The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-13
" The following from The Nat
son Journal sneaka fn,. itself

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conduct and teachings of set !.
! political adFepturera mestly whit
claiming afhliation with both polit
cal parties, ready, and waiting to b
tray either whenever a gainful o.
portupity should arise: The sontl
: ern ,demagogue denounced and pc,
secuted the Northern man becau<
lie was q Northern man. The NORTH
ern demagogue taught the colore
man, that: because the white peopl
lot the South had been shareholders
every Southern man was unworth
their trust and confidence, and ..tha
he would il. certainly reduce him t,
slavery i he gay'e him any politiea
support. The only use that thes,
(advenlturers Of either party had ;fo1
the colored man was to get his vote
To further their own ends they
would occasionally make use of hin
by nominating him to some. small
office, but never once did they per:
NIT him to aspire to the lucrative
|positions. He was too ignorant
he was not qualified. He was quail.
|ifed to work and to vote, and afte,
awhile he would be educated up to
! the right standard In the mean:
time be could govern the country,
through Mc'n, his appointed agents,
and yet their mule and forty acres
of land. The colored man never had
any confidence in the Southern dem
agogue, and he has found out at last
that the Northern one is just as un.
worthy as he knew the other to be.
He has got to thinking a little, and
has about come to the conclusion
that if he has not quite as much ed
ucation as his uo,ld-be leaders, he
is qualified to manage affairs as well
as they have been managed, and he
knows he can do it as honestly. II
he does not give lis full confidence
to his fellow-citizens Of the white
race, it will not be because they are
Southern or Northern men. He
will no longer be SO credulous as to
accept rs pure gospel everything
that falls from the lips that make
proclamation Of their ':four years
fighting" for the freedom Of the
black man. He begins to suspect
that their fighting did not result in
much bloodshed, and that there
was some other inducement for it
than the freedom of the slave. He
has got sense enough to know, if be
is ignorant, that Southern Union
man who says that he was a Union
man because he desired the liberia
lion of the slaves, is a liar. He be-
gins to believe that all Southern
men do not wish to remand him to |
The condition of slavery, and bel
knows they hove not the power, if
hey had the wish; SO the principle |
staple Of the Northern demagogue !
mas lost it's value.
Our old citizens have discovered
hat a Northern man is not necessa-
lily a bad citizen, and that the black /
nan has exhibited some capacity
or citizenship, and for public busi-
less. There is not a white man in
Madison parish, Of any political
,arty, who will not admit, and with
'ut any disparagsment to former
ncumbents, that the Offices OF Clerk
md Recorder, now administered by
olored men, are az we'll managed
IS they ever were. 1twill no longer
" accepted that because a man is
lack he is unfit to hold an Office,
ny more than It will that he ought
o i1av9 it because he IS black, or
,ecause he is a Southern Or North
rhsman. AZ it was at the birth of
he Republican party, the first ques-
ion in regard to candidates viii be,
RI he hQnest'" II t The present.
ondiGon Of affairs in Louisiana
bat virtue win cover. /, multitude Of
hat 'li',t might be considered defects
Inder more favorable circum-l
tances, gs.ss$; .4a =' f.
Itisa gratifying circumstance, and |
'odes we'll for the peace and pros I
'erity Of the State, that the jealousy J.