The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-30
From the Ouachita Telegraph

M From the Ouachita Telegraph
II has been the custom, and Is yet,
with Republican editors In this State,
whether with, or without brains, to
designate the Democrats who have per,
sistently opposed and denounced Radi-
cal corruption and misrule, as Bourbols,
Last pitchers, etc. What offense the
strictly to his principles and felt he
could not In honor yield his opinions
and rights to Radical keeping, we haye
never been able to ascertain with salts
factory certainty; but the fact that the
Radicals have hurled at such Democrats
the lneanest phrase In their vocabulary,
and stigmatized them as Last
Ditchers," ID proof conclusive that, in
the Radical mind at least, q persistent,
out-and-out Democrat Ia not only q sorry
politician, but Is unworthy Of public con
fidence. II L. perhaps, not intended nndsa 70 70
n great many Republicans do noctur-
naily, nor with bigamy, bribery, or
malfeasance, offenses pretty well
monopolized by others who are not
Democrats; but It Is intended to blast
such . Democeat'S political inAuente
and tOconsigp him to the worst OF al
deaths and tbs dlRqet Of all fates, name
~: % place him whore he cannot get an
olflco. A. yisittly this terrible Yen,
geanCe npQn the Demoerat. the Radical
perity has the consolation small,
Of cOurYe--of removing an obstacle In
the pathway OF his party and OF sober
ing down Democratic opposition to
something nearer an acquiesence In the
methods adopted by the Radicals to
govern State prosperously and wisely.
How many tall towers In Louisiana have
been undermined by simply planting
piece OF Radical bunting upon their sum-
mits, bearing the ominOus words, Last
Ditch!" It Is needless to enumeraed;
their wrecks do not exactly strew the
plains but more than one, ten, or fifty
with them. Men whose crime, II crime
1t be, has been too great zeal In oppos-
ing Radicalism In all It's corrupt ten
denotes ~ well as acts, men conspicuous
for talent and services, have lost their
footing in politics and lie silent and un-
observed In the Last Ditch"
And yet rejecting reader, has 1t not
occurred to you that that Last Ditch
Is not SO much the burial ground OF zeal
Gus defenders Of the State, as 1t is likely
to be very soon the strong castle OF our
like herd of buffaloes, to this veritable
by the remorseless exactions OF Radical
Office holders and by the yet greater i'm
polling forces Of bankruptcy, want and
desperation. The people Of Louisiana
have now no alternatives but submis-
sion and ruin on the one hand, or q
death struggle with corrupt and exact
ing tyrants, In November, on the other.
Here and there individuals can be found
whose interests run In the same channel
with the men who have ruled the State
to its ruin, and men are not wanting
whose timid natures shrink from a
struggle where blows must fall thick
and fast but, the great body Of Louisi-
q last-ditch struggle. They see the
decay going on around them; they feel
the heavy iron hand laid upon industry
and toll they are witnesses to the vault
ing ambition Of unfecling usurpers and
of the fast receding supremacy Of intel
lect over savage ignorance; they see
their State accursed, and its very bound
aries avoided by the honest immigrant,
and by the en-handed man OF money
in.the high places they find Ignorance
take brides, In the jury box men who
are the slaves Of superstition, lust and
passion, and have for their government
laws enacted in part by the vilest Of the
vile. Ii such q state OF public affairs
does not call for one last mighty effort,
superhuman II possible, there Is MOTH
ing Of sufficient magnitude to move this
people.
or bow before the encroaching strides
of Negro dominion. Can this be CON-
ing? queries some timid soul. Aye.
coming is it! The struggle has even
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Radicals, who, in the inner chambers Of
the Negro temple, have battled hand to
hand and foot to foot with the sooty
leaders OF their party for the supremacy,
but who arenow emerging with alright
ed visages from the secret contests, and
they will tell you that the African has
won the battle and proclaimed the indie
pendence Of preponderating numbers
the right and purpose OF his color to rule
We have never doubted but that this
would be- that the white man who joined
the Radicals to keep the colored man in
leading strings, would ct last find him
self in subsection, or be forced, for the
sake Of his property, If for no other
thus. We find that the Warmoths and |
Sheridans, who first withdrew, are re-
inforced by the Greenes, Blackburns,
Alexanders, and the Southern Repub- |
lican Club, all Of whom are disguised
with their experiments and say plainly
they are weary, weary OF their ebony
masters. TheH have seen the roaring
lions of South Africa and felt the strokes
OF their ponderous paws; and they have
longed, as Livingston no doubt did. for
the consoling influences of better assoc |.
Citations and better friends.
They can find these influences, and
find them where they were lost-among
the manacled people now in bondage.
but soon to be free. The Last DitchH
is filling up with stern patriots who are
for resistance to further out
sages upon their rights and their fire.
nses, and before November they will
ennl to the front and with solemn oaths