The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-09-16
"Let Us Have Peace"
from the New York Express.1

from the New DIRK EXpreSs.
These are noble words. but in whose in
terest are they uttered By an interest
which endorsed John Browns raid into the
State of Virginia, and canonized him ir
song and story after destroying the lives
and property of those who had never done
him or his any injury. BY party which
has taken the Ballot from quarter of O
million of white men and given it to three
quarters of a million of negroes. BY q
party which TO day is asking that Congress
be reconvened in order to put arms into
the hands of the negroes of the South. By
n party which certainly eight out of every
ten Southern white men despises-inclu
ding the great majority of these who were
Union men when the war broke out. BY
party which, forgetting the admonition Of
Mr.. Lincoln, is for deeping up malace
hatred, and all unchartablenes three years
and third after the war has closed. By
a party which declared, when the war com
menced, and all through the war, that ii
was not to be prosecuted for conquest, but
which has made it q war of conquest since
the war closed. BY party which has
sought to coerce the equality of the races
and which has approved Of the State Con.
stitutions- which deprived citizens of the
ballot just as long as they would not swear
allegiance to this equality. By o party
which proposes to fine Virginians, Texans
and Mississippians $1,000 and imprison-
ment if they attemp to exercise their
constitutional rights of voting for Presi-
dent and Vice-President. BY party
which sanctions military arrests in time OF
peace, which increased the Judges of the
Supreme Court when Lincoln was Ptesi-
dent and decreased them when johnson
was President, in order that vacancies upon
the Bench might not be filled. BY par
ty which threatened to abolish the Supreme
Court if the Judges gave a decision in
the McCardle case, BY party which
abolished the time honored Courts of the
District of Columbia in order to get rid of
Constitutional Judges, and which, by act
of Congress put partizan Judges in their
places. BY party which in its platform
commands negro suffrage in ten States, and
leave twenty-seven States to have negro
suffrage or not as they please. BY party
which pays pensioners and soldiers, labor
ers and mechanics in one kind Of currency
and which pays the Bondholders in Gold
at the same time-exempting nearly two
billions of money and property, owned
mainly by the rich, from the payment of
taxes. 5y party which has expended
fifteen millions year upon the Freedmen's
Bureau and which keeps up standing
army of nearly 10000 in time of peace
BY party which expends more than the
Government receives, and TO an extent
which increased the public debt over sixty
four millions. June and July, after pre-
yiously relieving by act of Congress the
favored manufacturers to an amount equal
to sixty millions of dollars. By a party
which has increased the duties on foreign
imports consumed by the People from an
average of about fifteen per cent, in 1860,
to quite fifty per cent, in 1s67-8: BY
party which has seen our American Ship
ping reduced nearly one-third in seven
or eight years, and which, through its
mistaken policy, has driven every Amer-
can built steamship from the waters of the
Atlantic between the United States and
Europe. BY party which, with supreme
power in the Senate and House of Repre-
sentative. has failed to make peace-failed
to awaken hopes of peace and prosperity;
which has destroyed the very lie of Repnb-
lican Government, and which thoughtful
IHeu ue,esI Ior lls tefrlDe uespOtlsm over
States and citizens. This is our rejoindor
to the U. S. Gazette, when it asks us to
hope for revived trade and brotherly love
under Radical rule. AS we'll try to grow
figs from thofns, or grapes from thistlies, as
to expect prosperity and peace from such
party. 1t has been trusted and tried, and
only wicked or bigoted men will give such
party future countenance-