Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-11-17
Our state saovernn, ent.

Sufficient returns, says the New Or leans Crescent. have now been received from the interior to demon -trate that Radical Republication has been killed in Louisiana. What little vitality it has, lies alone in the State administra- ton elected by the neglect Of our peo- pie. and which will eflcctually expire in two years more. if it do not earlier yield to the pressure of public opinion, and reform or die out before it's time. Negro supremacy may now be con sidered as utterly at an eud. The ne- gro has been deserted by his white leader and must now see that if he has any friend, it is the white man who would not admit him to social equality or welcome him to official station, but desired to do all he could for his ele- vation in intellectual and material con- dition, without declaring him to be a brother as well as man.
 Now as white Republication has al- ready deserted the negro as an office holder and ruler, it can hardly be ex- pected that the negro can again set up a claim to dictate laws for the govern ment of the white population of this State. especially since the President elect is so well known to be steadily opposed to any extension of negro suf- frage or any forcing it upon an unwill- | ing people, except as means of put ting down fancied rebellion As there is no danger of this, the negro can hope for no favor in his pretensions
 from any source.
 It will therefore be wise for these colored men who have enjoyed, up to ( An, Ina lo ric O clot nf Inn State, to accept the verdict rendered on the 3d inst. as a final judgment up- on the propriety of their undertaking to make laws for the people of Louis ana.
 Those whose owh parishes or dis tricts have by unmistakable majorities of all the registered votes declared against them will. we trust regard this as an imperative call on them to re- sign, while those who were not elected at the previous election in April, but were placed in seats tO which they were not chosen, through the most shameless disregard of all law and req son, will see that the people cannot possibly suffer them to retain them.
 There are some white men in this condition not merely carpet-baggers but usurpers of seats which are not theirs, and these and others among the Radicals are especially odious from their interruptions legislation, which is not merely partizan in the extreme. but wasteiul beyond anything with which this or any other State has ever been disgraced, and which must cease, or one and all of us must be ruined. These, too, should take warning and retire.
 Now the election of Grant will give these men happy opportunity to leave places where they are neither welcome nor useful, nor happy, and go into others where they willplease their em- ployers, and where the injuries their unscrupulousness will accomplish, will be diflused among the thirty-five mill
 lions of these United States. and not confined to impoverished Louisiana.
 As for his Excellency the Governor, we trust he will prove his titie to the title by approving only bills to repeal acts of the last session and veto any thing which looks towards gift of the peoples money or rights, when the people do not receive and acknowledge value therefor. He could also recom- mend himself beyond measure to the people of the State, by urging the call of a convention that our constitution could be shorn of it's proscriptive ica- lures, and modelled after those very Republican ones of Massachusetts or Ohio.
 So generous a course as this might make him as popular as the like course, more promptly taken. has made many other Federal officers who have settled among us. Will he not take the wishes of the people into consideration?