The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-09-30
WHY THE COLORED MEN
Should Vote
FOB PRESIDENT And FOR VICE.PIESIDIAF
FOR
Horatio Seymour, !
OF NEW YORK.
AND
Frank p. Blair,
OF MISSOURI. ~.

A Union man, having been asked by On
intelligent colored man how he should
vote, gave, in the form of questions and
answers, the following reasons, which are
commended to the attentive perusal of oil
cotored men:
Question. With which party should the
colored men of Louisiana vote?
| Ans,ee,'. The National Democratic
Party.
| Q. Why should the co1ored man tote
with that partys
a. Because it is the party which COM
poses ninety-dve out of every hundred Of
the real and sure enough citizens of the
South, who own the lands and have their
homes here, and whom the colored people
must look to for employment, for assistance
and protection. ss
@. What does the Republican or Radi-
cal party consist Of :! -
A. The Radical party consists of scala
wags, fellows who, having lost all character
with the respectable portion Of our people;
try to deceive the colored people, and get
their votes for Offices, and live upon taxes
paid by the honest and Woodworking peo-
pie; and arpet-baggers who come to this
State from the penitentiaries and jails and
crowded towns of the North, not to work
to make an honest living, but to rob and
cheat the people, and get Offices and con-
tracts by pretending to be friends of the
colored men but would never give him q
cent, or pay his wages, or help him in any
trouble.
@. What have these people done for the
colored man?
A. They got possession of the plantar
tons of many of our old citizens during
and after the war, and got the hands to
make crops which they took away and sold,
and then pocketed the money and went
back to the North, and left the poor color
ed people without cent for their whole
years labor.
9. Who have paid the colored people
for their labor, bought corn from them, and
kept them from starving?
A. Our own white people who live here,
who own the plantations, and always set
tie fair with their hands.
@. Who first brought African slaves into
the South a
A. Yankee merchants and ship-owners.
Q. How did they get rid Of slaves in
their own States2 s
a. They found it was too cold there for
people from Africa, and the soil was too
hard to work, and it wouldn't pay to keep
slaves, and they sent them down South
and sold them to raise cotton, tobacco and |
sugar cane, and when they had sold them
all, they abolished slavery in their own
States. tx
Sd @. Who abolished the slave trade?
A. The Southern people-and the Yam
KEGS opposed it and got a provision put in
the Constitution to continue it 20 years
longer, because they were afraid that their
ships would have nothing to do, but would
be on their hands. sE ;f
Q. Why did the Yankees, many years
afterwards, want to abolish slavery in the
South?
a. It was not from any love of the col
ored people, but it was because they want
ed to have them removed from the country
SO that they might get the rich lands Of
the South to work for themselves.
Q. Why did the Southern people rebel !?
Il. Because they claimed the right to
govern themselves, as their fathers did
when they rebelled against Great Britain
and did not want to see the colored people
driven out Of the country. to make way for
Yankee carpet baggers and peddlers.
@. Who abolished slavery
A. The Southern white people who saw
from the good conduct Of the colored folks
during the war that they deserved and
knew how to exercise freedom.
O.. Why did Mr.. Lincoln issue his
Emancipation Proclamation
A. Because he found that he could not
whip the South without the aid Of the COL
ored people, and he knew that our white
people were about to abolish slavery and
call on the freedmen to aid them. His
Proclamation only applied to that part Of
the South occupied by his soldiers, and all
the other colored people were declared by
him still to be slaves, and they would have
continued to be slaves and Lincoln had no
power to emancipate them or any Others
but their old owners themselves made
them free by their own act, and they win
forever defend them in their freedom and
in all the rights Of freemen on an equality
with all other citizens.
@. Why have the Southern white peo-
pie changed their opinions on Che subject
of Slavery?
A. Because Of the fidelity and good con-
duct Of the colored people during the war,
who remained with their old masters
and took care Of their wives and little
children whilst the white people were off
fighting. Bad Northern men told the col
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