Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1869-06-10

LII al uAb4CAC uuSAoI Ulll6 uchu,
the Caddo Gazette, after poking
considerable fun at the arch enemy
Of the South, says, as an individual
he is unworthy Of mention, but as
an influential member of Congress,
and the aspirant to the leadership
Of the Radical hosts, he is SO prom
inently placed before the nation as
to render him an object Of no little
fear to the South.
We cannot ignore the influence
which, with shame we must &C
know1edge) he exercises with an
eye single and an eye evil to the
oppression and degradation Of
Southern 'rebels." We may thank
bis ;.repressible rancour, for oil
the ,ndictive legislation he jnau-
gprates. He knows that he is de-
spised; and he knows that his ca
reer Of rapine and tyranny in New
Orleans has thrown him without
the pale Of reconciliation and COM
promise. He knows that he can
look for no quarter from a people
whom he ground to the dust "a
der the specious pretence Of ptf :
ish;ng rebellion; whose affairs he
polluted; whose women he insr led
and by whose fresides he left
smouldeling the ashes of their
hopes. He knows that he can
manufacture no political capital in
region so religiously hostile to
his name and character, and as q
meet solace to his soul he is working
out his revenge in petty scheme
for the perpetual disfranchisment
Of "rebels."
Such men as Butler and Stevens
have placed all the obstacles in the
path of restoration of the South
ern people to the old love of coun-
try and fealty to government. By
incessant irritation they have kept
open the wound that sound policy
as well as magnanimous behavior
to a fallen foe might, and would,
have soothed and cicatrized.-
They find fendish delight in our
srffe, ngs, and would not, COR
worlds, accept our professions of
allegiance to benign and liberal
government, nor hear of our mate
rial prosperity.
When Cutler took his stand in
nd cation OF. the innocence of
Strait, thei country was almost
betrayed into the conviction that a
new era Of peace on ca, th and
good VIII to men was about to
daWl upon it. With our eyes
dimmed by the tears Of sy npathy
we could not first discern that
Hecuba was nothing to him, nor
he to Hecuba. We did not at the
moment comprehend that Eing-
ham was the game he was rr1ning
down, and that the mea3r @ of his
hiss would have been filed by
fastening upon bin participation
in the Cruciiyion. The tw '''ght
OF doubt has been dispel'ed by the
sun of truth aud the character of
the man looms up in al it's bideous
deformity. We doubt i he was
ever surprised by O. charitable
emotion. We doubt if an impr'se,
not gwen by revenge or se]f-iu-
terest, ever disturbed the placid
malevolence of his nature. But
he will run his course. No i'm
pediment can Withstand his iron
W ~; and when the hour Of d;sso-
luton approaches he may, perhaps,
retrace, in imagination, his dark
career. He may, with his dying
eyes, behold the ghost of the mur-
dered Mumford. He may be
haunted by the apparitions of his
many victims Of oppression and
plumber; and when he goes down
to his grave, let the stone which
marks the spot, be inscribed with
the words:
"He was the Ishmael Of his day and time"
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