The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-20

their old lions share OF when things get settled
s ea but one not Gey to pc
themselves down ten million asses.
II 1t is not dlsOyaty what then is itS The answer
must be looked for in the state OF the country the
habits OF the people and the nature Of the order
Of things which has,been thrust upon them. There
is no exclamation which a travelling correspondent
OF the HERALD is likely to hear oftener than this
"WOud to God that somebody would just show the
people Of the North the condition we are in.' The
difficulty lies not in the want of material, but in the
embarrassment of riches. Take, for example, Louis
ana where State government has been established
whose Officers can only accede to power by truck
ling to the negro, by arraying the whole labor sys
ZEN OF the country in open or disguised hostility TO
the votes OF their miserable dupes by holding out
promises which they neither will nor can fulfil and
10y fostering bitterness of feeling and prejudice mi
ilcai 10 the pubic peace. You thus at starting
cluoe every man of honor and selfrespect every
VINO mas solid interest at stake from sharing in the
government. Then come down to the resulting
grlevances-a black and white convention, which
takes 5000 600 out of the Golfers Of bankrupt State
IOr framing black and white constitutional Legs-
lature OF such character that Lieutenant Governor
Dunn, Hayden negro, Is by general accord con-
ceded TO be by FAR the most honest the most inte-
gent the most respectable and the best man con-
nected with the whole body; an election committee
which acts on the CONGRESSIONAL plan of declaring
every democrats election Illegal and every radical
contestant legally eiected-whch Gusts from the
senate the educated Jewell, returned by me white
in his place the incendlary mulatto PlnchbacK
to threaten the city with the torch. Try what
the country parishes in CaddO for instance where
the people, determined upon giving the recon
sructed State government fair trial. elected three
of their most conservative and best citizens 20 the
Legislature and found them supplanted by three
Northern adventures whose very names were UNI
known to them, or In Wachita, where the intelli-
gence of the people Is represented in the Legislature
by white pedler of chickens and a negro barber.
abolished the system of tacit mortgages, which in
Louisiana formed the only safeguard of the rights
Of property OF the widow and the fat me,
up nothing In its place. Remember further that the
Legislature in a two months session has made no
attempt to touch this or any other usuu litigation
combining itself to granting lottery schemes canal
schemes, railroad schemes and every species
OF public swindlng; that While white widows
legal shark who chooses to prey upon them,
the Legislature Is deep in consideration OF
circles OF the theatres. Let the known and
reputable republican ollce holders in the state be
men Of unknown and dlsreputable antecedents as
numerous the hairs OF your head lay on taxes so
enormously heavy that II they are followed up one
ually come under the tax auctioneer's hammer;
above all. place the public school system OF the State
in the hands OF q man more justly odious to the
people at large than even General Butler, and pass
law that during six months of the year the children
of the middle class whites for whose benefit the
schools were established shall be compelled to eat,
study and play with the children OF emanclpated
plantation slaves on an equal footing snail be taught
in the same class, by the same teacler, or shall be
bereit Of schooling altogether, and then wonder why
in the inaccessible portions OF the State, where The
handful of United States cavalry is considered gar
rison for two or three parishes each rs large "a
Rhode Island-then wonder that In these districts
the carpetbag squatters, the instruments Tor carry
ing out all these evils, and the present
embodiment Of the reconstruction LEGISLATION
of the State who are fattenng, ghOul-llke, on
the dead prosperity Of the country and are shot down,
on one preteXt or another, and bounded oui Of the
country without cOmpunction No community al
the North would have tolerated their presence one
quarter Of the time that Louisiana has stood them.
more than unpacked their carpetbags.
Texas has not yet been blessed WIN = recon-
she ever will be. She is the only Southern state
that the reconstrucuonists have not been able 10
reach to any extent, and she Is the only southern
State that Is making large crops and is prosperous
and advancing But Texas has had u Convention
that spent 500, 900 in hundred days and then adj
jOurned, finding no more money was 10 he hai.
And Texas has been rich field for the little tyrannes
of little military satraps and the contemplate eXtor-
tons of Freedmen's Bureau agents. The people
have had goOd deal to put up with, and-wel,
they haven't put up with 1t. Any one who essays to
rule Texas must do 1t with a mailed hand under a
silk glove. The country Is entirely too large for petty
tyrannies and picayune steaings to be carried on
successfully for any length OF time. Carpet-baQgers
are growing scarce. The main mischief in Texas
has been done by Bureau agents and second ieuten-
Mexican war;, who commands in Eastern Texas,
under the orders Of General Reynolds, hits the nail
the head 'The chief cause Of our troaDies here'
he says, sis that most of the post commanders have
been young men VINO nave come here not a. officers
OF the United states army but as politicians. and
venture few miles away from your post IN uniform
somebody is pretty sure TO take pop at YOU The
General might have added as another consequence OF
this things that the United states c0mmissa
trains perssteny robbed by Bickerstan's outlaw
gang; that handful of United States troops
now beseged at sulphur Springs by the gang,
and that the people look on win huge EMO ;nen at
the tussle shouting "Pitch in, Bcker tiiI' and
now and then by way Of encouragement LEST th1 h~ht
should flag, eco it, Yank.' The Texans have much
less for their disorder than the citizens of
Louisiana; but when did a Texan ever fail 10 lind a
n fghty
The citizens of Louisiana have large claim upon
public sympathy DISTINGUISHED and Impoverished
their plantations lying waste, no words can paint
the dreary desoiaon Of this once arcadian country;
capital driven away by carpet-bag legislation, the
negroes melted to armed Violence and dendcd into
plots like that recently developed at los Point
Of which full particulars have already been given in
previous letter. the people OF Louisiana have seen
the forbearance and resignation Of three long years
repaid by the imposition OF fresh BURDENS each one
harder TO bear than the last. and their endurance
has broken down at last. Even now It IL no; the
landowners nor the influential and best class OF
citizens that resorting TO Iy nch law and violence,
nor Is the lawessness general II IL for the present
confined to the northern portions OF the state. where
Governor warmo,h has cupably neglected to ap-
point civil officers and to Texas where Outawry
and bushwhacking are indigenous.
But the aspect OF affairs - as serious for the
to end Let me s cali apon the stand witness i
for the defence. His testimony should be unm-
peached, for IL Is one OF the brothers Ray, whose
'apostasy" Il. z. radcalsmD is loudly condemned by
the whole southern press. says Jude Ray, OF
Wachita:--"when the surrender Of the Confederate
armies TOOK place, you neuru III sdiu tnat war
only just beginnng-that from organized ope-
rations in the field hostties should be brought
down to guerilla warfare In every parish. The pco-
pie did not carry out that threat then. They laid
down their and showed disposition To accept
the situation" Why at this late hour has the que
rla project been partially put In force The ques-
ton Is significant Still more significant the
query, How Is 1t to be suppressedy II by force or
arms, Northern Louisiana can comfortably absorb
ten thousand troops and Eastern Texas a. many
more. Homer Had Blackburn radical Congressman
from louisiana has most Unexpectedly supplied an
hp rtpa
In his newspaper to this effect:-'A careful review
OF all the facts ana indications convinces me that
ace hare got 10 stop right here 90 on To eIerlt
alton. say stop here Ho,r sag you2''
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