The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-08-28
The Dangers Of Niger Rule.

The scornfuI manner in which the negro
President of the South Carolina Radical
Convention accepted the resignation OF
white delegate, who could not subscrbeto
the platform adopted, was most !signiti-
cant evidence of the course about to be
adopted by the negro majority In the
South. The intentions Of the Radicals in
CONGRESS-, or rather their anticipations that
the colored voters would be ruled by a
mere handful of Adventures promise to be
rudely thwarted, even while the expert
ment of negro suffrage is still in it's incipi-
encv There are none so blind as those
who will not see, and it is utter folly for
for any one to pretend that Mr.. Sambo
Jefferson, of Rutland District, will quietly |
submit to having all the Offices held By a
flew white men; when he and his dusky
compeers are the voting majority. The
desire for political elevation, beyond the
mere privilege of casting q vote, is made
palpable by The fact of there being several
colored candidates already in the field,
while one aspirant for a seat in Congress
is even now stumping the State OF South
| Carolina.
Has not this experiment of negro en-
REIMBURSEMENT and white disfrsnchisement
gone quite far enough, and is there not
material danger to tho United States, IN
permitting ten States to be ruled by an
! ignorant race, aided by a few unprincipled
white men9 This question must not be
regarded in the light of present political
necessity We must look to the future,
and reject whether good can come from
our present policy. In the State OF Lonis-
, lana there are in round numbers one hum
dred Thousand white men about the age OF
, twenty wears. OF this number not forty
/, three thousand have been permitted to
/ register. On the other hand, the male ne
5 groes of the same age, who number barely
| ninety.six thousand, have registered fully
E eighty thousand votes These. figures are
Q appalling, although they can be easily
t explained. No white man was permitted
r to reeister who held the petty office OF
Y parish constable, city policemen, notary
il public, Ga purely business office,) orvilage
o alderman. And while this rigorous system
d was pursued towards the whites, untutof
If ed negroes, and even colored minors, It has
been asserted, were permitted to register
IT without question. The result, then, OF th'
e. reconstruction law in one OF the richest
+e States of the Union will be the ,inansura
N tion of State Government filled with ne
% GRO officials, and counterpart presentment
a of Parson Brownlow and the Radical Hun
re niclt. Nay, more: we learn that negr
d. members of the New Orleans city govern
n ment have been demanded by the Repnt
st lican leaders, and already appointed b
" General Sheridan. We thus perceive tn
of natural result of a policy of repression o.
en- the part of the Government.
ne What has been said of Louisiana mus
re be applied to all of the Southern States
he excepting, perhaps, Mississippi and Arkal
be sas. where the law has been literally COZ
ID strued by General Ord. The sum tota
ed however, will be the same. Now til
no question is, whether the whites OF the e.
for rebel States will consent to be ruled
,se negroes, and whether the people OF I'll
,ut North will compel such consent. In I'll
tie first instance, it would be well to refie'
or that no case con be cited where a superi,
ise race ever submitted to the rule OF an inf
it'll rior one. But, placing aside this poil
!, a which is, after all, but q question OF OPP
to ion. so far as it relates to superiority al
on inferiority, let us take the question IN ..
md other sense. The relative position OF Il
i've whites and negroes 10 the South IS al al
ich will be that of taxpayer and voter. III
the is the whole point in a nutshell. Will t
try. ruling negro be provident of the mon
ese that he has not to supply, or will he cor
yer- dent in his numericalsuperiority, vote j
the such taxes as his fancy or caprice sh
bel dictate9 This is o point that cannot
and overlooked. We very much fear that
lity most unhappy state Of affairs will be
ing logical consequence ofnegro domination
sell Will the whites, the land owners, taX-p'
ngs ers, and sole dependence Of the States
ise- their material prosperity quietly subj
to to the rule of an ignorant and povel
ates stricken majority, headed by men VIII
flee desire for office is prompted solely by tn
impecuniosity? If regarded purely al
nan political move, we still perceive danger
the this placing of white men under the nc
ople of negroes. Look ut the policy throu
tab any light, and evils ever appear
ates aggressive spirit of the blacks, and the
,ress plaeable hostility of the Southern viii
That towards them as political equals, are m
and potent arguments against persistence Il
rom course which must inevitably lead t.
con- collision between the two races OF III
is of dangerous character New York Her;