The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-15
HE STRIK E,

Oemocrat, writing from New York
recently, has long and interesting
letter about the recent riots North,
in which be dilates at large and gives
his opinion from reliable data of the
effects and causes of these terrible
troubles. Below we give the closing
portions Of his letter, to which we
invite the attention of our readers:
We have foretas.e of real civil war;
of that conflict of classes, which is the
most terrible of all species of war.
And. so far as force has been called in
requisition for purposes of "repres-
eion," it has aggravated the evil in
stead Of curing it.
Pittsburg would have been quiet had
not the Philadelphia militia fired the
first shot. And even alter all the tur-
bulence provoked by the rashness and
aggravated by the subsequent coward
ice of the Philadelphia Furiosos, it
was the mob itself that checked the
destruction; not the illegal anthori
ties" After that Pittshnrg fla r, the
venerable Governor of New York got
his back up and declared he would
suppress the strike 10 this State if it
took hundrad thousand men. He
called out his militia. He announced
his intention of beginning at Albany
and "opening the blockade in all dl-
rections." Had he adhered, to his san
culinary declarations New York city
would undoubtedly have been i'll
flames within twelve hours after the
firing of the first shot in the central
yards at West Albany. But we have
observed that the venerable Governor
of New York did not tnrn his blood
thirsty militia loose after all. Simply
because the railroad managers rushed
frantically to him-personally and by
notwithstanding, "Don't, for Gods
sake, don't! Do you want all our pro-
perty destroyed All We want you to
do is to make show of force while we
make a treaty with the insurgents
Bnt for Heavens sake don't spill any
blood ~
Thus the venerable and we'll mean
ing country politician who finds him
self to his great establishment in the
/ gubernatorial chair of New York was
prevented from being the innocent
cause of possibly the greatest calamity
that ever befrll any community. Fol-
| know indisputahly that the torch was
ready, and that the first shot fired by
the militia at the striking workingmen
was to have been the signal for its ap-
plication to we'll nigh everything COM
bnstlhle in New York. The shot was
not fred and will not be, you may de-
pend upon that. Moreover the bulk
of the militia has been ordered to dis
band. When yon know these thing
you can form an idea of the meaning
of q phrase hereinbefore employed,
that claw and order exist here by sut
ferance of he mob" When heard of
the exploits of tIartrauft's militia
III Pittsburg ! wondered if they were
part of that fif6y thousand whom the
langman of Mrs. Surratt WAS going to
send down to mash the White League
and restore the carpet bag dynasty
If This, | thought, is their behavior
when matched against u mob OF wO.
men and children armed with nothing
hut colble stones and coupling pins,
what would he their fate when con
frunted hy the veterans of Chanccllnrs-
vile and Chickamanga, armed with
Winchester rifles But this is not to
the point.
THpre is another phase Of the stua
tim here to which | must not fail to
call Your attention. The key note was
given ont last week by Henry Ward
Beecler and Bishop Simpson, and to
day in every Methodist and Congrega
tionHl Church in tho North the burden
of the sermon is to charge the rrspou
-ibility Of tho strikes upon the Catho-
tic Church! presume there are a
great many intelligent readers of the
Democrat who will doubt this state
ment, unwilling to believe that any
pulpit anywhere conld possibly be de-
fled with such idiotic sacrilege. But
it is u solemn fact that the North
Methodist and Congregational Church
es have seized upon even this agony t,
use tor ammunition in their crusade
against Catholicism.
And this in face of the fact thai
D Bishop Taigg did more with his single
, voice to check the devastation al
- Pitsburg than all the other influences
e that were at work there combined
Y Sometimes think that q people wh'
. tolerate such u religionism, and suffeI
themselves to be guided aud CONTROL
e ed by such idiotic knaves as the mel
who preach such doctrine, do not de
serve anything better taan the fury y
y tIs, mot or the torch of the incendiary
e Whatever may be the present financia
4 aid commercial effects of this move
=, nnnt upou the country at large, | cal
u ssy to my friends, the people of tn
# South, that the political results will b.
n beneficial to item, in that it will ten
to divert the attention OF the New Eng
d land demagogues TO something els
Il than their recent task of melting hat
r. and suspicion between the North an
: tie South. You will get long res
;, AID respite from political persecution
It while our sapient law makers devils
WAYS and means of protecting thei
y own homes from the t,r,h and thei
S own persons from the, stray bullet
IS and the cobble stones of striking mobs
But to return 10 our mutton. Tll
experience of the last two weeks la
,f set the men who own the country
e thinking rs they have never though
befure, or, at least, to talking as the
}" have never been heard to talk hereto
s. fore. The inadequacy of the presel
" governmental system to combat servl
instructions has been forced HON
upon the capitalist classes as a ta'
II that can no longer be evaded.
II ..The regular army must be lncrea