The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-29
The Radical Constitutional Conventicles and
stTHE HEATHER sALyaGEss

There is a good novel in print entitled "Tht
Doomed Chief, written-we do not know by whom
bat fair and entertaining expose of the selfconceit
the fanaticism the bogus goodness and the qenuin
cowardce and cruelty of the Puritan ancestry of thu
New England section of the great Yankee nation who
now claim to be, and are, temporarily we hope, oul
masters. In this novel Deacon Mudgridge" is the
chief Puritan character; and the sanctimonious ole
scoundrel, in many speeches, alludes to Philip Kine
of the Wampanoogs, his people, the Naragansetts
and in fact all the dusky lords Of belt and bow, a:
"the heather Saltages."
The leading spirits Of the Reconstruction Conven
tious in Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Other
Southern States now in concavc assembled and kick
ing up with their laDdladies and colored washer
women, are the Deacon Mudgridgcs and we, the PEG
pie Of the South, the heather saIrages
There is loyalty in the South, that these puritan
teal conventices see, except that imported from
the higher latitude beyond the Alleghencs. No man
born amid the mignonettcs and roses Of or
SuriSan is worthy the compliment of being considered
" loyal except the ebo shnned blubber-lipped odor.
ferrous children of Ham. No far-sknned Caucassian
who has the independence to call his soul his own
can be trusted to hold any Office of trust or
emoIunent, say these lazy blood-suckers who have
fastened themselves upon the bleeding body of the
South.
According to these illegal conventions all the moral
iy and all the decencv belongs the cruel and crafty
! Radical party Of the North. Bah! The world has
been humbugged too much. The Radical people of
| the North have been educated in schools, and are
Gbr pDn Drh in ,F and hutip
high thoughts, integrity, humanity, truth and lofty
PATRIOTISM their present conduct proves them nfe-
rior TO the Democracy Lilliput to Golah, as an
ant-h to Killimandjaro.
If ethnographv searched, from Adam in the
Garden Of Eden to the lowest Kalir in his hut or jun
gIo could be found combining in their clarac
ter more Of tie elements of contemplate vet criminal
meanncss, more low-browcd baseness than the white
black, yellow, coPper-colorcd, Dago, Digger Indian
assemblies which the Counterfeit UncleSam has given
his warrant to aside the State governments of the
South and destroy the time honored fabrics of Southern
institutions.
The New Orleans Times, Of the 18th inst, aays
Convention warrant for one hundred and fly dollars
drawn in favor Of country delegate, Endorsed over
with his mark, (X), appeared on Carondelet street
yesterday 1t taken for nominal sum BIZ party
who expects pay it into the State Treasury on auc-
tionccr dues this mouth. The buyer possibly took it
for an experiment. 1t exposes the ignorance of
beers Of the socaled Convention, that several cannot
write their names. To what condition of degrade
ton is the once proud State of Louisiana reduced
Constitution makers legislators, cannot write their
names.
In Mississippi a few days since, a committee was
appointed to inquire if any of the members Of the
Convention had been convics in the pen;tentiary
Tie body being onaaium qatlerum, consisting OF
rag, tag bob tail, rfrati and scnn from all points of
the compass to say nothi' of the honest nggers, of
course, one could know little nothing of the
cedens of another hence the inquiry and it is not
at all unlikely that the report of the committee may
reveal the fact that SAM OF SingSing, Dick Of Black
wells Island, and Harry, of Newgate beyond the
ocean, have met the spot Tor the vilest deed
Of all their ivesthat OF forcing awless constitution
conceived in sin and brought forth in uquy upon an
unwilling and defenccle$s people, They should all be
in prison. 1t is high time these vile gatherings Ct
rottenness, corruption cupity ignorance and petty
spitewi1ich miniatures of their great original
the Radical majority in Congress at Washington-were
dispersed and sent if not to the penentiary or Dry
Tortugas, to their hones--f they have any. So far !
as we are concerned, they may 60 to h--HaIfax /
0, for one hour Of CronwclI!
A few exhibitions of malignity and assinnity.
suc they have been giving will be quite sufficient
in the estimation of the world drive the last nail in
tile coffin of our national responsibility. |
These so-cJl!ed conventions to interest them
selves in almost every matter the one for which
they ostensbly met-that Of forming constitution
For instance, the Louisiana concern is trying to raise
the wind TO pacify their irate and disappointed mis-
tresses and washcrwomcn the Mississippi concavc is
trying to effect the disIranchisenen of all the Southern
white men in tie State the Alabama chebang has en-
tered largely into the divorce business and the Vir
ginia layout is sdustrionsly exercised the subject
of the per diem and mileage it will be able collect
for its members.
1t is unfortunately true that the Southern people are
powcrless to scatter thcae Internal conrenticIcrs
while relentless despoiistn uphods them By the iron
arms of military power, and pays them by levying
forced contributions upon tie hardcarned wages OF
labor; but Southern and prescribe
and point the finger of at the contemplate bels
OH the human kind who take part with them We 1n.w
that the great mass Of the members of these conven
tons crcatures-not me3l-scnt from the North to
do the dirty 1cor of the Radical party; yet there
n few Dative-born Soutkerncrs among them, who for
an Imaginary selfaegrandiscmcn have linked their
names with endless infany. Were pen dragons
tooth dipped in the venom Of the asp-wc coud not
express the acorn they deserve. The traitor 10 the
South in tis the hour Of her sorest need and trial. is
the meancst of his race.
But MI despcraaG1an' We still believe tia. the
Radical usurper5 are doomed to defeat in the next
contest for the Presidency. We believe there is yet
enough in the Northern to save
the Republic at the polls in November. Let the South
ern people, meanwhile, stand united, as one man.
against the scoundres who in Illegal bodies
sorting with herds OF ignorant negroes, plotting de-
grade and ruin forever the material interests Of the
country. {
The PowEGs Or THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FROM r
GENERAL Hancock on TIE SCBJEcr-Judge ". Il. {
'ooer says the New Orleans Times having addressed
to Gen Hancock inquiring whether the General
would enforce ordnsnce passed by the Convention