Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1867-08-10


Constitution to keep themselves in office they de-
sire to use you to help them get Office, (Applause)
and they will betray you whenever they find it to
their interest to do SO.
They tell you they are your friends h il false:
they are your very worst enemies. They tell you
they set you free. 1t is false. These vile creatures
who come among yon and put themselves on a level
with you, never went with the army except to steal
spoons, iewelry and gold watches, (Great spplause)
They are too low to be brave. They are dirty spawn,
cast out from decent society, who come down hero
and seek to use you 10 further their own base pu1.
poses.
They promise you lands, and teach you to hate
the Southern people, whom you have known always
/ and who neverdrcaivea yon. Are You foolish enough
to believe that you can get another mans land for
nothing. and that the white people will give up their
land without resistance
IF you get up strife between your race and The
white race. do you not know you must perish I You
arc now ten to one the weaker race. You will grow
weaker every day. Iou can have no salty but in
the Constitution and 10 peace except by cnltivating
r cations of Kindness with those who are fixed here,
who need your services and who are willing 10 pro.
tect you.
The same experiment which is now being at
tempted with You Ly these Northern knavcs who
seek your votes was attempted by similar people in
France for the negroes in llayti. They passed laws
to give the negroes political neutrality-suspicious. all
distinctions of color-and what was the result ?
There was first a war Of classes: then a war between
the whites on one side and the blacks and mgla,toes
on the other. Then there was a war between the
blacks and the mulattoes, and neither white. black
nor nulatto have ever seen peace or prosperity in
Hayti since.
These men intend your determination. Some Of
them are writing books in favor of your eNtc,mira-
ton, and l have myself heard some Of them avow
that you ougl7 TO be extcrn,ina,ed or dri,cn from
the country. These are the same people whose
fathers found the Indians here. They declared the
Earth was the Lords and belonged to his saints.
and that they Were his 50 'n,s. Then they killed and
drove OFF the poor Indian and took his lands. If you
do not make and keeps friends If the southern
people. your fate is that of the Indians /! Woe to
your race You well know your race is not prepared
to vote, Why do You care to do What you do not un.
derstand Improve yourselves Lean to read and
to write: be Industrious lay up your means acquire
homes live in peace with your u~cighhors and drive
off, as You would a serpent, the miserable, dirty al,
venturers who come among YOU. and who, being too
low to he received in white society. seek to :onent
among you hatred for the decent portion Of the white
race. lou can always know a Gentleman, whether
from the North ,r South. and all such respect and
cstecm-for such will not deceive you. DO not desire
10 vote until you are qualified to vote, and then look
for the right to be given, not in Il manner that
violates the Constitution, but in accordance with it,
and through yonr own State governments. | feel
more deeply Cor you than | do for the white race.
White people ought to know better than to d disregard
q the laws and expect any good. But you do not know
J, the laws; YOU do not understand deccivtrs.
/ am wiling, anxious to WELCOME among us good
:. and true men from the North who come to help buiil
4 up our country, ana add to It's prosperity. l WISH
$ they would come on and come in lnuItitudes. They
will find lis friends, But when | see the low diugy
! crcatules-fatcied from the ycnomous eggs of ,rsa
{ soIl-coming here rs mere adventures to get oilice.
: through negro votes-to ride iuto power on the L.
luded negro's shouiders-and creeping into sec.r,
$ leagues with negroes and a few renegade Southern
= whites, and talking ]tippantly about disiTanchisia
the wisest AMI best men of the land, because they
know it is the only possible chance for knaves an
fools like themselves to get place, | can but tr.
: ashamed that such monsters are to be considered a
belonging to the human species, l warn you, my
+ coloTrd friends, if Won would be respectable in SO
clety, or prosperous in Your purse, or decent IN you
/ own feelings, to AVOID such people. They will hui
you and cali you friend, aud talk about yolf friends
but they will pull You down To degradation, 10 sor
row, to poverty and to shame. They have Whit
. skins hut black hearts. and viii ruin your characters
a if You associate with them. They are creatures borl
n of political a~ccidcncy and reasonable conspiracy
o and are the enemies OF all good governments and Q
all decent people" (Applause,)