The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-10-17
3JoluicaI.
More undoing of Reconstruction.

The indignant howl of the radicals against
Frank Blair for insisting in his Broadhead
letter, that the south can never have peace
until the whele work of radical reconstruction
is undone, must be turned against their own
party he South, IN Georgia, as our read
ers have already been advised, the radical
Governor and legislature themselves, several
weeks ago, elfectually updd congressional re-
construction by declaring the negroes ineligi-
Die to office and now the same party has
mercilessly tumbled congressional reconstruc-
ton overheard in Louisiana. The whole thing
is explained in the following from the So. Louis
Republican ofOct.2 As Blair won't bevice pres
ident before next March, the probabilities are
decidedly now that his ''damnable revolution
tionary scheme" rs Burton c. Cook called it,
will have been fully accomplished by the rad
icals themselves before the democrats get into
power.
NEGRO EQUALITY IN RADICAL LOUISIANA
The latest political events in Louisiana are
instructive in regard to tho working OF rscen-
structon in the state, and the Radical press is
silent concerning them, that our readers will
doubtless thank us Tor lar report OF Inc COndl-
ton Of radicalism in that state.
TIE radicals had changed Louisiana into
paradise of their own. They gave the state
radical constitution, elected radical assembly,
put the executive functions in the hands of
radical governor, and they just about to
enforce the negro equality clause of the four
teenth amendment by Legislative enactment,
when, from the clear sky of radcalism, thunder
bolt Tell into their paradise. The radical assem-
h1Srlt la 1nI Inv
large majority, .nd the Africanizing of the
state seemed to be inevitable, because radical
Of the truest type that could be imported from
Ohio was in the executive chair, and he only had
to put his name to the bill TO make the negro the
equal of any white man in the state, for all par
tisian political purposes at least.
If radicalisin did not carry this movement
through to the end, the democrats would certain
ly be innocent of the failure. The few votes
they had in the assembly cosld have no influence
upon Governor Yarmouth He did not owe
them any service and had nothing to expect from
them in the future. And yet the radical governor
vetoed the bill, thereby proclaiming himself
against :hc essential point in the radical recon-
struction scheme. The bill was returned to the
legislature, and, wonder upon wonder the veto
was sustained in that body by vote of at least
one-third OF the radicals, who, joining the demo-
cratic members on this question, thereby pre-
vented il passage over the Governors head bv a
two-th.ycs majority.
Thi miracle needs e1 PLANTATION, and, inasmuch
as the radicals do not believe in the propriety OF
explaing it, zee shall attempt to do so.
the South separated by a Chinese wall
from the rest Of the United States, Northern
tyrauuH and fanaticism mi ght succeed in Atri-
oaniZlu@ 10 South. The want of contact with
he main u'dy of tho natieR might obliterate the
stioHal sentiment OF the separated parts and
the South might be made to forget that it partic-
pat-l ia American culture and civilization, and
also had Its share in the responsibility of uphold
ing the honor and the morality of the American
people. But in country where liberty and
self-detcrmination axe imbiLed in the mothers
milk, and where every white man was accus-
toned 10 represent 10y his own individuality
part OF the sovereignty of the American people,
theoretical dcspsti-m and sectional fanaticism
can rsYer work separation in sentiment, as the
Chinese wall has done among the aespotic.ly-
ruled nations of Asia. A carpet Dagger and a
radical besides as Governor Yarmouth il, he
nevertheless has not ceased to be an American
and when the whols responsibility OF denation-
allzing the people OF Louisiana was concentrated
in single stroke Of his pen, he refused to assume
it, lie undoubtedl, did not debate the question
whether his veto would iniure the radical party
or help the democracy, but his manhood revolted
against the thought of committing such an out
rage as never was perpetrated against any natisn
on earth. Governor Yarmouth felt that before
being radical and politician, he was man
and an American; and he refused to commit an
act by which he would forever destroy his self
respect and his future participation in the na.u-
ral development OF his country. And what were
the motives of the radical members of the assem-
bly, in sustaining the veto They were those
motives which invariably arise when the sober,
second thought sets in, and when by the coura-
geous act Of single man the true sentiments OF
the weaker gain confidence to assert themselves.
Some OF the radical negroes in the assembly even
felt that equality was the most dangerous Gift
offered them by radical hypocrisy, and, by sus-
tanning the veto, they refused to accept it for
their brethren
We have omitted to enter upon the secon.
dairy causes of this astonishing development-
They appear insignificant by the side of the
great thought that there is no policy, no law and
no constitution which can prevail against the in.
born instincts of men. Human nature explains
the otherwise strange phenomenon that the edi-
nee erected by Radicalism in the South received
Its frst blows from Radicals themselves They
are scfcondernned to destroy with their own
hands what they so madly undertook to estab-
Lincoln 0n Carpet.baggerx.