The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-18
How They Argne,

utilising all the resources of uncontrolled despot
ism to power for the day and to perpetuate it
forever, the Radicals resort with one class tc coer-
cion, with another, to intimidation. If with stiff neck
and unused to the yoke, you object to passing sub
5otgum, the threat is your neck shall be broken and
made to fit the altered condition of affairs. To this
class is applied the novel doctrine that the conquest
of the South subjected to the will of the conqueror
and that the conguering North has the right to i'm
pose any conditions whatever upon the subjugated
States This is the aygatmentaDs ddhominen addressed
the class which fought for the cause during the ex
isence of hostilties and which is presumed to have
submitted its decision to the sword
and conscience. The other horn of the diem
ma, flor while they say and must and shall be
done, without saying by your leave" to any onel
they, in the interest of more generous appearance,
propose to another class, the alternative of a free
choice To this class they say if you do not enter the
Union upon the conditions we offer, we will make
your situation more burthensome; we will remove
capable judges Of your selection, and substitute
in their places creatures of our own, who will soon
hbit such incapacty that public sentiment North
and that is omnipotent now, will demand military
commissions, in the interests of law and order"
Prudent men, old men, tmid men and the whole class
of conservatives, to protect friends and sons, sup
posed willing to take reconstruction rather than mill
tary misrule and the anarchy dependent upon, and
sure to follow, the submission of tame cowardy and
ignorant judges to the authority of these acts, passed
pyofessedy ''outside of the Constitution" With the
most limited experience of these ad inte,yegne7n
neither by election approval of the
fha nF
ence will take the conservative view of the stuatou
will say better accept it and all its consequences than
to prolong the existing state of things And so the
intelligent and prudent of this class pass sab
jaguan under the yoke" because they THE dc
ecable ceremony provided by State necessity is in
avitable, and the sooner it is done the better.
Added to these appeals, and kept Haunting before
he eyes Of the Southern people, the matadore
iaunts the red flag before the enraged bull, is the
threat and occasional exercise of the right of nsumec
ion, or, in other words emancipated freedoms divine
mob law
The Radical party utitises all means to secure vic
ory and power. Their trumphs through the de-
norasation Of the people whom, according to one
heory they have conquered, and who forget 1.-The for
resses of defence they may erect in the cadels of
heir State Legislatures, and who through their
nexcusable neglect allow them to be occupied by the
,onquerors aforesad-the conquerors represented by
,arpctbaggers and their allies the hotel and restau
ant walters among the negro population, its repre-
entatves, Safely seated in power, good people of
Texas these Radicals are more dexterous as thieves,
tell you from our knowledge of them), in their
assaults upon the treasury and the pockets of their
ompaisant constituents, than they fearful in
var or influential in their threats or appeals to your
ears your gullibilty If you listen to these syrens
If political prostitution, for one moment, yon are in
LANCER of being lost forever