The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-04-28
From the Chicago Times.
The Banquet of Blood.

one ofa cage of savage, hungry beasts,
whose ferocious instincts have been
stimulated to madness by the sight Of
some bloody meat, but which was ia
ken frem them at the very moment
that they believed it within their pos
session.
From the cage at Washington there
comes disappointed roar that resounds
all over the country. Hear the beast
Wade, as he licks his hot fangs, and
howls over the escape of his prey:
HAS he punished anybody9 Why,
sir, we have the unheard of spectacle
of one of the greatest rebellions that
ever cursed mankind, involving more
people, more lives, more expense than
all the rebellions that have occurred in
history, and yet, sir, no man has been
punished in consequence Of it. Some
thing is wrong. If this is all right,
then the whole system of penitentiares
throughout the Union ought to be
abolished. Sir, the President was right
when he said that treason was great
crime and ought to be rendered odious.
Why did he not carry out his declara-
tion?'
Radicalism had two-fold object in
the passage of freedmen's bureau bill.
One was to perpetuate through patron
age the power Of the abolition party,
and the other was to crafty a revenge
full feeling toward the South. How
much the latter sentiment inspired the
action Of radicals can be inferred from
the utterances of Wade and Sumner in
Congress over the veto, and from the
blood>thirsty record of the party of
which they are members. From the
infamous Jennison of Kansas, down to
Hatfield of Chicago; and from Jenni-
son up to Wade and Sumner, the cry
of these men has been always for blood
blood! Jennison told his rufians, on
the eve Of their march among the
homesteads of Missouri, that ''they
must take the revolver in one hand and
the torch in the otthey." The sanity
Beecher thought that "we need more
martyrs; we need more bloodshed.
Blood is the wine of nations. God feeds
them on blood" Jim Lane, of Kansas,
hoped to 'live long enough to see every
white man 10 South Carolina in hell,
and the negroes occupying his terri
tory" Chandler, the drunken sot, the
chronic beast of the national legisla-
ture, thought the Union was mot worth
curse without little blood>letting."
Hatfield, of Chicago, saw the hand of
God in the murder of Lincoln" " because
it was hoped that his successor would
dip bis hands in the hearts blood of the
South. @4a
What a record is this These radi.
Gals have for years howled for Southern
blood and now the last utterance Of
the most prominent of these radicals is
a retiteratiop, a prolongation of the
same old sanguinary cry. "Has any
body been punished 2" demands the in,
dignant Wade. "Whose blood has
been shed ?" clamors the ferocious JAG
obin. Nobody has been hung. No.
body has been punished. No more
Southern wives made widows. No more
Southern children made orphans. No
more Southern men are sent to the
gallows. No more women and children
given to penury and starvation. mo
man has been punished" Poor Wade,
who has been denied the privilege of
qaafing the purple life-blood of the
South. Poor Hatfield, who thanked
God for the murder of Lincoln, 50 that
he, Hatfield, might dabble his hungry
jaws in Southern gore. Poor radicals
all, who have hoped and prayed and
labored for months for the erection Of
gibbets in every Southern mans door
yard.
"Nobody punishedn The South is
to-day almost a desert. It's industry is
destroyed, its hotnesteads ruins, its sons
by tens of thousands have been slain,
its wives widowed, its children orphan
ed, its rich men reduced to poverty, its
remaining population burdened with
debt and taxation. And yet mo man
has been punished" says Wade, "and
nobody has been punished is echoed
by the radical press all over the North
President Lincoln had "malice toward
none and charity for all,' and God
smote him. says Hatfield. President
Johnson labors 10 restore the broken
| Union, instead of erecting gib6ets al
over the South, and he isa usurper
says Stevens and traitor, says Wade
| Good men may thank God for suct
usurpation and treason as are shown b.
/ Andrew johnson. He has usurped th,
powers long held by an insolent radica
/ faction; he is traitor to q cut@throa
lpoliticaI organization, that, topsEpeta-