Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-01-21
POLITICAL AND OTHERWISE.

| peiiHeateo WIN iiic 'soohSo VI poiili
cal poison. To stop and think, oc
casionally, that though politics, like
prussic acid, may, in minimum doses
serve good purpose in extreme
cases, yet, when taken dispropor.
tionately, will produce certain death
10 reflect, moreover, that though in
the abstract, it possesses curative
virtues, yet in the concrete, it pos
sesses more, and of more pleasing
and inviting nature. In the latter
form when, as an adjuvant, coupled
with the important ingredients of
industrial labor, skill, science and
enterprise, it is both remedial and
wholesome to the economy, happi-
ness and prosperity Of men and
States. Without these life giving
components, and it will degenerate
and blend with those impure, un
worthy and disgusting attributes
which characterize the artful dema-
gogue, trickster and fanatic.
The country has groaned and
continues to groan under mountain
piles of political evils. How to
overcome eventually those evils, is
problem of deep concern to every
honest patriot in the land. The
problem may prove one OF very diff
ficult solution, but we have hope
that it will be solved, ana at no
very distant day,-predicating our
hope on a wise, careful and jndicious
policy on the part of the South,
growing principle of friendly con
servatism in the North and West,
and the aid of a righteous Provi-
dence.
The following, from the New Or
leans Bulletin, embraces such excel
lent and proper views and sugges-
tons touching the situation of politi.
cal affairs, that we are gratifed in
having the opportunity of transfer
ring it to our columns, and to solicit
for it an earnest perusal from our
readers
1t is obvious that the only remedy
for our present deplorable condition,
must be to outgrow and forget its
causes. This will imply a change
and adaptation in our condition
which we have always termed the
industrial reconstruction of the South.
We d EN-, therefore, that every citi-
zen of the South who can do any
thing to promote the employment of
its people, the utilization or economy
of it's resources, will have deserved
commendaton. For the salvation of
the South must sooner or later come
from itself. We regret, however, to
observe the indications that many
Southern leaders of opinion are turn
ing their eyes and their efforts from
the relief of domestic restitution to
the forlorn hope of a foreign inter-
vention = foreign, we mean, as to our
own exertions within our own States.
The great sources of Southern trouble
consist in the demand of social
for the negro, in the disor
ganization of labor, in the taxation
of cotton, in the ruin of the sugar
levees, and in the Instructions at the
Balize. We cannot see how the
future success Of any political party
can relieve us from these Immediate
evils.
The first and sole political object
of the South must be at present to
defeat those provisions Of the Recon
struction Conventions which demand
the association Of classes and colors
as civil right. There are other
questions of domestic commerce, ag
riculture and finance, which need i'm
mediate consultation between all the
people, without respect to nativity or
nationality. We want capital and
employment for our people. We
have thousands destitute and de-
PRAYED. The duty of the Southern
statesman is at home. 1t is to in
struct, employ and relieve the people
Before outside relief can come through
the national ballot box alone, the
South will be ruined beyond redemp-
ton by the present generation. Pri-
vate enterprise and personal interest
are actually doing more for the South
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