The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-09-02
HOW RADICAL LEGISLATORS WERE
Collected" IN LOUISIANA.
an E.pas1s. without It's Parallel


The case Of Lowell, ex-Speaker
If the House Of Representatives.,
who, according to Gov. Warm6th,
came to Louisiana in rags and
was given a seat in the House,
''for PHYS sake"-there being no
pretense that he was ssduly elect
ed" rs the law and common right
require-was exposed by us, our
readers will remember, two weeks
ago. Repeated and positive
charges have been made that the
Radicals Of this State came into
power, and have retained power,
by the vilest frauds upon the bal
lot box and the fundamental
ideas of republican institutions,
ever dreamed of in this boosted
land of Liberty. But for want
of access to the records, and by
reason of the readiness of Radi-
cal witnesses to commit perjury
upon bare intimations it would
contribute TO the success of their
party, and by further reason of
the timidity Of opposition legis-
lators, who, seeing these frauds
were committed, have yet falter-
ed in the duty of unearthing
them, no amount of industry and
energy on the part of the people
has ever been successful in bring
ing these monstrous outrages pos
itively and palpably home to the
Radicals, in such a light as would
arouse the bitter hatred, indigna-
ton and opposition of the people
at large.
GOD be praised! the existing
split in the Radical party-the
discussions of our foes-has been
the means Of exposing the viii
lannon's acts of our oppressors,
and these corrupt partisans, rcck-
ing in political filth and double
dyed in base political debatlch-
cry, come forward, conscience
stricken and mutually enraged,
to confess to their masters, at
last, the infamous crimes of which
they have been guilty. Heaven
has directed neutrality-suspicious.
a helpless and undone people
against themselves, and, in their
own political baseness, has open
ed for the oppressed an avenue Of
escape.
We have lamcnted over and
again the apathy aud callousness
Of tie people to their political
interests. Their submission to
time-serv.rs and paid stipenda-
ries Of Radical profiigacy--their
blindness to Radical ontragcs,
perpetrated under the silent ac-
qniescence of many so-called
DemOcrats-their readiness, at
times, TO cOnciliate, forsOOth, a.
foe whose vitality was, and has
always been, the destruction Of
Southern hope and home interests
their readiness to hunt for
"available'' men, and condemn
men who had been true to them
in seventy and seven trials-all
these manifestations ON the part
of the victims of Radical hatred
and oppression, have been pain
full and discouraging symptoms
to us. But we have never doubt
ed that the time would come
when the evils of which we have,
apparently, complained with so
little cause and with so little eff
feet, would be mirrored to tho
people in a form so glaring that
even Il fool could see their cnOr-
nous deformity. Our time has
come. and we stand justified in
the bitterest opposition to the
Radical oppressors of our once
noble old Commonwealth. The
opportune split among the ambi-
tious and hungry leaders of the
opposition has resulted in a
wholesome, and, we trust, in an
awakening, exposure of the vile
means employed by our oppo-
nents to gain, and retain, possess