Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-12-13

ed al the same ball boxes with the 9th
ar parties, and the colored people hat
separate polls, organized by themselves
This party had Tor its Representative
to Congress, Judge Warnroth. and tn
vote was cast for him without r-feranc,
to Congressional Districts, and in the ab
sence of any State government, the Re
publican party claim the right 10 lie rep
resented in Congress rs s territory of thu
United States This party declares fc
universal suffrage, without regard in rae,
or color.
The result OF the white election WA
the overwhelming defeat of the Conser
yative Union party. | should here state
inst both parties run the same candidate
for Governor, J. Madison Wells. I large
number of votes were cast for Mr.. Allen
the late rebel Governor, who is now said
to be in Mexico.
The strength of the two parties will be
seen by a reference to the vote for mem,
bers of Congress. In the Second Con.
gressIonal District the Democratic candi,
date, Jacob Barker, received about 800
votes, while Mr.. Field, the Conservative
candidate, received about 300 votes. The
nominations of the two parties, Demo
I Saes~AS thAANA CJhoNAh hNAo III ehICOA'A
with the tenor and spirit of their plat
! forms.
The democrats, for the most part, nom
mated men who had been identified with
that "open, manly and honorable" rebel
lion of which the platform speaks, and
the conservatives nominated men who
were identified with the Constitution of
1864, and supporters of the Government
organized under it,
The result of the election is that all
civil State offices are filled by those who
have been in rebellion, or who entertain
the views set forth in the Democratic
| platform. In fact, an unconditional I'm
ion man, like Mr.. johnson, the Presi-
dent, who adhered to the Government of
the United States, stood no chance for a
nomination or an election in the Demo
cratic party, as against an "open, man
full and honorable" rebel.
Jacob Barker was too old to be in the
rebellion, hence he staid in New Orleans,
took the oath Of allegiance, saved his
property and continued his business, and
in some cases, as | have been informed,
acting as agent for absent rebels OT those
who left New Orleans by reason of their
sympathy with the rebellion. Mr.. Bar
ker Is nearly 90 years of age, and not un-
known in the history of this county,
During the war of 1912, he was a citizen
of New York, and, | believe, loaned to
the Government a large sum of money to
aid ii IN the-War with Great Britain. As
a business man, his reputation in New
Orleans is good as far as have heard his
name mentioned in business circles. This
is the Mr.. Barker who wrote the letter
published in the New Orleans papers, to
an absent friend, urging him to come
back from the Confederacy, and they the
former citizens of New Orleans would
be aole to give the new corners tickets OF
leave.
The National Democratic Represents
tives, l suppose, will present themselves
for recognition to Congress.
Judge Warmoth has gone on with his
credentials, poll books of colored votes,
suppose, and will claim to be
admitted, or recognized as a delegate or
representative.
The Popular ideas among the whites in
| Louisiana, as enforced in the Democratic
platform, and inculcated by speeches of
its prominent men, editorials in the pa
peTs, talks on the streets or steam
boats, in bar rooms, hotels or restaurants,
are that slavery was abolished without
right, and that the masters are entitled
to compensation from the Federal Gov
ernment-that the slaves are worse off
in freedom than slavery-that a person
living in the South was in honor bound
to side with the rebellion, and hence
there is more bitter feeling against Un-
man whose home was in Louisiana, than
a Northern Union man.
| The idea that one was bound to 90
with his State is as strongly enforced as
political duty, as before the war. The
whites claim the right to control and
regulate the labors of the former slaves,
and to decide what laws are best for them,
and hence the Freedman's Bureau is an
intrusion on the part of the Federal Gov
ernment, and it is expected that as soon
as the State is recognized by Congress,
that this Bureau will be dispensed with.
If it is not it will be because the votes of
the Louisiana Representatives cannot
abolish it. l clip the following from an
editorial in the Natchez Democrat, as a
true statement of the state of feeling
of the majority of the whites of Louisiana,
as to this Bureau:
| " THE FREEDHAN's BUREAU.-The Com.
missioners, Assistant Commissioners, Pro
vost Marshals, Agents and Clerks of this
decaying institution and nuisance, have
been of late days thoroughly overhauled
by the press of Mississippi. We have
been waiting to get word in sideways,
and as there seems to be lull in the bat
tie of words, we desire to place ourselves
on record by giving the casting vote in
the affirmative, on the resolution that the
Bureau is
|. \ great nuisance.
Ii. Unauthorized by the laws of Mis-.
sissippi.
III. Calculated to keep contention
and strife between the citizens of the
State and the negroes.
". II keeps officials here who are at
heart hostile to Southern men and inter
esis, and who improve every opportunity
to prejudice the minds of the negroes
against their former masters"
l have said majority of whites, fol
T there are three or four thousand whites,
citizens and voters in Louisiana who hold
substantially TO the principles put forth
by the Republican party here, and the
colored people are quite unanimous fol
measures looking to their protection, and
among these measures they regard as the
first in Importance, the Freedman's Ba
reau. But as the Democratic party as
seTt that this is white mans govern
ment, it does not propose to consult the
negroes on this or any other matter per-
tanning to their own welfare or che inter.
ests of the State. The negroes, so far as
l have been able TO learn their feelings,
are uneasy and quite apprehensive that
if the government is TO be controlled by
their late masters, their condition will be
deplorable indeed, and they will not Ia
Dor quietly until this apprehension is re-
moved.
In some Of the parishes, for attempting
to hold an election, they were seized by
the civil authorities and put into the par
ish prison, their ballot boxes broken op-
eli and their ballots destroyed. / under
stand that the military authorities have
ordered their release. As an item of ev-
idence of the ideas of the people as to
further legislation in case the State is
recognized by Congress, | will quote from
letter recently written by Charles Gay