The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-26
NEW ORLEANS COR lISP0 NDElCI.
New ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER 22d.

!, sound throughout the land. There is
hardly doubt that intestine strife will
commence anew in this unhappy land
before the first of next January; and
the course of the leading military and
naval men has been watched with in
tense anxiety. believe General Grant
will coalesce with the Radicals, whilst
his subordinate but infinitely ADLER
competitor Sherman viii go with the
President. The Northern soldiers will
follow Grant, but Sherman will prove
the nucleus for the Western men, who,
in numbers and in the qualities which
constitute the soldier, will be far more
effective and formidable.
The man who is infinitely more i'm
portant, however, than Grant or Sher-
man in the mighty contest which is i'm
pending, has declared himself unequiv-
acally in favor of the President and his
policy. That man is Farragut. I'm
like Grant, his skill and ability in his
profession are unquestioned; unlike
Sherman, his personal courage is un-
doubted. No naval hero, since Lord
Nelson, has shown the same adventu-
rous spirit-the gestigia nulla retronan,,
which never eontemplates the possibili-
ty Of failure; his fertility of resources,
his dauntless courage, and his bluff and
manly spirit, have won him the hearts
of the navy, officers and men alike
Whichever way he goes, they'll go,
and with the United States Navy to
hold the seaports, to keep open COM
merce and intercourse with foreign ma
tons, and to blockade his enemies and
confne them to their bleak and stony
territory, the President may laugh
their efforts to scorn.
| The battle fields will not be on
Southern territory; but for all that it
will not do for Southern men, as have
heard some say, to stand aloof with
crossed arms, mere laokers on in Wen
ma. The President has been our best
and most steadfast Authorization him
we would now be exiles or subject to a
negro despotism far worse than death.
1t is not in the Southern character to
be ungrateful, and we will all stand by
Andrew johnson in his struggle for
truth and human liberty, as we once
stood by Jefferson Davis in what we
thought was right.
| The immense Radical majority in
Maine was a mournful messenger, pre-
saying defeat all over the East, and
probably in the North--it was, as the
New York Herald said, the ground
swell which is to sweep over a great
portion of the land. At the next SEES
sion of Congress, the Radicals, in ma
jority, viii impeach and attempt to SUI
percede Mr.. Johnson as the Executive
Of the nation. They will also attempt
to substitute for him Ben Wade, or
may be Banks, or Colfax, or even I for
they might exercise that privilege the
atrocious Butler. The President will
notsubmit--he will resist; nay, he will
60 further -he will become the agrees
sor, and enact, another time in modern
history, the example set by Oliver
Cromwell.
Do not imagine I have overdrawn
the picture. Was anything, not down.
right overt, ever more pregnant with
revolution and bloodshed than the fact
that the Governors of eleven Radical
States assembled in secret conclave in
Philadelphia Immediately after the adj
iournment of the so-called Southern
Loyalists? Enough has leaked out
concerning their deliberations to satisfy
the most skeptical of their determine
ton to maintain the supremacy of the
Republican party at every hazard
They are arming the militia just as
Governor Jeemes Madison is arming
the niggers in this State. The war
will be far more bitter and ensanguined
than the late one, but it will be of short
duration.
There is good joke on one of the
Northern correspondents here. He is
just arrived, and yesterday, the wealth
er being rather cool, he donned his suit
of gray cloth and started for a stroll. =
AS he passed a notorious negro grog-
shop, at the corner Of Perdido and Ba-
rome Streets, some negroes sprung up
on him and, cursing him for a d. re-
bel, beat him numerically. He writes
for the N. Y. Herald.
Rents here pay an average of 80 per
cent. on the cost of property. The i'm
mense sums exacted for the lease of
stores in favored localities are ,prediea-
ted upon the heavy receipts of produce
from the interior. The merchant who
pays $4,000 per annum for store and
$4,000 for his family dwelling, must
gain immense profits from his business
to carry ON his affairs. When the
scanty receipts of cotton, corn, sugar
and molasses are registered, the bal
anee on the credit side viii weigh "a
royal merchant down.
Two or three days ago the workmen
began tearing up the stones in Royal
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