The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-07-19

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White politician, am in a better
! position now than I ever was before.
You cannot possibly do moro for me
than the whites I am now IN league
with; you will 7,robably do less. For,
even when you come as suppliant for
our alliance, you cannot help telling us
that tie sole cluin, zee get hare Wareco9-
'si=ed "lies entirely out Of the domain of
legislation and politics"
And in this answer the negro would
be logical only. He cannot be expected
to take in his halfeducated vision the
true expanse Of that fraud and tyranny
his political task-mnsters practice upon
him. He cannot be expected, for get
a title arhile, to realise that no is the
bond thrall Of the white Radical: his
newer Of wood and drawer of water
But even he cannot fail to SEQ the al
choice but of necessity; that the political
marriagei is notoflove but of ofcon,t7siance;
and he will naturally hesitate ut its nc
ceptance which involves divorce from
his present specious, but promising
bed-fellow.
And the lower the White Race of
the South bends in the dust before the
Ebony Orncle-whose voice is but the
voice of its alien manipulator-by so
much longer viii it grovel in political
degradation under it's black political
night. Forbid it, Southern manhood
! that rnliti..4 lnfi h,H ~.
rs its twin, social and moral degrada-
tion as we'll
We have been at pains to avoid all
aspersion the motives of the movers
in this weakest and 1uost unhappy
scheme. They may be so wholly blind
ed by the long pressure upon heart and
brain--so wholly deatened by the roar
of a false hope--that they will neither
see nor hear the sign and the warning
that have arisen in other lands. But
be their motives never so pure, they
fail OF defilement by this political pitch.
And solemnly warn Louisiana to cast
away in this matter all memory Of
Beaurcgard, the patriot soldier, and to
look with cold and critical eye upon
Beaurcgard, tho politician. Father
Ryan has truly said of him that man
may be great soldier and yet very
bad politician; and wcacccpt him now
in the lesser role, the more sadly that
we remember tho bright lustre Of the
former one. We urge Our people at
homo and our brethren in blood and In
! 70 1S-hnr, hn t~
from Bcaurcgard, drunk with false
hope of release from CALLING and un-
bcarakle oppression, to- Bcaurcgard
sober and unwarpca by the sights and
sounds ola doom he is impotent to
avert from them by means like these.
addresses this appeal, is the same Bcau-
regard who first denounced the HAbo-
Iitionists" in Army Orders. That he
fixed the stigma of Negro Equalizer
upon tho forefront of that oppression
which maddcns him to-day; that tie
called upon our people to keep it as Il
heritage to warm their blood, should it
ever cool in the contest for the purity
of the White Race: Let them recall
that when his brother, Longstrect, fell
tempted by poverty, perhaps as
binding TO him, and stretching out his
arms to n dclusivc futurc-Bcaurcgard
stood aside aud let him pass on to- his
doom alone.
Remembering these things, the men
| of Louisiana will not bclicvc't this same
| Beauregard could ask them to do aught
do degrade their name and stain thci,
record. Reading carefully the cxplana
ton OF his position to-day, they will sec
not one reason given why they shouir
do So. They win only sorrow for The
hasty movement that caused 40 grave
IN crror-for this sad effect ofopprcssio,l
and contunc1y that they will bear yet Il
little longer; aud they will refuse to
follow blinIly in the path that leads t.
shame, until they can again say not this
man, but Bcaurcgard.
There is some excitement III the
:. Methodist Church North over a process
Of "cmasCulation, aa on" Of thcir dig