The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-31
THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
IN LOUISIANA.

was harder and Drawer to live than
to die. The carpetbaggers and ne
groes elected a negro named Pinch
back to the lieutenant governorshlp
of Louisiana, they filled our Lcgis-
lature with negroes and scalawags,
they plunged our State so deeply
into debt that it has not been able
to pay out since, they had branches
of the Federal army stationed all
lover the State to intimidate our
white people and they openly pro-
fessed to be i'll favor of social equal
lily between the white and negro
lraccS.-NcW Orleans Picayun".
1t was John McEncry. brother
Of Sam. who is numbered with the
heroes Of reconstruction. This Is
| said with all due reverence To sam
| uel Douglas McEncry, who with his
| brother John have passed from the
| activities of life. Each Of HE Me
| Encrys ir his respective part did his
Iduty well. The reconstruction pc
Iriod in Louisiana, as expressed, was
| i'm a sense a he'll on earth, but the
New Orleans Picayune's reference to
| lhc horrors of the past has for its
purpose The lauding of John I. Mi
| chcI. the candidate for governor Of
| the so-caIed regular Democratic
Ipariy of Louisiana.
| Where was Michel then?
During the period of reconstrlIc-
! ton there was no city ring nor
regular" Democrats. nor Ward
! Bosses" but the hordcs from the
North. the vandals and the plumber
ers Of the people, supported in their
4 infamies by the bayOnets and CAT
ling guns of the Federal govern
mcnt, We're resisted by Confederate
Veterans, by the citizens who were
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
La or as ''Ku kluX klans." to resist
the VandaIs and the carpetbaggers
and their associates. how many of
the regulars of today We're hand
in-glove with Pinchback, a mulatto,
lieutenant governor. and Dunn, a
black negro, governor. and Warmoth
and Kellogg and other satellites Of
Radicalism, sharing the spoils of
Office as now.
Where were the regular" then?
/ The Picayune is challenged TO
name a single OF the rinGsters of
today who helped in the routing of
The cohorts of plumber and misgos-
eminent at Coushatta and at Colfax
i The Picayune is challenged to
name one of the regulars" of the
city ring who was arrested without
warrant, taken from their homes by
ARMED mercenaries and placed in
Iprisons simply because they were
resisting the accursed domination of
aliens and the plunderers of the
people.
Who was it that made impossible
the differentiation of Louisiana?
Was it Fitzpatrick and others OF
his llk who profited from the rule OF
ruin and spoliation?
The story in brief is that after
: Louisiana had been redeemed from
the spoilers control New Orleans
became the central power through
the Bosses and the ringsters
whose sole saim has been and is to-
day as then.
And how and why?
Simply because the men who hac
Imperfect their lives in driving from
power the negroes and the aliens
had retired to their private Affairs
and permitted the political Vandal:
to secure control through which the
State has been dominated.
! And who are the men who have
f arrayed themselves INTO a ring OF
! machine through which they con
, troll, regardless of deceney, anC
| through the rankest of frauds?
: In ringing its period OF recon
struction for the purpose OF boost
ing Michel of the regulars" 50
called Democracy Of Louisiana tn
picayune is not only simply rldlcu
lous in the extreme, but its attitude
is most discreditable. when by al
insinuation of prejudice it woulC
! make it appear that Judge Hall i
| mot a Democrat and that the onl,
, Democrat worth consideration, tn
r only Democrat with the full nam
. blowed in the bottle" is John T. Mi
p chel, the only regular in the State
If comparisons are desired 1t ma,
be unpleasant to have to array i
publicity some of the regulars OF to
day who in the period of recon
+ sfruction shared in the spoliation o
n the people of the State, the pollt
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