The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-21
Can we COnciliate ?
[From the Lafourehe Times.

We do not belong to the party of ex
tremists, who assume the entire wis
dom of the nation, and profess to b
able to suggest measures which shall
act with the reputed efficacy of al
elixir healing in a moment discordi
and dissensions sOwn in the party by
disappointed ambition and green-eyeG
jealousy. But we propose rational
desire to be informed by those who
are wiser than ourselves, when we ask
III sincerity, can we conciliate Can
we conciliate the sleek and plausible
venomous hypocrites who infest the
Custom-house? And, secondly, can
we conciliate the party which has
ignorance and stupid prejudice Tor q
base, and is supported by bands Of as
sassins who are too eowardly to fight
openly but who disguise their fiendish
forms for the night and do their MUIR
derous work under the name of the
Ku-Klux.
To the first question we state oIr
opinion, that the only Cancellation 10
be affected is to show the most hon
est of them that they are simply work
ing under the leadership of the Demo-
cratic party, and that the object of
these Democratic leaders is plainly to
be seen where they have effected any
lodgment For wherever the Custom.
house has succeeded in making point,
that is the place where the most bitter
and uncompromising of the rebels
have their stronghold, and there, IN
der the shadow of the name of Gus
tom-house Republican," do these mur-
derOus traitors transact their schemes
and plot the overthrow of the national
Republican party. Already have the
best of them left The Custom-house
clique, and we have the most able of
them (the Donaldsonville Chief, and
the Feliciana Republican,, advocating
the views of the Republican party
against the Custom house scheme.
Nor is it possible, in our opinion, to
conciliate Walsh and his crowd, as
their masters are lying shady, while
the comparative small fry come to the
surface. Nothing can coneiliate an
rebel. He is yet for war,
and failing war, he is yet for assassin
atiOn and murder. And foiled in his
plans for stabbing his neighbors by
the hand of midnight assassin, he
publishes a newspaper and abuses
Governor Warmoth, and for this rea-
son and others we reiterate our Opin-
ion that the most efficacious of all con-
with the Custom house har-
pies is to expose their object and show
5he cloven foot beneath their spacious
:loak of assumed fealty TO President
D. s. Grant.
Although we have but partially re-
viewed the possibilities or benefits of
with the first class, yet it
nay not be improper for us to con-
'ider (as dependent on the subiect)
he next question, can we conciliate
he party who are the founders of the |
}ustom-house clique, or, in other
words, can we conciliate the vet un-
epentant and blatant rebels, who |
,oast of having been subdued but |
lever conquered?
Our Northern friends NAV consider
is harsh if we reply thai, in our opin-
on, We can not conciliate them but in
me way, and that way, we hasten to
did, is by the strong arm of the law.
Cancellation or moderation with |
hem signifies weakness and cowardice.
hey have no appreciation of gener-
sity or forbearance. To them hon
sty of purpose, purity of life, gentle
ess OF heart, is myth, never known
nd never sought for.
The ballot box is hated because
heir late slaves are their equals they
ate schools and teachers, especially
hose who profess to teach the chill !
rem whose cuticles have more or
arker pigment than their own.
Law is sstigmatized as TYRANNY"
nd the necessary taxes are termed
robberies.''
Can this class, who have been an
ntire lifetime learning and fostering
hatred against the North and North
rners, can they be conciliated
We hesitate to record the answer.
let the parishes whose victims stained
ne earth with their life's blood reply
, the question; let the inocent VIC
ms of the Ku-Klux answer. History
lIries us back to the times of Cal
oun, and we feel that the question is
national one, to be answered by
ational and State measures. We are
)ntent to trust the honored leader of
II party, Henry Clay Warmoth, to
1swer for Louisiana, and with him
the head of our ticket in 1872 we
I'LL answer the question at the ballot
ox, can we conciliate?
His MOther.in-Iaw.