The Caucasian., 1911-12-28
THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
IN LOUISIANA.


MeEnery. rises before me like a
hell-born dream. That was time
in the history OF our State when III
was harder and hraver to live than
"a die. The earpetbaggers and ne
groes elected a negro named pmel-
back 10 the lieutenant governorship
OF Louisiana. they filled our Legis-
lature with negroes and scalawags,
they plunged our State so deeply
into debt that ii has not been able
to pay out since. They had branches
Of the Federal army stationed all
over the State to intimidate our
white people and they openly pro-
fessed TO be In favor Of social equal
its between The white and negro
races, New Orleans Pieayune.
II was John MeEnery, brother
Of sam who is numbered with the
heroes Of reconstruction. THIS =
said with all due reverence TO Sam
uel Douglas McEsnery, who with his
brother John have passed from the
activities Of life. Each Of the Nc
Fnerys in his respective part did his
duty we'll. The reconstruction pc
riod ii Louisiana. as expressed, was
in a sense hell on earth, but The
New Orleans picayune's reference 70
Alle horrors OF the past has for its
purpose the lauding of John 7 Mi
cliel. the candidate for governor Of
The so-calied regular Democratic
party Of Louisiana.
Where was Michel then2
During the period Of reconstruc-
ton there was no "city ring" nor
regular Democrats, nor Ware
Bosses. but the hordes from The
North, the vandais and the plunder-
ers Of the people, supported in their
infamies bx the bayonets and Cat
ling guns of the Federal govern
ment, were resisted by Confederate
Veterans, by she citizens who wer'
being robbed under The guise Of law
Where were the regulars then.
During The period Of reconstruc-
ton, when fearless men were band.
ed as knights Of the White Came
lia" or as Ku Klux KlaRs, to resis
the vandals and the carpetbagger
and their associates, now many 0
the regulars Of today were hand
in-glove with pinchback, a mulattc
lieutenant governor, and Dunn,
black negro, governor. and Warmotl
and Kellogg and other satellites o
Radicalism, sharing the spoils o
Office as now.
Where We're the regular then
The picayune Is challenged L
name a single Of the ringsters o
today who helped in the routing o
the cohorts Of plnnder and misgoy
ernment at Coushatta and at Colfas
The picayune is challenged |
name one Of The regulars OF tn
city ring who was arrested withou
warrant, taken FROM their homes b
armed mercenaries and placed i
prisons simply because they wer
resisting The accursed domination I
aliens and the plunderers Of til
people.
Who was il that made impossibl
the Africanization Of Louisiana?
Was it Fitzpatrick and others {
his ilk who proflted from the rule {
ruin and spoliation?
The story ii brief is that afte
Louisiana had been redeemed fror
the spoilers control, New 0rlean
became the central power throug
the Bosses and tho ringsteI
whose sole aim has been and is te
day as then
And how and why2
Simply because the men who ha
imperiled their lives ia driving froI
power the negroes and the alien
had retired to their private affair
and permitted the political wanda
10 secure control through which til
State has beenldnminated.
And who are the men who has
arrayed themselves into ring /
4 machine through which they cor
troll. regardless of deeency, an
through The rankesi of frauds9
IN ringing its period of recor
struciion for the purpose Of boos
ing Michel ii the regulars se
called Democlaey of Louisiana, Il
Picayune Is moi only simply ridict
l0us IN the extreme but its attitut
is most discreditable, when by a
insinuation of prejudice ii woul
make il appear that Judge Hall
not 4 Democrat and thai the on
Democrat worth consideration. Il
only Demoeraf with the full nan
bIoued ID tho bottle. ! il John T NJ
cheIs the only eeallar ii the STAT
ri comparisons are desired II nlt
Be unpleasant q have e array