Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-02
THE 1 PASSIONS.

A class of the wealthy planters of Louisiana,
have in their veins some of that blood which Amer
lean Democracy and religion pronounces accursed
However small the faint and however indiscerna-
BILE from external appearances, it seems that their
paternal descent from Spanish mobility or Ameri-
can aristocrncy, added to their wealth and their pa.
triarchal virtue of slaveholdipg are not all sufficient
to entitle them to political privileges in a laAd
where all men are declared of right free and enti-
tied to the privilege Of self-governmcnt. The
national prejudice must be strong indeed where
even man stealing and slaveholding cannot cause
it to be forgotten or overlooked.
The Louisiana Legislature is now agitated by
this question as we learn from the following, from
the New Orleans Correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette.
A circumstance has just come to light which is
likely to prove an awful disgrace to the State of
Louisiana, and will undoubtedly lead to the con-
testing Of a seat in the Legislature. Away up
Red river, in the neighborhood of a place called
the "Ten Mile Preciuct," it seems Il number Of
fire.. citizens peaceable, industrious planters, but
well known to be 'tinctured with negro blood,"
70 shame were allowed to vote at the recentState
election 1t seems from the account in the papers
that in 1888 'three of them, to all appearance
Wnlte men, were ailOWeu 10 vote; TINS was the COM
mencement Of the colerei franchise" AT the late
election, not counting these ito all appearance
white" colored men, the parties.were about equal
ly divided; out on the day of election, the Dem
%ocrats, always up to snuff, brough; them all out,
with a flag flying" marched them up to the polls
and made them vote And ''the only iustifica-
ton given for the act was, that these kinky-head.
ed vagabonds had as good a right to vote as their
STRAIGHTFORWARD relatives" The paper adds that
every man who knows these men, feels and knows
it to be a burning shame that they should be al
lowed to vote! !" But why shouldn't they vote p
They are native born citizens. educated, intelligent
| am told, many of them owners of plantations
and slaves: and the same paper says. they were
and are quiet, orderly and well Observation-Disclosures
ing with no one, and generally well treated by
their neighboring planters" BY their votes, it is
said, Mr.. Andrews was elected to the Legislature,
over Mr.. Boyce; and Mr.. Boyce is going 10 test the
legality of the matter. 1t will then be decided
whether these kinky-headed cousins have or have
not as good a right to vote as their STRAIGHTFORWARD
cousins. An important question, and one that
must be settled before the South can grumble any
more at Massachusetts,, New York and Ohio, for
allowing certain of their colored population to vote.
When the question is settled, l viii inform you Of
the result.
The anne writer informs us that foreign fllibus-
tering rather takes the precedence in New Orleans
over the interest in Pierce and Atchisons pet
scheme of crushing out freedom in Kansas. Re-
ferring to the New Orleans Delta, he says
But its morals and its politics are abominable.-
Speaking Of the proposed measures of some of the
Southern States to establish Slavery in Kansas. ii
says: "Let all the States of the South unite to
push slavery South and Westward, and the scheme
will be more feasible and the result of more dura-
BILE benefit. The preservation of slavery in Cuba.
it's restoration to Hayt. and Jamaica, to Mexico
and Central America, are of more practical impor.
lance to the Sorth by far than to secure its preca.
rious existence in Kansas. Rather bold, | should
say. Yet this is beginning to be the expressed
feeling in the extreme South. And may not Til.
lie one of the leading objects in the Nicaragua
movement And this same paper, in the very
same number, speaking CT the attempts to elect d
Speaker in Congress, asks-"Is it consistent with
Southern conscience and Southern pride, to SUP
port a wrong" What can be the probable idea,
Of right and wrong of n paper that unbioshingl,
asks such a question; when it,at the same time, ur
ges the project of spreading human slavery oyel
those already degraded countries, Mexico and Cen
trail Amcrica-where this ~damning CURSE howeyeI