The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-05-13


have evinced peculiar capability. In
their treatment of the South, they have
shown us how much easier it is to destroy
than to create, to pull do,cn than to build up,
free governments.
Slowly and reluctantly does human ma
ture rise up from sloth and ignorance, and
animalism; and many hands and constant
efforts are required to raise and hold up
sluggish mass of society; buta single hand
may cut the cord and let it thunder back
on destruction.
To produce the witching strains of mu-
sic which flow without apparent effort
from the well tuned instruments of an ac-
complished orchestra, longyears of patient
study, cultivated ear, and skillful
touch are necessary; but set of clowns
may put the instruments out Of order and
send out notes of discord.
To raise a garden to its highest state of
cultivation. taste, and industry and much
culture, and constant pruning are demand
ed but a herd of swine may root it up and
destroy its beauty in an hour.
To create our political system, with its
faultless division and distribution Of pow
ers-State and Federal-qualities of head
and of heart were needed which the world
has never produced but once: but mise
rable faction Of political dabsters have de
stroyed its equilibrium; and the beautiful
structure reels and totters to its fab.
What the South, and indeed the whole
country needs just now, more than any
thing else, is one year of sound Jeffersoni-
an Democratic administration. Desperate
as the case of the South has become under
the treatment of her Radical doctors, such
a change, ] verify believe, would lay the
! foundation Of a permanent cure.
The Radicals told us that the path to
union and concord lay through the bloody
gate of sectional war; and though we have
long since passed through the gate, we
have.not yet reached the goal
We have tried the policy of force for six
years to no purpose. Let us now try the
opposite policy. Let us see what virtue
there may be in the policy of Cancellation.
1t was this policy that created the
Union. 1t was this that carried the Union
i through the trials of 1920 1t was this
that saved the Union in 1850 And this, /
verify believe, would have saved the Union
in 1850 If the sun attract, the planets
will not wander from their orbits
! Cancellation is in fact, more, influential
in controlling mind than coercion. 1t al
ways melts the obduracy of man and
moulds him to lbs purposes. The worst of
criminals hardened by coercion-is IN
stantly. subdued by the warm look Of coy
Citation. The trembling inebriate-hope-
less!y lost to all sense Of shame stands
abashed in it's presence. The raving ma.
MAC chained to his pillar, rending his gar
Iments and gnawing his own fesh--is grad
ually subdued, healed and harmonized by
kind and conciliatory words, The dumb
brnte--maddene and made stubborn by
the goad becomes tractable and obedient
! under kind and gentle treatment. The wild
beasts ofprey are subject to the subduhe
power Of Cancellation. With face ofkind-
ness you may 60 into the presence of these
monsters-you may ride on the tusks ofthe
elephant, you may sport with the cata-
mount and the tiger, you may irolic with
the treacherous leopard, you may thrust
your head into the mouths of lions, you
may wind the most yenemous serpent
around your body, or make y ur pillow
upon coil Of dragons. There is, indeed
20 limit to the sway Of this powerful prin-
ciple. The reason is obvious. 1t lies in
the fact that coercion addresses itself to
the lowest instincts of human nature--to
those that belong to US in common with
the lower orders of the animal creation-it
addresses itself to our fears, while concilia.
ton, on the other hand, appeals to the
, highest attributes of mind--to those that
consent us with the higher orders ofintelli
gence-it appeals to our hopes. Coercion
, commands; Cancellation entreats. Goer
! cion compels Cancellation persuades
Coercion concentrates itself in wrath
Cancellation dif'uses itselfin mercy. Coer
: cion is like the lightning which strikes ths
gnnrled oak, rending its solid trunk aspn
,, der, and scattering it in splinters to tn
ground Cancellation is like the cloud which
baptizes the world with its tears, and bends
the bright rainbow of peace over noun
5 tains all rustling with thanksgivings, ant
valleys of silent beauty all sparkling will
E praises. Coercion is the weapon OF th'
Q Radicals Cancellation is the sheet ancho
: of the Democracy. Wehave tried the one
> let us try the other. Let the olive-brancl
be twined about the bolt of Jove. Try tn
power Of persuasion, Of entreaty, OF kint
and coneiliatory words. Do this, and tn
South will speedily arise, in the languag
of your sentiment, "like Phoenix from
8 her ashes, and bestow again the blessings
4 peace and liberty upon her people" Tn
: light Of peace will break upon her like tn
: rays of morning; it will sparkle from tn
: tops Of her mountains, which receive tn
: first and retain the last rays OF the rlslnI
1 and the setting sun. 1t will girdle he
PROSTATE and bleeding form with a zone Q
: light, and fling over hera canopy OF beauty
The gloom which now invests her, chilin
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