The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-07-19
Governor Wells, Letter-NegrQ
Suffrage. 4

we publish In another column an
interesting letter from Gov. Wells to
a committee ofsindividuals who have
invoked his influence in behalf Of tie
acknowledgements Of the negro popula-
ton who have been set free BY The
power Of the Federal Government.
The fanatics who have clamored for
years for the emancipation of tile
Observation-Disclosures havesall atonce
discovered that freedom will notpreve
the unmitigated blessing they had
hoped to find it, unless the right Of
suffrage should be added to it. AS
the Northern agitators have never
failed to find afew sympathisers at
the South to're-echo their sentiments,
however extraYagant they might be,
50 now have they succeeded in obtain.
ing the services Of The few political
tricksters whose names are sub
scribed tie the document addressed to
GOV Wells, to do the dirty work for
them within the limits of this State.
The choice was an exceedingly unfor-
tunate one. The Governor has shown
these men up in their true light. They
are too well known in this State to
give Importance to any measure to
which they may see fit to lend their
influence, Negro suffrage with them
is only one Of tIefnany hobbies which
they have rode for years past, with
the hope Of getting into office and
into prominence, and We, doubt not
they will meet with mo better success
now than they have in times gone BY.
3Ihe men who have the. lead in this
movement are too contemplate cat
tract for 9 moment the attention Of
the people of the State.
When the war ended with theodes,
truction Of slavery, Southern men
who looked for a crumb Of comfort
amid the multitude Of disasters which
had befallen them, sincerely hoped
that, as the abolition party had OBJ.
tanned its cherished object Of univer-
sal freedom, and the interests of the
country were no longer divided by
a diversity Of political institutions,
we should hear no more Of the agita.
ton of the slavery qnestion-that
dreadful bane which had destroyed
The peace tlf the country for thirty
years, and Madeleine near destroying
the country itself. Willing to admit
the sincerity Of The abolitionists in
their philanthropic professions, they
had Alright to expect them to be sat
isfed when theyhad succeeded in &C.
comprising them objects. after a long
and persistent struggle. Butdhose
who suffered themselves tortbe fat
tered BY any such hopes are lamenta-
bly, ignorant Of The abolition cbarac.
Ter. While. many Of them were
doubtless sincere IN their philanthirop-
ic intentions, with the great mass Of
the Black Republican party the nigs
ger was only an excuse to keep the
country in astateof turmoil and aei.
tation for the special enolument Of
the niger party. Theyrode the Mig
ger because it paid to ridel1in, and if
they should get, off his back be.
fore they find another hobby Their &C.
cupatlon would be gone and their
party would crumble to pieces. If
they could find another ngood
enough Morgan until after the cleo.
tion,a they would give poor Cuhy the
go.by, but as they cannot yet find
such q one We must expectto have
g surfeito the niger through many
political campaigns yctto come. AT
1 Enst it was freedom for the Niger
that inalienable right and zines.
Unable blessing better than the
Elixir Of life, better than the pllilos-
opher's stone, better than every con.
ceiyable thing on Earth. Now it is
the ballot for the Niger, without
which freedom were q sham andeman-
cipation a cheat and a swindle.
What the next phase Of negrophilism
will be we are unable to say, but IL
is certain to be something; for the
Niger song will never cease until the
final extinction Of the race, an event