Excerpt from Article From the New Orleans Bee of August 20, '71, on the Political Situation Our many private discussions of political questions, in which we have widely differed, especially as to the prop er policy for the Democratic party to adopt at the pres ent time, will, I trust, authorize me to ask a public hear ing of the Views which I entertain through the columns of your influential and extensively read journal. Two facts, it seems to me, are apparent in the present political condition of the country. One is that the Re publican party does not seem disposed to deal in the right spirit with the questions particularly affecting the South, and is not taking a course calculated to bring about a speedy reconciliation; nor does it show a disposition to effect those reforms which the people are demanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.