The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-06
wADE's PRKsCRIPTrr

troubles in son,t Upton for anticipated
between tbei = Carolina and other States,
what mil. blacks and whites, is precisely
shor sht be expected to come from ms
=. He is one of those radical statesmen
who take instinctively to direct and simple
measures of violence, and whose policy, If
long ascendant, would revive every antiquated
barbarism which advancing civilization, in
better times than these, had successfully ex-
ploded. Thus, under radical craftsmanship,
the world is certain TO move, and just as GER
tain to move backward The heroic treat
ment of the South with unlimited doses of
bayonets and bullets, of military contribu-
tons and forays, as the only remedy for pos
sible disorders, political and social. at the
South, is evidently plagiarized by Mr.. Wade
from the practice Of the medical quack whose
specially was to cure Gifts" Unless there
we're fits to begin with, this quack was at sea,
and the patient was likely to go to wreck.
He, therefore, aimed to bring about fits at
once as the only sound basis for subsequent
operations. Mr.. Wade, and other politicians
of like stamp, feel that, in the presence of
pacifed and tranquil South, their occupation
would be gone. They are resolved to use
military coercion for their party purposes,
and if an occasion for it do not spontaneously
occur, they are resolved to make one. There
is no honest and sensible man in the South
who is not more anxious than they are to pre-
serve peace between the black and white pop
ulation of that section; aye, and to preserve
it. if need be, by the interposition of
the federal military. They want a standing
army in the South for no other purpose than
to prevent the wounds of war from healing
there, and thus to secure an indispensable
condition of radical ascendancy at Washing
ton. But can Mr.. Wade disguise from the
Northern people the hollowness of such
device for entirely relieving them of the cost
of maintaining an army of repression and ir-
ritation in the South, as that which he has
proposed 2 eff these Southern rebels don't
behave themselves they must be made to pay
the expenses of keeping peace within their
limits. Such, sir, will be our policy" So he
isrepresented to have spoken; and when his
interlocutor spoke of the difficulty of raising
the required taxes in country impoverished
by war, Mr. Wade Suggested that the
Southern lands would yield ample revenue for
the purpose" 1t is positively insulting to
the Northern people to tell them that they
can be relieved, or in any wise benefited, by
imposing system of ruinous exactions upon
the Southern people. They can hardly be
ignorant that the revival of material pros
perity in the South would be worth hundreds
of millions to their taxpayers, their bond
holders, their merchants, their farmers and
manufacturers. All those negroes in the
South who have intelligence enough to know
that their freedom means right to partici-
pate in the good things of Southern pros
perity, and the necessity of sharing in the
evil things Of Southern impoverishment and
degradation, must perceive that the policy of
MIR. Wade is hostile to every interest of him
self and his race