Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-11
BAD BLOODAND BAD POLICY

BAD BLOODAND BAD POLICY.
sNow AND THEN" is the heading Of
an article in Friday mornings New
Orleans Tines. Among other things
it says:
Eighty or nintey years ago the
Legislature of Georgia, who? had
been seduced from duty and homes
ty to vote for great land job by
brides, when detected, were hunted
with hounds, and driven from the
State. The indignant people did
net even spare their lives. The
leaders of some of them were found
suspended from trees with a labelon
their breasts ''This man sold his
vote for the Yazoo fraud" Then it
was one Of the most Infamous of
crimes" thus to betrsy the people
and sell official votes and favor.
No penal laws were needed to ar
rest and punish these crimes. The
people dispensed with all tribunals
to administer the justice and pun
ishment due to political traitors and
malfeasants. They wreaked upon
their betrayers the vengeance which
was theirs"
That was the civilization which
is now regarded as barbarian and
retrogressive. It is now classed as
one Of the concomitants and char
acteristics of dislsyalty and disu-
nionism. To submit to any kind of
official corruption, extortion and
plumber, is a duty of good citizen
ship, q test of loyalty and devotion
to the Union. Public plunderers
are smart and good fellows to be
honored, promoted and trusted.
These are the rich fruits of the
great triumph of the new civiliza-
ton, of the purer morality and phi
lanthrophy, for which we are indebt
ed to our beloved ana benign breth-
rem Of the North"
The Times exhibits it's usual loose
ness of reasoning, when it admits
that eighty years ago part OF the
Southern chivalry were such thieves
as to provoke an other part of them
to become rhurderers, while in the
same paragraph it tries to be ironic
n against Northern morality" and
.''philanthrophy" which in thirteer
States of the Union have broken NJ
an organized system Of baby-steal
ing, wife-whipping theft.
Did the suspicion cross our mint
that the Times people kept up an.
acquaintance with the divine will
we would ask them if the bible ha
not made man-stealing one OF tn
greatest of crimes? But-a negro i
not man under the theology of tn
Times. Very well, then he can no
be thief in any moral acceptatiol
ofthe term. If we are not men, b
the moral estimate put upon tn
yankee, by the Times and its class
he is not q man either. Only tn
native white people of the State ar
men. And yet, though native white
outnumber the carpet-baggers thre
to one, the latter have come upo
the soil of the former, povert
stricken when they came. encoun
tering hostility at every step, hay
ing the elements of Southern sue
cess to study and master, and &c
cured the confidence OF th
largest number of voters, and bee
raised to the highest positions.
What is the matter with thee
highborn children of the immorts
gods that they can neither win th
love of the inferior negro, nor eqal
the success of the hateful yanke'
upon their own soil n the
own peculiar weapons? =.
If they want the negro's love thu
must see that the road of sbui
moves too much in q circle to feac
it that way, and il they don't want
they might at least let the neg'
alone. II they want yankee COO
Grafton they have, il they don't wal
it there are thirteen Southern Stat
into which the natives can find
readenceth that ought to be congenis
But these alternatives need not |
pressed, for they do not reach Il
seat of Southern dissatisfaction.
we were to state the case as we kpo
It. we might initiate the Times
using hard words instead of en-
ploying hard arguments Yet thel