The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-11
ANOTHER SUPPLEMENT.

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which was to place the reconstruct,
Southern States so completely in TIL
power of the Radicals and the negroes
that the voice of the Conservative
should be thoroughly stifed. Radica
, tools under the lead of Sheridan ant
his coadjuters made the Congressional
viii effective by a registration, whose
unfairness has been made the subiec
of ridicule throughout the country
The fraudulent registration gave sncl
large majority to the Radicals in thu
several Southern States, that it was
generally supposed that there existed
not the slightest chance of a defeat o.
the Military Bills by the Conservative
vote. But it turned out that the very
completeness of the Radical work be-
came an engine against them. By
over-confdence on the part of the
Radicals, and Indifference on the part
of the Conservatives, the vote to call a
Convention in South Carolina falls
below the required one half, and in
several others of the States the Con-
vention is called by bare majority
From this circumstance the Conserya-
tives derived some little hope. They
have hoped that, when the Constitn-
lions shall be submitted to the people
for ratification they may be defeated in
several of the.States; and that the ne
cessity of framing a bill tor South Car
DINA might cause the Radical majority
to remodel the military bills so as to
make their action less burdensome on
the Southern people. They hoped that
the recent expression of the opinion of
the Northern people at the polls would
have some effect upon the minds of
members of Congress, and that the
Radicals would not dare to outrage
popular sentiment by any further OPP
pressive legislation for the Southern
States. It seems, however, that all
their hopes were vain.
Mr.. Wilson has already introduced
bill in Congress to meet the unexpected
emergency, which may be considered
as another supplementary bill tending,
like its predecessors, to fasten negro
supremacy OH the Southern States, re-
CARELESS Of their own will, or the will
OF the people of the North. The bill
provides that a bare majority of the
votes cast on the Constitutions to be.
submitted to the people shall be sufi-
cient to ratify them. And, fearing shat
the South Carolina case might afford
some trouble byreopening the question
of reconstruction, the bill embodies an
er post tacto provision that in all cleo
tons which haze been held on the call
for a Convention, a majority shall be
sufficient to call such Convention.
That this supplementary bill will
pass no one can reasonably Doubt
That the Radicals are determined to
adhere to their iniquitous reconstruc-
ton plan is equally certain. They
care nothing for the popular opinion
which they have outraged. They see
The spoils Of office escaping forever
rom their grasp, and they must hold
hem, by fair means Or foul. tits a
life and death Struggle with them 1
They want Southern electoral votes to
,lect their next President, and South
IN bogus Senators, white and black,
o sustain him againsta Northern Con /
ervative majority. This, they will {
ave, and we might as well make up
ur minds to it at once. We shall
btain no relief from this Congress- t
hey care nothing for popular senti- t
lent, nothing for the distress of the 4
ountry. Their own offices are more
Important in their estimation. Itseems
lat our only hope rests in an uprising /
t the North which shall, by means of d
lie ballot box, sweep this revolutionary t
arty from existence. May we have e
atience to await the " good time COM h
g." a