The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-02
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PARSONS AGAIN

Parsons thinks the black man came
from the ourang-outang, and is mon
key without tail, and would be n ba
boon if he had tail. You remember.
L said Senator Gaines moved for a
commissioner to go to Africa for emf
grants. Senator Parsons said that it
was impracticable. ask, is it more
lmpracticable to send to Africa to-day
and import colored people here as citi-
zens than it was to send after them in
I646 and bring them here as slaves.
when Senator Parsons was so anxious
to reopen the African slave trade p
Under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments had right to send to
Africa for our friends, and to keep us
from falling into minority, if Senator
Parsons had right to send to Germa-
ny for the Dutch. We colored folks
have right to invite the African here,
where the sehoolhouse door is open,
and where the ballot box is in our own
hands.
The speaker being here interrupted
again, as he thought, by carpet bag
gers, said:
The carpct-baggers seem to be in
great trouble. III just give them what
they want and let them go home.
leave. the Southern Pacific and the en-
igration bills, and take my text on the
carpet Dagger.
What is called the Republican party
is not the Republican party at ALL
The black men of Texas are the real
Republican party. You put the black
men on one side and the Democrats on
the other, and the scattering white
men who call themselves Republicans
in the middle, and they would not be
strong enough to lift a flea into office.
| refer to the statistics of my own
county. The white vote is 1858, and
only twenty-five of them vote the Re-
publican ticket. The colored vote is
2745, and they are all Republicans. 1t
is time to look at the great power we
possess. 1t is a sin to have power and
not to use it. We could put bull in
Office if we wanted to. John Hancock
said that when negroes voted, jacks
and mules ought to vote. We have the
strength in this district to send jack
ass to Congress. Yes, jack or jimmy
if you like. .
CARPET-BAGGERS.
1t is time for colored people to wake
up. Little fellows like Clark come
down here from Connecticut when ev-
erything was in a state of distraction.
We were unorganized, and did not
know what to do, and we took them
up, bob-tailed coat, tight pants, little
goldheaded cane and all, and we have
fed them long enough ON our own
chicken-pie. They are unthrifty stock.
There is no come-out in them. I am
better fitted for Congress than Clark,
and there would be more propriety in
my being there by the side of Greeley
and Sumner. These grand Republi-
cans, like Ruby from Maine, come
down hero and would make you be-
lieve that they fought the whole war
through by themselves, and that they
tore Vicksburg down with their own
hands for your freedom, and they will
sleep in your beds with you, no matter
how lousy. No re,re pulling wool over
our eyes. There are some old black
men here who have danced to the mu-
sic Of the dinner horn, and not much
dinner at that, and who deserved
chicken pie, and are better worthy of
position than the imported little worms
that have crawled into so many offices.
Those little fellows are too weak to
plough and too small to breed. Give
your provender to better stock. They
viii wear out our majorities. They
never had a decent suit of clothes till
thev came down here from Connecti-
cut, or thereabouts, and got Office
The. used to hang around my desk at
Austin, and use my stationery, and
call ne Senator Gaines. When they
got Office it was Mr.. Gaines, and after
, a while it was Matt. I am tired of
such fellows living at our expense
There is no use in having strength I'M
less you use it. If white man comes
along with a little sugar on a stick and
promises you erything, remember it
was White men who,in 1856, passed a
law To brand you on the cheek will,
the letter G, and to have you punished
with the bull-whip. He cannot prove
to me that he is all at once the best
friend to the black man. After five
years war the result is that the black
man, if monkey with tail five feet
long, is freeman and a voter. Frank
P. Blair, the great Missouri leader,
said that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments were illegal; and Sey-
mour, the great champion, said if they
were he would put them down with
the army and navy. If the Democrats
get into power, up go the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments, and ali ne