The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-18

Of the federal government, The three milhon aud
= bali negroes, having absolute control Of ten
and nearly sixty representatives in Congress. In
the upper House one negro voter in the South
will counteIbalance ten white citizens in New
York, and the three millions and Q half negroes
viii pOsssss ten tune: a. much poEs. a. the foar
York. They viii be able to negative in
the Senate the votes Of ten Of the largest
Northern States having axteen or eighteen
nilons Of inhsn y, a This Preponderanoe Of
responding influence on the legislation of the
country upon all questions of currency and taxa.
ton and Of law; upon all questions relating to
manufactures; they will assist to make laws for
the North as well as the South, in the federal
government: their influence win permeate the
framework Of the government and American
society; they are at once lifted above all other
Americana. and col stituted grand order, with
high exclusive political privileges to which no
white man In the South can aspire; they will
fsmiliarze the public mind with the instruments
OF oppression, and the agencies Of corruption and
standing army to repress disorders and preserve
peace, and large national debt to pay the ex.
penses will consume the hard earnings of the PEG.
pie. II Is not the immense cost, the heavy bur-
ders this system imposes upon the shoulders and
resources Of the people that constitute the main
corrupt the people, undermine their manhood.
responsibilities Of strenuous freedom.
Take the government of nv state-Louisiana-
as sample. One Of the senators, 1 am informed.
is from this State and the other from Iowa; beth
are utter strangers to the people of Louisiana;
their names escape my memory; If, indeed,
young man from Illinois, who bears most signf-
cant name-Warmoth. The lieutenant governor
Is negro, as black as night, whose mother and
father; am informed upon good authority, be-
20 Nj
t1cky-he presides over the Senate. The speaker
of the House and large majority of the govern
ment are negroes. When the Legislature was organ
lied the first thing they did was to turn out, by
vote, without investigation. all members whose
seats were contested BY negroes. They passed
printing bill in the interest Of the governor,
lieutenant governor, the speaker and the mover
for which bonus Of $4,000 10 gold was offered
by printer on the floor Of the House they crea-
ted swarms of Offices all over uhe State unknown
to our laws. with enormous salaries, to be
filled by their friends; they raised constabulary
forces IN each parish, and q State standing
army OF negroes TO overawe the people and to
protect them in their schemes Of plumber
they have created gigantic monopolies for
private greed and gain. in which the members Of
the Assembly and highest officers OF the govern
ment openly and unbushiDgly participate they
have passed force bills to compel parents on pain
OF fpe and Imprisonment, TO send their white chill.
dren to the same schools with negroes they have
disfranchsed the great body of the white people,
and have virtually abolished all elections by sp-
pointing Board of Registrars with full power to
reject all votes at their pleasure, and releasing
them from all penalties for misconduct in Office
they dsfranchise all foreigners they intend to
drive the white people from the State, and to
place Chinese wall around il to prevent others
from coming. To meet their extraordinary de-
msnds for money property is assessed for more
than its marked value. and tax Of Eve per cent,
If it were possible to collect it, would not raise as
much money as has already been appropriated by
the Legislature. And yet such robbery in called
legislation, and such tyranny loyal civil govern
tisans, they clamor for our property our blood,
they make war upon intelligence, upon virtue,
upon labor. upon property. upon white immigra
ton, upon enterprise. upon religion. They re-
main In perpetual session. they constitute legal
lied anarchy robbery, they are monsters of re-
veDge, cruel and remorseless in the guse Of loyal
civil government, against q people once the
proudest OF the race, once the wealthiest, amo e
the most cultivated, refined aid religious, now
reduced by the calamities OF war, by the over
flows Of the Mississippi river; but more than all,
by corrupt misrule and exorbitant taxation
worse than fire and the noods-to.be the poorest,
the most distressed In the world. Immediate,
direct, universal confscstion had been more mer.
ciful and less injurious than this system, for pro.
perry in that event had only changed hands but
industry. and business, and confidence had not
stantly convulsed, and trade commerce. and
had soon revived The people of Lou
siana are being driven TO desperation. to despair,
TO madness. The prediction Of Thomas Jefferson
Is realized for human nature shudders at the pros
pect held up by this attempt to subject the white
race TO the dominion of the negroes. II seems to
me the spectacle presented in Louisana-iu all
The Southern States today-would shock the
moral sense and outrage the public opinion of the
civilized world. This awful crime against civil.
zation, humanity and liberty cannot be concealed
rom observation, and will bring reproacn upon |
he name of the Radical party throughout en-
liehieIed EuIope. The l allan was subjected to
be Austrian and the Pole to the Russian bot the |
Austrians and Russians are civilized, are Euro |
peans. and infinitely above the negroes, who but |
were our slaves, and yet you put the |
negroes over rs. ard send your army and navy to |
enforce and perpetuste their sway. =
The legislation and policy of the Radical party |
IRE based upon the theory that the Northern peope
IAN govern the people the Southern States better
han they can govern themselves, that 1t would be |
inwise and unsafe TO permit them to control their
OWN affairs. although they did before they had |
my connection whatever with the Northern |
people, and during that whole colonial period |
hey constituted the most populous, prosperous.
md happy section; and although they continued |
u deprived Of all selfgovernmeut by the present
RADICAL Congress-. They dispute, they deny they /
pppress any facts that may conflict with this |
heory, and collect with infinite pains every occur
ence favorable to 1t here and there In the Soatb,
ind parade them, exaggerated by dramatic color. /
ng. before the Northern people until many are |
convinced who do not reflect upon the motive, or |
hat the South becomes disorderly and unsettled
n proportion as she il being reconstructed, or
whose vanity and pride and sel6shness are fat. I
cred by this assumption Of superiority. Did |
Tou ever reflect how easy II would be to con-
net this or any other community Of any
collecting all the facts that might
import, and throwing out all that might |
more especially II there were thou
snds OF active agents scattered throughout IL, TO
ct in the interest of the charge and to make their
eports Of progress! Take this great city for in
ance. ANNOUNCE the theory that II Is Inhabited
altogether by thieves and murderers and wicked
men and women and now collect all the instances
IT crime and all the names Of the criminas-the
morally depraved, aud shut out all the beneyo-
eDce, and intelligence, and goodness, and you
ave your theory established Many questions
hat would soon settle themselves tremendously
md satisfactorily to all parties, when interfered
With by parties at distance, not directly inter.
'sted, and who do not comprehend all the facts,
n tho get at q few facts only, or who see them
distorted by party coioring or when stirred up by
he bayonet-make great ado and trouble and be. /
'ome chronic disorders. The great American re-
nedy of self government Is better than the old Eu-
opesn one of bayonets, for American States. The