Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-08

Drlty.
LET US HAVE PEACE.
What is the matter with the
race? Two sections of it
and South have exhausted
all the resources of the politician in
that ancient field of contest where
giants fresh with colonial vigor con-
tended; then in a more recent field
the powers of first class Statesmen
like CLAY, CALHOUN and WEBSTER
were invoked to settle controversies
pregnant with dangers to the Union;
and afterwards the myriad hosts Of
opposite institutions met ON the field
of battle in the respective interests
of freedom and slavery; and then
last of all comes the contest of re-
construction. Our pro-slavery friends
have been beaten in one after an
other of all these contests. Slavery
began with asking no more than a
short liberation, it ended by claim
ing divine sanctions for its
existence, and in the dying throes Of
maniacy, it dared its opponent to
the arbiterment of the sword. 1t
was beaten, but its deciples have
learned nothing from defeat. The
South will not understand, it is
certainly not ready TO yieid TO that
love of principle which built the
ship and set the compass, and
guided the helm which sent the
Mayfower hither through dangerous
seas, to an inclement atmosphere, to
meet with savage enemies. The
South has never appreciated the in
MIGRATING nature OF the Northern
climate, nor the moral strength of
New England ideas.
Still less does it seem disposed to
analyze those elements in the
Unionists, both North and South,
which combine at once to win a
battle, to use victory and to heal
the wounds of war. The South
fights to-day with hate, prescription,
and revenge. But these are not
well-tempered weapons, and those
who choose them are apt to fight at
random.
This is really the fact now. The
iery-tempered Southerner tries to
meet and turn back the army Of
patient Northerners who come into
the South as well prepared to dc
battle with the Ku-klux as he
formerly was to contend with the
secessionists. In the time of the
war Yankee soldier brought along
with his disposition to submit t.
discipline, and his determination tt
save his country, skill in mechan
les and o sense of the dignity o
labor, that found him prepared tt
mend q watch or an engine. HI
brought a social nature and a lite
rary training, equal to writing
letter to move the Northern heart
or of inditing a dispatch, when hi
next in command had fallen il
battle, accompanied by vigilance
calculated to reveal the dangers o
the situation and to secure aid in al
unequal cOnLeSt. .ria
Now, many of this class still re
main in the South. They hav'
dropped all animosities, not simpl,
because they were victors, but be
cause, like honest men. they ar
satisfied with victory, - noble me,
should be with defeat. ,llsvsr =
| Why viii not our Southern friend
accept the atuation3 Proscnptio
is poor business; revenge does no
pay; the disturbances growing on
of lawlessness can do harm only +
the South; and. above all. victor.
over this ylawlessness is inevitable
If the South would honestly iol
with the North twenty years woul
bring about the rehabilitation 9
the South with . completeness an
luxuriance undreamed OF BY To
most enthusiastic and patriotic {
! Sonfhorrerc