The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-03-11
Have we Friends or Power?

freedmens bureaus and loyal leagues-and bearin!
their woes with the patient endurance of Spartan
forttude--have calmly awaited the hour of jus
rctrbution
Reposing confidence in the Democratic masses o
the North the Southern people have heretofore said
" We powerlcss to ourselves; we will wait thu
coming of our friends" Meanwhile with every demon
straton Of national and Democratic sympathy, the
controlling authority of the nation, more and more
eager to the fruits of their reckless legislation
have gone farther and farther to deepen the causes
our alienation by wantonly adding to our wrongs ant
our sorrows. Its petty despots throughout the South
issued their edcts prohibiting memorials to the dead
and refused even to our women the sad privilege o.
scattering their flowers upon the graves of cur buried
heroes-whie the magnates Of Congress- assuming
powers beyond the Constitution we're earncgtly en-
gaged in work of reconstruction, by which, through
the disfranchisement of the whites and the enfran
chisement Of the blacks, the votes OF these States
might be secured to the Radical candidate in the com
ing Presidential election This work of reconstruction
was confded to the Sheridans and the Popes who had
gained brief glory for such exploits only war, in
its ravages can ever excuse and they, the chosen
executioners Of Congressional prescriptions
for POLITICAL rewards to crown their military achieve
meEts-in their zeal to please their masters, added
in tEe execution Of the law all the insult and all the
outrage they could heap upon PROSTATE people,
Calling to their aid the emissares Of Jacobin Clubs
sent South to kndle the fires of African resentment
under the pretext of registration these agents tray
ersed the whole land, organising political clubs, caol-
ing and demoraisng the ignorant negroes leav-
;,o, -, ~ ~, mi,
the influence of their secret clubs-actng the ex-
cited passions and stimulating the hopes of the ignor-
ant blacks by false promises Of social Millennium and
distribution of land-hc first stcn in reconstruction
was party success.
Conventions called, under the specious pre-
tense of framing loyal constitutions, but in reality to
ray, by State sovereignty Congressional legislation
outside Of the CONSTITUTIONS" and practically to con-
fer political power upon the blacks, and apply that
power in the Presidential election the pepctuation
of the reign of Radcalsm This success was obtained,
in spite of circumstances from Northern Democrats,
resounding in the thunders of their victories from
Connecticut to California. Encouraged ~ the ex-
pressed opinion of these mai Observation-Disclosures in
fact, majority of the whole North--the President
who had Vanly opposed to the march of Radicalism
appeal to The CONSTITUTION and his fruitess vctoes
now chose to exercise his Constitutional AUTHORITY
and removed at once, Stanton, Sheridan, Pope and
Sckes, the chefagents of the Radical party to hurry
through reconstruction, in the face of the popular will
and in defiance of the Constitution.
Congress having met again after the saturnalia of !
july found its work impeded its plant instruments
gone the prestige Of its political power weakened
Before deciding hether further legislation was neces
sary it caused election to be held in Alabama on
the ratification Of the new constitution, to test the
value Of its own political work. That election, con-
trolled by all the appliances Of fraud despotsm and
ignorance, proved the strength of popular intelligence
ana anglo Saxon energy, gu the hand, and on the
other, the deceptive promises CT the negro and the
utility OF party chicanery. The Constitution was not
'alled As to that State, the second step towards
!adIcal reconstruction was party failure. To cover
his lSnominious defeat various movements were
made The astute Senator of Ohio proposed special
I'LL for the admission Of Alabama solemnly reciting c
hat the Constitution had been ratified according to
aw, when, Notwithstanding the suppression of the
fieal vote by Gen. Meade it had been notoriously
elected. The preamble was too bare faced for even
sadcal consciences the bill was permitted to Sleep
Proceeded to enact that mere majority of the votes
asst should determine the ratification rejection of
constitutions, repeating the older law recurring a t
Majority of registered votes; for the Alabama election
ad failed in not receiving this majority. Provision c
eng thus made for the elections in other States and
ne State of Alabama left for special legislation here
fter f Gen. Meade should fail to order another cleo
Oh or otherwise to manipulate the required majority
congress next turned its attention to the President y
e stands like stag at bay before the in(uriated fl
ounds OF Congress, pursued with all the fury of ven II
eance, to the very seat of impeachment The real II
Observation-Disclosures the charges and by whomsoever
onducted on the part of the House. are as representa-
YES of the Radical party; Stevens, acuated by the
emon OF his own venSefu heart; Stanton, infamed Il
18th ;eV9nge and cupdity, and Gen Grant awakened n
ON his besottcd stupor and his mysterious taciturn Al
y by the tattery of fools and the Instability of am
ton Tile real issue involved in this trial. and of II
e coming party contest is whether reconstruction as c,
signed by the Radical party, shall be success or o.
lure If success, it will destroy the Constitution, e,
the destruction of its balances, in curtaling the IL
wers OF the Executive and Judiciary departments "
reserved rights of the people and the States-for III
G sole and ultimate purpose of maintaining Radical
premacy in the North and negro supremacy in the
nth. If failure, the States of the South like the Ill
ltcs of the North will stand side by side and shoulder
shoulder, under the agis of the Constitution-the ~
lars of more perfect Union, whose future great ~
IS and glory will bury all past collisions rival all ~
st grandeur, md so down to all time, as the model Oh
all Governments But it must continue as it began, VI
'hltc mans Government In view of this moment ~
ISSUE Democrats q Louisiana, let Us prepare for
duties, and first in the order Of tine is the defeat
the State Reconstruction Constitution OR friends ui
re come; we are no longer powcress It'd
The RAM1E.-We are indebted to A. B. Bacon, of ovt
New Orleans Eicayune for treatise on this new tie
tile for southern cultivation. 1t is pamphlet of Of
hit pages giving description of its s'origiD, uses to
de OF propagation, cultivation, preparing for mar ,
value, soil and climate in which it most flour IT.
IS" with full account of the Rozel machine for
ming it, This plant is said to produce three or four
% year and is far superior the sea island cotton
twice as strong linen. It comes fom the stalk -,
never needs planting but once. Mr. Bacon is
ut Tor the sale of plants, at the following prices
or Il 100 for ST. 1000 for $50. q 00O for wa