The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-14

Our Condition.
The Geographic dispatches in our columns this
ing convey the unwecome intelligence that the rad
icas have carried all the States in which elections were
held the 9Th by increased majorities, with the
ceptions Of Maryland and Delaware where the con
seryaves made small gains The returns are not full
enough to enable us to give the precise radical gain
congressman As the telegraph gives no account of
any bloody fights between the radicals and conserva
hves The day Of election, the presumption is that
things passed of rather quietly, thus dspeIling anoth
er bugaboo which many of the southern press pre-
dicted. 1t confidently asserted by nang that in
Missouri, if in other State, blood would be she'd
that the policy friends would carry til election at
all hazards It will be seen that the prediction has
not been verified the radicals having carried the State
by increased majortes, both in the popular vote and
congressional representation. The truth is the north
people too steadfast to their own interests to
fight among themselves.
Now that the radicals have achieved at the ballot
box all they desired, it is natural for Us to surmze
what they are going to do with the southern people.
Beyond cayi We are at the mercy of the conquerors
but what their course towards Us will be, finds many
conflicting opinions We do not propose at this time
to speculate in the matter ourselves, but to quietly
await the result We however, give below extracts
from two letters on this subject one Of them BY gen
tleman 10 Georgia. and the other by gentleman in
Alabama, both to the editor Of the Mobile Register.
The Register says, editcrally that these gentlemen
we're both original seccssonists and both were mem
bers IF tie Confederate congress. The Georgia man
says:
- have no fear for the future. cannot conceive
that the great body Of the northern people be
utterly destitute of sympathy forzhetr race aud
color as do the very terrible things VIII ch of
their leaders threaten They have accomplished BY the
war all they desired except thing, and that is the
breaking Of our proud and naughty spirit. Whatever
it is necessary to do to retain power that they will
Do, and they would be glad to have properly sub
dued that they might retain it forever told the
president one year ago that he had but thing to
do, and that was to keep close to Gen Grant that
the latter could not Lit him II he can do this he
can be elected in 'G8 if not, he must be beaten. Gen
Grant is really the man for Us to form on if do
it. He is the great man Of the north ard lis word is
law whenever he chooses to speak. If we can form
party with Grant att its head he will crush ont all
lesser lights johnson has done all he dared do for
lie dalicd too long with the great questo before
him. He saw them from the beginning, and ought to
have taken his position promptly, aud made issues
FOR the congress in place Of allowing congress to make
them upon hin. They will make no serious attempt
10 mpeach him. They will talk, introduce resolutions,
and perhaps present articles Of impeachment in the
house. but without intending to send them to the SEN
ate. ImPelching the president is big thing-it
has its dangers well its advantages to them, and
they will be likely do anything which will at
feet tie three thousand millions Of public debt held
by their constituents. The curtain has fallen only
the first scene il the great political drama. The grand
principles for which fought were lost not because
they wrong, but that their yiudication at
tempted upon questions inv diving slavery, and thus
identified the former were lost sight Of in the worlds
hostility to the latter But the curtain must rise again
upou other scenes wherein that plague spot will not
appear, and then win come our yindcation and orr
triumph else seI-governmcnt is a failure and the
divine right theory is established in tie worlds his
tory"
The Alabama man IS more brief, and, We think,
nearer the truth:
"lIy opinion is Out it is worth Ittle that in egh-
teen months our States will be organised with consti-
tUons DISTINGUISHING the entire rebel population,
and enranchisns the negro-the adoption of the con
stitutionaI amendment follows, and then what? l
pass-JohnsoD is making the same fight We made for
thirty years Logic is the weapon for radicaIism
Buck and ball is the only argument they are willing to
comprehend. We commenced the eight ana wopli
have whipped it had the conservative power of the
north lagrceing with US in prncple) joined u.s. We
threw that off in the rejection Of Douglas Secession
rghtgu but uwise in that it divided the friends
Of true representative government But enough of
this, etc, etc"