The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-02-12
Negro Domination.

The following concentration Of truth we
take from the elegant and telling speech,
made by Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees,, before
the recent Democratic State Convention
of Indiana.
81 have thus given you briefly butplain
ly, the partisan purposes and inevitable
workings of the Congressional policy of re-
construction. These are the reasons why
the South has been destroyed, and her
fields and cities surrendered to barbarism.
To support the falling fortunes Of pOliti-
cal party every principle Of free govern
ment is overthrown, incalculable material
wealth destroyed. and the lowest race in
the scale of humanity placed in control Of
the weightiest interests of the world.
Does ony one suppose that the fatal infiu-
ences of this stupeDdous crime is to be con-
fined to the South alone? Soon the sOrdid
and inferior race Of the negro will be seen
in Congress. The Radical leaders, Sum-
ner, Wilson, Stevens and all are bidding
him warm welcome advance. They point
out the seats in the Senate and House once
occupied by Webster, Benton, Clay, Ram
dolph Silas Wright, and the whole array
of departed statesmen, and tell the held
hands, the BARRIERS, the h0stlers, and the
lowest menials Of the South to come up and
fill them. ~s .8ss{ sBtgs
The negro is just now busy making State
Constitutions. As soon as that job of
craftsmanship is accomplished then will
he respond to the call which summons
him to the National councils. The black
vote will elect black men. 1t has done so
for members of the various Constitutional
Conventions. It will do SO for members
of Congress and Senators. Enough will
be there to form a party and dictate to
parties. To retain the negro vote, the
Radical party will always heed the de-
mand of The negro, and if these two ele-
ments, the white and black Radical COM,
bined, have the majority, you will receive
from their hands system Of National leg
islation shaped by the negro and in the.
interest of his race. He will be entitled to
places OH all the great committees. He
may give the casting vote in the Ways and
Means of the House or the Committee Of
Finance In the Senate, and give character
aud complexion to the measures ofrevenue
and taxation which are there devised. All
the great laws Of trade, commerce, internal
improvements, and higher them all, for
the liberty and security Of the citizen will
feel the tainting influence Of a barbarous
race. lam not overworking this degrad-
ing picture. The present Congress means
absolute equality between the races. In
the face Of their terrible commendati0n by
the people in October and November last,
they have recently obliterated by law eve
nv distinction of race or color in the Dis
trict of Columbia. 1 ...s''
The capital of thirty millions Of white
men is negro colony, with large negro
majority, in absolute and unlimited con-
troll of all the local laws, interests and Off
ces Your proud and beautiful capital
where so many millions o. your money
have been expended to make it the admit
ration of the world. is now governed
by q population but little superior to their
brethren and kindred in the savage wilds
Of Africa. If the negro is fit to govern
your capital, he is fit to govern Indiana or
any other State. Thus reasons the Radi-
cal, and be is correct in his conclusions,
but fatally wrong in his premises. deny
that the negro is capable Of selfgovern-
ment anywhere on the face of the globe.
His race has been in this world as long as
yours. The earth and the fullness thereof
has been open to him from the morning Of
CREATION. But where are the foundations
he !, as laid, the structures he has rearede
VIII ere are the books he has written
wbara ,sre his temples dedicated to sol
ence9 Where are his histories, filed with
his achieve ments in war or peaceY Where
are his epic poems, his odes and ballads?
Where is his sculptures What book Of
marble ever took the human face and form
nnder the divine ia, spiration Of his gsnius9
Where is his architec ture9 What quarry
did he OMEN, and what Doric, Gothic or
Ionic columns did he ever Taisef Where
are his cities9 He has had six thousand
wears in which to build then. Where ls
the work of his hands and the offspring OF
his enterprise2 All history is silent to
those questions. He has made nj sign Of
progress in all the wide realms OF the
ages The great creation of human seni-
us, the mighty production Of science, aTe
to him an iinpenetrable mystery. Inc /
locomotives which fly through the length
and breadth Of the laad, conveying broth
err to brother and distant friend to distant |
friend-the steamship, which pIoughs the |
deem and makes the waste waters the high
way of commerce and civilization-the
lightning wire, which brings the ends Of
the earth together and sends q whisper |
around the globe-the knowledge which
penetrates the earth and reveals the store |
houses of It's necessary treasures the Sci
enee. which fortells the storm and efects
the strong lighthouse in the midst Of the !
raging waters, the very light which shines
therein with useful glory n-:none Of
these things spring from the African brain |
or even excite it with the faintest dawn Of
curiosity OF comprehension. Am I told
that he has been in bondage for centuries9
This hut another and still more conclusive |