The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-08-12
Radicalism, North and South.

Al tile iot Oi pre-
tends to represent equal rights among white men and
the rights of the States fix the qualifications of suf
frage. + says to the negro there, We have no use
for you here; we do not want your votes here and
you shall not vote here: but down South, you are
better than that unreconstructed rebe-a national
Democrat; you shall vote with him, and we will take
special care, by DISTINGUISHING large classes of such
whites, that you shall out-vote them To enable you
to do this, you shall have freedmen's bureau We
will send you men who will affiliate aud protect you
you shall have military protection ct the expense o
the white trash the Democrats you shall have school
marms you shall ride in the cars with the whites
you shall have everything you ask for and more-bu
yoa bond 10 gote agag. What is the effect
Radicaism at the South does not walk with it heac
erect boldly defiant as it does North claiming fellow
ship with its peers and proudly contendng for place
in the hearts of the people. No; rather it initiates
the tortuous movements OF the deadly cobra de capello
creeping cowardy out Of sight, until the fatal moment
arrives to plunge its tangs in the heart of ts victim
Radcaism is shut up here in the depths of carpet
bag which, like Pandoras box, lets loose variety Of
evils upon an innocent people But where is it : You
feel its fatal blows to your liberty to your prosperity
to yoHr country Who are these fatal enemies oil
peace and concord, who inct these dreful evils upon
| society, who would uproot the laws of God himself
who would deprive you of the rights of feemen, hur
out your representatives, and instate instead thereof
creatures of their own-a.iens to the land?
You met Radical in society you know
| none. To pass through country, one would sup
pose that there vas but one party in the land All
are SouheFners; all Democrats all have the in
terest of their country at heart all have pure love
for liberty and desire to be fveemen. But pnlortu-
nately Radicalism like Archrledes only asks full
erum and it will the world Aye! it would even
dare, too to dsiocate Heaven itself. This fulcrum
exists at every convenient standpoint in the South
in every town large enough to shelter nfamy and to
hide the blush Of shame few low browed, down
cast skulkers from the land of natures nob,emen,
from the land of Seymour, Pierce and Fillmore, may
be plotting around corners holding parey
With negroes, striking off their voting tickets, in
sructing them how to vote, wheedling Them trading
with them, swndling them, trucking to them-mak-
ing lever of them.
They will be pointed ont to you, oh ! Northerner, as
the great Radical party of the South. This is the
party with which you are asked to affiliate Be YOU
net deceived. The Radical party of the South is a
skeleton, with few prominent bones here and there
but no flesh wells them from sight. The Southerner
votes for Seymour. Seymour forever!! Northerner,
think yell where you cast your vote!
RATHER INCoNs1srENT.-We hardly think it worth
while to notice at any length Gov. Warmoths letter
to President Johnson asking for United States troops
to protect big loil friends in this State So much
of the letter refers to Caddo parish is sheer fbr
cation, but we suppose his exceencg is not so much
to blame he derived his information from his lying
scalawag friends, who exc out precarious living up
here with negro wenehes and harlots. We emphat
ically deny that the life of any of them has been put
in jeopardy by either black or white citizens Even
the life of McVean is safe up here as it would be in
JAIL, where he properly belongs. Mudgetts gzzard
one day, we believe became alarmed at some imagi-
nary trouble in prospect, and called around him
black guard to defend him from-God knows phat,
We don't We canddly do rot believe there is man,
woman or child in the parish who would hurt hair
II his head unless some poor BLACK whom he has
iupcd should take notion 10 trip up his troters. |
He and the likes of him" have more to fear from
heir dupes than they have from anybody else. We
to the Governors letter more for the purpose of
loting the inconsistency of the man, than any defense
If Caddo At the time the Governor was making
Democratic speech to Radical mob, which brought |
orth the encomiums of the conservative press, his
eter to the President full Of spite and malice against
Tyr people, which caused the aforesaid press to take
Jack what they had said of him, wingng its way
0 Washington. Oh consistency thou art jewel!
We don't mean Senator Jewell, for he is one of the
ort the Governor and his friends have not got much
Sc for