The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-10-17

the Congressional delegation would
seem to indicate. The result OF the
election for Congressman was brought
about by the bare-faced gerrymander-
ing of the districts by INSCRIPTIONS
Black Republican Legislatures. On
the State ticket in each of the States in
which elections took place, the Black
Republican majority was by no means
overwhelming. Ten thousand out OF
six hundred thousand votes in Penn
sylvania, and about the same proper
ton in the other States, is certainly
nothing to boast of, and only shows
that, by little more eyertion, the re-
suit might have been far otherwise.
But it cannot be. denied that, beyond
all question, the Radicals will have a
two-thirds majority in each branch OF
the next, as they have in the present
Congress, and that they will have the
power to carry into execution whatever
policy they may choose to adopt. When
we remember the tyrannical and reyo-
lutionary measures which characterised
their Legislation the last session, when
on the eve of an election which posi-
bly, might put, an end to their power,
we can well imagine what course they
will pursue now that their acts have
been endorsed by the people at the
polls, and their lease of power been ex-
tended to the end of the present admin
istration. That all the President has
done within the past year towards the
reconstruction of the Southern States is
to be undone, and new policy towards
the South adopted, all their declara-
tions most abundantly demonstrate
The State governments are to be over
turned, the amnesty granted by the
President to be ignored, and every
thing is to commence as if only to-day
the Confederates had surrendered their
last army in, the field. It.would bedif-
fcult to picture the extent of the chaos,
anarchy and confusion to which such a
course cannot fail to consign the
Southern States.
Neither will it he difficult to divine
what course President johnson will
adopt in view of q contamination which
he scarcely expected. His past life
would seem to indicate that he has a
wonderful capacity Of adaptation to the
inevitable results of accidental circum-
stances. That he will come down from
his former position, aud endeavor to
make peace with the dominant party,
we have not the slightest doubt. But
whether the eXultant Radicals will ac-
cept his repentance and work harmo-
niously with him, or whetherhe win be
left with a smaller party in Congress
than John Tyler had after the extra
session, remains to he seen. If the latter
should be the case, his tenure Of office
will be of short duration. Hisimpeach-
ment, removal an6 the elevation Of a
more tractable instrument may be
looked upon as fixed fact. z ~ ,afa7.
AS the prospect of the pouring out of
the walls of Radical wrath on the heads
of the Southern people approaches, our
readers cannot fail to remember that
we predicted such q result during the
war, and that, on such a hypothesis, we
based all our arguments for resistance
even unto death. By u union OF I'M
forseen circumstances we have expert
enced up to this time but O small share
of that oppression which we expected
and so often foretold. But now, after
our arms. have been thrown aside, and
all idea of further resistance abandon
ed, we are about to experience, to it's
fullest extent, those calamities which
have fallen to the lotof the conquered
in the darkest and most barbarous ages
of the world. Where we are to hope
for relief, the future is too dark even to
afford the slightest ground for conjec-
ture. From present appearances we
think it would have been an act of
mercy if Providence had sunk the
Southern Confederacy on the day of the
battle of Charlottesville and sent us
all to Heaven along with the immortal
Jackson.
70 The District Court is still in ses-
sion. They have been gathering away
at the Criminal Docket for several
days past. As yet we have not heard
at any one, through the hospitality of
the State, being sent for board and
lodging, washing included, to Baton
Rouge or the Harris House. Still we
live and the planet revolves!
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tou Al ca 43 for Middling.
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sertion this week. We will find room for
it in our next. ~ ~
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her upward trip, and furnished us with pa
pers. We beg to remind the travelling