Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-06-07
Senator Carpenters Speech

OuI oASEdCtS from StudtOC OdrpCh
ter's Speech, revised by himself for
publication in the Republican. In
his concluding and supplementary
remarks, it will be seen that he at
tributes the defeat of the new cleo
ton scheme, principally to democra-
tic Senators in Congress.
TUMULT NO HELP.
Whether there should or should not be
n new election depends upon the question /:
What was the real character OF the lost No
yember electiOni If Kellogg and his asso-
ciates are not entitled to their offices, it is
because they were not elected, not because
you resist them, Tumult and violence and
crime raging in the State do not tend to
prove that Kellogg is notentitled to his
seat. Come to the next Congress. Let
me say again TO all of you, on all sides of
this question, of every shade of opinion,
ton ching the last election, "come to the
next Congress, present your case, show up
the facts" and have no right to doubt, L
do not doubt, that Congress viii do what
Justice requires.
And if the case when fully r,ade shall
show what the case actually made did show
that Kellogg ought have been elected but
was not, and that McEnery was elected
but elected only by frsud, then I shall Ger
tainly advocate the duty of Congress to
wipe them both out and order new cleo
ton.
NEGRO MURDERS A MISTAKE.
No matter how lisagreable the thought
may be to you, the fact exists that the
white ard colored citizens of Louisiana
must live together, and the children of
both are destined "a joint possession of
this State, and if there is any one thing es-
sential to all of them, it is the lesson of
obedience by all TO law. Laws may be
passed that are oppressive. The remedy is
repeal. Judicial judgments may be pro-
nounced which are erroneous. The remedy
Is reversal. Wrongs may be committed in
the exercise of all governmental powers
The remedy is redress by governn.ertsl
means. In this connection let me say to
you Who believe there should be re-elec-
ton in this State, that one or two repeti-
lions of the Grant parish massacre will do
more to answer yonr claims than all that
can be said or done by the Kellogg govern
| medt.
TIE GRANT PARISH MASSACRE.
Are you white men alarmed at the appre-
hension of n war between the racess Have
| You any doubt IA to what would be the result
of such war The massacre in Grant parish
answerothe question. We are told that a
band of negroes were entrenched, were set
upon by white men; that battle was
fought, in which two white men lost their
| lives and about l09 negroes were slain. The
mere statement of the fact carries its own
commentary with is, and proves two things;
First, that there IS no danger Of q war be-
| tween the races IN Louisiana, and that any
such attempt on the part of the colored
mon would be trampled out by the white
race in twenty-four hours an d, unf0rtun
ately, it proves another thing-that the
! white men of Louisiana do not understand
! that the two races are upon level for any
| purpose or in any sense. Ia there a mar
here tonight who will tell me that what
took place in Grant parish would have
| happened IL these colored men had been
| white men under the same circumstances
Why, there never was an hour, even during
! the war, when the animosities of the whof:
nation were aroused and all the evil pas
sions of men were raging, when actual con
flict was in progress, and blood drencheG
the land from ocean to ocean, when q regi
| Ilcub III LDulSldud lToopS WOulu NAVE
treated the most detested New England
regiment, surrendered, defenseless and
unarmed, az the colored men of Grant par
ish were treated. And that mountain o.
colored men. slaughtered while they wer,
escaping from burning courthouse, illus
tratas what Imean when say that neither
| the white men nor the cOlored men of Lou
isiana comprehend that slavery has beer
| abolished.
HOW TO STOP IT.
IOu gentlemen whom | am now address
| ing, you intelligent and influential bust
ness men OF New Orleans can change THU
condition of things ii You set about it anC
let me say that il yOu would inform youl
young men who are drink g whisky al
all day, and killing negroes for pastime Al
night, that this must stop, you could stoI
it. You could teach your youth that col
Ored mans life was protected by law anC
was absolutely sacred, and never until yor
do this will there he healthy condition
of things in your Stste--neyer until you dc
| this will yGur fields I've cultivated YOU
commerce restored aud your prosperity es
! tablished.
UNCULTTvAFED PLANTATIONS.
There is another particular in which sla
very is not abolished. Your State is cover
ed with immense plantations, which ought
| to be divided up into small farms, These
plantations were necessity Of slavery, ana
| the trouble is that you have lost the profit
able result of slavery, and have not as yet
put yourselves in a condition TO realize the
manifestly greater compromising adyanta-
! ges 'of universal liberty. Every policy
shapes surroundings in its own interest. Ia
England, FOR instance, there is An aristo
cracy. a powerful lord owns county
which is titled by tenantry, who raise al
that is produced, tecieves small share, and
the surplus goes to swell the already over
flowing eoileis of the lord. Slavery accom-
| plished the same result, The planter had
thousands of acres, titled by hundreds OF
slaves-and perhaps. this was the most
| economical arrangement for that condition
of things, but with the abolition Of slavery
should go the abolition of these vast plan.
! tatious.
HOW TO CIT THEM CULTIVATED.
Why is it that the Northern State are 50
much more prosperous in agriculture than