The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-19
RADICAL isYMPATHIEs AND corScI-
pENCES.


forms or wide apart their manifestations, have
their own laws of sympathy and attraction.
Like exhalations from mephitic bog and fen,
from noxious sink and pool, from foetid re-
fuse and garbage, that finally mingle In one
pestilential miasma, they tend to come to-
gether from every quarter of the horizon, and
to unite in one grand effect, in one fatal
catastrophe.
In this principle lies the secret of that fear
full combination of disorganizing and criminal
forces which is commonly known by the gen.
eric name of Radicalism.
Hence, wherever you find "free lover,
you find Radical wherever you find
miscegenationist, you find Radical
wherever you find man who is innately fura-
cious and Iraptorial, you find Radical
wherever you find a man who has natural
and invincible propensity for arson, you find
a Radical wherever you find man who is
bloodthirsty and cowardly at once, the assas-
sin and the craven combined, you find Radi-
cal wherever you find voluble knave who,
infdel at heart, puts on the robes OF minister
of the Most High that he may better serve the
devil, you find Radical wherever you find
fiendish malignity the supreme principle,
you find Radical
Stevens was born to be Radical for with
him a cr,lel. ,,~s---.r-isSS, isapiee"oie hate
occupied the place of conscience.
Butler was born to be a Radical for he has
never let an opportunity pass to cheat steal,
rob, infict torture, or commit murder, when
he believed that he could do so with impu-
nifty. 4
Bingham was born to be Radical for he
is dyspeptic hyena whose fangs reek with
the blood of an innocent woman.
Sumner was born to be Radical for, as
lily-liyered as he is calumnious, he is always
ready to use daggers in his speech, and to in
cite ignorance and brutality to sanguinary vio-
lence, but was never known to confront a
manly foe.
Wilson was born to be Radical for, years
ago, he took delight in picturing to his aboli-
ton audiences the scene of a wife-the typical
Southern woman-clasping her infant to her
bosom, and shrinking in horror under the up
lifted knife of a negro violator and assas-
sin.
Beecher was born to be Radical for, pre-
tending to preach the gospel of peace and
trotherly love, his only eloquent inspirations
are internal and, but the other day. he threw
out to Radical demagoguery the diabolical
hint that, by one temptation, the male negro
could be led through fire and blood to
any extremity-to "bait him with white
woman"
The descendants of Cotton Mather, Paris
and the other Puritan saints who offered hu-
man sacrifces-innocent matrons and maids,
and irreproachable fathers and husbands-at
the shrine of their Moloch on ''Witches
HILL" may be expected, in such times as
these, to be drawn to Radicalism as naturally
as jackals and vultures are attracted by the
reek and stencil of battle-felds; indeed, they
are, for the most part, only the dead Radicals
of another generation, warmed over and per-
mitted by an inscrutable Providence to add to
But enough of this hideous catalogue.
At this moment the Radical nature seems
most prone to display itself in the form of
pyromania- Pinchback makes his debut as a
Radical senator in the State Legislature by
claiming IMMUNITY for himself and fellow
criminals under peril of having the metropc-
lis of the southwest laid in ashes. This
gentle sentiment was soon echoed from a
country parish by another colored orator of
the Radical persuasion, who advised the
freedmen to arm themselves for war with
guns, if they could buy them-if not, with
matches, which were cheap enough. The
same Juror crops out in North Carolina, where
a vehement young scalawag invokes the "god
of turpentine," and bids the colored dupes
and myrmidons of Radicalism to provide
themselves with all the implements for slay-
ing and burning. And like counsels and in
vocations are constantly occurring elsewhere.
These condolences are not accidental.
They are sympathetic and symptomatic. They
show the development Of Radicalism every
where to be retrogression towards barbarism
and savagery; to be everywhere at war with
the essential conditions of civilization and
progress. If permitted to have its final tri-
umph, it will glut its horrid appetite on the
dismembered and rotting remains of society
for it is as ravenous as death.