The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-31
A New Radical RnIt-will the south Bite !?


The Radicals must be In deperatc strait
indeed Ii they are driven to prop up their
falling fortunes by adopting measures bcne-
fetal to the Southern people. When they
thought they were invincble; when they had
oil the three departments of the government
In their power, with the expectation of hold
ing tlrm forever; we heard nothing Of any
measut - bearing on the Southern people that
did not originate in their malignity
and tYranncal disposition, and that
tinued oppression of those whose suf-
frages they could do without. But now
things arc charged. The Radical rotten
borough governments Mt the South have
melted away. The Radical party has for
fcitod the confidence of the very section
which gave it birth. Leading Northern
States are wheeling into line and taking their
places in the gllFt Democratic column. The
Radicals will de3snything to regain the foot
hold the party h.A lost Hence according to
are ready to adopt a new and an entirely diff
fcrent programme 1t Is given ont that thsy
will unite on n platform which shall promise
aid to oil Southern measures of Internal Inn
provement, and will thus attempt to gain, by
moral suasion, that support which they for
merly extorted at the end Of the bayonet.
The Southern people must be more gulIible
than we think they are to be taken in by any
such fair promises as these. Up to recent
date the Radicals bad possession Of every de-
ever constructed d railroad or canal or any
other work in which the South was immedf-
ately Interested, we have never heard of it,.
In the meantime they constructed for the
North tho Union Pacific by which the gov
eminent was Swinded out Of S52, 900, 900.
They constructed for the North the Northern
Pacific as far as It has gone which carried
with 1t oil the rascality of Jay Cooke, and the
misery 1t entailed on innocent people. They
| have improved every Northern creek wherever
q N,rtt Ranrapaut nf i1tn had unhnak'
come before Radical Congress Nd ask for
| It, In the meantime the South waatsarmitted
to languish In poverty, and her IN verish-
mont afforded intense delight TO tbs Radi-
| Gals, because the South, for3ooth. mad re-
beIled against "the best government the
world has ever seem
| When, therefore, Southern men hOlC IN ter
rorem over the Democratic party the threat
that unless it does 50 and SO the Southern
people will 60 into the Republican part y they
the South will go into the Radical party ex-
cept the professional unprincipled Office
seeker, and he will not go unless he can 10
assured of paying office. The South VII,
power, even though it should demonstrate
its ability to build q railroad to every village
within its limits. The South knows to her
cost what the return Of the Republican
Ba apEnet to Ike that 81 Mrs supr"t
immurings in the penitentary, like
those Of the South Carolina patriots, criminal
prosecutions and banshments to the swamps
| like those OF the Colfax and Coushatta de-
tenders. 1t means Kellogg and Chamberlain
and Ames and Bullock and Davis 1t Is use
less, then, for the Republican party to holc
out to the South any such tit-bit on the end d
it's fork as the promise Of railroad to every
hamlet that wants one. 1t is useless for The
Republican party ever to attempt to lure the
Southern people into its ranks by fair prom
ises such as these. 1t syren song may b'
sung never SO sweetly, but it proceeds from
an abode whose rocks, as Virgil says, arr
The Southern people, as wise as Ulysses, viii
stuff their ears to exclude its melodious notes