The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-07-29
The Oppressed Race.

The most ipsolent of all the preten-
ces of the Radical demagogues of this
State is that which prates of the wrongs
and expressions of the colored people,
which represents their political and
soclai status as that of a prescribed
people, who require special care and
intervention of Government in their
cehalf. The Republican keeps up this
ridiculous and insulting cry in the face
OF facts Of such character as may
we'll astonish the civilized world, by
the andacity they expose on the one
side, and the submissiveness they be-
tray on the other.
Here is large commercial city of
10000 white people, aud State of
100000 whose governments are abso-
lutcly ahder the control of this oppres-
sed and prosecuted people-govern-
ments in which the principal and most
lucrative offices arc held by negroes
who few years ago were porters, bar
bers, walters aud vidaugeurs, and who
have obtained these offices by no acts
or proofs OF mental or moral qualfica-
lions, but solely because they are ne
groes. The second officer in the Exec
utive OF the State Government is lit.
tie dandy of unadalterated African
blood and race. The Secretary of the
State and the Treasurer are also of the
same race. A majority of the Legisla-
ture are of like or even inferior class,
mostly plantation negroes, WHO affix
their marks to the receipt for their
warrants for their per diem.
The whole armed and uniformed
militia of the city and State, command
ed by fall blooded Africans, are of the
same race. There it not a full organ
lied company OF white volunteers or
militia in the whole State. On mill
tary anniversaries our streets are
crowded with these burlesque imita.
tons of the Earned yeomanry o. the
nation" They, with the Metropolitan
Police, organizrd into a Radical Preto-
rian band, to execute the mandates of
the Radical party, possess and control
the arsenal and all the munitions Of
war. Besides these special privileges
allowed TO this prosecuted race, they
have others equally extraordinary.
Whilst in all their social relations, in
their religious societies, political clubs,
etc, they maintain rigid exclusive
ness, they have managed to invoke the
aid of special and severe penal laws
violative of the natural and political
rights of white men to choose their
own companions, to regulate their
own property and conduct their own
occupations. Whilst white man who
would appear in any of their clubs or
churches would be Immediately elected
as an intruder, we have laws and
judges who give them judgments of
thousand and five hundred dollars for
declining to sell them a glass of soda
water or seat il the dress circle of a
tlieater. And this is tile prosecuted
race! Negroes unfit by nature, and by
an ignorance of the SIMPLEST rudiments
of knowledge, grow fat aud rich in Off
ces to which white men, with like inca
pacities, would never dare to aspire
Instead of oppression, these are the
proofs of a domination asserted by the
negroes through race conspiracy, and
encouraged and aided by a class of base
white renegades, from motives of greed
and avarice. To overthrow this Iomi
nation, to relieve the white people of
this oppression of ignorance, brutality,
vice and mi-barbarism, to give the
political and legislative power of the
State to men of intelligence, virtue,
honesty and capacity, should he the
sole object of tie political organization
which alone can save this State from
the Authorization and Barbarization
with which she is menaced. - New Or
leans Picayune.
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