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

NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.
New ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER rs.
EDITOR DEMocRAr:--The election for
State Convention which comes off to-mor-
row creates no excitement whateverin the
city. Ihave conversed with . good many
persons of my acquaintance who are duly
registered; but they all evince alisincli-
nation to casting their votes. Such state
Of indifference clearly foreshadows the re-
suit; we shall have Convention for revis-
ing and adding to the broken Constitution
of our poor old pelican mother. before
which that notorious one Of 1864 must pale
it's Intellectual fres We shall have ne
gro for President of the Assembly, negroes
for chalrmen of the Committees on laws,
on legislation, on finance commerce, edu-
cation and public morals. Imagine q doz-
en- negroes drafting report on any one Of
such grave subjects for q permanent gov
eminent of the great State Of Louisiana
some Of them most likely fresh from the
fields of the Red River lowlands and whose
range of thought was limited, up to the
time of the downfall Of the Confederacy,
to the boundaries of their masters planta-
ton. 1t is the saturnalia Of the blacks of
San Domingo, after the massacre of the
planters. 1t is what was considered q rid
iculous phantasm of James Fenimore
Cooper, when he published his novel Of the
Monnikins-a book which describes the an
tics of a tribe Of monkies taking possession
Of an abandoned city and administering
the laws and the government of common:
wealth. And let me tell you here that
Fenimore Cooper was the greatest literary
genius this county has produced; that his
sea tales and his Indian romances take
place in the ranks of Immortality below,
but not separated by long interval from,
those Of the great Wizard, Sir Walter
Scott. Cooper looked on the Yankees with
the bitterest animosity His utopian ideas
of what colony of monkies could do in
human habitations, far fetched and impos.
sible as they must have appeared even to
his fertile imagination, are now aboat to
come to pass, and we shall soon have crea
lures Of the same sort, chattering and
quarreling about national affairs and paid
at the rate of IS or $8a day from the near
ly exhausted treasury The Radical party
is mass Of putrefaction, and it's pestilen-
tial influence is far moro destructive and
baleful than such sscurges as the yellow
fever and small pox. Bronze John is kill
ed off by the first frost, but radicalism is
like the Hydra which Hercules in vain at
tempted to kill until the neck to each of
its many heads which were destroyed was
cauterized with red hot iron. The heads
Of the Radical party are Thad. Stevens,
Sumner, Wade, Sheridan (Phil), Forney,
Stanton and a few others. These men are
without principle; human justice onght to
place them outside Of the pale Of human
mercy. But like the heads of the hernean
hydra, where yen kill their arguments on
one point they advance others. It is ne.
cessary TINT tho cautery should be s .aa;aill.
istered ~ the people-the only true Her
cules that can perform the severe labors of
killing this many headed monster Of Re-
publicanism and anarchy that can clean
the Aucgean stables of our government,
and among the fifty States and territories
begeta sterling vigorous offspring which
shall set at naught everything like what
these Infamous men have been doing to
annihilate our Southern people. Such a
Hercules is a healthy reaction, surely
bound to spring forth to rid the earth Of
these obscure and horrid monsters. He
may be in hisinfancy, and he may, through
Andy johnson, have strangled the two
snakes which were sent to throttle him in
his cradle, but the snakes have been stran-
gled and California and Connecticut and
Maine are good spirits that have come to
his assistance.
The yellow fever is really terrible in our
city. Its ravages extend into every quar-
ter. It has been worst among the Ger
mans, particularly the German Jews. We
have had to deplore this. The Jews are
an excellent. thrifty people. They are
quiet, never mixing in riots or in politics.
A Jewish beggar is never seen upon our
streets. Even new, when it's nightly
and daily occurrence for some poor old NO.
man or bashfnl little child to beg charity
not one of them bears the marked Inca.
ments Of the Hebrew race. You know.
presume, that Chartres Street, from Canal
Street to St. Louis, is mainly occupied by