The Louisiana Peace Platform

gommen tui g upon the suspicion with wtucU the Louisiana peace platform ia regarded at Washington tha Ciucinnati Commercial says : "Itisasimpleproposition to broadlv recogmze theeqnality of all men, going ï -e í l%ëh ? Senator Sumnor'6 Civil ltight 3 bill, and pledging devotion tonational supremacy. The languace of the platfoim is unequiTocal, and as it is subsonbed to by men of both racea it is prosumable that they mean just what they say, and havo no ulterior motive other than a reoognition of accomplished facts, that an end may be put to the confusing wrangles of the politicians and demagoguea. üntil it is showñ to bo mera lip service, oovering an unworthy politioal motive, neither tho Attorney-General nor any member of the Cabinot deals fairly by thosa who have put the peace propositions beforo tho world in asauming insinoerity on their part. Undoubtadly, if Attorney-Goneral Williams counseis Kellogg, and the President shapes his opinión upon ini'ormation derived from brother-in-law Casey or other of the custom-house ring in Kew Orleans, they wil! cultívate a prpjudice ajrainst the initiation of this peaoe polioy in the distracted State of Louisiana. Kellogg, Casey & Co., represent an extreme Radical íaction in the politics of the State, whose interests it is to keep thfi fires of hatred brightly burning. A genuine politioal fraternization arnong those who are weary and disgusted with the existing condition of affairs, and want and seek for a sensible remedy in the movemunt iust begun, signifies the elosing out of deinagogery in Louisiana. The opposition of the Federal ofEce-holders who a=pire to rule the Htate, and use the milit uy arm of the general goverrment to enforce their usurpations, is to be