The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-04-22
How Shall They be Punished 2

How Shall They be Punished I?
From the Richmond Enquirer
A war to the knife-.-and that rouoh
Jagged butchers knife, whetted by Garnet
BAG squatters and placed in the hands II
our late slaves, is being waged in Virginia
against the liberties, rights and properly If
the white man. Brutal ruffians of an infa.
rior race, stamped by God in His COINAGE
Of humanity as the lowest type Of mankind
white outlaws Of native origin, and the
human refuse, scum and offal Of invading
armies long since disbanded, have united
to make Virginia as unfit for tile habita.
ton Of honest white men as are the pesti,
leutial jungles of Africa.
Fortunately for the future Of our race.
but few Of our citizens have proved u.
creant to the. splendid traditions and histo-
ry of the State, which is thus menaced by
a Yahoo convention and by eight han
bred incendiary and secret negro leagues.
But q significant editorial from the Chat.
lottesville Chronicle, which we repubIished
on yesterday, directs attention to the dis.
graceful fact that few men of education
and good social position, have united with
the monstrous coalition which has been
formed to inaugurate negro rule in Virgin
ia--and inquiries what punishment shall
be inflicted on such apostates. Men who
are willing to disffanchise the purest and
best of their own race, and who wish to
deprive their associates, neighbors and
equals Of rights, privileges and houors,
which they are willing to give to negroes,
and Yankee deserters,, and incendiay
squatters, must socially and politically fra
ternize with that degraded and inferior racs
for whose advancement they are willing to
outlaw gentlemen of education aud high
character. Having elected to cast their
lot with the negro they must be content
with the delights which such4ragrant assc-
citation is likely to afford. isa
Bat copious as our language is in words
and phrases Of great Saxon vigor and "a.
wage force, expressly designed for the dc
nunciation Of crime and villainy of the
darkest hue, its resources are utterly mad.
eqnate to the task Of properly painting the
infamy Of the triple-dyed traitor who, after
voluntarily entering the military service Of
the late Confederacy, deliberately sells
himself to the negroes and unites with
them in prescribing, DISTINGUISHING and de-
grading his old companions. in-arms. Nei.
Their romance nor history furnishes any
thing comparable to this species of hide.
GUS treason and dishonorable apostacr-
Judas, the betrayer Of his divine master !;
the woodman Of the Hartz mountains, who
sold his soul to the devil ,Barrere, the
French Jacobin, who betrayed all parties
who trusted him, and Arnold, who sought
deliver the key Of the Hudson to the Bri-
fish, were not as base as the wretch who
would clothe his late slaves and Buffers
bummers with political privileges ruthless
| ly torn from bis old companions-in-arms. -
For such crime there can be no forgive
ness in this world and we must read at
tentively Dore's illustrated edition Ok
Dante's Inferno to determine what meas.
ure of punishment awaits such an offender
when ha descends into Hades. There,
perhaps, more than human ingenuity may
have provided appropriate chastisements.
The apostate of this class was the daily
witness of the four years heroism Of the
noble men whom he now seeks to deprive
Of civil and political privileges which be
wishes to give the vilest black thief and
pauper. He was the daily witness Of how
nobly they endured the slow agony Of dis
ease, the pinch Of hunger, the want Of
clothing, the perils of the outpost, the tor
ture Of the surgeons knife, and the cor
roding cares of the prisoner OF war, as be
lansuished in Yankee forts and endured
the insults Of the negro guard. On ht
field, by the campfire, ON the march and in
:, the midst of battle, he had witnessed the
sincere and ardent patriotism which AMI
mated these warriors. The splendid valo'
which has made these men respected By
all. but the DISTINGUISHING squatters, who
once fed before them like frightened
sheep, was the result Of their religious
faith in the justice Of their cause. Nel
Their ambition nor vain glory coult
! have achieved such prodigies Of yalor a
these heroes performed. Nothing but
|, love for their section and State as pure a
. that which animated the ragged and shoe
f less Continentals at Valley Forge, %.
stained the frozen soil with their blood
, could have cheered these patriots durinl
Q four long years Of danger and suffering. :.
: What baseness, therefore, is comparabl
to that which would induce companion
!. in-arms of these noble men to punish sue
: yalor. by prescription and to brand o
! crime deeds which the civilized world PFC
+ nounce equal to those Of the Greeks 9
3 IThermopyla? What traitor dog, who's
|, memory is pilloried BY history, was est
: more infamous than the Confederate 20
9 der, who would join foul pack ofnegroe
q and Yankee squatters in Q war upon thes
. gallant defenders Of their State? WI
. would not point the finger Of scorn Of u
, man who would take the negro and u
!. New England adventurer to his bosom On
:. texile brother soldier2 ssi .iss6s5i
ell "a To tell the ruined Virginia soldier tbs
8. lin the capital from which be drove b ac
10 army after army Of invaders, that there
e no place for him! Such 0 wretch poin
II to the hundred battle-6eids ihalnortailze
, BY the courage Of those whom he has b
:. q tfayed, aud says 'sbehold the scenes
- = your treason 10 the gaylanded gray
- Of his old associates he points with snee
ar and says, .these men were criminals, 4
m tells the virginians who followed Lee %
to Jackson that they shah forever wander
US disfranchised outlaws, ia that old State I
3 which they fought so nobly, and that the
re- degradation and agony shall DO intensn'
OF by being ruled over BY negroes and the. !
~ ~ fuse Of the invading hosts which en-, they
10 often routed! sf3
To Les and TO Hunter, to every gre
= Virginia soldier and statesman they 60
= stand aside ye DISTINGUISHED TRAITORS
N while they joyously greet with ailsesl0na
ardor. Lindsey, Hunuicutt, White q
py Bayne. and bay "come up, brothers, .
y. help us to despoil these vile rebels, and
ts irule over them!" ..sr
= Can such q crime as this against ra'