New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-23

A The larger portion belong to the
Democratic party.
@. Are the former shareholders and
leaders of the rebellion members of that
party!
A. Most of them are they would not
regard you as having any rights if they
were in power.
Q Colored men should then vote with
the Republican or Radical party?
A. They should, and shun the Demo-
cratic party as they would the overseer's
lash and the auction block.
Q. Has the Republican party deceived
the colored people?
A. It has not. While the Democratic
party has always been opposed to their
freedom, their education, and their right to
vote, the Republican party has maintained
these rights.
@. By whose exertion are we now being
educated?
A. By the efforts of loyal teachers and
through the benevolence Of Republican
friends.
Q. By whom have school-houses been
burned, and our teachers prosecuted?
A. By rebel friends of the Democratic
party.
Q. Who passed the military reconstruc-
tion acts?
A. The Republican majority in Congress.
z. By whom have the reconstructed
States been admitted to Congress under,
the new free constitutions?
A. By the Republican party.
O. What would the people think if the
colored men voted with the Democratic
party?
A. The people of the North would think
that they did not fully understand their
own rights nor the duties devolving on
them; and the people of the South would
proudly say: 1--WE have always told you
that the negro did not wish to be free"
Q. We have been discharged from work
because we voted with the Republicans.
Who did it?
A. Your former masters, who are all
Southern Democrats.
Q. How are we to live if they continue
this course?
A. You must remember that this is a rule
that works both ways. Your labor is as
valuable to the employer as the wages paid
are to you. That game can not be con-
tinued. In any event, you must defend
your vote as you would your freedom.
Q. Then you advise us to vote with the
Republicans, and disregard the threats of
our employers?
A. Most certainly | would There is
nothing dearer in life than liberty. To
allow yourselves to be driven into voting
against your convictions is to accept degra-
dation worse than slavery.
@. The white people South say that
Northern Republicans do not care for the
colored men only so far as they can use
them to continue in political power. Is
this true?
A. 1t is not.
c. What is the reason that several of the
Northern States do not give us the right to
vote?
A. Chiefly because they have in the past
been controlled by the Democratic party.
In the Western States where what are
called the ,"Black Laws have existed,
which did not allow colored people to live
in them, there are large bodies Of whites
who moved originally from the slave
States, and carried the hatred and preju-
dices of slavery with them.
@. What has the Republican party done
in those States about such laws?
A. Abolished them as fast as it obtained
power.
@. To what is the Republican party now
committed?
A. To equal rights for all men; to the
advancement of labor and its elevation by
just laws; to common schools, open to all;
opposition to slavery in every form; pro-
lection to free speech and free press; the
maintenance of the rights of all men to
vote and share in the government under
which they live; the perpetual preservation
of the Federal Union, and OF the national
honor by faithfully discharging all obliga-
tions incurred in sgppressing the late rebel
lion, and thereby enfranchising four million
slaves.
Q. How does it propose to do these
things:
A, By electing loyal men to office; by
defending loyal State governments formed
under and by authority of the recoustruc-
tion laws, and above all by placing the
executive power of the general govern
ment in the hands of those who favor the
purposes of the Union Republican party.
Q, How is the latter to be accomplished?
A. By the election on Tuesday, the third
day of November next, of General U. S.
Grant and Hon. Schuyler Colfax, the nomi-
nees of the Republican party for those high
offices, as President and Viee-President of
the United States. By their election, as
well as the election of Republican Repre-
sentatives to the Forty-first Congress, the
government will be placed in the hands Of
its friends, and, consequently, of your
defenders and emancipators, for the Presi-
DENTAL term beginning the fourth of March,
1869, and ending ON the same date, 1873.
Q. What claim has General Grant on the
colored man?
A. He is the successful leader of the
URion armies, who fought for freedom
against the rebel armies that sought to
maintain slavery. He defeated all the rebel
generals who opposed him, and finally re-
ceived the surrender of the rebel army and
its Geneeal in Chief, Robert E. Lee. Early
in the war, General Grant pronounced
against slavery: declared that it must be
destroyed in order to defeat the rebellion.
He encouraged the enlistment OF colored
troops, and directed all officers to aid in
the work. He always recognized their
courage and gave them honorable mention.
Since the rebellion closed he has been in
chief command of the army, and has been
charged with the protection of the loyal
people of the South. Under his direction
has succeeded to its present
extent. He has always been in sympathy
with the loyal majority Of Congress, in 0p-
position to the efforts of Andrew johnson
and the leaders of the Democratic party to
restore the rebels to power, and thus vir-
tually to re-enslave the freed people Of the
South.
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