The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-05
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
IT'S USE A. "A FACTOR TO INFLUENCE
THE nOREmEgN wHNm.
TEse Radical leaders Making Capital out
~ nm Oaa Farty GEy--A Policy of RHas @
6tt1a Advocated with suceess-EHe Out
look for 1850.

WASHINGTON. y. O.. October a. 1873,
Ii anybody had told me % yenr ago that
would at this time be writing about
THE BLOODY SHIRT AS A PARTISAN GoNFALoN
In actual use. or In any way except. perhaps. rs
something dead and damned In politics and In
history. would have called him an Idiot.
did. Indeed, come nenr applying that uncom-
plimentary epithet to my friend Charles Foster,
OF Ohio one day last spring. just before Con
gress adjourned. when he tolh ms he feared
that, between the bot t-heads Of the South and the
stalwarts OF the North the bloody shirt would be
kept waving longer than most conservative
thinking men liked to admit. The SEQUEL has
shown that without any assistance from the
"hot-heads OF the South" Mr.. Fosters
stalwars of the North are abundant
" able TO wave the old reg. In de-
nanes. and oven to the disgust of their more
liberal minded brethren, Of whom Mr. Foster Is
q fair specimen. When the symptoms of d re-
vival of the bloody shirt in politics first mani
tested themselves Immediately after the October
elections, | was inclined to meet them with
rdicule aud view them with con-
tempt. / thought that. ut the worst the dis
ease would be sporadic attacking only the old
sos aud confirmed debauchees Of Hadicallsm
as non epidemic fever attacks msu Of loose
habits and bad sanitary condition: but never
dreamed that it would develop into the cpl
lemic that has been raging all over the North
for the last two weeks.
We have. however, seen what we have seen
Within tho space Of IL month the Radical party
from It's accredited managers In Washington
down to The mongrel cross. roals slnng- whauger
in tho sloughs Of Illinois aud the msanest vii
lage tavern ranter in Massachusetts,. has con-
| cent rntsd oil its tremendous faculties Of lying
| to invent md all Its enormous lung power to
| howl forth
STORIES or SOUTHERN OUTRAGE.
"persecution Of Southern Hepubiesns"
| Strengthening Of niggets'-in fine. the VIII 10 Of
the ancient catalogue from A to fzzard-wotae
| il quality and more astounding In quantity
| thau in tue pHlrniest DAYS Of 1879.
| These Developments nlled mo FIRST with dis.
| gust, ben with indig patton, aud ut last. | con
| + ss, with something like alarm. Il will not do
to speak Of the Radical party hs entirely power
| less because It Is deea'ed everywhere or ertre-
| " hrrmless be"Huse it is FILLING eyer where
into the mln2y u may n9t tndesd eyer
country, to obtain control Of any branch Of the
| government or even to WI ield the local destinies
| Of any considerable number Of Hratss. But 1t
still embraces great many voters; pnrtisaus,
whose blind bitterness and whose deaf veuornOs-
lily ehn be- compared to nothing but the moe
casin snake o the lower bayous, and large
number OF lehders,' who, while not sharing
| the sincerity of the voters ht their backs, far
Il d. sign and. SO far as In them may
| lie, yieiousness o execution. These men
will soon be not only thrust out Of power, but
| overwhelmed with perfect mountain load Of
shame. dIsgrnce, jgnominy and, In muny In
stances. the pHins and penalties Of actual crime
| They will be forced to stand helpiessly by sud
| 500 The very mon they have been wont to revIs
as traitors. mt1rdersrs Of dstenseless negroes
| and all that sort Of thing. Stepping into and
b w S'sG s aGen
that they owe their fa to their own insane
greed. their own sordid fury Of lus for gain
their own ogeesses Ia power. too rank even for
THE sToMAUHs or A VICTORIOUS soLD1ERY.
They will bnve to think that If they had been
0onssnt to steal half IA fast ns they did rob they
nj l&ht have held tn power and It's good
things twice rs long rs they have Moreover. 1t
must be- borne in mind that tho Rndicn Il aders
nre. S,mpst Wihont hKe6lt'on. tn" mehnest men
that God over permitted to curnber tho ground ::
men IN whom the Development of meanuess
| amounts to gepius; rusn in whom the culture
OF political vices and cifn's has reached the
stat $ OF hna art; men with whom lying md
lrnuh nrh among the exnct sciences men to
whom tho mpsi bGasiy eelfl@hness is 81 religion
win Wnom the most brutal nVnrice IL ftuat-
csm in whose souls cunning thhes the
EIaeo Of cYnrnge 'rickery ths place Of
In shoEt, 'he lHckaIs aud hynphs Of
mankind, 1t is i1lo to look fr refornation Of
sentiment or enlargement Of conscience In
men who hnv-' Iunde 1t busiurss TO rob the
country for ten ysAra. and whose hypfocrisy
has reached ,th"t .ex1n'site point Of per rfecion
and the blessing Of Christ Is habituaiIy invoked
upon granh nr petit larceny.
Such are ii Gar'i,sstds et il o,one qe,us Of
Radical leadership. Theeo creatures bhvs got
their faDgs too deep in tho FISH Of the Radical
orgnnizn'ion to be shaken 10, 30 by any one
d feht or series Of defeats. With zach recurring
fhiluro they will grow more and moro bitter
and desperate md the farther they get from
the pover hey once held the moro horceIy they
will hgine the country and Tho more shvnRnIy
they wi J promote and provoke strife. predict
that the time will come when
MEN LIKE GARFIELD
will crawl about thes. halls Of Congress- taunt-
kicked. knocked down or slapped in the mouth
with view to subsequent pos uring beYore
ity has often resented itself to my mind but /
hated TO entertain It, and preferred to believe
t as Il long ~ aS | & could Do so, that the bloody
buried. BnC, what / have seen and
heard in the lat fortnight has dashed al my
southern communities arc ~ theya are; far I4ss
disorJerIy than indiana Ohio. Illinois, Penn
syIvhnia or New York; it makes difference
that life and property are TO- day on an average
three times az secure to black and white alike
south of Mason and lions line ag north Of If.
bsen n Cd 1r nnd ns BY b h
Radical managers to fight tho next campaign
with Grant 10 their figure head and wi b tue
lutely certain as that there will be- q CANVASS.
I frequently converse with my Radical ac-
quaintAncea, high in the councils Of heir party,
and have been astouudeh during the last two
or three weeks at the uDanirnity with which
they accept the doctrine Of Hale and Gorham.
that their party can be held together. and their
organization kept alive only by
THE FEEvoE OF THE GOSPEL OF HATE.
and by the frenzy Of crusade o. sectonalism.
1t Is useless to hope that this feeling will die
out. It cannot die except rs those wretched
men die whose only hope IS In such things. and
whose sole capital TO do political business on Ia
the future is such passions as may be kept
alive In the kosom8 Of the people Of the
the n 'rth against those Of the S nth. That
they can ever win by such tactics Ia a supposi- |
ton whi h presupDoses that the mass Of the
Anne lean people are as great tools as these
Radical leaders are scoondrelsE:, 2 premise
which would simply make thu United States
out to he ne vast asy ylum for idiots. ruled and
managed hy what ought to be q prop ,rtonatey
vast jail full Of miscreants. But tn, fact that
they intend to keep trying it all the same and
to fight it ont on that line az long as they live is
tan amount to certant that sectional agita-
ton is not only by no means over, but that it's
hittefest and aavagest manifestations arr yet
to come. In view 0. this di-mal prospect sae
mhut m one system Of strategy open to the South.
That ls TO accept 1t at its face and meet 1t with
ont ftnching. policy OF apology or even Of
affected modesty on the part OF the South