The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-10
BLOODY AND WICKED STRATEGY.


throw, but the holders Of Radical power al
going to die hard. From the head of th
party to the lowest official the struggle fo
the retention of power promises to be one {
extreme pertinacity. The Radical politician
have already begun the operations Of cam
paign which will only terminate with tn
Inauguration of Grants successor. Thei
T plans are unfolding themselves from day t
day. Their purpose is to show to the peopl
that it is necessary that the supremac,
of the Republican party should b.
maintained; that the party which effected
the abolition If slavery must be continued il
order to secure lasting freedom to the ne
groes, that the party that defeated secession
must be kept in power in order to prevent
further attempts at disunion, tuat the party
which contracted the public debt must be
kept in place to secure its payment, and that
the party which resorted to an issue of paper
money must superintend the process of re-
turn to a metallic or convertible currency.
At one time superficial observers were of
opinion that the negro would not enter into
the coming campaign as considerable fea-
ture, and that the Radicals would rest content
with winning the votes of such South
ern STATES as may have a preponderance
of black voters. It now appears that the
negroes are to enter into the contest as con-
spicuously as ever, and that the heavens and
earth are to be moved to prevent the vote of
any Southern State from being given to the
Democratic candidates when Congress meets
next year. Hence it is that already the
Radical emissaries, or residents in the South
ern States, have begun actively to foment dis
turbance and to arouse the passions and ex-
cite the hatred of the negroes. Hence it is
that already, fourteen months before the
election, the black Union Leagues are re-
organized, drilled, armed, and put upon
war footing. .......
The members of the Leagues are sworn to
vote Tor regular party candidates, and this is
about the only oath for which they have any
regarl. But this is not sufficient for r sdical
purposes. They wish and intend to destroy the
which naturally subssts between
the blacks and native whites. They want the
destruction Of all pacific or confding spirit on
either side. They want conflicts, riots, hatred,
murders and general condition of bloody
Ferment. They want collisions between the |
races as often as they can be provoked
They hope to bring about such O state
IT hostility as to give color to their
Plea that no peaceful election was held or
hav haor bo11 in I'll hat
7otes may be thrown out. It is not political
contest, but rathera war 10 which the Radical
'arfy are the aggressors, the Southern whites
he victims and the negroes the mere instru-
nent' Systematic and industrious fomenta-
ion of hatreds and collisions is to be the
rider of the day from this time EDWARDS.
The Radical leaders are SO desperate that
hey would not pause in infaming war of
aces, even though they knew it would cost
wo hundred thousand lives.
1t is in the light of this policy that We con-
true the scenes OF bloodshed now witnessed
q Mississippi. If left to themselves it is
lot credible that such scenes could have
AIKEN place between the negroes and the
'hites. Had a native or old resident been
Governor instead of the intruder from New
ngland, any chance riot that might have
ccurred would have been suppressed in two
ours and the ringleaders lodged in jail The ,
gents OF the Radical party have armed the /,
egroes, aroused their more bestial passions, t
Id brought them into bloody collision l
18th the whites. The fall Of each victim
reads the destructive and murderous spirit Z
hlch, in little WHILE would expand over q
q entire State, increasing in virulence as it
rference, and the whole very plausible g
gument for Northern Radicals to urge o
ainst the Democratic party, which they love T.
stigmatizs as made up of haters of the +,
gro race. The Radical programme c.
Mississippi would have been COM N
etc if Ames had made the at u
npt to restore order by the agency to
his black militia From con- m
lerations of personal safety, and per to
ps from natural shrinking from slaughter "
SO large scale, he assumed valor's better Is
TT, discretion, and telegraphed to the Presi- al
ut for help Yet the game of the Radicals ie
not entirely spoiled by the timidty and ~
station of the pusillanimous and intrusive a
vernon. The call for Federal Intervention ca
i be represented at the Nor as necessity re
,duced by an uncomfortable hostility be- -
Zen the negroes and the whites, and it trs
be used to justify former similar tn
erventions, as we'll as to prove oil
t the Southern whites can not ~,
trusted in their dealings with the negroes, I
that the protective mission of the Repub- or
IN party is not ended. g't
We may calculate on similar demonstra- ";
IS of Radical management in all Southern
ties from this time forward If there are co,
sickening and dismal scenes of bloodshed th'
III sections before the campaign is ended, 70,
ill not be from want of Radical incite- aw
at. If our people are wise they will labor ha
'elessly to prevent the contamination Of sne
fan l,ch ~t.%t, -.