The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-08-26

With full as many signs of deadly hate,
Aslean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:
My tongue should stumble in mine earnest
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Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten
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My hair be fixed on end, like one distract:
Ay, every Joint should seem to curse and
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But, gentlemen, if such is to be the spirit
of our political controversies forever; if
there is to be no truce to our passions; if
the past is never to be forgotten Or forgiv-
en-; if the dead carcass of civil war, with
all its engendered griefs, and wrongs, and
hates, is not sometime to be buried out of
sight, then welcome the fierce waters of the
deluge in which persisted the antedluvian
world; thrice welcome the fire from heaven
which smote and consumed Sodom and
Gomorrah; so that, in Gods Providence,
new, and wiser and better race, worthier
of their noble heritage, may repopulate this
| North American continent r. aa@ al
| Depend upon it, gentlemen, no party
. whose only cementing element is sympa-
thy Of hatred can ever be permanent in
power, Or even in existence q ea
With large multitudes Of men this spirit
of hate was the controlling motive through
out the late civil war, and has continued to
govern them at every step in their efforts
at reconstruction. But with smaller, yet
far more dangerous class of politicians, the
sole aim for the last three years has been
the perpetuation of Republican rule,
through the negroes of the South. To this
basest Of motives and purposes the public
good and the pacifcation Of the country
have been steadily sacrificed and worse,
yet, constitutional limitations altogether
disregarded. Signally defeated in their eff
forts to establish negro suffrage and equal
lily in the North and West, they have now
Iimpudently in their platform proclaimed
that here each State shall regulate suffrage
for itself, while at the South the elective
franchise shall be determined by the Con-
gress Of the United States. Acting upon
the double motive of hate and the desire to
maintain partisan supremacy, they have
DISTINGUISHED large number Of, the white
population. OF. the Southern States, and
lconferred upon the negroes, by an act of
Congress, the right to vote; and then, at
the point of the bayonet, have proceeded
to establish seven State governments, con-
trolled by negroes or white adventurers
meaner than they-mere sojourners, birds
of passage, and very foul birds at that--and
have gone through the farce of admitting
them into the Union and to the right of
representation in the Senate and the
House, and full vote in the electoral col
llege for President. In this manner, gentle
men, they expect to control the legislation
and the elections Of the country. And
these ignorant, british negroes of South
Carolina and Florida and the other South
ern States do now make laws, and levy
taxes, and create public debt for you, white
men of Ohio and they expect to override
your choice for President. Yes, gentle
mon, under these Republican reconstruc-
ltion acts, enforced by an army for which
you pay heavy taxes out Of your hard earn
ings, half million Of negroes in South
| Carolina, reinforced by some thousands of
adventurous white loafers from the North
and West, will control nearly as many ell
ectoral votes as a million of white men in
Ohio. Aye, and this present moment the
F" Governor" so-called, of that State, ell
ected by negroes, under an act of Congress,
and through the aid of your army, is citi-
zen Of Ohio, having a legal settlement here
SO that if he were to become pauper-
and South Carolina is very POOR now, and
no longer able to enrich her satraps-the
proper township in the county Of Henry, in
this State, could be compelled to maintain
him as a public charge. And moreover,
Gen. Willard Warner, a noble codfrere Of
his from Ohio; has, observe, just been el-
ected United States Senator from Ala
bamai h.. ~ st
These are the doipgs of the Republican
party, and if not marvellous in your eyes.
they are at least costly to your pockets
Those are a part of the blessings over
which the Chicago platform exults, and a
continuance, and indeed multiplication OF
!, which, they promise upon the election Of
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
RANK INJUSTICE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
: POLICY.
Now, gentlemen, suppose for moment
that the case was reversed, and that the
South had waged successful war of con-
: quest against you here in the West, and
had compelled, by force Of arms, the intro
duction of slavery here, and you had sur
: rendered in good faith, Under pledge and
) premise of all other rights within the Un-
. ion, under the Consultation and thai
: when You had no farther power to resist, .
/ Southern Congress had, at the point of the
r bayonet, forced constitutions, governments
3 aud laws upon you against their will, ant
, that victorious and insoleht South Corolins
had sent up here the meanest and basest o
3 her vagabond Sand Hill T. citizens, witt
rpet-bags in their hands, to represent