The New Orleans crescent., 1868-09-25
ghe sAsm Orleans Grtsfsnt.
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER as, lsss.
Eastern rs... ana Sor,h.ra L.ul.,..a.

Asstern Texns eno Northern Louiaiann.
HOME TRUTHS PLAINLY roLD-cRrrIcAL CONDITION
OF fHNGs--THB PATIENCE OF THE PEOPLE CIV
ING wAY--TwKNTY THOUSAND TROOPS REoIrrREn
TO UPHOLD NEGRO SUPREMACY AND CARPET Ag
TAxATIoN-PRoMIsENr RADICALS AcKSowLEpG.
ne TIE NATURE OF THE CRISIS" STOP HERE
OR ExTERhINArE, wHIcHw
The following extracts from letter of the
travelling correspondent of the New York Herald
viii be read with great interest. ss showing the
estimate formed by stranger OF the causes of
discoLtent among the Southern people:
MARSHAL, Eastern Texas, Sept. IL, 1868.
A tour through Northern Louisiana aud Eastern
Texas suggests various considerations which can
not be too seriously or too temperately set forth.
To pass them by lightly would be TO ignore one
Of the most striking peculiarities In the present as
pect Of the affairs In the South. Te state them
broadly without qualification or explanation would
convey most erroneous impression CT the con-
dition Of the country. The facts must be taken as
they stand, and the said facts most undoubtedly
are that lawlessness and the class of disturbances
which the Radical press term without distinction
rebel outrages are lamentsbly on the increase
throughout the whole of this section of the
country.
1t is no use disgusting the truth nor attempting
10 gloss 1t over. Excuses are readily enough
found for every deed Of violence. This man was
notorious horse thief that man had married
negro wench and outraged the whole community
by thrusting her forward among white people
Mrs. Smith had had difficulty Eve years ago
with somebody's wife's cousin and the family
feud that resulted was the cause of his being
killed John Jones had been melting the negroes
to armed violence and had endangered the public
peace In the most atrocious manner-all admira.
bic explanations in their way, but when repeated
over and over again to account for hundreds of
"dlhcultles" In which, somehow or other, the
man killed Is In nine cases out of ten Radical car.
pet-bsgger, loyal league negro or q renegade
southerner, these explanations begin to lose con.
sistency and probability. 1t is better to meet the
case fairly and squarely and confess the truth At
once. The patience Of The Southern people of this
section is about lc0TR Oid.
Like boiling water, the ebullition starts from the
bottom and affects the lower strata of society first
Any one who travels with his ears and eyes open
meets tie indications at every step. he needn't
seek them they thrust themselves upon him, not
IN menaced violence or studied insult to the trav-
eler. Ii. G. might journey from one end Of the
country to the other, and unless he preached fire
and sword to the negroes or squatted TO run for
Congress it is very doubtful whether he would be
molested. o. o. Howard has just travelled in
safety through most of the Southern territory.
But the conversation of the people in stages, cars
and steamboats,, the sullen moOdness Of the groups
around the bar.rooms and hotels the damnabe
iteration with which the terms &" scalawags and
CARPET tbsggers" strike upon ones ear, compar.
able only to the number Of times q man can notch
the word :" dollars in crossing Wall street ferry,
convince the least observant traveller that the bi
rometer South is veering rapidly from "cloudy"
TO " stormy.O
Hostility to the government Of the United States
and desire TO be longer excluded from it cannot
be found 10 the community at large. The flag
which in le64-5 the ladies Of Charleston and New
Orleans spit upon and trampled under foot, now
decorates the stalls at every fancy fair and sp-
pears in innunerable forms in every public demon
stration. Greenbscks, which in 1866 waged an
unequal fight with specie as the currency of the
country, more than from political than financial
causes have gained the upper hand. Specie has
retired into the interior of Texas, and even there
is being rooted out by the national currency.
The privates Of the United States army may be
seen at every post fraternzing with the soldiers
of the ex Confederacy. The officers, also il they
attend to their military duties and leave politics
alone are respected and well received, especially
If West Pointers. Right in the midst of Cover.
nor Warmoth's murder district | have In mind
post commander who does not hesitate to saw
that If he were In his own State on election day
he should vote for Grant, but who is universally
spoken of by the citizens as good soldier and a
Just gentleman.
These remarks do not apply Of course to the
negro regiments; but there Is something to be said
even on that score. On every Mississippi steam.
boat you may see negro deck hands dressed in
the tattered remains Of their old uniforms as
United States soldiers and none the worse paid or
treated on that account. They are rather prefer
red as being more anne BILE 10 discipline and
quicker to obey the word vi command. In brief
the people of the South IL anything, are Ioyai
overmuch. They are so fond of the government
that they are looking TO get back their old lions
share OF II when things get settled-an excusable
aspiration, but one not likely 10 be realized till
ten million voters ct the North write themselves
down ten million asses.
If it is not disloyaIty what then Is 1t, The an.
swer must be looked for in the state of the conn.
Try the habits Of the people and the nature of the
new order of things which has been thrust upon
hem. There is no exclamation which travelling |
Of the Herald is likely TO hear |
)ftener than this: Would to God that somebody
would Just show the people of the North the con. |
iition we are in" The difficulty lies not In the
want of material, but in the embarrassment of |
iches. Take. for example, Louisiana, where a
state government has been established whose Of
lcers can onlys aceede TO power by trucking 10 /
he negro, by arraying the whole labor system of |
he country in open or disguised hostility 10 the |
ended interest and capital-who can only gain the
7otes OF their miserable dupes by holding out
promises which they neither will nor can fulfill |
md by fostering bitterness of feeling and preiu.
lice inmical to the public peace. You thus at
tartng exclude every man Of honor and self.re-
pect, every one who has solid interest at stake |
rom sharing in the government. Then come
own to the resulting grievances-a black and
White convention, which takes $500 900 out of the
offers OF bankrupt State for framing black
nd white constitutional Legislature of such a
hsracter that Lieutenant Governor Dunn, a Hay.
len negro. 10 By general accord conceded TO be |
y far the most honest, the most intelligent, the
most respectable and the best man connected
With the whole body; an election COMMITTEES
which acts on the congressional plan of declaring
very Democrats election illegal and every Rsdi,
al contestant legally elected-which Gusts from
be Senate the educated Jewell. returned by the
Ehite majority Of New Orleans. and puts In his
lace the incendiary mulatto Pinchback to threat
y the city with the torch. Try what the effect
4 these proceedings will be in the country par.
shes, in Caddo for instance, where the people, de.
ermined upon giving the Reconstructed State gov
rnment a fair trial, elected three of their most
Conservative and best citizens to the Legislature
nd found them supplsnted by three Northern sd-
enturers whose very names were unknown to
hem or In Ouachits where the intelligence of
he people is represented in the Legislature by
Ihite peddler of chickens and a negro barber.
emember that the convention in its wisdom ab-
lished the system of tacit mortgages, which in
ouisiana formed the only safeguard of the rights
property of the widow and the fstherlessethe
tate laws prohibiting trusteeship, and that
ley set up nothing IN iIs place. Remember
lrther, that the Legislature, in a three
onths session, has made no attempt to
'uch this or any other useful litigation
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