Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-09-08
HOW TO BE RADICALLY LOYAL.

OF those who once llVcQ under tue stars
and bars" Iu the first place, if you were
once q "reb," you are still a"reb," un-
less you enlist under Radical c%olors, then
your sins are thoroughly and forever wi
ped out, and then your training begins.
You must denounce the late so-callcd !"
Confederacy in ]uumeasured terms, dc.
clare all who participated in the war
for its establishment as beyond the pale
of salvation. You must shout and hur-
rah at every violation Of the Constitution
and laws Of the country, by the Radicals,
as being the very thing for a general re-
demption. You are expected to pay blind
obedience to all their acts and orders
without a single why or wherefore. You
are expected to be a devout believer in
the principles Of miscegcnation. If you
hav MT got a white wife. a black one will
elevate you very high in the scale of Rad
ical opinion. You must consider the ne
gro your equal and generally your supe-
r.or ; that he is entitled to vote, sit on
juries, hold Office, perform all and sigu1ar
the duties of the white man, and the
more ignorant, stupid and bighly,navored
he is, the better is he qualified for those
duties than the "rebel." You are to con-
slider the Freedmens' Bureau an ~iust;tu-
ton Of the most sacred character and
possessing all the merits and virtues
known to mankind in general and unre-
constructed Soutberners in particular.
You are to look upon HORACE GREE1Y,
THAD. STEVENS, PARsoN BRowNLow & Co.,
as saints fully entitled to sit in the sew
enth heaven and sing halle]ujah around
the throne of old JOHN Brown. You
must denounce Presid't JOHNSON as a trail
tor to his country and GRANT, SHERMAN,
and other Union Generals, as "time-ser-
ver,' and believers in pernicious doc
trines. You are required to %promulgate
and substantiate the fact of the "aI
mighty freedman" having saved the I'm
ion, to which must always be added that
the white man could MT and did Mt do it.
You are expected to assert and prove,
when called upon, that the National debt
is a great blessing in which you are gra-
cious'y permitted to participate. You
are expected to obliterate from the mat
ter and volume of your brain all recol
lection Of the Good Book so that your
conscience will not be troubled with bear
ing false witness, perjury, Icing, and all
such little %pecadilloes, lest tue interests
of the party suffer thereby.
You are to believe JEFF. DAVIS to be
the greatest scoundrel unhung /; that his
Imprisonment is a great charity !; that he
caused President LINCOLN to be assasina-
ted ; that he tortured the A~ndersonville
prisoners and starved them to death, and
that justice has long been deprived other
due by his not swinging upon the tradi-
tional "sour apple tree" All Confeder-
ate cruisers must be denounced as pirates
and buccaneers, who sailed under the
black flag with deaths head and cross.
bones," cmblazoned thereon, and that
every mothers son of them should have
been made to walk the plank" instead
Of being restored 70 civilized society.
You are to believe that the Union can
only be restored and made perfectly hap
Ply by keeping the Southern States out in
the cold. You must insist upon the per.
petuity Of the Union being confined ex-
clusively to the Northern States, particu-
larly those Of New England. You must
contend that the Union was never dissolv-
ed, never could be dissolved, and that no
State ever went out Of it, and that none
are out of now, because all the rights
and privileges of the "so-called" sece-
ded States are inherited by the Northern
States whose duty it is to take charge
and make laws for them lest they give
aid and comfort to the heretical doctrines