The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-02

patriotism offered to those who risked
their lives at the front, blinded them so
that they could not see. The short but
eventful period that has interviewed since
the close of the bloody struggle has, how
ever, been sufficient to open the ears and
unseal the eyes of those who were not
either willfnlly deaf or blind. The jug
Cling fiend of AboIitionism, the master
spirit who ensnared our people to their
ruin, has now thrown off the mask of 1.-THE
Union and Constitution" and stands re-
vealed, like the unveiled Prophet of Kho-
rassen, in all its native hideousness, and
may exclaim ike Mokanna:
"Here Judge if hell with all its power to
damn,
Can add one curse to the foul thing I
Rapidly the most extreme heresies of
the widest fanatics of the old Abolition
faction are being Incorporated into the
policy of what, by q frightfnl misnomer, is
called the Republican party. Men who
but o short time ago rupudiated with
loathing negro equality and negro suffrage
are now clamoring loudly for both Sena-
tor Trumhull, who, not twelvem0nth ago,
in the United States Senate, greeted with
derisive laughter the State suicide and
conquest" theory of Thaddeus Stevens,
now adopts and Endorses it heartily Like
Macbeth" who, after having murdered
Duncan and "Banquo," exclaims:
II am in blood
Step in so far, that should I wade no
more,
Returning were as tedious as go Ger"
so this Republican party fndsitself impell-
ed to proceed, either from lack Of courage
to retraee its steps, or from want of prin-
ciple to acknowledge its past errors. Step
by step it has been led from one nsurpation
to another by the superior will and cum
ming of Stevens and Phillips, protesting at
each advance against their heresies, but fl
nally acquiescing, and in the end becoming
O most jealous and enthusiastic convert.
| If this State suicide conquest theory OF
Stevens be adopted, then the government
of our fathers is overturned, aud a worse
than Oriental despotism established on its
ruins. If the Government of the United
States may make conquest of Territory
where it possesses rights and owes duties
then il can in that way dispense with its
rights and abandon its duties. Not only
so; it can subvert the very institutions il
is bound to protect, even if q majority o
the people have unlawfully and outrageous
", if you please, attempted to renounc'
!. their allegiance. If the result of the lat
war was conquest, then all the institution
of the States may be changed. II it isco
quest, there is no longer any constitutional
duty to protect the conquered portion
: the country from invasion or insurrecti0f
r for the conquest may be abandoned a
, pleasure, and there is no longer any dut
r to hold courts under the Constitution, 0
, provide for the wants of commerce. Cor
: quest means emphatically acquisition b
f the power of force, and it carries with 4
+ the right to dispose Of the conquered terri
e tory and people at the pleasure OF the COZ
Q quering nation, subject only to the .reqn
r sitions of humanity and the rights of othe
s nations, if any they may have
S Such doctrine al this must be resi-
/. ted at all hazards. for it is revolutional
II and contemplates the overthrow of the Coz
3 stitutiou and the Union together. III
= Radical oligrachy nov controller the Rum
Congress mean revolution. They fully j
= tend to absorb within themselves, as Il
e, central directory of the nation, the exec
h. tive and judicial powers. They have
of ready; with an insolent audacity that. shou
al have been rebuked at the time, attempt
e. to reduce the President to q mere minist
G. rial officer to register Congressional {
1e crees. President johnson appears at Ii
VI to have been startled into full console,
az ness Of the insidioes aa"..:ssns Of thee
IN serupulous fanatics, and manifest Diet
lis mination to obey the injunctions OF his 8
emn oath of Office, ";to preserve, prot
ly and defend tie Constitution ofthe Unit
CHI States"
its These conspirators against Constitute
zee al liberty mean impeachment, and dept
ne ton before impeachment, and condem
70: tioa before trial. They mean to seize
h he on the powers of the Government by '
ON ence; to bring the President before
nd bar of the Senate, stripped Of the functi'
ill of his Office by "a Congressional deer
or Let him meet them at the threshold
on their traitOrous revolutionary attempt W
Id all the powers with which the Constitut
he of the country has invested him and let
IN II true friends Of the Constitution and
me, me Union rally round him and be ready to s
I Isd tain him at every hazard in tho strue
with these mad zealots who seem de
Ak. mined that the country shall not h
ith neace or restoration except by again |
ms, sing through the fires of civil strife, or
ng the degrading sacrifice Of all those Con
nat tutional rights and liberties that patri'
OF men hold dearer than their lives.
The Radical system of treating elect
csc as though they had never been, if they !
~, md pen to be unfavorable to themselves, a
,to iustrated in the case of your own able
ON. patriotic Senator, and in that of the Re
the sentatives from Kentucky,is to be purs
er. throughout 10 reference to all the electi
on. in the Northern States. They seem
termined to drive ON indignant and on
IN, ged people from the hallott-boxes TO
cartridge-boxes to their grievances; and
" are nearly at the point now where. the
OF RACES Of the mother country found our
!. triotic forefathers when they declared
T. "a long train of abuses and usurpat
no pursuing invariably the same object, e
,e W. ces design to reduce US under an ALSO
he despotism. 1t is our right, it is our
Der to throw off such government and pro
ely new guards for our future security
j. to Yours truly,
JAMES w. WAL
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