The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-14
THE NEW REVOLUTION.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press,
claiming to be Lifelong Democrat, and
whom we strongly suspect to be the protean
Shelly, or the itinerant Conway, furnishes to
that paper some very remarkable information
from New Orleans. This imaginative gentle
man prefaces his remarks by stating that he
had been Democrat up to the time of the
New York Convention, and then found him.
self compelled to turn Radical, probably to
make living by the practice of honorable and
profitable carpet-baggery. Immediately on
becoming Radical he discovered that the
Democracy of New Orleans are engaged in a
dark conspiracy against the peace, dignity
and permanency of the 5lack-and-tanners in
Dryades street Having travelled this country
all over, and tailed off the mysterious Ku-
Klux on his newly-loyal fingers, he ascer-
tanned that there are precisely four hundred
thousand members in that organization. They
are fully armed and equipped, well organized
and drilled and each man carries in his vest
pocket forty rounds of ball-cartridge, and in
his coat-tails q package of Ku-Klux proc
lamations, elegantly illustrated with pat
emit metallic burial-cases, Smith & NELSON'S
revolyers, and double-edged back-action
daggers. In New Orleans there are sixteen
thousand men organized as military bodies;
but hypocritically calling themselves Broom
Rangers, Pendleton Guards, Innocents, etc.
The two crack regiments of infantry are the
Seymour Knights-who must kindly have dis
v,,,o {basr a. Ga11
lures new, and the Blair Guards-both COM
manded by that rebel and irrepressible
traitor, Gen. Harry I. Hays. These crack
regiments display their reasonable intents
and rebellious propensities by using marks
and guides when wheeling round the corners
Of streets"La sight shocking indeed to stroolz
1oi" eyes, and ineffably terrifying to carpet
baggers and scalawags. The plan of campaign
to be adopted by these contumacious rebels
was duly communicated to our ex-Democrat,
for exclusive publication in the Philadelphia
Press copyright secured. They have made
up their " disloil" minds to take possession
of the city at q signal to be given by their
leaders, "by throwing a Gordon of troops
through Canal street, or other streets parallel
families" are to take refuge in this cor
don. filling the space from the levee
to the lake with sudden population, to the
great CONSERVATION of the resident alligators
and other saurians which abound in those
paludian regions. Having thus provided for
the "rebel families" by depositing them in
a comfortable reservoir of mud and water,
the entire sixteen thousand men, with their
lamps on their shoulders, and their campaign
wreaths quivering on the troubled air, twill
be in readiness to move towards the French,
Spanish and negro quarters in the lower part
of the city below Canal street" Thus pro-
claims the ex-Democrat all opposition viii be
overthrown, reconstruction will be over
turned, and sarpetbaggery win vanish before
the lamps Of the ferocious rebel infantry, like
the morning mists before the scorching sun.
And sic transit the glory Of negro supremacy
and scalawaggery. Is it possible that such
things can really be and overcome us like
summer cloud, without the special wonder of
Forney, and the serious disapprobation of