New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-26
His Views on the Political SltuatIOn-The
People of NOrsh Louisiana-TheIrP O-
ntIcaI Condition and Temper.

HON. w. JASPER BLACA d y Nm .
His Views on the Political SItuntIOn-The
People of Norsh LouIsIana-TheIr Pc
LItIcaI Condition and Temper.
HOMER, La, December Is, 1868.
Hon. Michael Hahn. Editorin Chief New Orleans
REPUBLICAN:
MY DEAR FRIEND-I have intended, and
have felt it my duty, to give you something
like detailed account of the condition and
temper of this immediate section Of the
State, but have been deferring it until l
should be able to travel and meet you at
your office. But as l am still unable to
travel with safety, owing to long-continued
sickness and unfavorable weather, l believe
l will defer no longer, but drop you a
line"
And first of all, my dear old friend, allow
me to congratulate you upon becoming the
editor.inohief of one of the first journals Of
the country; and especially to compliment
you on the marked ability and happy facil-
ity with which you enter upon the arduous
duties assumed. 1 must be permitted to
instance, and reproduce, one happy and
most just assault upon the enemy's strong
hold, contained in your daily issue of the
twenty-ifth ultimo in an iarticle headed;
effects of Disfranchisement." At the
close of that article you make this home
thrust:
1t is hard, to be sure, for a man claiming
responsibility and chivalry as birthright
TO have to choose between Acknowledgement
and perjury; but then, after he has chosen,
he should not throw the blame on others,
nhsN all ont FalV q
the much. abused carpet baggers."
Nothing, take it, could be more just and
whitening than this, in the connection in
which it is used. If it could be improved
upon, it would be in this; After the express
sion, "but then, after he has chosen" insert,
Sand has deliberately chosen perjury rather
than disfranchsement," etc.
But of course this is plainly and palpably
implied. And it is as true as the Gospel of
Christ! And may l ask, did the world
not to say any civilized .country-ever be.
fore witness anything like it A proud
and socalled chivalrous people, who have,
through deliberate treason, forfeited their
lives and their all, but who have been
spared all, with only slight and momen-
tary political disability; and now, while
they howl and fret over this, like whipped
ours, turn and deliberately, and with per
feet sang froid commit open and palpable
perjury, that they may at once and without
further ceremony or waiting, vote to per
petuate and glorify that spirit of treason
which was conquered and lost in the field
If this be chivalry, and bravery, and honor,
then call me something else. Just anything
scalawag or carpetbagger, if you please.
However, is this not all SANDER? Is there
really any perjury in all this false swearing?
The chivalry hold that it is no harm to
swear lie under Radical rule. And are
they not right9 For are they not forced to
swear lie-or not vote? Aye, there's the
rub. And to this complexion must they
come at last. And so, they swear as they
do swear. ~ don't know how they do it,
but they do!'
But what of the present condi-
ton and temper of this, my i'm
mediate section-my "neck of the
woods~ tell you, it is anything but com.
mendable or desirable, in the estimation Of
a loyal or law-abiding citizen. Beside the
second destruction of my printing Office,
there have been many other foul
and coWardly outrages commit
ted in this parish since the election.
Several freedmen have been shot,
and numbers of persons, Republicans, both
black and white, have been taken out at
night and whipped most numerically, and
ordered to leave the country. In conse
Renee of such brutal and heathenish con-
duct as this, many Of the best citizens of the
parish, both Democrats and Republicans,
have moved away, and others are constant
y leaving. And yet, the infamous, rotten,
coWerdly Rebel press of the country seem
TO think it strange, passing strange, y that
any one should leave so good and so peacea-
BILE land asthisl Would you believe it, that
the entire press of this section-all Rebel
and Tory now, since the brave mobbing Of
the loyal oficea-come out openly and com
mend and recommend mobocrscy, and set
Asaassins aud outlaws upon the loyal Off
cials Of the land Such is the plain and
naked TRUTH
! To prove this, will giveyou Just few
sample extracts from these journals. which
/ trust you will fnd room for. 70 the end
that their infamy may have the extent of
your circulation.
And as charity begins at home, " 50 win 1
The Claiborne Adoocate of the twenty.
eighth nlimo, published at this place, and
edited by one John Doe and one Richard
Roe has the following article:
Arkansas This stste is cursed, beyond
all others but Tennessee, in the low aud
yindictive wretch whom the Radical party
have elevated Is the position OF Governor.
~ has declared martial law IN c0nsIdefa-
bio portion 81 the 6taie--is organizing ne
gross into regiments, and bounding them
on 70 the destruction Of the white popula-
ton. H has AtB9tsd three companies Of
negro spssisFs to ind Cullen Baker. II he
would head iris delectable battalion IN per.
eop, we Ve4|d Fish him God speed infhe
qtiect Of biz eEpfdilIon. There Is no
greater good e4rI4 lappaH e ArkNusaz than
Ipr li1t4faer clayton 10 20 i search Of Cal.
DA1tt and End him. ~
The eeasalleeelegl o. De s4enly q ID Ii.