The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-05-11
Southern Radlcalisml.

have scorned ailia ton with party which under the
highsounding phrases of progress" an enlightened
public spirit and so on which deceive one, coaks
the burglars jimmy and the assassin's dagger-takes
umbrage that should have alluded to bis paper as
scalawag Sheet and depreeates persecution for opin
ions sake.
The very tone of his article shows clearly as the
MONDAY sun that his heart is not in the causethat
he feels himself in false position-thst be is con-
scous of the fact that in the very nature of things,
there can be identity of interest," community of
feeling between Southern born gentleman and party
whose every principle is fatal to the commercial pros
perty subyersive of the political integrity, and degrs-
ding to the manhood of his native land
We will not say that the following sentiment to
which he gives expression is the key to his conduct:
Men are governed 10 great measure by selfinteres
Though we are certain that it has had almost every
thing to do in leading Southern into the Radical
camp If it has exerted influence upon his course,
he certainly an honorable exception, which does not
affect the general rule and whatever may be said of
his head we would have right to question the integ-
rity of his heart But is there no for selfdecep
ton here!
After the war many men found themselves bankrupt
in purse, without trade profession Of the condi-
ton of such men, the writer hereof has keen appre-
ciaton and with their misfortunes kindred expert
ence prompts profound sympathy. Many, doubtless,
felt that they had lost all by combating for country
the citizens of which, after all over, had either no
inclination or capacity to lend them helping hand
Thus hopeless and desperate losing sight of the COM
ing time when such action would be flung in theirs or
their chdren's faces with scorn and contumey, they
prepared for the sake of apparent present good
to belle all their past and join har DIS with the base
who plunderng their relatives and friends
and reducing this fair land to condition than
Roman bondage.
In the very nature Of things this state of affairs
not last and infinitely better would it be for the young
men of the South to earn their daily bread by the
of the brow least while their country is pass
ing through this terrible rava-infnitely better both
as to the present and the future. Conscience cannot
be deadened but that regrets will rise in the heart
feeling of sefhumiliation bow down the free-born
head. And in the hereafter, when soil, climate and
native manhood shall have wrought out her salvation
and placed the South upon of prosperity, such
as many now dream not of, those who have forsaken
her in her humiliation, scofed at her in her woe, will
shrink abashed at their own namy, at best wonder
| at their own blindness
! We would say to young countryman that we are
not immaculate that should arragn the correctness
of his motives judge too harshy the promptngs of hi:
heart but more, far in sorrow than in anger We
would assume the privilege of age to warn him against
bis association and beg of him to come out from
party whose contact is moral death-whose embrace
is infamy.
IRELAND.-A contemporary says of this turbulent anc
unhappy country that eyery house has its skeleton
nearly every country its political ghost which will mo-
be laid" Austria has her Poland, Spain her Cuba
Brazil her Paraguay Louis Napoleon the whole French
people, and SO on. But England has, perhaps, the
most turbulent and unmanageabe ghost of all, fol
there has not been time for centuries that Ireland
has not staked through her history, clanking her
chains and forever terating her wrongs 1t will not
stay crushed, but rises with persistence and determ
nation that have long ago convinced the world that
England in attempting to hold the Green Isle and to
forcbly inject AngloSaxon blood into Celtic veins,
has undertaken impossible task. Irishmen make
good enough Americans because that assimilation is
voluntary but they do not make good Englishmen.
Often as they have been through the English mill
the result has been the same they go in lrshmen and
come out Irishmen Many mllers have tried their
hands at the work. and a vast amount of ingenously
contrived machinery has either been out or bro
ken to pieces in the longcontnued experiment, but
to no avail There is one mill to which, if theory
of the government of the world be correct their op
pressors will later have to pass through and
find to their sorrow, that though it grinds slowly,
it grinds exceeding small"
We lately saw paragraph from across the water
that many of the leading minds of England and Scot
land had become weared out with this ceaseess strife
which consumes so much of the time of Parliament,
interfering most seriously with the legislation of the
country and approaching the point of preferring
that the turbulent Isle should be cut off from the rest
of Great Britain and permitted to shift for herself.
And it would seem that this is the most sensible thing
that could be done, aside from all question of right
and justice, but cannot hope for its accomplish
ment. Meanwhile the old state of affairs exists The
habeas corpus is suspended, landlords shot down,
haystacks are burned Agrarian outbreaks increase,
and signs of seditious discomfort become more nu-
merous. In the debate on the Land Tenure Bill Mr..
Gladstone said in opposing certain amendment,
that its results to the Irish tenant would be loss of
livelihood the only alternative to which America
or the poor-house."
THE REPEATING CAUSE.-THE following is the con.
Guiding section of the act passed by the Legislature