New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-05
CAN'T PLEASE THEM.

The National Intelligencer recently reported the
| fact that some leading men in West tennessee
who had made arrangements to emgrate 10
Mexico changed their minds on hearing OF the
veto of the freedmen's bureau bill, and are now
| going to stay in the country. Likewise planter
of Bolivar county, Miss, who lost a son In the
/ Confederate army, was getting ready, in com.
papy with many others, to leave the United States
but since the President has taken SO bold and firm
| a stand, they too have resolved to remain.
| Renarking on this statement the Chicago Re
publican in its usual sneering and malignant style
says:
Next to the restoration of the Confederacy
nothing could have given such delight to all rebels
as that message. No doubt the one we publish
to-day will delight them quite as much.
OF course that message, and its successor al
well. gave delight not only to all "rebels,i al
the Republican chooses to call the citizens of thu
Southern States, but to every man who has the
prosperity of the country at heart, and who is
friend of enlightened progress and public liberty
But it is suggestive to see the effect produced
on the Republican by incidents like those
above recited which constitute the most
conspicuous illustrations of the benif-
cence of President Johnson's policy. One might
suppose that a course which has the effect OF
keeping white people in the fcountry, would at
least to that extent be commended by every
patriotic man. At least it is scarcely conceivable
that this very effect would be urged as an adj
ditional reason for dissent and opposition. The
Republican seems to think, however, that policy
which tends to prevent the self-exhe of Southern
citizens, which holds out to them hopes of
thorough reconciliation with the government,
which makes them contented to be citizens of the
United States, ought for those very reasons to be
repudiated and reprobated.
Thence it is easy to infer what the Republican
desires Is it peace, harmony, contentment? By
no means; for if there be peace, if there be har-
mony, if there be contentment, it is evidence that
the srebels . are still permitted to exercise the
rights of citizenship; that they are not kept in
continual and salutary terror of confscations and
that they have reasonable hopes of
restoration of the Union on the basis of the equal
rights of the States, and how great all outrage
for the President to encourage such hopes How
evident an exhibition of contumacy for the ere
bells to cherish them e~a
From all this it is plain enough that q policy
which should have the effectof driving the South
ern people from their homes, and into foreign
lands is the very policy which would merit the cor
dial approval of this delectable and amiable cham
pon of radical Republieanism. But after all, it is
hard to say what really would please these ex-
tremely consistent gentlemen. If they hear that
Southerners are emigrating to Brazil or Mexico it
is evidence Of thorough discomfort with the gov
eminent, originating in persistent !" disloyalty."
If they are told that the people of the South are
becoming eontented, and renouncing the idea of
repatriation, il is proof of unenviable arrogance
on their part, and of culpable weakness and mod
Grafton on the part of the government. The up
shot Of the whole business is that, in their view,
the people of the South have no rights except the
right to be punished They must be punished if
they are dissatisfied; and doubly punished if they
are contented- ali for the greater glory of Sum
ner and the greater security of radical supremacy
md power.