The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-04
MISUNDERSTANDING.

0CQ0o00Y 0000 IotJtu0teus aS ~ 6Sn0'-
raily happens, that the Senator was
ready to unfold his invaluable views
. 70 public Affairs generally, and es-,
pscially % to Whist changes in South
eru politics the Senator deems neces-
sary and, accordingly, we find the re-
suit Of ,fhe interview duly published
for the 6outh's future guidance. 1t
would not be q good test Of even guess
work to tell what Senator Joe Brown
said respecting the best policy for the
South, since his political opinions and
course inpolitjos have uniformly been
for years In bat one direction, namely:
truculence to Northern political SEN
tineat..
In this psblisbed Interview the Sen
ator is represented. az severely condem-
nlng wbat.he, and others like him, ARE
pleased to call the Bourbon element at
tho South, and as recommending to
her people the acceptance Of the con-
stitutiooal amendments not alone in
platforms and on paper, but also with
sincerity and with willingness de-
mOn0tf0te0 ny tnelf acts.
The Senator's dislike of the Bour.
hons Ia not Of recent date, as most of
our readers who were actors in the late
war may remember. In that unhappy
conflict, told Joe Brown" with the
Georgia militia, made fully as much
racket rs all Of Gen. Johnston's army,
and the fnal overthrow of the Confed-
eracy found the Senator not unpre-
pared to exclaim, L told you SO Since
that untoward event, we have not
been permitted to forget Senator
Brown, ~ great many Southern ers
would have been pleased to do, nor
his early inclinations in the direction
Of Southern subserviency, in respect of
which the Senator's Bourbonism is we'll
defined and far more reprchensible than
that of the Southern democrat who
contends for States rights and strict
construction Of the Constitution in all
its parts.
Since the Southern people are in fact
as we'll as In law carrying out the con-
stitutional amendments, we can under
stand Senator Browns policy only as
one destructive of all Southern self
reliance aud independence of political
thought. The amendments have
ceased to be discussed, or thought of
apart from the constitution itself. The
Senator but digs them up for Interior
purposes. But, II In his plan for poll
tical regeneration at the South, Senator
Brown is moving toward a perfect re.
Cancellation Of the sections-a supposi-
ton we are not averse to setting down
a. = fact, though others undoubtedly
will be-he has but to consult the utter
ances of the Radical leaders of Congress
to be convinced of the folly of the un-
dertaking, unless, indeed, he would
have the entire South Republican in
politics and ashamed to own its history.
Thus, only the other day, on a bill to
pay the widow Of Captain Payne, a re-
signed officer OF the Navy, a balance of
$3.50, pay due at the beginning of the
war, the deceased officer, one of the
heroes Of Lake Erie, was stigmatized as
an migrate and traitor, and 1t was
Justify proclaimed that Virginia, his
State, .store down the banner of the
Union," "instigated by traitors and by
rebels" This was vehemently uttered
in the House by Mr.. Conger who had
had but so recently the wreath of
Senator placed on his brow by the peo-
pie Of Michigan. This outburst of fra
ternal affection was followed by an
other, equally rs pathetic, from Gen.
Bragg, OF Wisconsin, one of the Nor.
thern leaders Of Democracy. And
such touching evidences OF fraternal
feeling are not infrequent in the
august body Of which Senator Brown
affects to be one of the leaders. The
foundations upon which the Senator
would. build are palpably unsound.
But, 1t Is not improbable that greater
unity between the sections may come
and At an early day, though not from
Southern sabservience, but from North
ern Republican dissensions. When
the time arrives, which now seems not
90 distant. for AN Administration and
an Observation-Disclosures faction In that