Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-15
POLITICAL CLIPPINGS

Grant and Sherman have both ..;a
Blair was the ablest Of the volunteer o@
icers In the late war, and both astods
him, as a general, to command A co.o.
which, with the we'll known nrs;ud;pp'
Of these men against volunteers i ,Ss
highest testimony to bis merits AZ . c."
mander.
We Polked them once.
We pierced them we'll.
And then We Bucked them sore.
And with Frank Blair
Well make them stare.
That they may all Seymour.
A Washington dispatch of the LIST s.v.,
" Leading radicals are fearful thar y:
carpet-baggers won't stick. Several 20
this gentry, since their admission to Co..
gressj have expressed conservative view.
and are prepared to abandon their con.
federates whenever their political H.
tunes are on the wane. The resul. !,
Georgia is a bitter pill for the radicals r.
swallow. They would not permit HiII ~
enter the Senate, but a few weeks o;ncs
his political disabilities wete removed hs
Congress. There will be a contest o,c,
tue autDIo5IOU OF MlI1er."
A Washington special of the Sd sav.
"The radical programme for CARVING n:
South by means of the legislatures c6oos.
ing electors has been abandoned n.
leading carpet bagge's refusing to enter.
tain the proposition after being advised Of
the sentiment Of their States. The trutb
ls, a number of these net affected ultr.
views to obtain position, and arc Row
proposing to act with and for the vbite
population. Several senators of THU
class and a still greater number of con.
gressmen will be found acting with the
conservatives in the ext Congress"
The CASE syArrr.-Tbe Vow Yort
World photographs the attitude Of the
Radical party as follows:
A perty of reckless thieves and isw
breakers have forced their wav into .
house, gagged it's owner, ravisbed hi.
wife. and are gorging Themselves with
plumber. The neighbors appear with the
officers of the law. The thieves and lac
breakers stand at the windows and haf.
low I: Let Us have peace we are ;v
possession. Go awayl You are revolu,
tlonists /; you want to stir up civil war.
We own this house de faeto only a rebsl
would raise the question de jure. Let as
have peace p
Dana, late Stantou's assistant recretarv
of war, and editor Of the New York Sun.
says of the Democratic ticket
But even with a Democrat 80 prououu-
ced and conspicuous as Gov. Seymour.
and with the less judicious and attractive
name of Gen. Blair thereto'appended, and
even 90 the issue of overthrowipg the
reconstructed State governments, If the
Republicans imagine that their victory is
sure. they entirely mistake the temper Of
the times aud the proves Of their op-
pOnents.
A CONSERVATIVE REExFoRcExEsr.-
the new members sworn in yeste,-
day were Mr.. Tiff and Gen. p. N. B.
Of Georgia. These gentlemen
must be carefully Disseminated from the
Of rapacious carpet.bagge's who
foisted themselves surreptiioaslv
lsto public councils. They are native
and men Of character and in
Eelligence. Both are in full sympathy
the conservative party Of the coun-
Try. and will faithfully represent the true
interests of the people. The admission Of
ien. Young was favored by several Lead
Dg Radicals, to whom We are bound to
record credit for the candor which has
ed them, in this instance, to seperate
themselves from the more bigoted portion
4 that party. We congratulate Gen.
Young upon his success, notwithstanding
be ~Prejudices which resisted bis admls.
ion, and predict for him a useful career.
National MteUigencer.
The MEN WHO Supposr GaAxr.-Ne
Harrisburg, Pa, Patriot counts of aad
the men who support Grant,
follows:
q. 8. Grant is the man who, in cold
.lood, demanded of the War Department
hat no exchange of prisoners should b
nade, when thousands Of the bravest and
'est of our brothers and friends were
ufer!ng and dying in Southern prisons.
t is %eminently fit hat he should be SUI.
.orted BY Horace Greeley, the bail Of
efferson Davis /; by Joe Brown, of Geor-
ia, the founder of the Andersonyills
rison ; by Ben Butler, the man who -.
listed In preventing an exchange by