The Opelousas courier., 1868-06-27

had the power to re- enslave them-he
will withdraw from his present associa-
tions and will cultivate the friendship of
his former master. He does not vet see
the aim of his Radical friends; he does
not yet know that they will desire his
removal Or extinction the moment they
can dispense with the negro votes. They
have had some experience of the tender
mcrcies of the Radicals already and the
more they have to do with them, the less
they will like them.
We do not mean that the white people
OF the South should ever descend so low
as to court the negro vote. Universal
suffrage Is our adherence. But there is
a position, honorable in itself, which the
white man can under present circum-
stances consistently and usefully' take
towards the negro, and that is the posi-
tion OF a teacher and Instructor. His in
structions, it is true, may bear little fruit.
He may fail utterly but he will have
done his duty in the premises and may
well leave the result to Providence.
In this view of the case it is perhaps
just as we'll that the Southern States
should be admitted into the Union, with
out further delay, especially if this be the
last OF the oppressive measures of which
we have been made the objects. But we
cannot believe that the Radicals will
even now let go their grip of the South :;
their invention has been too fertile in
finding reasons for holding her in subjec-
ton. And they well know these negro
governments cannot stand by themselves.
The military will tileretore-at all events
for some tilne-continue to watch over
the Congressional bantlings. The conso
lation we have under all these imposl-
tions is that the heavier they are, the
greater and the more certain the down
fall Of those WHO have SO grossly abused
the power they have wielded. The dis
solution of the RedicaL party is as certain
as any future event.
It is perfectly clear now that every
thing for us will turn upon the result of
the Presidential election. If Grant shall
be elected We may reckon upon his doing
his utmost to maintain and perpetuate
the domination of the North. In that
event, our only hope is in withdrawing
the negroes from the influence Of our
| enemies.
| A sagaeious contemporary thus fore
| casts the probable future: 1-* Fl. t~+
Congress will doubtless go on with
| their measures of reconstruction, by ad-
mitting the negro Representatives with
the negro Constitutions, on the floors Of
| Congress; but to be of any avail to make
their policy successful or permanent, the
| Radical party must carry the next Presl-
dental election. This was the leading
purpose of their reconstruction, by the
aid of the Southern States. But here
they will fail. They already give up
Virginia as against them; and they will
most probably lose, although recons-
tructed, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and
Texas, which will be a majority OF the
| Southern States.
/ But snpposing they carry these States,
| and with them for the next Presidency,
/ their President will not come into power
until after the fourth of March next; and
before that time the Supreme Court OF
the United States may pronounce, by
the judgments they have already pre-
pared, all their Reconstruction acts IN
constitutional. Can the votes of the
Southern States given in the Presiden-
tial election be then counted on the
fourth of March
But independent of the South, the in
dications are clear that the North itseli
viii overthrow this policy, by carrying
! the next Presidential election against
/ them. The arbitrary measures it has
produced to uphold. it; the despotisin
over the South; the mongrelization Of
4 our population; the repudiation OF the
4 ascendency OF the white race; the fevo-
stationary movements against the judi
I ciary, the executive, and the whole Con
stitation, has awakened an alarm and
Indignation at the North which cal
4 hardly fail to overWhelm the Radica
I party.
i When such a State as Massachusetts
refuses to uphold their "Reconstruction'
: policy 4 when such State as Michigan
i by vote of forty thousand majority, de
clares that the aUhite race alone shall rule
in the United States when every stel
taken in the progress of their Recons
) truction, proves how fatal to all fre,
government In the South, .tand, by con
, sequence, in the North,) and how fata
: even to the poor negro himself, thi
wretched policy, born in perfdy AM
, baptised in perfdy must he, it is mos
:. reasonable to anticipate that it must fai
/ utterly. Daily, it appears to us, therevo
! lutionists are sinking deeper under. th
: condemnation of popular opinion, whic
: only awaits the opportunity the Presi
: Dental election viii afford to crush ther
] Ii ont forever. In the. meantime, we {
the South can afford to wait and eve
suffer If such shall be the final eonsum
nation.
Good huinor liz the dear blue sky Z
the soul, on which every star of taller
will shine more clearly, and the sun {
8 genius encounter no lvaporss in his pa!
' sage. IT'S. the most e1qniit beauty I
s a fine face; a redeeming grace of a homt
L " one. IL is like the green in a, lana
e scape, harmonizing with every colo
! mellowing the glories Of the bright. an
q softening the hues Of the dark or, lii
q a flute III fuH concert of instruments,
y sound, not at first discovered by the ca
but filing mp the breaks in the concoI
Q with its deep melody. ..s ..s.,g....I
! FLIRTATIoN.--Wheth seriously
! lightly considered, is. injurious TO ",
! man as web as 1inbeconing IN her.
] Ii a broad, nblushing confession, Whiit
. the individual makes to attract the b,
4 tice of men. No Girl ever made hal