The Louisiana Democrat

—It grows more and more evident every day that the reign of the "bloody shirt" is ended, and that the party which hopes for success in the next National campaign must find a more popular issue than that of fighting the war over again. The extremely sensible speech of ex-President Jefferson Davis at Houston has had an excellent effect at the North. The Utica Herald says truly of it: "It is the duty of every loyal citizen to accept the words of Jefferson Davis, as uttered in all sincerity, and as representative of the revived patriotism of the whole Southern people. It should be the regret of all that the day of such an understanding has been postponed so long. We are fast drawing near to another great Presidential campaign. Certainly the hatred and the bitterness which have followed their introduction into former political canvasses will have no proper place in those of the future There will be no Ku-Klux to convince the Northern voter that the new war is worse in its crime than the one which preceded it. There will be no Force bill, to compel the Southern people to think that the North meant only repression and violence, when it promised complete and perfect restoration to the Union. There will not even be a Louisiana, if we may trust present indications, to compel the belief there there is no virtue among public men of either side in the Southern States. Eliminating all these features from the canvass before us, and we have abundant assurance that, whatever its event, it will be followed by a closer fellowship between the North and South."