Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-26
THE REBEL SPIRIT

' THE REBEL SP1KlI. <
 The Buffalo Commercial is an eminentl s Iconservative journal of Whig and Ameri
 can antecedents, which has sometimes giy 2 en qualified support to republican can didates, but oftener opposed them. W invite the earnest attention of genuin Conservatives to the following letter:
 , Correspondence Buffalo Commercial Ad
 vertiser. .f. ..-. -....-r- Nfw ORLEANS. La, Feb. 23, 1868. , Yesterday was the Birthday of Washing ton, and the peculiar manner in which il was observed here has suggested the thought of writing you this letter; In the hrst place, the day was celebrated in an
 enthusiastic manner by the army of the : United States. A review of all the troops
 took place, under the directions of Gen. Hancock, At F o'clock 100 guns were fired
 from the foot of that magnificent bouIe- yard, Canal St., and the smoke of the gun
 powder, most effective and healthy per- fume in this latitude, rolled the entire length of the street, reminding all of the presence of power among them. In the evening splendid banquet was spread at Lyceum Hall, but your humble servant not being an officer could not attend.
 In the second place, the day was celebrated by gathering of the Republicans of the city at the Mechanics Institute. The Re- publican party, in this and all other South ern States, consists of mass of people made up in the proportion of about fifteen freedmen to one white man.
 Last night about 5000 members of the party assembled at the Institute, made fa- nous by the riot of July 30, 1866. was present, both at that time and last evening Never have seen more striking illustra. | ton of the onward march of pnhlin nnioinn. fooo, rnere was meeting in every way very similar to that which occurred last night. At that time the excitement in the city out side of the meeting was most intense. The old Secesh elements were in full au thortiy. Monroe was Lord Mayor and his satellites were around him, determined to take measures to prevent the meeting of the Convention on the following week. their work eliminated in tho riot whose scenes have been historical, But for the presence of portion of the United States army in New Orleans, the night of July 30, 1866 would have become as immortal as the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
 was in the city, and know whereof I speak. A regiment of cavalry followed by artillery, galloped into Canal St., from the barracks, and in twenty minutes the great boulevard was utterly deserted, save the sentinels stationed at each corner, and the canon planted to rake the side streets Last night the same people assembled at the convention which has been in session here two months making the organic law of the state, and the city outside pretended not even to smell the rat. Verify the world moves. do not know where Monroe and his satellites have pOne
 | l wish to state few things that occurred last night. Last week there was meeting of the unwashed Democracy at tue St Charles Theater. This meeting was attend cd by about three thousand Conservatives whose object was to defeat the proposed adoption of the new Constitution of Louisiana. Among the speakers was that inimitable frebrand and paper duelist, the "Hon." B. M. Yerger of Jackson, son Miss, since appointed delegate for the state at large to the Northern Democratic Convention to be held in New York City. This fellow. who, had he one-tenth of the talent of W. 0. Yancey. would doubtless step into his shoes in ''parcipitating" the next secession-this fellow, among other remaks extravagantly applauded by his au ditory, declared his purpose to build pyr- amid of bones, cemented by blood, as broad aG IlS dAu tS AlSA GAOSd O1 Egypt, rather than be put under the heels he once owned. Last n fight the President of meeting composed of 5000 people re- piled to this point of Yerger by stating that ''bones" and ''blood" he wish to talk about; but if pyramid were to be built of such materials, the Union people of the United States would take care to have the selection of the bones and blood of which 1t should be composed wish might impress upon the people of the North the fat that, if the "Demo- cratic party becomes successful next year, another war, far more bloody than that through which the country has passed, will be the inevitable and almost immediate re- suit Emboldened by the traitorous posi- tion of Andy Johnson, the press, South, is more rapidly drifting into the same defi- nant attitude and hypocritical fondness or the ''old Constitution" that was assumed before the war. Planters here are keep ing, with religious care, lists of their for mer slaves, and as sure as the Democratic party succeeds to power, just so sure these slaves will be hunted down and captured.
 Your Democratic party doesn't mean this of course; but the South means far more than that It will renew the struggle for independence" at the first dawn of 8 chance of success.
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