The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-14
The Radicals in Congress.

Mr.. Sumner has presented memorial from the Bos.
ton board of trade for the passage of law exempting
suors from the operations of the southern stay law
! long enough to allow them to collect their demands.
Such is the wording Cf late dispatch from Wash
ington.
In other words the merchants of Boston, unsatsfed
with the countless riches they have amassed during
struggle which has impoverished many other portions
OF the country, seek to cut the pound Of hesh
the heart from their unhappy debtors of the SOUTH
by deferrng the enforcement OF the stay laws, until
having collected the principal and interest of their
claims through conhscation and sale, they will leave
nothing to render the enforcement of those laws
pedieat necessary.
A bill has already been brought before congress
levyng tax of ten cents upon every pound of cotton
raised in the south; but that process would be too
SLOW III its etectsfor though it would in the end ruin
the cutvator of that staple the enterprising nanuac
tlrers OF New England might be delayed by the te
nacy OF the lingering andhoder for series of years
under the stay laws from becoming the great landlords
and planters they now desire to be.
If we of the south had not lifelong knowledge Of
the graspng aud nnecrupulous but at the same time
keen, untring spirit which mpes the northern rad
icals to compass ruin, should attribute their
nordnate hatred to sectional Insanity alone but there
is method in which it is not allied to maduess-t is
simply deepscated and relentless purpose to pros
Tate the southern people, if possible, at their feet
Is any man so obtuse as to believe that the radicals
can be sincere in their devotion for the African race
the south with relentless cruelty? The dissonaDce is
Irreconcable and unnatural. The true cause of the
anomaly is that they find in former slaves the chief
and readiest instrument wherewith to aggravate our
mseries, and if possible, accomplish our ruin
They are prompted by another motive almost equal
ly potent, restless and malevolent-a consciousness
that there is more honesty, freedom from selfish
impulses, more christian virtue and heroic courage in
the remainder of the country than could be coneen-
trated from all the generations of Purtans that have
lived since the Mayhower.
The "so-called" national congress has been CON
verted into an exhibition room where the oracle elect
from every petty New England district is free to air
his rhetoric in heapng abuse upon the whites and ca
nonising the negroes of the southern country
Those balls once rung with the fiery eloouence Of
Randolph and Hayne; they echoed the phosophc
prophecies Of Calhoun, the broad and enlightened
statesmanship Of Clinton and Slas Wright Benton,
Webster and Clay; they now silent, save to the
absurd fanaticism of Stevens and Sumner, and their
ignoble parasites.
The radical party is the incubus which weighs upon
the vitality OF the country which promotes dscontent
and dssension, and frghtens away foreign capital and
industry
The conservative and sensible portion of the people
who compose the great majority, need only to wait
with patience for while, and they will see the mon
stFous issue of demagosueism and coveousneess sran
gled by its own tether N. 0. Crescent.