The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-10-02
The Western Elephant Becoming
Dangerously Unmanageable.

Dangerously Unmanageable.
The following article, from the Richmond
Enquirer and Examiner, will repay peru
sal. The intollerable Puritan oppression
that drove the South to madness will,
eventually, drive the West-to sense:
."The military strategists of antiquity
placed great faith in elephants, although
those gigantic belligerents were sometimes
exceedingly dangerous and nnruly. When
clad in armor and fastened to armed cha
riots, they sometimes turned tail upon the I
enemy at Critical moment, and dashedl
furious and headlong through the ranks of T
their friends, trampling whole legions un-
der foot, and slicing them up with the
scythes which We're designed to make
mincemeat of the enemy.
aDuring the late civil war the West was
the elephant Of the Puritan. The cunuing |
New Englanders harnessed that mighty
section to their war-car and drove it fu-
riously against the armies OF. the Confed- |
eracy. The West went into the fight with |
the powerful valor of the backwoodsmen,
hardy sons of the new States spent very
little time and money in buying up and
dedicating foreign and negro substitutes
to the cause Of "glory," but went in with
their rifles and won the day.
'sThe Puritan having put in his negro
substitute, devoted all of his spare time to
those pursuits and occupations upon which
speculating carbon crows and yultures
fatten, while brave men are cutting each
others Threats. He patted his war ele-
pbant on the back with one hand and kept
/ his Garnet looms and manufactures at
work with the other He coined the whole
of his superhuous loyalty into money,
while the Western warriors whitened the
South with their patriotic bones. While
his precious carcass was safe, his pockets
were bursting with the unholy fruits Of
knavish legislation. He heaped empty
compliments upon the Western elephant,
but burdened him with the most iniqui-
tous protective tariff beneath which an
agricultural people ever groaned. he lml-
tated the vampire in tanning the West
with praises for its valor, while he deple-
ted that section by means of legislation
the most selfish of modern times.
1 "And this occupation was as pleasant
and profitable as was the famous practice
of blood-letting which DR.. Sangredo pur-
: sued with so much substantial benefit to
J himself, but With such terrible fatality to
his patients. And when the war ended,
the Puritan who had become enormously
wealthy, generously proposed to reward
J his negro substitute with the elective fran
chise, and almost every Western officer was
/, made a-breuet Rrigadier or Major General
The brevet honors cost nothing, but the
Puritan, thinking that the virtue. OF such
wholesale liberality to the West should no,
be it's own reward, frightened the screws o.
his protective tariff, while pattlng his Gle
: plant on the back.
: s'But as the West has had no fighting or
: it's hands for more than two years, it ii
:. slowly waking up to the discovery that i
had been cheated in thousand ways b.
it's Puritan driver. The conviction il
> slowly finding it's way into its thick skull
y that the clamorous patriotism OF the Purl
i tan was o snare and delusion.
y "And the Western elephant is becoming
P nnmanageable, and has turned upon it
D New England driver with savage fouris
lie Of trunk, and CLEAN Of tusk. One by on.
d in obedience, doubtless, to the GROUND
IL swell of popular opinion in their States
Id the Republican leaders of the West are d.
ID molishing the New England idols whic
o. they have been imperiously commando
: by Sumner, Fessendep and Morrill, to ia
:, down and worship. The citadel of Purita
PRINCIPLES is l .e... lusq:y assaiie,, g.:
, ...,ere is scarcely one which the West is nj
IL contemptuously trampling under foot.
:, Summers threat to thrust his blae
~ y. draught of negro suffrage down the
&. throats the leading Radical statesmen
ed the West have resented with cr,ishir
power. The seed of Reputation dropp'
m in Ohio has ripened in the rank Of Radio
81 soil of that State, as if it had been specis
IA " prepared for it. New England, havil
IN invested much Of the profits of it's W
IL. goods in national securities, denounces
ho the greatest of crimes aproposol topay t
'no interest of those securities in greenbacl
'ns The Western Republicans are evidently
ee r. much delighted at the thought Of substit
OF ting the sngraver's BURN and a printil
18th press for assessors and collectors of the
on ternal revenue tax, that they are jealo
he of the great and growing popularity OF t
the Democrat who originated that idea
rs protective tariff, also, which every NJ
ole Highlander regards as o cardinal doctri
or, of faith, the Western Republicans are We
~ properly denouncing as the invention
as the Evil One.
hn "But more frightfnl than all this is
-; opposition of the great and hungry, w
s '.:s tern Laborer, who, casting greedy CLAM
'tlc at the accumulated capital Of New Ell
land-the fruit of oppressive tariffs a
ons swindling contracts demands that
APP shall have a share of what was coir
il from the sweat of his brow, and the bic
and which he shed for Union which Pl
,re. tan Vaccinations still prevent from bel
nod restored to its ancient strength and b
ons mOny.
de- "And if anything should give to the
tra- triot more sincere pleasure than these
w. dications that the West ia throwing off
sno woke of New England, it should be
we Spectacle of Massachusetts, honored {
'ut- petted robber, merccnary and political
pa das, assuming the form OF the Meme
hat which is to punish her most sorely WI
ms, the West breaks forth in terrible revol
vim The GOODNESS with which Butler is evidt
lite " preparing to strike New England
uty soon as he can do SO with profit must
,ide refreshing to every gentleman OF well
ulated mind.
"Until that noted brigand had m
T. himself thoroughly infamous by robb
: treachery, cruelty and cowardice, Ma
N chusetts despised and dishonored him;
lie when the cup of his infamy was full,
all christendom pointed at him the fir
of scorn, that State embraced him with
b, mofistrative affection and heaped hol
me upon his head. The promptness
.nu- which Butler now endorses the Yves,
h aa idea of making the greenback print
on presses pay the interest upon the matte
u 81 debt, shows that he is getting read!
MA: MA, wage alb furious 9 war upon the 'advar
lsed moral ideas" of New England as when
aus aus swore by the doctrine of secession, and
!, men the most Jealous partisan of Mr.. Jelfel
ieIe Davis for the Presidency Of the I'm
;nn States"
!, no THE MAN TRADE IN BosroN.-Fron
rma- old slave-trading days to the new Go
Ian. importation from the buying OF OF
ten tas to draft, to the buying upof v
IN, Mohh0