The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-07-08
The Peaceable Condition of the South.

w;tb tho nndonbted causes for irritation and excite
ment which exist in The unreconstructed States It is
marvel how the Southern people keep so quiet ana
peaceabe Born with Il love Of freedom at once deep
and ineradicable and inhertng repugnance to MIL
tary oppression which the Of the Revolution de-
veloped and nurtured, we have seen them sitting qu
city down for the past three years and peaceaoy SUD-
hitting to the yoke of the conqueroI. Government
changes their military dicators with all the facility o.
prestidgitateur simply Iii, presto !" peihs ah
that is REQUIRED to displace Sheridan and install
Hancock it smashes down Sickes and up springs
Candy; it upsets Pope and outpops Meade' ana
the people, save few sputterings insome OF the news
papers, are scarcely heard to murmur. Their evil
officers are removed as easily as Bergen farmer
would cut down his drumheads in the fall The mill
ary regulators change at pleasure all local ehcers-
the mayors, sherifs, aldermen, judges, and even the
ures peppering the boxes of the latter occasionally
with sprnkling of blacks thus savoring justice with
spice that must be extremely agreeable to any de-
cent white mans taste. In short, the military author
iy in the South is absolute penetrating social as wen
as public life and every branch of society Yet there
is no trouble The Southern people do not mplaln
loudly. They the most obedlent people IN the
world and there is more peaceabe country on the
face of the globe than the South Still these people
are called rebels and exrebels and the Radicals hold
them up as monsters unsuitable for political consider
alton and even unfit for Christian burial They even
dispute their right bestrew the graves OF their fallen
warriors with the garlands of remembrance and love-
But any who visits the South at this time and ex-
amnes for himself will find that those who fought the
fercest in fair fight against each other-tfom the
North and from the South ar now the warmest
friends and all business enterprises undertaken IN an
honest and trustworthy spirit by Northern boys IN
blue" are cordially welcomed and encouraged by
Southern " boys in gray" 1t is the miserable, whn-
ing hypocrtical carpetbagger who creeps into the
South like thief at midnight into dwelling steals
all he can lay his hands on, poisons the minds OF
nil naapla md then craWIS leaving the
trail of his pestferous presence to mark the path he
has TAKEN who is working the greatest evil to the
Southern country. 1t is time the incubus was raised
from that fair land and her people allowed again to en-
joy that liberty which their Revolutionary fathers
fought attain, and which has been chastened and
refined and rendered appreciable by the terrible
ordeal they have recently passed through
New York Herald, 22d
The Herald in the above article, has very graphically
and ruthfuy represented the situation of affairs in
the Southern States. We claim no merit for having
patiently borne the misrepresentation of the North
ern Radical press To this grew accustomed;
and felt iden that the very Of fasehood
would soon refute itself. 1t has been far more diff
cult for bear the irritating presence and peser
Gus Vaccinations of the miserable whining hypocrit
ical class, to whom the Herald refers; but claim
no credit for this even. They much part Of
the corrupt body Of the legislation which introduced
them here the worm is part of putrid flesh They
have been left to the operation Of natural causes to
stink, to purify and to decay. We have only tried
to keep at safe distance knowing that the time was
not yet come but was surely coming, when they would
receive their reward! The majority of our Legisla
ture in forcing into office minority candidates, and
forcing upon the people representatives whom they
have fairly defeated and whom they honestly despse,
is fastening rapidly the day of retribution.