New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-12
RADICAL GUARANTEES.

RADICAL GUARANTEES.
/ Il it were not trifing with the most serious
interests Of the country both in the North and in
the South, the continual pratngs of the radicals
about guarantees and security could only
excite derisive smile on the part of the thinking
portion Of tile community. But supported as these
radicals are by the fanaticsm, the selhshness and
the greed for power Of the dominant party of New
England the mischief Of which they are capable is
incalculable It is difficult for a rejecting mind tC
conceive of SO long continuance of an infatuatior
which insists on driving the ship of stage through
stormy seas, amid unknown shoals and breakers
without Compass or rudder, and in utter disregard
of the well-eompied charts of learned statesmen
and the established landmarks of the Constitution
With a recklessness almost without parallel III
history the self constituted pilots prefer to direct
the course Of the battered vessel through unknown
seas at the risk of being stranded on breakers
which they refuse to see. Dsregarding the shelter
which is to be found in established ports and
Ravens they seem rather to trust to the chance OF
finding safety, at the end of their perous voyage,
! in some unknown harbor not heretofore visited by
/ the most adventurous craft which has sailed the
stormy sea of politics.
While their efforts to attain and to perpetuate
their power are sometimes SO ludicrous as to ex-
cite smile, we cannot but concede to them
! peculiar shrewdness, if not ability, in working
upon the feelings Of the Northern populace, and
in directing in their own interests the storms of
passion which they succeed in awakening. If their
ingenuity were only directed to the Accomplishment
of public good, the skill which they display
could not but excite admiration; but as their eff
forts seem mainly directed to the overthrow Of
well.established principles of government as d
means Of party aggrandizement or of gratifying
feelings of personal animosity, their course only
serves to illustrate the fury which individual pas
sions will attain when not controlled or modified
by reasoning patriotism.
Since the surrender of the Confederate armies
and the restoration Of peace throughout the land,
we have seen. a. succession of measures advocated
with uncommon pertiuaoity by the radicals, and
having for their object the exclusion from the
national councils Of all who oppose their peculiar
dogmas-or at leastof sufficient number, with.
out regard to the States from which they may
come, to ensure two-thirds vote in favor Of their
measures, ia both houses Of the "truncated' Con
gress. The exclusion Of the Southern members
nothaYing to accomplish this purpose
III HUI Hesitate 10 Gl6Cb
Congress, for what cannot but be regarded as in
sufficient reasons, a sufficient number of members
to assure to their measures what they claim as
constitutional majority ovef the Presidential OBJ
jeetions. Having, by this unprecedented action
established themselves In a despotie majority they
proceed to carry out their destructive programme
by initiating series of measures designed to
change the whole nature of the Federal compact
and to confer upon themselves degree Of power
never contemplated By the trainers Of the Consti-
tuition entirely opposed to the principles Of self
government on which it was based, and dangerous,
if not destructive Of civil liberty for the policy
which they now pursue entirely excludes those
who are most nearly affected by it from any par
teipAtioh in the legislation by means Of which it
is sought to reduce them to so abjeet condition,
And this, too, ID alldene in the name OF free gov
eminent. 1t is done while loudly declaiming
that this il the true form of a republic. Discus
sion is hushed and repressed- by those who but
few years since caused the world to resound with
their loud clamors in behalf of free-speechn But
now If a voice be raised in depreciation Of their
revolutionary course 1T is branded as f'insoent'
and ainsultng Y II their measures excite amaze
mentiby their severity and their novelty, and are
received only in silence by those whom they are
affect, the silent listeners to the doom
which is intended for them are charged with
stubBornnessu abitterhess' and defiance. .
But whether the course of the Southern
people be marked by. silent or open protestation
lgainst measures 50 aggressive upon their rights
he effect upon the radicals is the same. They dis
over ia either attitude an impending necessity
or some additional Indemnity for the pasti
md some new and startling security
OF the future" which viii convince
lem that never, in all the future, whatever
hanges time may work, and whatever new Issues
may evolves viii another rebellion break forth
gainst their immaculate rule. Until their minds
han become fuIl5seonvinced that all danger Of
UGH arecurrence is entirely dissipated, they seem
isposed, without reference to the views of the
Vest or Of the President on the subject, to take
ntire charge Of the government and to administer
! in their own interests.
We await with patience, but with interest. the
development Of the next " guaranty" which New
lngand ingenuity will discover before the radicals
yI consent to yield, either to the South OF to the
Vest their appropriate places directing the legis
alton of the country in the interests of the whole
eople.