The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-03-14


:. President Johnson and Gen. o. @
Howard.
These two names are well.kN6Wn. On
embodies the realization of true GREATNESS
/ and will be held in admiration as long a
! the American Republic shall exist, as tina
of the survivor Of the country of which
: Washington was the founder.
: Bnt as the parasite plant grows and en-
twines itself around the giant limbs of tn,
u majestic oak, the name Of the second viii
= likewise reach certain notoriety, not owe
enviable, and thus attach itself to the first
2 until the axe of time shall have Topped of
from the main trunk all the excrescence
. forced out of it by damp and heat. w
should have added that Gen. Howard, be
: fore becoming the head of the famous
Freedmen's Bureau, was for some time il
: command of a corps, which, in the Fedora
army, became known after the battle Of
Charlottesville, as the Flying Dutch
) men,"
But whatever military glory he may then
and there have acquired, cannot justify the
present attitude he has assumed in regard
to the Presidents policy. 1 151
1t is, therefore, with unmixed feelings OF
surprise and indignation, that he is found
on the same day almost when the President
has indicated the Constitutional rights OF
the country at large, and when from every
portion OF the great American family con.
cert OF praises is sung in his honor, to throw
out a proclamation to his subordinates
which breathes the most vindictive feelings
against the policy of the Chief Magistrate
Of the country.
I His circular of the Oath instant is an in
suit to the President, and a challenge to his
power. HecontrGverts every position taken
by that supreme head Of our Government,
and seems intent only on creating new
causes of dissatisfaction and sowing new
seeds of distrust in the minds of the people.
/ He charges, and the charge is unfounded,
that the Bureau is to prepare to repel with
renewed energy and vigilance the I" in
creased hostility Of those who have so per-
sistingly hindered and troubled them and
their agents, and he farther hints, 80 as to
Fcall it forth, to increased restlessness
amongst the freedmen"
| 4NOW, Vhic 10 ~ DthuuCl VII UuO w llOC5 DIS
well as one on the blacks, with'a further
bid to the latter to renew an agitation now
about to subside.
The people Of the South have not said of
the Freedmen's Bureau half as much lbs the
honored President of the Republic has
given forth to the world.
| The people of the South, submissive to
the supremacy of those LAWS just indicated
| by the National arms, have only and Justly
complained Of the abuses and excuses
which this extraneOus accession to our ju-
dietary has committed or is liable to COM
NIT.
Whenever and wherever even the simple
though arbitrary system of adjudication Of
the Freedmen's Bureau has not allowed it.
self to degenerate into open tyranny, the
people have cheerfully submitted.
Our own CITY has been fit illustration
Of this opinion, and although this very pa
per has never feared to battle up for right
and justice, regardless of consequences,
there has not been in it's columns, for the
last three months, a word said in dispar-
agement of the institution, because sunma-
Try and arbitrary as it's decisions may have
been, it is but on act of justice to say they
AeSNO Aoo, IL any AuSO<hACC, U06A VI d
or passionate character.
A people which have been raised with the |
instructive respect of the solemn forms of
law, cannot certainly admire, or pray for
the perpetuation ofasystem ofproceedings,
where the first citation or summons is I
brought by squad of armed men in the
shape of an order of arrest, for this is not
the law to which free nation had been
accustomed; but, barring this, there has
been as good spirit pervading its decis-
ions as the circumstances Of the times per.
mitted.
The assertion of General Howard that
the President has assured him the Bureau
would be continued during at least one year
more, is, we ara satisfied, an untruth, as, in
the absence Of any new enactment, the Blu
reau is tanotus o6soie long before that time,
and that when the President, in hisjustipe,
will see at-toremeve the troops, the Bureau
will follow.
Men Of very inferior mind, Blinded by
prejudices and passions, and suddenly foat1
ed up by political events to certain releva-
tions, become giddy and lose the control Of
what little mind nature sparingly involved
them with. Of this class must be General
Howard, and we predict that, one year
hence, he and his machinery will have
ceased to run. ~ '4g5 Sue 8s5g.!
q The spreading of such trash is unworthy
D great nation, and we feel satisfied that it
will find no response even amongst thosel !
10 whom it is addressed. OH ~
We have practiced reconciliation SO far
Is 60 have found amongst the officers con-
nected here with the Bureau, men of heart
and intellect, who, while strictly obeying
their orders, are anxious for the day when |
they will be relieved from q duty which
places them in apparent antagonism with
those whom it is their desire to befriend,
and not to tyrannize. k
Gen. Howard will not be long to be struck
down by the same thunderbolt, which has
already levelled so many notorious officials,
and having no laurels; to shade bis brow,
the bolt will forever annihilate him.
The South has now the solemn pledge !,
that no further violation of its rights shall
be tolerated, and the intelligent and unas-
,uming commander Of this department will
neither urge nor countenance any increased /.
violence in any department Ofhis admins
,ration.-[ Mobile Times, 9th inst. II
"
DWe have seen some awful topograph-
cal errors in our day, but seldom any more
udierous than the following. The editor,
wanting line to fill column, gave Il
Shoot Folly as she flies" Pope. In the {
hurry Of setting it up, the typo rendered it !
nus: Shoot Polly as she fiies-Pop." |,