The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-22

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and foolish prejudices, which . will
nevef occur again for that pazty's
ascendancy and power.
A short time since the busy bust
ling North, fair index OF the temper
and characteristics Of a people
grown strong in a day, with the Vi
gor, strength, and indiscretion Of
youth, fell into a reaction in senti-
ment about the South consequent
to the reconstruction measures Of
the war and the outgrowth of
some of. the conditions here,
which promised the largest aid to
the political. organization known as
Southern Democrats. A sympathy
was begotten through the press,
through business associations, and
by the yet stronger influences OF see7
cial life, alwayyst46 Theoretically welded
by the South, that .occasioned the
largest hopes ofultimate success, ~
Negro governments, carpet bag
and scaltawag rolo" and like cries,
were announced from one end of
the country to the other by these
clever Southern Democratic leaders,
as provocative Of a feeling of dis.
gust at the North that they conf
IDENTIFY trusted would be Of efficient
service in the immediate thereafter.
But, "thc best laid plans of mice
and men gang aft aglee." AS i'll
the famous Greeley and conciliation'
campaign ii ~ the leaders counted
without their hosts. Assuming the
dissatisfaction of the North at the
condition OF affairs South to be other
than what it was, the Democratic
rank and file reviv1ng their old war
cry Of hatred to tho negro began
Operations on their own account.
The citizenship Of the black man
should be made a nullity. White
Leagues openly announcing their
desperate programme of violence
and intimidation must be formed
and DO made the nucleus about
which the remnants OF the old De-
mocracy should rally in a final and
decisive struggle for victory. The
moro prudent Democratic leaders
who counselled moderation and a
wiser policy for the present, were
set aside; and the organization fur
~ White mans government" came
INTO existence 'ike m iuiHS rr"1~
isy-urmed at ul' points, sad eager
for war to the knife aguinst ''the
negroes and their allies"
To Threaten and to act are syn
orymoua, where there is little II AMY
!; bindrance, to our Southern hn'
bloods. louisiana, with other South
cln Stntes, has experienced tho worl
Of this pernicious organization
Murder and rspine devastating
, some OF the tnirost parishes Of tb'
r State; destroying its labor and 1e
tarding our agricultural intcrss:
y have invited attention 10. the tru
J. condition OF affairs South which 81
F, North in its haste for increased bns
: eness al money getting to obliterat
and wipe out tho rough impression
of tho war, would have willlingl
4 passed by.
, But this very feeling has occa
e stoned our defense. Viewing W.T.
e horror and aversion !ne purpos
d and objects Of the White League
e and c~oncious. MS they have neve
. been before Of the malignancy an
- recklessness OF Southern Democrat
leaders who would tumble dow
). the fabric erected at so much COS
for purely Democratic, Ropub]ica
" government here, the nation ha
again become reused at tho por
d which now menaces its cherishe
n institutions. "Wounded in th
house of it's friends" the Whit
- League has given q blow to the D
mocracy, which its continued as
,; gressions now so wantonly pursue
will cause to result in absolute t.
1t tai discontinue, and death.
,r PUBLIC ORDER.