The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-23
The Source Of ALI Cur Woes.
The Philadelphia Press says "tht

ly and often, and to submit without
a murmur to be ruled exclusively by
those wise, virtuous and self denying
patriots called carpet-baggers and
scallawags, the whole country, so far
as the Government is concerned, |
would be as calm and serene as the
most upright n d exemplary of
lambs,
And rot wave of trouble roll
Across its peaceful breast
But somehow or other the Southern
people, although living in an intel
lectual night of Zimmerman darkness
out of which less stupid and more
ambitious savages wouldbe glad to
be lifted, have never taken very kind
ly to the noble band of instructors
which Radicalism has sent down with
such unselfish philanthropy and dis
interested beneyolence to teach them
the lessons we have indicated above.
Those lessons have been UNDECIDED,
and in many instances the teachers
themselves have found it necessary
to elect themselves to Congress or to
smaller offices in order to keep from
being driven back to starve in the
cutters from which they set out upon
their mission of moral and intellectu-
al light to the benighted rebels. So
long as this state OF things exists-so
long as John Brown is rejected by
the people of the South as the chief
saint in the calendar, and Ulysses S.
Grant is unaccepted as the great liv-
ing head Of the only true political
church-why, there must necessarily
be trouble, and good deal of it..
The bayonet is the best educator of
a people who reject as hererodox the
teachings of the men and women
who have kindly swarmed and still
kindly swarm through the South for
the purpose of innocently picking up
unregarded trifes and of simbuing
the public mind with the wholesome
conviction that the royal road to all
that is worth having in this world lies
through the Radical party. The
Press, so widely distinguished for its
passionate devotion to the white peo-
pie of the South, says as much in the
closing paragraph from which we
have quoted:
/ If they would let slip their bigotry and
prejudice and undertake the restoration
of order in the outlawed sections in accor
dance with the principles that triumphed
in the war, have been incorporated into
the Constitution, and Endorsed by the
Democratic party, they might soon secure
such an influence oven voters, cOlOred vo
tiers especially, as to be able to maintain
strong eovernmtn s of law and order over
every Southern State without the necessi'
ty of interference on the part of the Geper
al Government. But if, on the other hand
they prefer TO nurse their ignorant malice
aud the Lost Cause" there seems to be
no alternative but military rule till Other
generations shall arise educated out of the
) prejudice and follies of the present and
prepared for self-government.
These views are Endorsed by the
great and good Grant, whose ser
aphic sentiment Of ''let us have
peace" has become brief yet bril-
liant series Of household words will
every well-paid appointee of tina
great and good man. We know tina
these views receive the hearty in
dorsement of that profound states
man and uncorruptible patriot, TO-
they are here the utterance of a mai
who holds the post of Collector o
the Port of Philadelphia through tn
kindness-a mistaken dne s
: though it may b e-of Presiden
Grant, and we know that he woult
: utter no sentiment that is not indors
ed by his Exceilency. The Southerl
: people, then, may rest assured tina
) until they have, by an upright wal
and godly conversation, dissipate'
from the pure, unspotted and com
= prehensive Presidential mind all sus
picion that they still nurse their ig
e norant malice and the lost cause
: they must submit to the rule OF tn
:, bayonet. They must know that pee
: pie who, in the slightest degree, 10
= themselves open to the suspicion tina
o they are surreptiously playing tn
j. wet-nurse to malice that is ignorar
and to causes that are lost, can neve
y have any rights or privileges whic
! the government is bound to respet
9 OF intends to respect. In wore
:. they must learn to unlearn what the
st political teachers tell them they hay
a learned amiss; they must educat
n their malice and forget that they eve
'e had a cause to lose; they must (
d baptised into the Radical church, an
g fight for the perpetual ascendency
1.-THE Radical party