions"
in which every BODY had the light to
say and do pretty much as they pleas
ed. One little "woman in black"
thought that all the ills Of human
life grew out of the style of female
dress that if the dresses Were made
! short er-somew hat in Bluomrr style
and lower down in the neck, the
principle obstacle to human progress
would be removed. Another speak er
"A maE-thought that emancipation
was the panacea for all the lis of life,
and another-a womau-that if in
termarriage of the whites and blacks
was permitted, society would at once
start upon new and unknown career
of prosperity aud happiness.
We have other ideas of late. Thos.
J. Durant and other parties think
that universal suffrage. or admitting
the negro to vote, will speed our
State on a new and unknown career
of wealth and honor" According to
this theorist, the magic lamp Of Ala
dan was not more potent for the crra
ton of wealth than this right of the
negro to vote. just here n remark
The slave was first rate political
hobby, and was sure to land the ad-
vocates of emancipation into the safe
harbor of political success. The Ca
pacity OF our negroes when free was
untried and uncertain, and it did look
according to the theory Of eInancipa
ton, as though they should have a
chance. The advocates o: the slave
system co,tl! only say, " if YOU em"n-
cipatc, the negro will retrograde,
that he is better off now than il he
was free" so the enancipationjst in
reply to this said, "you only guess
at what you say. you don't know il
to be true, let us try the experiment,
and We will convince You that we are
right
The case is now altered, the negro
is free and the experiment of hrcne-
groism being fairly tried, and the
negro will very soon show what kind
Of stuff he is made of. If he is worthy /
all the care and attention of his
friends, the treeneGro party will grow
apacc, will, in fact, become invlnci-
Bile. If, on the contrary. he should I
pro"e himself as worthless, a.
most southern men believe that !
he is, the treenegro party will utter
ly perish from the face o. the earth. !
The Republicans, as a political
party have certainly performed a
very hazardous experiment, as should
the negro free fail to realize the ex-
pectatious Of his friends, he will hang !
milestone around their n-cks and .
carry them down, down to the very !
bottom of political oblivion.
Mr.. John Stuart Mill, the English
Radical and political economist, and
who has been recently elected to the
English Parliament, has lately come
out in favor Of negro suffrage, and he
thinks the military screws should
be applied to the south, and kept
pretty tightly turned until we are
ready TO grant the negro this impor-
tant privilege. He thinks that il
will not be necessary to use this mil
itary power more than two genera
tons, that is, about sixty four Years.
This is certainly good long time to
be kept il military leading strings.
but what is that if the theory of Mr..
Mill can be fairly tried 7 But we
are slightly wandering from the track.
We wish to impress the idea that
sound common sense should govern
politics and everything else, instead
of the onrsided and visionary theo-
ries wlith have becom. so common
of late. Sometime ago the PicayDne
had an article on Literary States
and lauded very highly
some Of the leading statesmen of Eu-
rope, on account of having gained
some little reputation as literary men.
Napoleon III has written the life
of Caesar and hence is a great man.
Derby has translated Homer, hence
he is fit to be prime minister of Eng
land, and leader of the Conservative
PARTY Mr. John Stuart Mill Lns