Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-04-16
How to Do II, and Hsw Not to Do It.

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their own selfish ACKNOWLEDGMENT
How to effect their own plans and
purposes 80 as to obtain the lions
share Of the spoils and how not to
let the colored people, come in for
more than mere modicum Of those
spoils, has been fully demonstrated
in their ticket selections.
This whole plot of chow to do it, y
when it comes to Whitley Rad look
ing out for No. l, and chow not to
do it," when the interests of blacky
Rad No. 2 are concerned, is so ably
set forth in the following article
which we find in the New Orleans
Bulletin of Monday last, that we are
tempted to copy it entire:
WHITE MEN-so CALLED-RuLE THE
SOUTH. 4# tssg
With all our contempt for the
mendacity and rapacity of our itin-
Grant invaders, we cannot but be
struck with their remarkable au-
dacity. History has no such spec
tacle, as for two hundred men Of one
race to control eighty thousand Of
another. Cortes carried some eight
hundred men to Mexico. Pizarro
invaded Peru with less than two
hundred men, but neither of these
leaders accomplished so signal vic
tory as the heroes Of the carpet-sack.
What have they done? We ex-
planned some time since that they
had seized the party government,
nominated themselves for all the
principal Offices and denounced the
tcolored men who would not submit
to their DEGREES as worse than rebel
lious-they were impious, and fought
against the salvation sent to them by
Providence, through the hands of the
two hundred. Let us sum up the
gains of these Radicals. The Gov
ernor and Lieutenant, the Secretary
of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Super
intendent of Education, the members
of Congress-these salaried offices
number in all twelve, of these ten
are to be filled by white men. Two
nominees are colored. We have seen
a great deal written about the ill.,
justice shown the colored people by
the Conservative whites. Now as
these Conservative whites number
more than fifty per cent. of the whole
vote, with much larger proportion
Of the taxable property, as they
moreover are fixed and abiding resi-
dents, there would be much reason
in their aspiring to hold. and on the
colored people consenting to bestow
the principal Offices in the popular
gift.
But the whole number of white
Radical voters in this city has been
set down at two hundred, and in the
State at large it cannot be estimated
at more than fifteen hundred. Thus
this insignificant element not only
controls more than eighty thousand
colored voters, but takes to itself
every important and every lucrative
office within the gift of the eighty
thousand (! We do not think that
any one Of the colored men who
walked yesterday in the Radical
procession believes for a moment
that these men have any other object
than to rule them. The colored
partners put in eighty-two parts of
the political capital and the white
Radicals one and half parts. The
white Radicals draw out ten out of
twelve parts of the State and Con-
gressional officers, with all the Fed
eral patronage of the Postohice and
the Collectorship, while the colored
partners draw two out of the twelve
State officers and members Of Con-
gress, but not one of the principal
Federal Offices. Into all these rich
Offices "ride the taoo hundred. The
colored people do all the voting and
swearing necessary-the white Radi-
Gals take the spoils Of victory.
What an argument for the suprem-
acy Of cunning over confding mex
perience! What triumph of white
capacity to govern Yet the two
hundred claim to be peculiar friends
Of the colored people. They make
the loudest proclamation about col.
orsd capacity and colored rights.
Where were these two hundred in
former times? Did they entertain
the same opinions then that they do
now? Then why did they not pro
claim them? Because thew feared