The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-09-18

haG been assigned to the command of the State, ALI
perhaps that assignment was pre-arranged for he wa
known to be ultra Radical to have indomitabl
pluck, to be wholly conversed in civil or administrative
affairs, and relied upon for Radical execution o
their plan and for thwarting the purposes and goo
intentions Of the President He did not disappoin
their expectations, for with power greater than tina
of Wentworth, he executed the plan of Congress in
6 manner more thorough" than Wentw orth executed
the arbitrary plan of his yrannical MASTER to destroy
the liberties of the English people; and this after TIT
general popular acceptance of the first bills First b.
arbitrarily removing civil officers to reward Radica
aVores with Office without complaint judging ant
condemning; second, by securing on boards of regis
try partsans, to assist him third in the Radical par
pose of DISTINGUISHING men net DISTINGUISHED by thu
bills, in order to secure the certainty of black ma
jority; and fourth, by his contumacous and insubor
dlnae conduct, and his Insulting language the Pres
ident, in order to cmbitter and ntlame Northern pre-
judces against the President and to ntmidatc him By
threats of impeachment General Sheridal's arbitrary
spirit, and the Office of the presidency held up to his
view TO encourage his hopes and to stimulate his am
bition, carried him far beyond Radical expec
aton, that it was necessary to convene an extraord
nary session of Congress to legase the acts of his
pro-consular administration. Under cover of new
law, purporting to interpret the other bills Congress
ratified his interpretations, his acts his removals. his
acknowledgements, to secure his and their purpose
"negro supremacy in louisiana" And hence the July
bill, supplementary of the previous bills which, as we
have before said, had been generally accepted by the
people of the State, not CONSTITUTIONAL desirable
just Or right but simply to escape military domination,
which had been SO long expressing US, and to secure
voice in the national councils where by our words
and actions might help to remove prciudiccs occa-
stoned by the war renew obligations to the Union
and protect rights under the Constitutions For
we had never found fault with the Constitution had
accepted the arbtrameEt of arms had surrendered 10
superior numbers and resources and were willing to
return to the Union. This the Radical party are de-
ternlned to prevent, unless recognise and enforce
our own political degradation. The President being
convinced OF all these things having removed General
Sheridan and having rallied around himself the lovers
OF the Union and Constitution, it was and is the duty
OF Louisiana promptly to endorse him. As our first
acceptance was based upon HI implied promise and
pledge of good faith by Congress- and as we believe
the July bill showed that those measures were Trojan
horses, and in truth and fact palpabic frauds upon
US; and as General Sheridan had falsely represented
us as having encouraged him in the plan of recon-
sructlon it was and is the duty Of Louisiana to i'm
peach his statement to annu their fomcr accep lance
and to declare that, since the July bill was passed
" none approve and all despse it,
BY virtue of this imposed leadership in the elections
and of this acqucsccncc of the people in the first bills
tIn off fi1ln pFT n,;,
mediate action
Her people can not cooperate with the. plan-lat is
can not vote for convention a&e run candidates. be-
cause to do these things would be participation and
all Endorsement Of the plan, ant of its mode of execu
ton by General Sheridan. They can not ignore it. Or
wash their hands of it, as VIC have thought of doing
and as we have been advised d. without subiectinV
ourselves to Misrepresentation by virtue of our accept
ance of the first bills, and subsequent reputation
OF that acceptance, and without passive surrender
without struggle of the political power of the State
to the negroes, to be used for curown DEGRADATION and
to promote the ends and pcrpetuae the power of the
Radical party We therefore bound to act and to
'ry to defeat the monstreus inquity designed by the
Radical party, for purely party and Radicalpar
purposes We have only been too tardy in cur action
out let us not, on that account, because it seems
hopeless, relax our efforts but remembering that God
Helps those who help themselves, put our shoulders
osether, to prevent the last degradation the African
sing our State, to benefit the Radical party Let Us
mite; let us organise and if we must give up the
mp let us initiate the example of those true English
roopS that beat to arms on the deck, and went down
With their ship with the flag of their country urfured
0 the breeze and the last ohnct ho coo, obor,
rave.
Remember what Louisiana was, remember what she
now and act and act togethr to prevent what Lou
'ana will be, if we supncly and ingorously do not
efeat it.