The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-08-26
The Terrible Counter-Revolution Approach

From the N. r. Herald, August 5.
The figures as they come in from Kentucky, are
mounting up for the Democratic majority. dhe last
returns which published yesterday set down eighty
thousand majority for Stevenson, the Democratic cas-
didate for Governor and these reurna represent the
country districts from which they come in slowly and
will probably show larger gains according as they are
received The result of the June election in Oregon
was quite remarkable an evidence that the people
are awake to the mnfarous mischief which the Rad.
ical party has wrought In its administration ef the
Government. We cannot, therefore, shut our eyes to
the direction of these sraws which show how the wind
. blows. The Republican majority in Oregon in 1866
was 327; the Democratic majority Tor member OF
Congress (the solitary who represents that young
Stae) was at the election of the first Monday of June
1858, 1909 Here was gain OF the antifadlcal par
ty of over fifteen hundred votes in voting popula-
ton of about twenty thousand. Taking these two
States as an example, we will find that the people are
not abandoning their hostility to the wanon and dan
gerous policy of the ruling faction, which during three
years of peace has increased the national debt and
kept up prices and war taxation. The Kentucky
election has taken place since the Presidential noni-
nations of both parties made; and yet far
from the nominations of the Radical convention
Strengthening the backbone of the faction the
ination of Seymour and Blair weakening the spinal
column of the Democracy in that State, they have
turned events the other way These results are but
the early indications (the shirmish fire 1t were) of
the great revolutionary battle which is about open.
If the other State elections which to off be-
tween this and the Presidential contest in November
should happen to give like indications of popular hos
ty to the Radical usurpations and corruptons, who
can tell but that the nominees of the Chicago conrcn
ton may be overwhelmed BY the weight of Radical
maadmnistration since the rebellion wound up by
Gen. Grant that they have to carry their shouders
IF we look at the facts which confront the people when
they vote find that taxes to the amount Of
three thousand millions of dollars have been imposed
upon US. we find that the national debt has been in
creased to the tune of three thousand millions more
And this when the country is at peace and the people
had right to hope for reduction of taxes and the
national obligation as the fruit OF victory won, God
knows with what terrible sacrifices to every home and
hearth in the country But instead of the load being
lightened we are called to bear further exacons,
to submit to increased expenditures In order to keep
portion nsof the country in subsection, more troops
are called for Men foisted into Congress from the
Southern States and Governors who represent little
more than mock constituency, demand from the Gov
ernment expensive army to assist IN carrying out
schemes and ambitions which pure partisan, and
positively destructive of the peace and good of
the country. It is facts like these which meet intelh
gent men of all parties when they to cast their
yotes and cannot be surprised that maorlties are
found to protest emphaticay against continuance Of
this kind of government.
The people demand change, and it is the people,
and any particular party who will make the issue
of the approaching election. Names aud individual
candidates count for very little in this contest 1t is
cheap government honestly administered in view of
the fact that the country is peace, which the people
require serious couner-revolution, therefore, ter
ribe to the politicians no doubt but good and whole
some for the people-because it is being born of the
peoples at hand Nothing but the marvellous
tivty of our population and the untold resources OF
the country could enable to bear the present bur
den of taxation induce submit to carry it 40
long. But it is evident that reaction has set in, and
it may be that in the Of events, as fore
shadowed, the next election will result in sending a
majority to Congress possibly in favor of repudation
but certainly in favor of reduction of the pres
ent enormous taxation. The public mind leans that
way. Let have peace, real peace, is the popular
cry and the popular heart naturally yearns for the pos
session of the prosperity which should accompany
peace The result of the Presidential election may be
so vaguely decided in the conflict between the rights
of the Northern and Southern States in the matter of
franchise as regulated by Radical legislation drift
US into another civil war; but it is clearly the duty of
the Northern States to set the seal emphatcaly upon
the issue by their votes and leave nothing to chance
or no opening for conflict. The expression of anti
Radical sentiments in the late elections in Kentucky
and Oregon is but the precursor Of great
revoution upon the verge OF which the country stands
this moment