The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-10-21
{ NUMBER II.
The Cost.
from the National Inselligehcer.l

lA'o" WIG >"'oh~i AhteiuSeuCctJ
We have no time to enter upon the
study Of the cost Of the people of this
country to maintain Radicalism. 1t would
be great error to suppose that Radicalism
lis of recent birth and growth. Like the
| |. Canada thistle, y Il is an old weed, which
nothing can eradicate but the most careful
husbandry. Wehave never been without
it for day in New England. II Iesisated
pretty nearly every Innocent amusement
into crime more than q hundred aud fifty
years ago. 1t. made witches, and then
hung them. 1t lpadel anti Masonry. 1t
made spirjtualism, that sort of thistle"
which disappears for long years, and come
up again as green, fresh, and exacting as
ever; the witch returns to US as spiritu-
alist. Whether spirituaiist, orPuritan. or
fanatic,it is all the same Unquestiona-
bly,, the latter form has proven to us tho
most expensive. We maintain that New
England fanaticismis properly clIaigeable
with the rebellion. = & u
1t now costs the people Of this country
to maintain the army and navy fully, dou-
bic what it ought, and would have cost
them to carry on the Government fifty
years ago, had they Fever been cursed with
the foul spirit Of Paritanism, or Radical
ism, or fanaticism. Fifty, years ago we
had a.nationaf DEBT Of a hundred millions
of dollars, more or less, which we talked
agoed deal about. Nowawe mise in. one
year four times the amount of the public
debt half a century ago. 1t costs US
more money to support the military estab.
lishnent in 1869 than would have paid
OFF the national debt in the year, 1920. All
this was put down against Puritanism, or
Radicalism: "a go
We have seen enough Of these" Cana
do thistles to know that where they aout-
ish there can be no other production. It
is perfectly safe, then, to say that we must
give up the rule Of Radicalism, Of give up
all idea of maintaining a free system Of
laws. This principle is well understood by
the best English thinkers. 1t, is admitted
in that country that the free polity Of Eng
land is upheld only by that solid Saxon
element which has ever constituted the
guiding power Of the British nation. Pu-
fitanism, in a party, is a. mers garment-a
sort of external form. of goodness, an adroit
use of the muscles OF the face to produce
sanctimonious expression. really. to conceal
Q willy or malevolens purpose. II is
costly gasb, indeed, which covers o bard
'taskraster upon the llbor of the county.
= Puritanism has undertaken the care, efe-
walton and cnfrahchisement Of the negroes
We put upon record our own prediction
ana we print it here for future references
chat the negro race has never before en-
countered 60 great misfortune. It may
well warn anu alarm them, that theft betie.
factors have no mercy for the white people
ofthe South, no more than for tile plain
white labor or the North. That is quite
enough to teach them that in seeking the
good Of the blacks, those nominal .euardi-
ans have Interior, se!fishl ends To accom.
plisly aitIg9isis 9fssi fsfaig) 's3FafiF,
= Fit shall cost the poor negroes anything
like What it has cost the 1aw-abiding and
jdstice.Ioving people ofthe North!to main-
tain Puritanism orr lsadlcalism, they will
have OCCASION enough to groah under tile
load they bear. Enm 7saai istli 9foi bGe