The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-01-11
.euisiana to bs Afticanized.

soutsdAna to b0 A4i3canixed.
Re appears in the New Orleans
ican of the 9Th inst, nearly
lumns Of solid print emanating
eommittee Of colored citizens OF
Mama and protesting to give their
ks relative TO the conduct of the
e election in this State. These col
red citizens, we find, are the WELL
Known political dead beats, Pinchback,
Burch, Ingraham, Kelso, Joubert,
Brown and others of like kidney. OF
the whole number, the carpet-bagger,
Burch, is the only negro OF pure blood,
and there is not an Individual among
the seventeen, 80 far as we know, who
is not a professional place hunter.
These individuals claim to speak for
the colored voters of Louisiana-clain
to know what they feel and think
and profess to have, especially, in their
charge the permanent good of the ne
groes of Louisiana. OF this committee
there is not one member who is au-
thorized to speak, in the extraordinary
terms used in their manifesto, for the
whole body of the negroes of Lou
isiana.
But it is we'll these apostles of Afrl-
canization in Louisiana have favored
us with their views on tho situation.
OF that Wanted peaceable feeling en-
tertained, as we have SO often heard,
by the leaders of tho negro population,
we now have an authorised exposition
in the remarkable paper before us.
Whatever may be the relations ex-
isting between these colored leaders
and the mass of the negroes of this
State, results have proven that Pinch
back & Co., control the blacks; and
whether, therefore, tho colored people
themselves hold to the pretensions set
up by their leaders, Is q matter of no
practical value, in making rational
forecaste of the condition of Louisiana.
We are not,dealing with public men
and public affairs as they ought to be,
but as we find them, and we find :,
state of facts existing in this. State Sc
rions enough for the most anxious con-
sideration.
Here is n formal declaration of al
legged frauds and wrongs perpctrated
by the white people of Louisiana upon
the blacks, because they arc blacks,
and an appeal to partisan prejudice and
to the prejudices of race, which must
mark u now era in the history of Lou
isiana. The language is not of that
moderate style we have n right to look
for in an address to the people of q
whole nation, (Which this paper claims
to be y nor are our colored accusers
content With even terse Saxon in the
expression of the feelings and views
aninating them but tho vocabulary
of denunciation and invectivc is al
most exhausted to make the F'usionists
appear monstrous in the eyes of man
kind. Thus, we are told in this adj
dress, that, " The Ku-klux assassin and
the political demagogue have taken the
place Of tho brave, chivalrous and
avowed enemy;" and, sweeping their
view over eleven States, these colorcd
statesmen, the defendants of states
men, tell us, that, "The partisans of
democracy, as now existing in our
sister Southern States, and in this
State, are the guerillas, tho bandits,
the camp followers of tho war; &C.,
Now, be it remembered, the authors
OF these accusations against the heredi-
tary sovereigns OF Louisiana, were,
unti1a few short years ago, according
to their own boosted assertions, the
victims of an abject sIaveryl AS yet
only the " wards of the nation" they
have leaped at a bound the chasm sepa-
rating youth from manhood, and set
themselves up as both accusers and
judges over their superiors.
But more than the abusive language
employed by these seventeen colored |
leaders, we find that they do not scru-
pie to resort to faIsehood to establish |
the pretentions they set up. Thus,
they tell us that only ono colored man
IN tho State. S. Martin--was found
to Join the Fusion alliance; when it is