The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-07-15
Re Patient.

We earnestly urge feow-citizens to be patient
True your representatives have been kept out OF the
halls of legislation by violent disobedience OF law
and superior authority, until measures had been taken
to permanently exclude quite number of them, and
thus to be able through forms of law to deprive you
of all power persons and property; but these
things be done long stay DONE The greater
the wrong you now suffer, the greater will be your
redemption when this state Of things ceases. few
months, at most will suffice to END TINS saurnalla OF
oppression and plumber.
It is much better to suffer wrong now, than to graf
fv the desire of the white leaders, that of their
r black dupes should be harmed-perhaps kled-so
that they may make Northern capital out of it. 1t
may be hard to hear the boast that the Grand Army
of the Republic out in force yesterday" and to
have seen Mechanics Institute on Monday and Tues
day crowded with negroes, who evidently bad no du-
ties drawing them there, and the like crowd ednes-
day filling Canal and Common streets from Dryades
street backwards but it would be much worse to have
this state of things constantly recurring, perhaps per-
petuated, by the triumph of Radicalism at the ap-
preaching Presidential election through accusations
of rebel violence and aggression however the truth
might be to its proyocaton. Times will change and
men with them if we be patient little longer
\ New Orleans Pcayune, Sd inst.
We commend the above article of our New Orleans
contemporary We look forward to an active, vigorous
and enthusiastic canvass. It is not impossible that
the carpetbag party will put forth similar exertions
Their political capital will consist entirely of evil in
luences, employed to mislead colored population
They cannot address themselves to the white popula
ton of the State. With wisdom and moderation in the
canvass radical in legislation will endure but
for little WHILE and should be accepted by US as
reason for the employment of all energies for their
defeat. Let our suppressed anger and indignation
only serve to kinde enthusiasm for the contest.
Let be idle. Let allow his neighbor
or friend to be idle. Too much consequence cannot
be attached to the power of individual and personal
exertions. We must not depend entirely upon orga-
missed actionthe action of clubs and public meetings
On all possible occasions each citizen should exert his
personal and private influence to defeat Radical vii
lanies and to intelligent and reliable from
the newly eufranchsed portion of our people, Let
every citizen make it his duty to keep himself thor
oughy informed upon the political events occurring
in the campaign, upon the principles and issues in
voved and be prepared reason when required upon
them with intelligence and good judgment. We feel
convinced that coored voters need only to be in
telligentIy freely and truthfulIy informed and in
sructed to produce that harmony of political action
which is equally necessary for and their welfare
and for the peace and harmony Of the country which
can only be secured by success in November. We
must not imper cause by any failure of personal
Or associated exertions. The whole energies of our
people must be nobly and efficiently exercised The
odious policy Of Congress has not resulted in recon
struction which accept. 1t has been the work
of force and fraud and has not embodied the will or
wishes of the people Radical success will involve
continuance of this policy. What may he expectedis
clearly stated and foreshadowed in the Washington
corr Of hn Nav IF Tn1v
Sd, from which quote:
The farce of admitting certain Southern States you
see is ended and the people of those States must now
endure the ndignty of having laws made for them by
lot of adventures, until the hour arrives for driving
the carpetbaggers from the Capitol and placing there
in men who will truly represent the South
wicked act certainly never perpetrated
than this, and the insult to be attempted upon
the States this side of Dixie they would rise and resent
it to
&c. too, would the Southern States were they not in
chains but being thus they poweress
Of course there will be no change in the military
status. The South is restored to the Union," but
not soldier will be withdrawn from her soil-nor is
there the taintest prospect that she will receive mme
dately the slightest benefit from this restoration
The whole thing is sham, and the Union practically
as far off from real restoration as when Lee laid
down his sword. +% .-".7
Yet the official declarations go from the depart
ments that Alabama, Florida, etc, ETC., are "ad-
mitted" and they will be believed to be true by hun
dreds who see no farther than their nose
With the thinking however; with the
money and commercial men; with all those whose
welfare brings the prosperity of the country there
will be far different thoughts, for they will look upon
the so-caled admission of the Southern States
fraud not only upon the South, but upon the country
at large.
It is a "restoration in ony-hollow and
without vitality. No good can possibly from it, be-
cause it is not the work of the people.
We cannot, must not, will not fail to exert all
powers and energies to secure the triumph of that
great national party which alone the country
from ruin Its triumph will be the destruction of the
influence in our State, and wisely
defer such measures of justice their inquities have
merited until our day of power. Says Napoleon III:
" great nation ought to be silent, to speak
in vain" What is true of the nation State is true
when applied to its individual citizens. Letus unite
energies for success and victory. Meantime we can
despise the carpet-bag Influences and silently COM
mend them that oblivion which success in the can
vass will assure to them.
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