The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-11-05
" Equal Rights"

Congress regulates suffrage South
States regulate it North. Is this equal
rights?
There is one currency for capital and
another for labor. Is this equal rights =?
The negro is not debarred from vot-
ing on account OF previous condition OF
servitude; the white man is OH account
Of previous rebellion. Is this equal
rights?
In the North Il man can vote who
does not believe in negro equality; in
the South he cannot unless he swears to
that belief. Is this equal rights?
The untaxcd negro votes; tho Indian
does not. Is this equal rights?
The negro voter is supported by the
Bureau; the white voter works for his
living. Is this equal rights?
Northern representatives represent
the will of Che people; Southern repre-
scntatives represent the bayonet and the
Bureau. Is this equal rights?
Negroes are kicked out of bogus leg
islatures, and it is all wrong; white men
are kicked out of Congress, and it is all
right. Is this equal rights?
Negro felons are not disfra .ichised by
the Black Crook Constitution; white
felons are. Is this equal rights?
Governmental protection is not Vouch-
safed to the South. Is this equal
rights?
Enfranchised negroes make Southern
laws; disfranchised whites pay the
Southern taxes. Is this equal rights?
State governments, North, are based
on consent. State governments, South,
are based on carpct-bagism. Is this
equal rights?
Where arc your equal rights: Bring
them forth. Let the country at large
see them, and not hear of them only.
Are your test oaths, your disfranchise-
ments, your surreptitions senators, your
Black Crook Constitutions, your opin-
ion suffrage, your two currencics, your
inviduous enabling bills, your lcgisla
tive monopoliZation of power, are these
equal rights?
How u German Democrat got his Vote in.
a letter from Scranton, Pcnnsylva-
mia, tells the following story of the late
election in that State. 1t is very sug-
gcstivc:
a very respectable and influential
German, who was naturalized some
time since, and who had as much right
| to vote as any one in the country, pre-
scented himself here to vote, with regu-
lar papers, but having apparent flaws in
them, which Republican officer could
invent, if not see. His vote was re-
fused; but he knew he had Il right to
vote, and determined to vote; where
upon he went home, blackencd his face,
made IL negro of himself, turned his
German name into English, and his
vote was received by the Republican
officers without Il word of dissent
Then, to their astonishment, he voted
the Democratic ticket. He is threatened
with prosecution, but he thcatens in rc'
turn prosecution for depriving him OF
| his right to vote.
| Census returns indicate that our pop
uiatiOn docs not reach forty millions
The increase of the colored people is .
mere trifle. The returns show tina
where they remained upon the planta
tons, away from the cities, the natura
increase occurred, but in sections nca
large cities the decrease was appalling
while the colorcd population of th'
cities shows little or no increase.
An old bachelor says women are lik
parrots ; they are willing to be cage
up, if they only have II ring to pla.
with.