The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-29
The ADMISSION OF LOUISIANA.

revise the election returns and declare the
result The official announcement will, we
presume, confirm the facts already known
that the Democrats have carried the city Of
New Orleans and the parish of Orleans, and
that the radicals have succeeded in procuring
the formal ratification of their Constitution
and the election of their State ticket. Con-
currently with the unofficial publication of
these results telegram from Washington
announces that bill for the admission of
Louisiana has been brought forward in Con-
eress. A superficial consideration of this
fact might induce the belief that the radicals
are anxious to complete this business of
reconstruction by Juggling Louisiana and the
other Southern States back into the Union as
speedily as possible. But, really, this is by
no means their intention. From the radical
"stand-point" nothing is to be seen on the
political horizon, or, at least nothing is
sought but electoral votes. In the "trooly
loil dialect, reconstruction has never meant
anything but the supremacy Of the Repub-
lcan party. To this end every act of legis-
lation has been directed, not with decent
concealment, but with a shameless avowal of
the object.
The general theory of the reconstruction
laws was such a reorganization of the South
en political communities as would assure the
ascendancy of the party in alliance with the
radicals, and thereby obtain the addition
of the seventy Southern votes to the electoral
capital of the Republican candidate. 1t was
through this alliance that carpet-baggery rose
into predominance in the South, seized con-
troll of the conventions, framed the Black
Crook Constitutions, and organized the negro
vote in opposition to the rights and interests
of the white race. For itself, carpet-baggery
was to have universal Office and unlimited
plumber to the National Republican party
were to be given the electoral votes which
carpet-baggery promised to control. In an
ticipation of this return the radicals risked a
portion of their strength at the North. They
fancied that the deficiencies which they saw
to be inevitable there would be more than
supplied by the accessions which they ex-
pected here. And so, when they found them
selves between the devil of Democracy and
the deep sea of "trooly loil carpet-baggery,
they took Greeley's advice and plunged into
fathomless depths of expedient, from which
only superhuman fortune could rescue them.
In the mean time as reconstruction went
on the prospect Of electoral votes became
DINNER. The elections have been held in
several of the Southern States-Alabama,
South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina,
Arkansas and Louisiana. 1t is probable that
in all of these the Black Crook Constitutions
have been ratified. Carpet-baggery has full |
filed its promises for itself, but has
shown that it is unable to fulfill its |
promises to its allies. By force of |
fraudulent registrations, wholesale disfrau-
easements, and swindling elections, it has |
managed to get within sight of those pleasant |
official places in which it seeks to drop its |
lines. But these elections have disclosed a |
truth which is unpleasant to vagrant and men,
dicsnt ''loilty" and quite astounding to rad
ical expectations. 1t is plain that, at the very
first elections under the reconstructed govern
ments all of these Southern States, except, |
perhaps, South Carolina, will vote the Demo- |
cratic ticket. Reconstruction, therefore, if |
carried to its logical conclusions, will simply !
give sixty-three additional electoral votes to |
the Democratic candidate for the presidency. |
The summing up of the balance sheet will |
show all loss and no profit. For this expedi- |
ent of negro supremacy, for this disreputable
alliance with vagrant and mendicant carpet |
baggers, the radicals have risked and lost /
their predominance at the North, without
gaining the promised electoral votes of the
South.
In this extremity the only thing remaining
to be done is to keep the Southern States out,
if possible, until after the presidential cleo
ton; and, to keep them out, whilst pretend
ing desire to bring them in. The bill to ad-
NIT Louisiana is, plainly, contrived with this
object. 1t provides that the representatives
of The State shall be admitted to seats in Con-
gress when the fourteenth amendment shall
have been ratified; provided that disfranchise-
ment shall not extend further than the classes
enumerated in that amendment. But the
Black Crook Constitution varies from the
amendment in that particular. Its disfran-
chising clause embraces other persons than
those included in the amendment, and, hence,
VIZ O''''O NeNAAOe Do "uAlie'0u UhuSl tue Dlll |
ostensibly designed to effect that object. This
is severe blow to the carpet-baggers. 1t is
not the entertainment to which they had in
yited themselves. But, after all, they cannot
expect to get everything and give nothing 1t
is proved that Louisiana, if permitted to vote
next November, will go for the Democratic
candidate by an overwhelming majority;
whereas the bargain was that her vote should
be given to Gen. Grant
MILITARY ITEMs.-Capt. Charles Barnard, A. Q.
NJ, U s. Vols, will proceed to the different posts
IN Louisiana where government cemeterialoper.
atoms are carried on, Visiting Shreveport La,
first, and other posts in the order Of their impor-
lance for the purpose of facilitating such opera-