The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-27
DISINFECTANTS.

realize family, the fact that the Radical
party is not exactly as clean as 1t ought
to be, and purposes to disinfect It's
premises The task Is hopeless. The
Radical party Of Louisiana cannot be
clcansed. It is rottenness itself, and It's
stencil will offend the country until 1t is
buried out OF sight. For nearly eight
years it has had the government OF this
State in It's hands; nearly every official
in the State, from Governor down to
ward constable, has been u Radical elec-
ted by the Radical party. It has made
our laws, sold justice to the highest bid
der from our court rooms, and collected
and stolen our revenues, and among
all it's chiefs, Office holders and bench.
men, no man can point out one name
that commands the respect, or affec-
tions, or confidence OF the white people
Of Louisiana; nay, no man can point
out one whose name is not offensive to
the public. How is party with such o
record to be disinfected, or to be made
be trusted? Its life has been life Of
crime, oppression and shame. and those
whom It has outraged and plundered
will be content only with Its extermina-
ton.
As the Radical party grew In strength
1T grew in audacity and corruption. Tho
forbearance OF tho people OF Louisiana
only encouraged it and melted it to new
and more atrocious measures Of plum
der. Like u cowardly bully, whose
courage and cruelty rise as his help
less victim covers and crouches at his
feet, so, rs the whites of the State, over
awed by Federal bayonets, submitted to
the insolence Of the government Of car
pet-bag thieves set over them, and
begged for terms or made offers OF dom-
promises, the mean and cowardly
spirits OF the creatures who had come
UP out Of the cess-pools, and crawied
out OF the cutters Of Northern life
to rule over fallen Louisiana, and riot In
her wealth, rose in exultation to per-
petrate new outrages. During all the
years Of the unchecked power of Radi-
calism in Louisiana, it gave no sign Of
relenting; in oil those years, no voice
was lifted up In its dens to counsel
moderation in villainy, or q display of
decency in its methods of robbery. It's
career was career OF unbridled,
insolent, scandalous rioting on
the spoiIs of this State. Our peo-
pie overburthened with taxation,
the labor upon which they depended
disorganized aid demoralized by carpet
baggers, robbed and ruined by the gov
ernment which they only knew as an
instrument OF oppression and plumber,
went out from the homes of their ances-
tors suffering very nearly starvation
came to our women and children, emf
grafton turned from our borders, CAPT
tai was withdrawn to seek Investment
elsewhere. Louisiana was smitten to
death by a great political pestilence.
During all this we heard nothing of re-
form, nothing Of disinfecting, nothing
OF unloading, nothing Of putting honest
men to the front, from the Radical
party.
Now, however, the Radical leaders
are beginning to realize that the rule OF
plumber must cease; that the people
have borne as long as they propose to
bear with the scandalous condition OF
things which two Radical administra-
tions have brought about. They realize,
too, the fact that their party is in the
first stage Of disintegration; that it is
splitting up into factions, and
into white and black elements, while
the Democratic and Conservative masses
are gathering into a compact and reso-
lutte party to redeem the State. The
Radical leaders, we say, see these things,
and they are now beginning to talk of
reform, and Of putting good men to
the front. But they are too late.
The people of Louisiana cannot be
deceived by the moralizing OF
rogues. In eight years Of unbroken
power the Radicals have not done
a single act to win the confidence of
honest men. They have only robbed
and ruined the State, and their profess
sions Of good intentions come too late
The Radical party has finished its
infamous mission in Louisiana, and