The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05
a VOICE FROM TaE SUGAR REGIONS
OF LOUISIANA.

Editor of the n o. Crescent
To me it appears that dangerous issue still
exists between the radicals and the Southern
people. The Democrats of the North alone can
prevent the ruin which threatens US.
For forty years the politicians and preachers
Of the North have been discussing the sins, real
or imaginary, of the Southern people.
America has resounded with their denuncia-
tions, snd the world has been flooded with their
books and writings the horrors of. slavery, and
the sins and iniquities of our people.
A whole generation has been raised under such
teachings, while few stood up at the North or in
Europe to defend the southern people against
those unceasng malignant attacks.
The most spiteful and malignant feelings were
thus eDgendered against the South, and though
mostly false and slanderous, those teachings have
become in a great measure the political creed OF
the mass of the Northern people and Europeans.
And the war exaspersted this feeling, until in
many instances it became perfectly hendish.
Fire, desolation ruin, poverty and despair were
considered the just doom of the Southern people
as most of the Northern pseachers and radical
politicians understood them.
The desire of multitudes of Northern people
was that we should be ground 10 pogder and
swept from the face of the earth.
They still had in their minds eye the Southern
people, as they had learned them through Uncle
Toms Cabin, Helper, and thousands OF other
books, papers and sermons of the same charae-
ter.
People cannot unlesrn at once the erroneous
teachings OF lifetime.
And we now suffer daily, not only from the ter
rible effects of those wholesale widespread Sian
deIs, but ayarice now makes war upon our State,
our pockets, and the little we have left IRON the
wrecks Of former years.
The terrible suffering of the Southern people
excites but little commiseration at the North.
The impositions practiced upon Us by the willing
and corrupt agents Of the Federal Congress, the
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care but little about these outrages, even when
they believe them to be true.
Honest appeals from the Southern people have
no means Of reaching the Northern ear and heart,
for both are Theoretically sealed against u.s.
The ISLANDERS sent North by our enemies and
| prosecutors, are snatched up as though they we're
| choice passages from Holy Writ.
The preachers of the North continue to perse-
1 cute US from fsnaticism, and the politicians from
avafice and lust Of power.
| God will forgive the worst of real sinners, but
radical preachers and politicians never forgive
the imaginary Gins of those they persecuie and
\ rob.
Death and ceniscstion are their only satisfac.
! ton, when they can fasten the word "rebel /"
! upon their marked aud doomed victim.
And as instruments TO accomplish their internal
designs they will accept the services OF the Vilest
wretch on the face of the earth.
| To me II appears that the Southern people have
| only one path 70 escape from the political Vul'
! tures and anaeondas that now have their eyes
| fastened upon them, anu arc ptcpatfuk iVt tnVi
feast, and that lies across the Democratic plat
| form.
| The party spirit Of the Democrats, and the sab
stantial and give that party IN their efforts
10 rescue the government from tue JseoOins, may
save us, and save the government, and save the
| Northern people from being crushed under the
| weight Of an iron despOtism. -. ... -
We may appeal to the msgnanimity OF the
| North we may array unanswersble truths innu
| merable; we may expose the bsseness and cor
| ruption Of those who rule aud ruin Us; we may
| hold up wrecks Of fortunes, our su1erings, on
desire TO be at peace, and to be allowed to saw
our families from want or starvation; out all II
| ysin.
I There is more power in those who support sey
mour and Blair, and in the platform on which the.
stand, 10 rescue Us, than in anything else beside
| sdirect interference Of Divine Providence IN ou
behalf. sLSDGs'