The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-07-22
Suffrage.

Oh, anu upon lis IaFOFLe says TIE
The leaders of the old aristocracy still intent
a recovery of their lost power through disfran-
chisemen of the blacks But time will show that the
malcontents will be half disarmed by this very gener
osy Let the present Legislature proclaim and enact
universal amnesty and it will be wholly impossible for
the minority ever to subvert impartial suffrage"
Claiming the power under the Constitution to deter
mine who shall and who shall not exercise the right Of
suffrage the citizens of Louisiana have Indignantly
protested against those laws Of Congress called re-
construction laws, which have ended in their almost
complete dsfranchisement and the submission of their
destines to an irresponsible body of tnerant white
men unknown and unrecognised by them, who, in al
lance with the colored population of the State whom
they have mislead, and continue to mislead by fraud
and falsehood have usurped all the powers of the State
government, have denied them all voice in the crea-
ton of their constitution and the enactment Of laws
or have sfed that voice by ruhlessy and in violation
of the laws under which they acting and the CON
stituton Of their creation, refused to their duly
elected representatives their seats in the council halls
of the State The question of suffrage has never been
submitted to them in such form as to admit of its
full discussion, Of any intelligent and free ACTION
thereon. The policy Of the people and State has not
been determined upon. All that we now claim, assert
and demand is the right to decide this question
local. domestic question: which the Constitution leaves
entirely to each State. >~.
| The people of Louisiana desire peace and Union ;
legislation suited to their necessities that the lays
SHOULD be faithfully executed, and administered by
officers of their choice security of life and pro-
perty for ALL both white and colored; harmony be-
tween the races the application of their united indus
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war No intelligent white in the State desires
anything else than justice to the colored man, and
the promotion of his interest," welfare, happiness and
the development of all his capacities All will intel
igently aid in this great work because it involves du-
ties and responsibilities imposed by divine Providence
upon the superior race because IS the superior race
The carpet-baggers promise everything They full
fill no promises. They have only sown discord and
dissenson between the whites and blacks. They have
demorslised labor driven capital away and involved
both white and colored in the common ruin.
And for what? In order that they might usurp the
political power Of the State
| They have ceased to be power. Before the united
energies of our entire people they trembe and grow
pale. Not possessing the ability patriotism to seek
the permanent and enduring results Of wise councils
WEE pS}4lCS, pursued pOllcy OF nate,
of deception, of fraud and of violence. Their tri-
umph is but temporary. They have made Themselves
odous to our entire people, and when they fall as fall
they must, they fall to rise no more They will be
equally despised by the colored men whom they have
mslead and by the white men, over whom they have
tyrannised.
Having acquired power by an odous policy of vio-
lence, force, fraud, and intimidation enforced upon
poweress, and conquered people, TREY fnHy ii their
moments of sober reflection discover only when it is
too late, that when united with the true and patriotic
Conservatives and Democrats of the North and West
and relieved of the constant terrorism of military gov
ernment, that people are yet a power to be
feared They may modify their views and opinions
to adapt them to the great popular uprising of 1861
which is to hurl them from power. We do not wish
to convert them. We will have nothing to do with
them, either hereafter. We will not argue
any question with them. We do not desire to conc-
late them. They shall not be power in the State
We prefer colored citizens. Our coored citizens
will elect to be guided by those with whom their in
terest is identifed-with whom they prosper, suffer
misfortune It is with them will discuss the uues-
ton Of suffrage, and we do not doubt that left to our
Selves regulate the subject secure our
common welfare, and the fame, dignity, honor and
prosperity Of our State.
Meantime we all duplicity and deception We
can not initiate the cowardy policy of the Radical
Grant party, who, defeated in Ohio Michigan, Wis
consin, and Connecticut, desert their principles
and while they claim be the exclusive friends of
the black man in the South abandon him in the North
We have doctrine, and one law for the whole
country, Una ct sempiterna lex prevaebit"-" That
the privilege and trust of suffrage belongs exclusively
to the control Of each State; while they have for
eited the confidence Of the colored man by proclaim
ing that their own policy must be 4" maintained in the
South while the question Of suffrage in all the loyal
States properly belongs to the people of those States
In other words the colored man must be abandoned
in the North. We predict and mark the prediction,
that in the future they will abandon all the rights and
interests of the coored man, and that the people of
the South will be- as they are, their natural and only
friends and defenders. That day is not far distant.
Our colored citizens of this they feel and
know that the Radicals are their worst enemies be-
cause they are seeking to induce them quarrel with
their only true friends. Carpet-bsggers, beware
When your day Of punishment comes, it will be in
tliced by the Indignant coored men of the country,
CONWAY AGA1N.-New Orleans July l.-Cabalisc
notices of the Ku-Klux Khan, which were published
in the Times yesterday brought bands of armed
to the Mechanics Institute this morning intend
ing the dispersion Of the Legislature Gen Buchan-
nan promptly surrounded the Capitol with infantry,
cavalry and artillery, and the Legislature proceeded
quietly. The police dispersed the Klan and arrested
a number of heavily armed men. Intense excitement
prevails.
The above ftlsehood appears in the New York Tri-
bue, OF July 2, and could only have emauaed froE,
one source-the man who already stands convicted of
similar guilty misrepresentation in egard to the de-
monstraton of March 4th. We call the attention.
not only of the public of this city but of the United
States to the fact that the author of this SANDER has
been fosted upon the State of Louisiana as the Super
intendent of Public Education Is such man fit for
such responsible post? Quien sabe2
N. 0. Times, July sth.
Our parish of Caddo is incensed and outraged by
the presence and inhuencngs of corrupt men no
way better than Conway. They follow his example in
all things. We alude to Mudgett, Flood, Lowell and
Company. They will not hesitatate to employ any
means of success in the coming canvass. We warn
people against them. Let them be watched and
defeated in their schemes.
Mr. Pane's bill for arming loyal negroes BY furnish
ing each Congressional District with two thousand
Springfield rifles and two pieces of field artillery does
not seem to meet with general favor at Washington,