The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-01
THE LONDON STANDARD ON RAD1'
CALISM IN AMERICA.

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! in tho nolitieal success which the military
success secured, in the insured possession
and exercise Of supreme political power
through a serie, Of years, in the elevation to
citizenship and suffrage Of million and three
quarters OF negro voters, and in the full en-
| ioyment of this very large new element OF
party strength, the party ruling in America
since February, 1861. have quite forgotten
themselves and lost their reckoning. They
can't conceive of the odium which history and
| remorseless truth must attach to them and to
| their deeds. They do not know that the or
ganization to which they belong and which
is called the Republican party, must soon be-
come chronicle, record and memory, to
be succeeded by new parties, representing
new issues, and working under new names,
upon new platforms. They cannot under
stand that he who shall write
the history Of the past fifteen years
will neither aspire to the favors Of men now
in power, nor cater to the prejudices OF the
rabble by which they were elected, nor fsar
the vengeance of greater or lesser tyrants, nor
| schemers and theorists.
But if our Radical countrymen would read
what is honestly written by passionless men
in America, or if they would open their ears
to the comments which are passed upon them
| by the enlightened writer's and thinkers Of
Europe, they would stop to consider what
sort Of history they are making, and what
manner of records they are leaving to their
heirs and representatives.
We have before us late copy of the Lon
don Standard, for fifty years an influential
reflex of British opinion, in which writer,
whose evident care has been to make himself
very Familiarity acquainted with North Ameri-
can affairs, treats of the Radical government
| in the United States since the close of the
| war.
The entire article is too long for reproduc-
ton, but we will present q copious extract
from its concluding portion, which will answer
as mirror in which Grant and his politicians
may see themselves as they are seen through
the optics of the more intelligent Britons.
After dwelling at length upon the concluding
struggle in which the cause Of the South was
finally lost, the settlement proposed and ac-
copied, the perfdious violation Of pledged
honor and oaths, and the base yielding to the
suggestions of party ambition, the able and
eloquent writer depicts the resulting con-
dition Of the South as follows:
No one who remembers the facts can won
der at the result. The protracted imprson-
ment of President Davis, the wanton indig-
mites and cruelties inflicted on the chief of q
great people. could not but embitter and ex
asperate their feelings. The robbery of Gen.
Lees family (for robbery it is by Federal law
was piece Of mean and paltry spite, which
would do more harm than graver an d more
real wrongs But Of public wrongs, the worst
and gravest, there has been enough to mad
den any people once accustomed to liberty.
Not only has equality been given to the ne
gro, but his heel has been set on the neck of
the white man.
No justice has been obtainable against
negro criminals, while negroes, illNerate, ig-
norant, insolent. have been appointed to
magistrates once filled by the foremost gen.
tlemen of the South. Suffers, camp follow
ers, electioneers, all the tag-rag and bobtail
of tbs Radical party have been sent to gov
ern States in which not a hundred men who
can read and write are Radicals. They have
grown rich on the plumber of country
wasted by war and ruined by emancipation.
They have encouraged the negro to idle and
steal, 50 that lands cannot be cultivated; and
then have sold these lands to pay the enor-
nous taxes required by their financial extra
vagances
They have incurred gigantic debts, and
stolen the entire proceeds. And they are up
held in power, while doing these things. by
Federal bayonets-a fact which makes Gen
Grant and his supporters their accomplces
in the fullest sense of the word The South
has been first devastated by the war; then
robbed by uncompensated emancipation and
by the confscation Of the State debts; then
ruined by the idleness to which the negroes
were encouraged; and lastly crippled in all
her effo1ts to recover herself by fraudulent
administration, gigantic taxation, and sys-
tematic msgovernment.
She is almost as poor to-day as she YVES in
1865; whereas, if lef. to herself, she would
long ago have repaired the ravages OF war,
and recovered more than the wealth she pos
sessed in 1860. A more complete censure on
the government and legislation Of the last ten
years than her present condition affords, it is
impossible to imagine. Happily, It would seem
that the tide has turned. The Conservative
reaction is still in progress, and we may hope
next year for a House of Representatives
which will arrest Federal interier-
ence, and in two years more for
Senate and q President who will
do their best to repair the crimes and foliies
of the last ten years But We shall, none Of
us, live to see the traces Of those crimes and
follies wiped out. Five years Of peace and
self-g government might have etficed the traces
of Shermans savagery and Sheridan havoc:
fifty years will not undo the work CT the
carpet baggers" and adventures whom the
Radicals have set over the South, or remove
the feelings which their rule has engendered
in the heart Of proud q free, seltrespect-
ing people. who have Inherited English ideas
ard an English sp!lit with their English
blood.
The many warm friends Of Mr. j. NJ. Domir-
guez will be panied to hear Of the demise OF
that estimable gentleman. He died yesterday
morning Of typhoid fever after an illness of