Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-09-28
A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT.

! Considerable excitement and indig
nation has as we are informed, beef
manifested in this community, regard
ing an article in the form ola Com
tnunication, respecting registration il
this and other parishes IF louisiana
which appeared in-ths-Gazette. Th,
article itself has been denounced a,
tincendiary, !nfamatory, dnfounded
false, with a variety of other equally
complimentary designations. The an
thor is perfectly able and will nc
doubt be found perfectly ready and
willing, to viadicate himseIf both 10 !
public and private sense, as soon as
the card Of the individual, who has
taken to himself entirely, structure
which were meant to be general, meets
| his eye, and as to the insinu atoms
against ourselves, we treat them with
contempt. No one not Of the simplest
and most unsophisticsted tempera-
ment and disposition, ever expected
honesty in politics, more than in any
other description Of gambling, and
consequently when one political party
ACCUSES an opposing one of fraud or
taking unfair advantages, it's perfect
'iy understood that were positions re.
yerSed, the accuser would become
the accused. -i+
Governor Warmoth admitted this
fact as fully by the words he used in
his speech IN New Orleans, as it he
had come out and said az many of the
party have the frankness to say here,
by - we have got the dead wood
on you this time, and we intend to use
II, and in fact it is custom aud practice
go universal in elections every where,
not only here bot IN England aud
other parts Of Europe, for the contend.
ing parties, each to take every advan.
tage Of the other, that it scarcely ex.
cites notice except for the purpose of
contesting the result. That both sides
resort to unfair means whenever they
can is then certain, but il Is no less
certain that the practice Is to oe con
demned, az what one does, is no ex.
cssse for tie other, two wrongs never
a right, and %eoiriy notice the
matter to show that both sides are
equally inconsistent, aid to blame
IT. all great public meetings held for
sometime back, by Southern Demo
Gratis, Liberals or whatever name they
claim, the.measures Of Reconstruction
have been acquiesced in and accepted
rs final and binding.
Free Suffrage is the key stone of the |
srch Of Reconstruction, and therefore
o oppose 1t, or any preliminaries
necessary to it, il to oppose Legisla.
ion which the South has accepted and |
'olennly promised to obey.
In the last Issue of the Louisiana
Democrat, lie az article on Registra.
ion, one paragraph of which moro
strengthens our position regarding the
airness OF the registration, than any.
hing. We have said ourselves. We
ontend that according to the Recon
Traction laws, fully accepted and ac<
in by the South as before re.
MARKED, ail men are equal as to politi-
al rights, and as this is Republican
ountry the rights o: the majority
hould be respected over the minority.
rough every exertion should be made
protect and enforce the rights of {
9th. H8 - 4,
The Democrat it viii be perceived
the convenience of the few
bites Who inhabit the pinewoods, all
whom are expert and pgactised x
'rsemen, and haze nags who. would
lrry them with ease to the extreme q
nits of the parish in day, more to
studied than that OF the multitude
colored men who live on the Bayous I
ID low lands, not one-third OF whom
'rhaps have horse Of their own, or b
q procure one to ride the twenty or
frty miles to the place of Rsgistra, ?
N.
The white man must not be put to r,
y sacrifice of time or labor, but it c,
mt not matter how far colored man q,
8 to 60, or what time he may lose, in o z.
ccessful or fruitless attempt to ex ci