The New York herald., 1868-07-12
A RECONSTRUCTED STATE.

Tycoon Wnrmoth and the Empire of Louisi-
nna-PcrsonEei of the LegisIature-The
Legislature Initiating Congressional Dan.
gers Ahend-Ther Cause and Possible Con-
sequences.
NEW ORLEANS July g. 1865.
one weeks session Of the Legislature OF Louisiana
has upset every hope OF speedily restored harmony
and prosperity, has checked revivng business and
neutraized all the good effects that were beginning
TO result from an exceptionally healthy summer
season. It Is impossible to exaggerate the effect
which the highhanded conduct OF the Legislature
has produced impossible to speak too seriously OF
the dangers that threaten the peace OF the commu-
nifty. The air is loaded down with electricity. With
q Baird instead o. Buchanan in command the
streets OF New Orleans would have run with
blood days before this. 1t Is not the white
element-those upsart rebels and outlaws,
as legislator terms them-that are now taking the
aggressive, however II may have been In July 1866.
The provocation all comes the other way cor
respondent who writes telegraphs TO radical EN-
poyers North that the whole people OF Louisiana are
unregenerate, unreconstructed rebels, thieves and
murderers could walk the streets to-day with far
less danger personal insult assault than who
should state what is actually the fact-that one.half
the oppression which the people OF Louisiana have
endured for the past year would drive Massachusetts
tains OF New Hampshire.
An INCIDENT POINT.
At the close OF the first days session OF the Legs-
aturc member was leaning over the clerks desk
In conversation when an outsider walked up and
remarked, Do YOU know I was very near gon'
to Kill youS- ''why sogr "All long OF dat hat;
you look Just like dat traitor sniff In dat
hat and war goin' for you when you turned
round" The speakers were both full negroes and
both were apparently armed. They spoke in a tone
OF mingled ocularity aud earnestness and no one OF
the half dozen bystanders cared to inquire why 1t
should be necessary TO 'go ior' the traitor smith.
who is white man, suspected having deserted the
negro standard. Threats from negroes against the
white population frequent to excite no spe
cial remark; actual deeds of violence towards white
men who have been prominent IN opposing the car
pet-baggers are not unknown.
friend who is erecting extensive works across
the river receives daily applications for employment
AT any wages from skilled negro mechanics. "We
are afrad.m they say. "thercs going TO be trouble
between the whites and colored people In the city,
and we want to get out Of the way III there ever
should be trouble" said an intelligent. educated oc-
toroon, ''the French creOles OF New orleans Will De
called upon for q terrible reckoning" OF all the
white population the French creoles seem % 70 se re-
blterest foes
INQUIRY INTO CAUSES.
and bad feeling is attributable TO the wrong policy
which both sides have adopted In dealing Win the
problem OF colored citizenship. There has been no
medium between that d-d ngger OF the democrats
and "our truly loyal long suffering and deserving
colored fellow citizens OF the radical carpetoae ad
venturer. The colored race OF Louisiana are, as
class good deal more than id niggers; ana also
class, have not all been truly loyal long su9r
| ing anu deserving There are half dozen cooed
men In the Legislature, from the Serk downwards,
| who served faithfully, credtabp and oravey WIN
| the Confederate armies. They were loya-put loyal
to their masters and their hones-not truly l0l,"
I'm the carpetbag sense, by very long way Between
| the two political parties the colored men have
| been pushed out OF their proper place. The
! democrats have sought to deprive them OF the
| rights which the revolution conferred upon
| them the radicals, for their own selfish ends,
| have elevated the freed slave into pseudo
demi-god and taught him that all power and al pro-
perty In his native Stafe except such ntte pckmgs
as they hts dIsinterested white friends might choose
| to take for themselves, belonged Of right to him;
Tossed ike shuttecock between these two political
bsttedoors pulled nrst one way and then the other
is n TO be wondered ct that the negroes Ike III
broken steeds have taken the BIT In their mouths
and bolted defyng alike the authority Of Grant, the
district com uanders and their local backerei Fur.
ther Ia Ii after Of surprise that ne worst elemenB
OF the coored population have come TO the surfacef
such men az Marie, Clay, Dumae, Bonsopuem, cot
ored men Of the highest cuFture, inteuigence and
| standing and animated BY the wnrmest aspEailons
for the elevation OF their race, are LETT out IN the cold
| md colnpal atively uneducated and unculti'ated
| temaa oQues forced TO the front.
l BOTTOM RAII, ON TOP.
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