The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-09-25
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The. reader win remark that in these
two States the Democrats have q combined
majority of 10000. Their representation
in Congress stands as follows:
100000 Democrats have...... 3 members.
900 Republicans have. r. .l6members.
Given the combined black and white
vote as it should be in the South, and Civ
en- the Conservative vote of the Northern,
Middle and Western States, the same dis
parity between majority and representa-
ton will be discovered when compared
with even the strongest vote that Radical
ism ever polled. The Cincinnati Enquier
computes that the popular majority would,
even under the best Radical estimate,
stand several hundred thousand to the
credit of Conservatism. We are of the
same conviction and believe the most rig
id scrutiny would fail to diminish the ma
terial proportions of these figures.
Will any fair-minded man contend that
such a system Of representation is equlta-
able; viii any honest politician champion
such a fraud upon the popular will9"
1t may be asserted that a revolutionary
party, having the reins of government, can
manufacture majorities to suit itself and
create a popular Will by raids outside the
Constitution; but, if the assert0r be a
Northern Radical, we do not hesitate to
tell him that just as he made war upon the
South under the banners of Hypocrisy, he
is perpetuating his warfare BY the very
frauds that follow as the consequences of
falsehood. The war that had for its bat
| tle-slogans Constitution and Union," was
a criminal war, so long as neither is estab-
lished; and it is an unsuccessful war so
long as they continued disrupted. Nay, it
! is an ignominious war when the real OBJ
jects are dragged to light, viz: the ever
throw of Republican freedom and the SUI
premacy of a faction.
We warn the Radical party that a day
must come when the measure they have
melted out to others will be measured back
to them. That popular majority, they SO
arrogantly claim is getting restif and inn
patient The German and Irish elements
| that helped swell their ranks are being ell
minated. The negro Is getting too close
for their comfort, their privileges and their
race-instincts. The foul-mouthed abuse
heapetl upon foreigners by Such men as
Wade and Chandler is beginning to tell
upon their selfrespect: They are growing
uneasy and disguised at the comparisons
made between them and the blacks. The
determination is widespread to pay the fat
bondholder in National Currency or repu-
date his blood-bought bonds altogether
The strife of party leaders betokens world
of petty jealousy and antagonisIh. The
prospect of a Southern restoration under
African auspices strikes terror to the eau
easian heart everywhere. Political and So
cial depravity .rears its gigantic shadow
over the land and gives the virtuous and
patriotic horror of the monster that
forms its substance. The conviction grows
apace that restoration of the Union is not
SO much impeded by Southern pride or
stubborness as by Congressional conspira-
oy and incapacitY. The weakened morale
of the party was displayed by Sanford Con-
over; by the truth. about Andersonyille
and Mrs. Surratt. These and a hundred
other warnings admonish the Radical par
ty that it is not invincible; that it has the
| seeds Of decay alluded to by Wendell Phil
| lips; that it has seen it's best days; that
the spirit of the people cannot be subdued
forever; that the majority Ieay teach it GER
tain tunes to dance by from its own hymn
book that the popular will may, before
]many months have come and gone, rise up
for popular retribution and popular com.
pensation--pot, we trust, by the bloody
code that led to. despotism but rather by
the moral force of indignant Law, ,,s
BY common instinct or persuasion, all
men seem to agree that every stride for
ward in despotism is stride toward tllti-
mate relief, whether it come with the olive
branch of the Virgin Justice or the relent-
less Sword of Caesar. We are shooting
Niagara" and few dare look over echasm
or into the torrent beyond, But this, at
least, has invaded the souls Of desperate
men, that the country cannot be sufocated
| long and live. This sentiment Is peryad-
ing the North as keenly as the South, the
East as viyidlysas the West. To quote the
| words of the Round Table:
1T Is as well that We should he borne
on swiftly to the struggle that is to save
us from the abyss-that Brownlows, Ste
venses, and Wades should be multiplied /;
that American men should be driven from
the polls to make room for slaves BY birth
or slaves by nature; that every unseemly
thing should be exalted, and every provis-
ion Of nature distorted; that the utter in
tolerableness of it should appear beyond
possibility of concealment-so that, seeing
the foulness of this bastard Republicanism
wemay extricate ourselves from its cur
rent and save ourselves and the country
FROM the wreck" I