Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-10-16
"Ths States Of the Union with Union Of
the States"
THE FIRST FRUITS.

" \ CUPJ AAOA IliO 0ONloAo-l@ DOLlO
crat, paper published at Alexandria
(La.) the following article, addressed to
the Negroes Of that State, urging them
to elect people of their own colour to the
principal State Offices and to Seats in
Congress. One might almost suspect
the Democrat of joeoseness in doing this,
and the article does smack of the laugh
ing deviltry which besets desperation
when it has no present cure; but there
is earnestness and meaning too in what
it says.
We copy the article nO'0, rather than
before the election, because we wish our
readers to see the First Fruits of Poll
cy, as Usurpation calls itself, and to see
them calmly. The Reconstruction act as
its authors call it, which attempts to en-
franchise the negroes and to disfranchise
the whites is an utter nullity,-a deliber-
ate violation of oath, and therefore an
utter villainy. Here are the FIRST
FRUITs. The people, first ruined by
Patriotic Desolation, are overpoWered
by negro votes and overawed by military
force acting in concert with the blacks,
who we're pronounced by Mr.. Chase to
be the natural allies " of his party
The first effort is to turn the blacks
against the white DemagOgues who rush
into the South. The Later Fruits will
also come. 1t is not worth while to fore
tell them now. They will come but too
soon and they will be garnered into the
houses of those who reap whirlwinds.
A WORD TO THE FREEDMAN.-An
election for delegates to a State COnven-
ton has been called to take place within
a few weeks and those party organiza-
tions which take any interest in the mat
ter are already making preparations fer
the occasion. The registration having
been so arranged as to throw the control
of the State into the hands of the Radi-
Gals the Conservatives will take but little
interest In the election, and there will be
Conservative tickets in but few if any of
the Parishes. They will stand by and
amuse themselves by seeing the different
Radical factions devour themselves and
may here and there take a hand when
ever by their action they can decide the
contest in favor of Radical who hap
penes to be little more honest than his
competitor.
There are not within the pale of the
Radical party in Louisiana a sufficient
number of native whites to make them
selves felt in a calculation of the strength
of the party. The candidates will there
fore be either the native cOlored man or
the Yankee adventuTers who have squat
ted in the different Parishes for the pur-
pose of appropriating to themselves the
emoluments of the different Offices. As
the negroes constitute the bulk of the
Radical party, and can control the cleo
ton, why should they relinquish the Of
fees to the white Adventures and con-
tent themselves with simply exercising
the passive right Of suffrage at the polls2
There are more than three thousand reg
istered colored voters in the Parish of
while the odds and ends of
white trash belonging to the party, COM
posed of jayhaWkers, deserters from the
Union and Confederate armies, attaches
Of the Freedmen's Bureau, and illiterate
teachers of colored schools, number
scarcely a bakers dozen all told. Now, |
Can any one give a sensible reason why
this bakers dozen should have all the !
Offices, or even half of them, and the !
coiored men either none at all or an in
significant proportion Of them? More
over it should be borne in mind that the !
cOlOred men we're born and raised here |
and have some interest in the country, !
while the Yankee adventures have no |
further interest than filling their pockets
with the peoples money, and would emf
CRATE to another locality if they should |
fail to accomplish their purposes in
this. We, therefore, urge upon the col
ored men to assert their rights and ap- |
propriate to themselves the emoluments
o. the Offices which the Yankees are bent
on gobbling up bodily, without regard |
to the wishes of the natives of the soil |
With the failure of the crops and the !
of making living the salaries
of the offices are worth labOring for, and
would much better go into the pockets
of the negro than into those Of the de-
graded individuals who claim the right
to dispose of them at will. There is not
an Office from Constable up to Governor
md Mnmhar Of Ennnraes which dnna mot :