The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-26
S. C.
wedne.day Morn,ln.,g.., june 2e. 1872.
AnaIrs an LouIsiann.

Affairs In LouIsianR.
Next to South Carolina, there is no
State of the South which has more tho.
roughly drunk to the bitter dregs the
CUP Of Radical reconstruction than Lou.
isiana. The same venality in the Iisgis.
lature-the same reckless expenditure of
money, the same fraudulent aud thieyish
increase of the public debt; the same
heavy taxation. and the same general
decentralization in every department OF
government there, through the
combined rule Of ignorance and vice, as
in onr own well nigh ruined State. The
evil effects, however, though the same
in nature and kind, are somewhat less
frightfulin degree. The proportionate
increase in the public debt, and in the
rate and amount OF taxation, is not 30
great 40 with Us, which is attributable
TO the fact that the Radical msjority
there .hss not been anything like so
heavy as with us, and the rascals, conse-
squently, did not feel 60 secure in their
schemes Of plunder. For the, same rea-
son, too. the redemption Of the State is
more hopeful than is that Of South Ca
rolina, There is but one obstacle In the
way OF the good people Of Louisiana re-
forming their State Government, and
that's q want OF unanimity,- manifested
mp TO this time, among thu different ele-
ments Of opposition to the eoorruptionists.
They have multiplicity of reform par
ties. each. of which seems doggedly de-
termined that the good work. shalt be
accomplished upon its special plan Of
procedure, or not at all. There are. fret,
the straight out. dyed in the-wool Demo.
crate, who, like the Bourbons, seem to
learn nothing and forget nothing. They
are good men aotuated by high and pa.
triotic motives; but they are impraotica-
bic. and aeem unable to adapt them.
selves to the changed condition OF
affairs. which the war and 4 the enfran-
ohisement OF the former slaves. has
brought about. To our opinion, these
are the biggest blookheads Of all. Next,
there is q party called the Reformers.
who propose TO ignore national poli,ios
entirely. and devote themselves solely to
the amelioration ps State affAirs. II
thsse man were disaRected Republicans,
and the white people we're educated up
To- the idea Of making the best Of bad
circumstances. like We Of South Caro-
lina, and would sustain the Republican
Reformers en- nsasss. there would be a
hope for them. But they are conserva-
tive white men, forsnerly Democrats or
Whigs, and have no Republican strength.
They are playing the same role which
we attempted in 1870. with the differ
ence that our white people were q unit.
while they can muster but q fraction of
that race in their ranks. There is no
hone for than: and !. .Acy Fs..s;;s.. IA
their present course. their defeat will be
even more conspicuous than was onrs.
Laetly. there 10 the Liberal Republican
or Greeley and Brown party. composed
OF both Democratic and Republicans.
These expect to combine national with
State issues. and make tho support of
Greeley and Brown conduce at the same
time to local reform. They seem to us
to occupy the strongest ground and to
offer the best prospects OF success. They
have strong Republican following,
among the most prominent and worthy
OF whom is General Longstreet. After
she Baltimore Convention shall have en-
dorsed Greeley and Brown, as it will
most certainly do, the. Democrats in
Louisiana will doubtless Join hands with
tho Liberal Republicans and the non.
partisan supporters OF Greeley and
Brown; and when they mite. the re-.
formers will fall into line, and. by their
joint endeayoiss rescue The State from
the carpet-bag pinndefsfs.
The Radicals, too. are bitterly divided; /;
and this, % come extent, renders less
hopeless the reprehensible wrapglinss
;nto which the Liberal Republicans, the