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

The Richmond Enquirer assumes
that the real question involved in the
approaching canvass in Virginia, is the
ascendency of this race or that in the
State government: "He" says the En-
quirer closing an able and exhaustive
article on the subject-swho votes the
conservative ticket viii be on the side
of the white man; he who votes the
radical ticket, or refuses to vote for
either, will be on the side of the negro"
Again our Richmond contemporary
says: 'the great issue of white or black
will be distinctly presented"
Thus we will find that the negro in
Virginia as IN Louisiana, will not be
content with n fun and fair opportunity
to work out his destiny under equal,
just and impartial laws; that he does
not want "equal rights, but negro SUI
pregnancy; that he does not wish to
rule with, but over tho white man,
This disposition of tho negro is not n
new phase in his character, and those
who have SO long and nssiduously
sought the adoption of 4 policy under
which the whites and blacks would
live i'll harmony as political equals,
might have boon saved Il vast amount
of labor and thought, and the expendi-
ture of deal of false philanthropy, had
they Investigated the political! antece-
dents of the negro race before they
began their fruitless efforts. A great
philosophical politician who had stud
led this very question thoroughly,
summed up the convictions he had
reached by the affirmation, that, "whcr-
ever the negroes have been strongest,
they have destroyed the whites" 81
do not believer says he stthat the white
and black races will ever live in any
country upon an equal fOoting," and
again, Gas they, the negroes, cannot
become the equals of the whites, they
will speedily show themselves as enc
miles," The history of the freedmen
in the South is II complete confirmation
OF the views expressed in relation to
them by De Tocqueville, and ought to
convince sensible men among us of the
futility Of longer attempting the politi-
cal and material regeneration of this
country through their agency. Wher-
ever the negroes have been emancipa-
ted they have struck down civilization
under their dominion the most fruitful
regions of the earth have been trans
into waste wildernesses, and
we, after seven years of experience,
have seen no indication that their char
acter and tendencies have changed. |
They have shown themselves the enc |
mics OF the whites; they have cvinced
a determination to consent to no rule
that is not negro rule; they have been
and are an element of retrogression i'll
stead of progress.
We hold that it is now time for us TO
look for redemption of the State from
different direction, and we regret, as
great error, the movement of the uni
fcationists in New Orleans; they can
only serve to divide and embitter our
own people, and there is no possibility.
not the faintest, of their accomplishing
any good result. Tho hope of Louisi-
ana Is in the white race; in its increase
and in its dominion within her borders
and we hold as folly all political move.
ments that have not that object in
view. The battle between the races for
supremacy tho contest for enlightcn-
ed and liberal government against the
rule of prejudice, bigotry and Ignorance
must be fought out here rs in Virginia,
and as it was fought out in Texas,
boldly and squarely; the issue cannot
be satisfactorily adjusted by repulsive
of antagonistic races, and
he promulgation Of platforms enuuci-
ating as the political tenets of the peo-
pie of Louisiana the vilest socialistic
octrines.-.Shreceport Times.