The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-05
Niger Cavalry.

Of six the niger regiment, says the N
Y. Day-Book, permanently added to the old
regular army, two are to be cavalry, il
seems, and of the equestrian order, while
white men are to trldge along on foot as
| plebeians at the heels of these darkies
How demoralized and degraded the popu.
| lar mind has become when such montrosi.
| ties are possible Even three years ago a
nigger regiment could not march down
broadway unless protected by the police
and now we see niger regiments become
q portion OF the regular army of the coun.
try, and actually stuck on horses to crafty
the debauched sentiment of the Abolition.
list, who enjoys this spectacle of the degra-
| ton Of his own kind below an inferior
race. 8
The negro in his normal condition is an
essential agency incur modern civilization
aud the product of his labor forms the ba.
SIS OF our commerce, and compared with
his African condition, he is immeasurably
happier himself than when left to his own
guidance. But to force this subordinate
ald Simple, creature out Of his normal con-
dltion AS a laborer and grower of those es-
sential products so vital to the welfare of
Gods creatures, and transform him into a
soldier, an instrument of murder, to raise
his hand against his natural protector as
well as master to do this is sin against
the Creator, Il crime against our manhood,
and wrong against the negro that no
words can fifty express, but which the
country must pay the penalty for sooner or
later. An Isolated, useless heather in Afri.
ca, or his condition at the South, that is.
left to his own natural aptitudes, or guided
and cared for by his white master, are the
sole conditions possible to the negro ma
ture; and Abe Lincoln, the Rump Con-
gress, the Prussian army, in, short, all tie
powers Of earth aud hell combined, cannot
create any other condition for these people
These negro soldiers" therefore, must die
out as absolutely as fish out of water, and
if they We're knocked on the head at once,
it would be humane in comparison with
the gradual extinction of freedom" All
that the Abolition would be creators of a
new world can effect is the degradation
and ruin of their own kind; and if the
white infantry should rise up and strange
these miserable darkies on horseback, it
would be an act of humanity while saving
themselves from the abject degradation
forced on them by the Abolition monsters.
How Andrew Johnson, who pretends to
represent the interests, dignity. and man
hood of the laboring classes, could sign a
bill degrading white men not only to an
equality with but below debauehed negroes,
passes our comprehension.
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"FEDERAL UNION nor NArIoNAL UNITY
The New York News copies commu-
nication from well known citizen ofPenn-
syIvania to. the Philadelphia Age, under
the heading Of " Federal Union not Ma
tional Unity The News says that, start
ing with the proposition that this country
an Union ofindividual States for 4 ON
monwealths, and not a Nationel Unity" he
deduces therefrom these among other Sc
quences:.
/. That the late war was not rebellion
nor civil war, but public war, conduct
ed on tile part Of the States adhering to
the Government, not under the Constitu-
ton, but under " the law Of nations," for
the purpose of compelling the seeding
States to observe the obligations Of the
2. That such being the fact, the Con-
ederates y must be treated as public en-
emies," and not as Insurgents, rebels, or
.raitors.
3. The seeding States having abandon
I'd the contest, the object Of the war waged
against them by the adhering States has
'een accomplished, and their condition, as
aspects the Union of States formed by and
lnder the Constitution of the United
States, is precisely that which existed an
erior to the war, or to their attempted re-
ession or abrogation Of the compact, OF
constitution Of the United ~tates.
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neap The annual production of the Eng
ssh cosl mines is ninety-two millions Of
ons, and three hundred thousand miners