The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-10
The Necessity Of a Change.


will not admit that there must be a
change in the government OF those
States which Reconstruction has COM
mitted to the care of Radical rulers,
such a one is beyond the reach of rea-
son. We have endeavored to portray
the present condition of things in Lou.
isiana, State once so prosperous I'M
der Democratic rule, now bankrupt,
with people loaded down with such
a taxation as was never before known,
all for the sake of filing the pockets OF
the vagabonds and adventures who
have gathered within her territory.
Her sister States of the South have all
been subjected to a like spetifs of rob-
berry. From Virginia to Texas we find
the same tyranny and oppression in
the early days of reconstruction in or
der to place the States under Radical
rule and afterwards the same whole
sale plumber and robbery by the same
class of men who were selected by the
Radical party to do its dirty work in
the South. Poverty, bankruptcy, dis
tress and ruin stare us in the face
wherever we look over the face OF
country which once furnished the
products which made the American
Republic great and respected among
the nations of the Earth. In Virginia
the acts of those who first got posses
sion ofthe Offices under the Radical re-
CINE, have so depleted the treasury
and impoverished the State, that the
recently inaugurated Conservative
government will have q Herculean
task to repair in many years the rava-
ges of few months of Radical rascali-
ty. In North Carolina, a brutal mill
tia, backed by the State and Federal
governments, is daily committing out
RACES on peaceable citizens such as
would disgrace set of savages, and,
that, too, for no other reason than to
perpetuate the present Radical regime
of robbery and corruption. In South
i Carolina, the State has been turned in
to perfect bedlam, and ruin runs riot
that the pockets of the carpet baggers
may be filled with the money wrench
ed from tax-ridden people.
In Georgia, the contentious ofgreedy
Radicals have kept the State from re-
presentation in Congress, and a DEM
ocratic. State.is kept out of the Union
!, simply because she will not vote the
Radical ticket. Alabama, Mississippi
Texas and Arkansas have Jared but
little if any, better.
Nor let any one imagine for mo-
ment that this condition of affairs il
necessarily incident to all the slave
holding States that went into the war
that they would be equally as poor ant
oppressed undera Democratic govern
, ment. The State of Kentucky wa
a large slave-holding State, and ye
E her treasury was never in q bette
, ond til on, her people never NOR
contented, and the State never NOR
: prosperous. 1t isevident that the onl,
: reason of this difference is that Ken
: lucky has always been Democratic
and has never been subjected to tn
Radical tyranny under which her siste
States have been depleted Of their sub
stance.
We say that there is an imperativ
necessity for q change. Not only d
Democrats and Conservatives assert il
J. but all the more sensible in the Repuh
t lican party, North and South, admit i
e Already are the two main element
: in the Radical party, the negroes an
q carpet-baggers, quarrelling anon
themselves as to which of them is res
ponsible fofthe present state of thing
d which they agree is .lamentable in I'll
IL extreme.
e This unanimity of opinion as to ii
r. necessity of change of government
,e only esualled, we are happy to say,
N the unanimity of the opinion that Il
,s only means by which change can
effected is the ascendency of the Der
IL ocratic party. 1t was the Democrat
party which spared Maryland, a slav
R holding State, the troubles which ha
n gathered around the other Southe
;. States. 1t was Democratic aseenden
in Kentucky which saved her peoI
Il from the humiliation of Radical rul
and even after the Acknowledgement
~ the colored people, in spite of an ;
1g tempt to form third party the peol
r. appealed to the Democratic party
~ the election last week and did not q
peal in vain. The people everywht
are beginning to open their eyes to t
at fact that there is salvation to the cot
ed try in no other organization, aud, as
m, necessary consequence, are rally
nv around the standard of the good
tn Democratic party of the past. I'll
II, point to its glorious reign ofsixty ye
~. in peace and prosperity, with the Ire
~. ~" ury overlooking, and the Ameri(