The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-06-17
THE HOPE OF TEE FUTURE,

atOr from Connecticut MARKS an era
in the political history of this coun-
try. All well wishers of the United
States will place there white stone.
The significance of that election does
not consist alone in the fact that the
Democratic Legislature of a North
ern State accomplished it, but that
the election of such man is received
and noticed by leading Republican
Journals in the temper wisely dis
played by the New York Times in
the article we copy in another
column.
Mr.. Eaton was before the war a
Democrat of the strictest sect, and he
had abundant company then, but his
conspicuous glory is that while such
traitors to their principles as Dix
and Dickinson and Andy Johnson
and such like bent before the storm
of popular fury in 1861 and fomented
and encouraged the war that then
commenced, the new Senator from
Connecticut stood undaunted and firm
as a pillar of adamant against the
waves of frantic rage that threatened
to overwhelm him. To the accusa-
lions, threats, examinations and abuse
of the abolitionists and republicans,
bounded on by recreant democrats of
the North, he had but one reply
You have no right nor cause to make
war on the Southern States. They
confederated. with you for certain
purposes and on certain conditions
Those purposes and conditions are
explicitly set forth in the paper ex-
planatory of your joint bargain. 1t
is commonly called the Constitution.
These States now say they will live
no longer under the arrangement
Unless the fundamental principle of
your Government is lie, they have
a right to say so, and I will not fight
them, nor encourage others to fight
them for doing what we praise and
adore our fathers of '76 for doing.
The special talent of our country
men for the invention of nicknames
was displayed in branding this phase
Of political sentiment as copperhead-
ism. Many and often were the de-
sertions from the Democracy of the
North under the terror inspired by
the violence of those days, and when
the war, protracted painfully by rebel
audacity and endurance, came to it's
close, the whole North had become
leavened with the new tangled repub-
licanism. And since then, even in
the Southern States, all men and all
parties have been afraid to adopt as
a candidate for any place a man who
first, always, and last has denounced
the war as a crime, and the action of
the U. S. Government in making it
as an organized villainy.
The reaction has set in. The ma
ton gangrened by negrophobia, mas
been passing through spasmodic fits
Of insanity, and is at length waking
up to the conviction that in it's ridic-
ulous crusade n behalf of negro
equality, it has nearly committed the
folly and the crime of establishing
negro supremacy. During it's deli
rum acts have been done which, like
the wounds inflicted upon himself by
maniac, survive the paroxysm and
permanently deface the body. Such
are those scars, falsely called amend
ments to the National Constitution
which were with like falsehood pro-
claimed to the State Department as
having been adopted since the war.
The method by which they have been
foisted on that instrument was a
cheat and fraud-ftting means by
which to legalize the lies they en-
body.
To erase these blots will be the
care and the duty of the coming
statesmen. The hope of the future
lis in a Convention of the States to
revise the Federal Constitution.
Some time will be required fol-
public attention to be directed that
way and for the nation to be tho,
roughly impregnated with disgust at
the insolence of negro demands, ne.
cessary to enable a Body such as
that Convention will be, to do its
work. But the adoption of New
Constitution, from which will be ex,
cluded all traces Of these silly efforts
to force negroes to an elevation their
present condition does not justify, is
a certainty of the future.
Many other features will no doubt
be altered. The electoral Colleges