American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-11

require, and he had rather the peo-
pie of the country would not sub
nit. The real cause of Gen. Grants
interest in the matter lies III his
personal enmity agaidst WarinOti,
whom he considers one OF his DlG-
terest enemies. YOu know how he
has abused him. Well, Grant new
er forgiyes an insult like that, and
as long as he thinks the people OF
this State support WarmOth, he
will be opposed to them. He really
does not himself understand the
situation. He believes that it IS
Warnoth's fight to get into the
United States Senate, so that he
can fight him. Naturally enough,
he opposes this, and men here have
taken advantage OF 1t to place the
present government in power.
why, You cannot imagine what a
poor opinion the people Of the North
have of US, and it is kept alive dali
ly by the outrageous statements of
white Republicans and others, who
say that it is impossible for a white
man or negro to live in this city
unless ne pretends to be Demo
crat or has Democratic friends.
You will see by this that the sym
pathies OF the people of the North
are against us, and as long as we
make any disturbance at all, it is at
once cried out that the South is
still in rebellion. Now, you see
what 1 want to do is this: l desire
to do right to the people of this
State. 1 am the representative
cOlored man of this State, the South
and the Union, and as such have
strength with the Republican par
ty. As I was born here, live here,
and have my wife, my children and
my property here, only desire to
be allowed a chance, fair, open
chance, and will show how l am,
and can be, a trne friend of our
people. There is great. mighty
change going on in this country to-
day, which few see and are yet in it.
l know there is dissolution of the
great Southern Radical Republican
party, composed of negroes led by
Northern white men. This party
has since the war been opposed to
the resident white men, because
they have hardly been allowed to
do otherwise; but the time is COM
ing, and coming rapidly, when the
white and black people of the South
will he united in bond of unity, in
so far as their several positions be;
and when that time comes, then is
the only hope for the people to give
me chance and the rest of the col
ored people a chance; and we will
be with you all in fairness and hon
esty of dealing. 1t will be bOund.tO
come some day, and the sooner the
better for the South and the people:
[DY NALL
THE RESULT OF THE CONTEST so
The result yesterday, in the meet
ing together of the Legislature of
Louisiana, was as we had anticipat-
ed. 1t was quiet, peaceful and eff
fective. Looking at the matter in
the light of consistency, the BayO-
net Legislature, it appears to US,
had a right to expect that the same
authority which forbid the assem-
blage Of the Peoples Legislature,
seized its usual place of meeting,
and protected the usurpers in their
daily sittings by the bayonet, should
have prevented it from meeting i.
That this was the expectation, the
les;slatinz of Al.e-BeyUnOe I-ees;-as-
ture and the proclamation of his
mulatto majesty clearly proved.
And a month ago, we have little
doubt, this expectation would have
been realized. But a months steady
light from the press, and the intelli-
gent expositiOns of the people Of
Louisiana have carried conviction
to hundreds of thousands, OF the
wrongs inflicted by the government
of the United States on the people
of Louisiana, and the absolute ne
cessity of redressing them. From
a squabble tetween thieves, as it
was cunning ely represented to be
BY our enemies, our cause has risen
an to be contest between tue foul
est centralism and the existence of
the Saskatchewan FREQ govern
ment and political slavery. 1t was
soon discovered that we were not
to be ignored, and that the author-
tiles at Washington rather became
very busy in ignoring themselves.
They really did nothing. at all
events they intended to do nothing
more than enforce the laws When
legally called on to do so. They
wanted the laws to be predominant.
The people!-the dear people!-was
all their care! But all this sort of
twaddle satisfied nobody it hardly
satisfied themselves when the fact
stood out to the world that they
were ruling Louisiana by military
force. If these bayenets were with
drawn they knew that their Gus
tomhOuse tools, and the whole ring
of thieves they have installed i'll
power as the government of Louisi-
ana. would collapse at once like a
pierced balloon. Yet, they dared
not go further: angry discomfort
was floating up to Washington
from every side, and beating at the
doors Of the White House. Investi-
CATION could not be depressed and
to boot down the people of Louisi-
ana, robbing them of their govern
ment, was a sort of strategy very
like that which caused King Charles
to prevent the English Parliament
from meeting, and King George to