The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-02-20
Letter From Hon. G. L. Vallan,
digham.
DAYTON, ONO, Jan. 2lst, 1861.
the Editors Of The Day. Book:

10 the Editors OF Inc Day Book:
GENTS:-I do now, as meant a yearac.
to do, thank you, really and earnestly *,
copy Of your Democratic Almanacn :
am glad to see the country supplied !.
last, with documents like this and Other
which you are now furnishing. We have
for years, allowed the enemy to SOW tars..
abundantly, day and night, In the shapeM
such publications, and our friends vera a
ten compelled to buy. In order to supply
want. Let Democrats now, everywhero
utterly reject all such, no matter how iais
guished or what called, and buy their own
and none others. A year ago, said: ..Ths
pulpit, the tract, the society, the lcctuse,
the fair, the banquet, the magazine, the
almanac, the pictorial art, science, muaic,
poetry, literature, and all the other apDli.
ances which instruct, anuse, or move man.
kind, we must no longer surrender Is "a
our enemiesp You, gentlemen, are doit,v
a good work, by your book and tract pub.
lications; 60 on and prosper. "Let there
be light" Till then chaos will ''umpim
sit" The Old Guard, ton, is doing "yeo.
mans service" May it prosper and bring
forth fruit abnndantly. With The Day.
Book, Freeman's Journal, Crisis, and other
Democratic weeklies, to rely upon, I trust
no Democratic family will permit the po;.
sonous and pestilent publications Of .'Re
publicanism," so-called, to cross their
threshold, no matter under what name or
form they may come.
Out Of evil arises good; and the result Of
the late elections is teaching Democrats TO
rely on themselves, on their principles, on
their organization, ON their own public
men, "pestiferous" and "odious" as some Of
these may be to the common enemy, or to
false efcowardly friends. 1t is all we'll
The Andes are not the hills whence cometh
our help"
Your list of arbitrary arrests is q most
important chapter of The Democratic AL.
manac but, Of course, incomplete. Who
can sum up the number of Abraham Lin.
coins victims? There were, in this coun-
ty alone, between the 9Th Of May, 1861, and
the 18th of June, 1868 Give weeksl one
third as many military and arbitrary NJ.
rests Of citizens as your list contains.
think / can furnish yOu most of the names
And, in your new list, do not forget Flana-
gan's case--a Democratic editor, who was
tried by military commission at Gin
cinnatti, in 1855, organized by one Jos.
eph Hooker-the same who gained that
"great victory" oyer Lee and Stonewan"
Jackson, OF Charlottesville.
] see thai some one proposes o naval and
a. military hero as Democratic and Con.
sentative" candidates for President and
ice-President, in 1868. This is cool -
WLo,i does he think, would vote for them
l "gucss" that the next candidates Of the
Democratic party, for these offices, will be
true and tried Democratic stateslnan;"
and all this without any sort of disparage.
ment to real military and naval men {such
as those namely, and who were also true
to the Constitution as it is, and the Union
as it was" (once; Lion fuit.)
But all this en- passdnt; for / am now
only q looker-on in politics. and am deyo-
ting exclusively to my profession.
Very truly, &c:
!, s !. 6. l.. yALLANDIGHAM.