The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-12-09
Affairs in Louisiana.

| The slender outlide furnished th.
OF General Rousseau's Official ac.a paohe,
his operations in New Orleans, are ,es.. ~
SUFFICIENT to warrant elaborate comm.
put there are one or two points that M.
be noticed, nay
The assertion that the white neo,,. :,
Louisiana are generally and bitterly Sp",; :.
to the present state government, Win ~.
be denied by any one conversant with ~
state Of affairs in Louisiana. There ~. ~
ably never was case in which . 49,
had more cause for being hostile than ~
the people over whom General Rou.s.'ss
had command. Not respectable mar ].
the entire state has Office Warmoth ~
governor is disreputable scalavsr s s
carpet Dagger from Illinois, who was fisisS
out Of the federal service during The ~
war, for thorough and unmiticated inco.'
potency. He is no soldier, no state,,..s
He is nothing at all but o one-horae -
itician who, is in Chicago, could moi -
mand fifty votes for constable. He = -
even man Of more than average ie..S
gence. He is not gentleman. LEI
not, in short, s.siDgle qualification ior n.
lofty position to which he has been thrs.s
BY the negro votes and federal bayonet.
The same sort of thing may be bsns :.
all the State Offices. Where an iuenmn"s
IS not disreputable adventure. ~
from some northern penitentiary, he = !.
old resident who, during the war, wss =
cowardly to fight with the people 49,
whom he lived; or he il some rel,d ~
gained his end by embracing radic,l;s..
and swallowing, without nausea or n,
ace, the dose Of negro superiority.
"a The legislature il much more resme.4.
BILE than the State officials. It 10 mon -
pectable from the fact that it l. eompos.s
mainly Of resident negroes, who, yieiovs
ignorant. barbarous. as they may be, NM
at least the qualification of not No.
aliens to the soil which they ara called -
on to govern. We presume that anv ~
pectable white man in Louisiana vnn1
prefer to shake hands with any one ofsIs
sOOty legislature, than with the oAc,oo.r.
ings of the north that have foated into ~
State positions. '1ss7
With Northern refuse for Stste Offices.
with penniless and ignorant negroes to 49,
away properly; with negro police, go
fremen, and negro militia-why shouA NJ
the people Of Louisiana be h0stiIs q -
State government They are worse TIA,
cowardly il they do not despise every rsd;.
cal soul in it, from the honorable sovesDoe
from Illinois, down to the honorable San.
DO, fresh from some plantation on sole
remote interior bayou.
The remedy 10 4 very simple one. ~
the very least, consists in allowiaR ~
white people Of the State, an equal 1T
with the negroes in the labor OF goyerninr
themselves, and in the work Of voting tis
lsovN.sAs~A ~
moment this benign federal goverumest
will legally permit the Louisianian ~
blessed boon OF feeling him self the eqsd
of bis ancient boot black and piantatioa.
hand, that moment will nine-tenths of u
troubles in Louisiana cease.
The whole State 10 now played upos
and depleted by versnin. Il is necessary
uneasy. Unless people have the stoIjdiy
OF the oyster, and the patience Of u
saints, they cannot be expected to be M
bed and misgoverned by renegsdes. whits-
washers, and Nothern adventurers, without
resistance. si