The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-23

E Since the result of the election in
pennsylyania, the Radicals are making
strenuous efforts to fritter away it's insig-
ni6cance. They pretend to say the issne
was q local One-that their party was ePns
up into factions-and there seems TO ee no
end to their excuses. We ind IN the y. u
Bee the following address to the voters,
signed by the leaders Of their party. rms
address was promulgated previous 70 tne
election and the Bee copies ~ IRON inc
Daily Evening Bulletin, Radical kepup-
licaii paper published in Philadelphia:
$50 strenuous and SO artfui has peen tne
efforts to divert your attention from TIE
true issues at stake in the approaching
election, that we feel it a duty to remind
Won Of the vast interests which depend
npon your votes. It is not a mere local
struggle. It is not question who 10 TO %
Sheriff, or Treasurer or Judge. MI. john
son and his allies, in their efforts 70 neu-
tralize the defeat of the rebellion, have ap-
pealed to the people Of the North, ana they
viii read in the maiorities which you Will
cast on Tuesday the sentence whether tpeT
are triumphant or defeated. yjs....
In those significant figures they VIII learn
whether YOU regard rebellion ~ . virtue
to be rewarded, or as q crime to be washed
away by repentance; whether You are pre-
pared to readmit the South without condf.
tions. or to insist upon tho wise measures
devised by your representatives IN Con-
gress, and nullitied by the despot who sits;
IN the place Of the martyrsd President OF
your choice.
Such are the real issues to be decided by
your votes for local officers. II may suit
the Democracy to-day to assure yon 70 tne
contrary; but you may rest assured that II
YOU do not 90 understand it, the country,
both North and South, is not 90 blind. 1t
Ihas Of late been truly said by one OF the
ableat men Of New York Upon the fate
Of the Union Republican party. in the sp
preaching election In Pennsylvania, nang
consequences 30 vast and important SnaO
> the mind does not readily grasp all the
dangers Of our position. a Democrsuc
: victory in that State would rouse the cor.
{ mant energies of the whole rebel element
, Of tho 6onth." 4
J. California and Maine are claimed to her.
, aid the long-looked-for Democratic reac.
ton, and have already given renewed
hopes to the uusubdued rebel spirit. From
. every part Of the unreconstrncted States
I come to US appeals from Union mon not to
e abandon them to the mercies OF their enc.
r mics, who are only waiting the fnlfllment
: Of the hopes held out 70 them BY their
o Democratic friends in Pennsylvania TO re
e now the bitter prescription Of the last si1
years, and practically to disfranchise Oh
:, who have suffered for the Union. Fellow
: citizens, will you desert them
Z But even more than this IL the grea'
= question, whether our government tor th'
. future is to be oonstitutionally Legislative
. or one;;man Dictatorship Mr.. Johnso!
has Arrogated to himself Legislative - vel
J. as executive functions, and has appeaie9
Ie 10 Won. through his Democratic allies 70
% support. By your votes on Tuesday, 20,
d are to decide whether you approve OF hi
II nsuepation, or whether you are resolves
= athst government Of the people. BY tn
people, for the psople, shallnot perish iron
!. the earth"