The Van Buren press., 1868-09-18
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Nrw ORLEANS, SEPT. 4th, 1864.


, her soil.
Last SATURDAY. night | witnessed the
Grand Torchlight Procession ofthe Dem
ocratic Clubs of the city-at least 2O,OVo
men in the marching procession and over
a 100000 outside to greet them with
\ cheers, waving ofhandkerchcfs,bouqucts
and flags, open houses of refreshments.
and wild welcomes aud ..sueccss to Won,
at almost every step of their march on
their line of five miles continuous process
sion. Never before have | Witnessed
such an. ovation Procession, never before
saw such mass Of people, 50 thoroughly
enthusiastic in their rejoiemgS with not
single case of accident to any one or
disturbance of the peace reported to hap
pen during the evening. The men of the
Procession scented so quietly, surely CON
fdent in the success of their chieftains,
SEYMOUR and BLAIR, every one of them
marched with the elastic, happy, quick
step of JOY and triumph, they were q
splendid body ofmen with their dancing,
confident, searching black eyes, martial
bearing and tread, and handsome uni.
forms, proud of their Club, their music.
their flags and banners, and their Consti
tutional leaders, Seymour and Blair, and
each one dead certain in his own mind.
that his endeavors to promote Seymour
and Blair's election would shadow sue.
cess, long before the breath of autumn
has withercd the pomp and glory of the
woodland and silenccd the song of the
birds.
The Democratic Clubs all advocate, by
their actions and words, fixed deter
mination to pass through this Presiden.
tial election, without coming to violence
with the RAIDS, andths is to be carried out
even to the extreme of not settling per
sonal political insults and words till after
the Sd November. They do not intend
to damage their Northern and Western
Democratic friends, by allowing another
New Orleans riot to operate against them
and their friends. And the people Of
Arkansas can damage by violence the
Democratic cause at home and abroad,
prior to this Presidential election, more
than the vote of the State viii count in
the Electoral College; and l wish you to
impress this on all your friends, in your
weekly editorial 1t is all important that
the Southern States give the RAIDS no
cause, between now and the election, to
point finger at them, TO say, there, |
told you so.
The RAIDS are in a quandary about the
negro the forming Of the colored Dem
ocratic Clubs and their hourly increase
of numbers to the same, are a something
that they had not bargained for, signti-
cancc they don't know how to manipulate
to their own ends. The negroes are be-
gining TO feel and know that the South
ra"a- arc their true friends. both as re
CARDS theirpresent and future welfare, and
also, that the Radicals have launched
them on a sea Of idleness, self indulgence,
and dishonesty, with no helm no pilot,
no knowledge, and with the promise, to
date unpaid, of 40 acres and a mule to Sc
cure their votes, which has elected the
RAIDS and left the poor negro the empty
bag to hold. Facts are becoming plain
and home even to their ignorant minds
and the reign Of the Radical over the ne
gro and his vote is on the wane to return
never more and the RAIDS feel and know
this and wilt by the way | have not seen
a Radical Club or organization on the
streets since have been herc-oyer three
weeks This will give you some idea Of
the flatulency Of Radism here. Without
question the State will give a tremendous
majority for Seymour and Blair don't
think the Louisiana Assembly win dare to
assume, from the people, the Presidential
vote of the State if it does this high.
hand outrageous act, the Democrats here
will take measures that the Democratic
vote of the State shall be correctly land
sworn to) reported to the Democratic
Presidential Committee in New York,
leaving them to act as will seem best.
The Louisiana lee Company, manufact-
IRE over 20 tons of ice per day, from the
Mississippi river, and retail their ice at
one cent per lb. delivered 1t is not as
crystal in appearance as the eastern ice,
but is half the price and quite as cold
note the result Of the Vermont cleo
tion, also the Kentucky, the former
should only prove another incentive to
the men of Arkansas to be up and doing
and with no tire in them to advance the
Democratic cause till the ides of Novem-
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