The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-09-11
The I.nfns Eaters.


The Lotus Eaters.
What has become Of the solid business men OF the
North and of their influence public affairs, since the
deaologists' las Napoleon would have called SUCH
phianthropists) have undertaken the pious WORK Oh
restoring the Union upon the basis OF social ana po
litical equality, irrespective of race or coor "hie
these fervid patriots are engaged in converting the
heather negro the rights and worship OF enlightened
Radicalsm; while they are amending that long Tor
gotten instrument the Constitution OF the unteu
States and adapting it to the coming millennium u
Radical supremacy; while they are mpeachinS th e
President remodeng the Supreme Court and SUBJECT
ing the civil power of ten States to the rrepresslbe
desposm of FIVE military satraps while, by the I'M
position of onerous taxes they seek further to mpov
erish poverty stricken people, at the same time, by
the denial Of representation to all and OF suffrage to
their leading men, they expect to accomplish oy threats
of confscation the voluntary exodus OF whole race
from the land Of their birth, Or failing in this, to put
them under the heel Of their former slaves while all
these things being done, without shame and IN the
open day. by beggarly set of oticehoders and OF
ofceseekers we ask, almost without hope, what has
become of the solid, sensible, conservative, business
men of the North? Have they ceased as class, to
take any interest in political affairs or do they I'M
agne that public prosperity is independent OF the ma
teria resources of the counry-tha public deot Is
public blessing and that the sole demand for wealth
is in public securities? or have they concluded to let
the politicians alone, to take care of themselves
Judged by the interest manifested towards the South,
politically, or by the amount of influence exerted in
had oil flat
neither the vitality Of the Union affected by the
policy of its members, the national debt in dan
ger from insolvency.
This extraordinary apathy to pubsic interests on the
part of this class in the North hew is to be accounted
for-wbat is the cause Is it the result Of inflated
currency, and an insane appetite for money making,
which is the necessary consequence of the imitation
We fear this is the root Of the whole matter-money,
money!
But how slorsghted this leaycr-like conservatism
While these business men adding to their accnmu-
latons, the leading 'ideaologst' Of the Radical party
are multiplying new methods of government expendi-
ture-and no contraction is the only ground of COM
mon agreement
! The of property, it seems to us, have quietly
renqushed the political power of the country to this
isnes, including the hundred Jaeobins in Con-
gress, the three thousand more or less reverend
scoundrels" the sroing lecturers, the philosophic
editors of the Fourier school, and the sensational
lterati.
Where are the Representative men" of Mr.. Web
ster's old constituency? Where the steady yeomanry
that follnwed Mr.. Douglass?
Gone blast upon whose buge horn
! % Were worth a thousand men,
| 1t needs the clarion voice of man, like these to
awaken the Northern masses-the infatuated lotus
eaters-from the torpor of their present apathy, to
conscious realisation of the dangers that besct the
Constitution and the Union.
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| LET THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA BE
HEARD.-No Southern State has given greater evil
dence of its submission to the laws of Congress Its
earliest measures of rcconsructiye legislation
cepted in good faith, because it believed to hold
forth fair and honorable admission into the Union
and participation in the national councils. But the
legislation of Congress while legally, rightfully and
Justly construed and interpreted by the people large
and by the Executive Department Of the Government
was distorted perverted ard defeated by the
ton of General Sheridan, in full league and sympathy
WITH the E1OlCa acOn winch now tnIetCelS the COLI
p!cte overthrow of the Government and the destruc-
ton of the Constitution. Congress reconvened and
| legalised the action of Gen Sheridan by accepting,
under the form of an entirely law his forced in
depreciation of their previous legislation. The latter
legislation has never been accepted by the people Of
! Louisiana. Immediately the entire white population
of the State perceived that in the Of liberty and
of human rights great crime was intended, which
they we're powerless to prevent The State of Louisi
ana to be brought back into the Union with an
enormous black majority, and this black majority was
to be made thoroughly Radical majority by hired
enissares, by the of all the agencies within Gen.
Sherdans control. Republican clubs were immedi-
atey organised and encouraged throughout the State
and all the energies and power of the general COM
handing be henceforth directed to aid ana as
sst in the triumph of this ubiquitous scheme The
scheme has trumphed. Denied the right of franchise,
the white people of Louisiana are now entirely at the
mercy of the blacks, who to meet in conven-
ton, and to frame the fundamental law of the State
Will the people admit beyond question that to this
complexion have come at last Will they arouse
themselves once more, and make more final effort
to defeat the guilty men who seem to have higher
ambition than become the architects of their coun
trys ruin" 1t is for the people to consider, to an
swcr and to act.
THE READJUsTED JURY.-The following is the list of
resdustcd jurors for fail term of Court drawn in
pursuance of Gen. Sheridan late order requiring the
registered list be substituted for the poll list Of
the list one hundred and ten are black and thirty -four
white:
First Week-Wm. Sanders fine; Wyatt White, f.
me-; W S. Phillips; Jesse Renus, fine; John Flint f.
me- Alex. Young fine; James Brooks FIN. c.; G. W.
Leopold; Louis Severely, fine; G. W. Cawthorn DR..
Sewa fine; Anthony Thomas, fm.c H. IT, Abbot,
fine; York Bell, fine. j. D. Reaves; Sam Walker, f.
m. c.; W. G. Hussey; Toney Frank, f. m c.. Emanuel
Cottonrider, n C.; Martin Francois fine; r. c. Shep-
pard, fine Henry Talbot fine; j. W. Howard, ] i.
Naples, A. G. Irwin; j. Grant, fine; Peter wilkins f.
me- G. W. Hale; Scott Williams, FIN c.; Adam Hall, f.
me- David Franks fine; w. G. Beck; Peter McClen-
don, fine; Cobb Richards, fine; Alfred Legundy, f.
me-; Josiah Washington, fine. Henry Williams, FIN.
c.; Benjamin Allen, FIN c. Henry Allen, fine; Henry
Parks, fine; jackson Kemp fm.c.; Phillip Carter f.
M c.; Henry Middleton, f. c.; Peter Johnson, f. n c.
David Jones, fmc.; Robert Thompson, fine James
Dowd; Daniel Robinson, f.na.c.
Second Week.-H. B. Currie, VIM. Cooper; Phillip
Shallaby, fine; A. n. Norton Aaron Richards fine;
Thompson Brown, c.; Peter Squires, fin. c. Mat.
Allen, fine; Newton Graham FIN c.; Ben, Nicholson