The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-01
FACTS OF THE ELECTION.

One fact of the late election is very sug-
gestive to all parties, and win strike the af-
frighted souls of the mendicant carpet-bag-
gers, like knell of impending doom-itis that
the largest Democratic majorities are given In
parishes in which there is a great excess of col
ored registered voters. East Baton Rouge
gives Democratic majority of 800, and has
plurality of nearly 1000 negroes on the regis
try; Caddo gives Democratic majority of
several hundred, and has a negro registered
plurality of 22O0; St Martin, with registered
negro majority of nearly thousand, gives
Democratic majority of nearly 500; Claiborne,
with an excess of a thousand negro voters,
gives a Democratic majority of 658; and so
with De Soto, st. Landry and other parishes.
1t is thus shown that the inevitable revolt
of the deluded negroes, against "trooly loir'
carpet-baggery, has already commenced, and
it is demonstrated that whenever the white
people-the true citizens of the State-have
made a vigorous effort they have overcome
the influence of the vagrant radicals, have
broken down the organization of the Loyal
Leagues, and have been able to save them
selves-as to their local affairs, at least-from
the usurpations of the ''treoly loil' adven-
turers. What has been done in East Baton
Rouge, st. Landry, Caddo, De Soto, ETC.,
may be accomplished in all the other parishes
The negroes can easily be persuaded to vote
with their white friends, because they have
the practical and convincing evidence fur
nished by the circumstances of their daily
life, that the interests of the two races so far
from being diverse and conflicting are en-
tirely harmonious, and that the interests of
both are directly opposed to the schemes and
pretensions of the vagrant plunderers and adj
venturers who have heretofore organized and
manipulated the new vote.
1t is true that the Democrats were defeated
in the recent election; but the figures of the
registry were such as to justify apprehension
Of a still more disastrous defeat than they
actually suffered. 1t seemed hopeless effort
for forty-fve thousand white voters to enter
into an electoral contest with party which
boosted of more than eighty thousand ad-
herents, banded together in secret oath-bound
associations, and guided by number of self
ish, ambitious and thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS
Adventures. Yet the result of the election
shows that our fears were unfounded. We
were beaten simply because we had no conf
dence in our own powers. In general, we
quietly gave up the negroes to the carpet bag
gers, and saw the deluded, ignorant creatures
marched up to the polls to do an act which
they would have spurned had they under
stood its effects, and which they will lament
as soon as they perceive its consequences. 1t
is our duty now to act on the information we
have gained, and the experience we have
acquired We cannot afford to ignore the
colored people; and still less can we afford
to let them fall into the hands of their
enemies and ours. We must prepare at once
to attack and to demolish this whole scheme of
radical supremacy, based as it is on fraud
falsehood and hypocrisy, by wrestling from
the carpet-baggers the instrument with which
they have beaten us. The negroes, wherever
they have been properly approached-wher-
ever they have been asked to choose between
the stranger and the citizen, and have been
assured that they would not suffer by their
ehoice-have shown a disposition to follow
the lead of the white people of the State.
just as this has happened in some of the
parishes already, it viii happen in all of
them as soon as proper steps are taken by the
Democratic party. If we are sagacious and
discreet, at the very next election we shall
sweep the last vestige of g trooly loil carpet
baggery from the soil of Louisiana.