The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-05-06
From Pennsylvania.
THE NORTHERN NEGROES AND THE RADICALS.
TowANDA, PENN, I.
ADriI 9th. 1268.

THE NORTHERN NEGROES AND THE RADICALS.
TowANDA, PENN, I.
April 9th, 1868. {
To the Editorofthe Enquirer and Examiner:
The colored people, in this quarter,
have at last. discovered the hollow-hearted
duplicity Of their pretended Radical friends
and are down on them. Yesterday morn
ing, as / was walking up street, l met
Solomon Cooper, the Vice-P President Of the
Equal Rights Colored League, of which
John NJ. Langston, Of Washington city, is
President. Cooper is shrewd intelli-
gent colored man, and WINS formerly a
slave in Virginia. AS 1 had on former
occasions given him material old for the
benefit of the colored church in this place,
of which he is the pastor, he has always
regarded me with q friendly feeling. After
a few remarks, tending to expose the de.
ceitfulness Of the Radicals towards the
colored people, asked him what he
thought Of his Radical friends, now? In
answer to my question, said he, General,
j now believe what you told our people in
your speeches IN our church last fall, ia
every word Of it true. / am now satisfied
that all the Radicals want of us is to use
our colored friends in the South to get
their votes to keep up their majority in
Congress, and that when they have done
that they will abandon them, because they
will have no more use to make Of them,
and my advice, uow, to our people down
there, would be to make friends Of their
old masters, for, as you told US, believe
they are the only ones that can do them
any good. The Northern Radicals have
no work to give them, and il they continue
to oppose their old masters they won't give
them any work and the consequence will
be that they will starye for want Of work
to earn their living" In making this adj
mission to me he was affected almost to
tears.
What first aroused Cooper's suspicious
against the Radicals was the fact Of Rad
ical office-holder III this place, saying, in
presence Of Cooper's colored congregation
in reply to question put to him, that II
bis daughter should fancy . colored man,
and wished to marry him, that he would
interpose no objections to the marriage
and afterwards, when we discussed simi.
lar subject before the Lyceum, composed Of
white members, before white audience, he
denied that he had said 80. ! told them
that large majority of the people in the
North were opposed to negro suffrage, and
the elections, SO far as they have been held,
have proved it. ] also told them that the
attempt to force negro suffrage would result
in war Of races and if it should, while
thousands Of white men would 60 down
South to help their white brethren, not Q
man Of the Radicals would raise a hand Il
defend the colored people, who would at
be killed offexcept the Conservative blacks
Cooper said he saw the elections had SC
far gone, as ] said they would.
He asked me what this new order, tht
Ku-Klux Klan, meant! I told him die
not know exactly what it did mean but i
was evident that it meant no good to th,
coiored people; and he concurred in tina
belief. He said there was some colorel
people in the South who were pretty INTEL
|igent, and they would SEQ that,as thing
now are,it was against their interest K
continue their opposition to their oil
masters. 4
As an item Of news, / thought woult
let you know Of the change Of feeling o
the colored people here in, the North to
wards their hypocritical Radical friends.
Sincerely yours. ". r.