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

to govern. has your race ever degenera.
ted into slavery9 Can Won enslavea proud
and intellectual people9 The attempt has
often been made and has often intimately
failed. Am I told that his opportunities
on the broad theater of history have been
less than yours 2 We find him in his ma.
tive State in possession of one of the great
continents of the earth. Its lands are full
Of riches, its rivers wash them in every d.
rection with navigable waters, and it's har-
bors invite the commerce of the seas.
Yet the world has advanced and man
has progressed on all the continents ex-
cept upon this. In this barbarian dark
ness the explorer found it, thousands Of
years ago; aud In barbarian darkness it
remains to-day, iii The midst Of the univer-
sal confagrstion Of mental activity which
now illuminates the civilized world. Does
Liberia dispr0ve my statement Founded
by the missionary enterprise Of all nations,
and upheld for half q century by their
combined moral and physical influences,
yet to protect her from the naked -canni-
balls, by which she is surrounded, Mr.. Lin
coin recommended that Congress make her
q present Of a gunboat No ship, nor YES
sci of steam has she ever built Without
railroads, without commerce, without en-
terprise, without literature, without sci
ence, without even the elements of civili-
cation there she stands, as perpetual warn
ing against the rule and supremacy of the
negro. qI y sI9 fsfagItg
It requires no gift Of prophecy to fortell
the doom of the South, if his rule is to con-
tinue there. In the West Indies be has
rayaged, like wild boar, the fairest gar
dens that ever Law under Southern sun.
He has blasted and torn to pieces the most
fertile and productive region Of the tropics.
Once the shipping Of the world clustered
around Jamaica, Hayti and st. Domingo,
and from thence again sailed, more richly
freighted than the argosies of old. Their
wealth was a proverb wherever commerce
WIS known. Behold these natural gems
now--blackened, charred and miserable,
az if the fires of some wrathful demon had
swept over them. Ife 6& f!Iii
There they are, dead and lost their
fields barren; their trade gone, poverty in
evry border; their whole hands wet with
the blood Of constant murder; revolutions
following each other, in the form Of whole
sale assassinations and massacres, as often
as the moons full face appears, until the
very names of those islands have become
by-words Of horror and execration. The
same fate awaits the South under negro
supremacy.
The same fate awaits Virginia, who once
owned the ground on which you stand and
gave it to you. The same awaits Louisi-
ana, the sentinel over the mouth of the
Mississippi, your. great thoroughfare Of
trade and natural outlet to the ocean.
The same fate awaits all those plains and
valleys Of the South which 80 recently
poured heavier streams of gold into the
public treasury than ever came from all
the mines of the whole earth. Negro su-
preinacy, as now established by law, gives
you on impoverished country and
increased taxation; destroys more than
half the agricultural resources Of the ma
ton, and calls upon You to make up the
loss; plants a standing army at your doors,
which you toll to pay, feed and clothe |;
and utterly Oyerthrows and annihilates
free institutions in one-third Of the Ameri-
can Republic. And all these woes now af-
fict this land because partisan majority
in Congress is determined to retain its
partisan ascendancy by force and fraud
Will the people of Indiana submit to such
q policy? Did the soldier go back to the
field to obtain such q result, and viii he
now pay taxes to uphold it9