The weekly Louisianian., 1874-07-18
TACTICS or THE ENEMY.

a wise general Is never w1ll1ngiy
Ignorant Of or Indifferent to the
plans of his enemy. We have
watched, with considerable interest,
therefore, 1 the Democratic pro
gramme Of the coming campaign SO
far as the same has, from time to
time, been indicated in their jour
mails and individual utterances. It
is proposed in the parish Of Orleans
to make the fight exceedingly pro-
scriptiye, especially in the direction
of labor. The surplus of idle white
men in the city-many voting in
the line of their bread and butter
Or not al ALT is proposed to nti};~
to the fullest extent, not 10y ny
appeals to their .prejud3eS o. .
but by giving their me employment
that tho NE industrious and
tractable colored laborer now en-
lows The deraagogues, who have
|of old times run the Democratic
party in this city, have more than
once forced unwilling tribute from
their better conditioned, non-politi-
lca1 white :b-r.4a4. and they are
encouraged from success in the
past, to apply the political screws to
the mercantile and other capital
classes, who need labor, so as not:
only to obtain contributions for the
current expenses of the canvass but
SO as to control Caucasian votes, for
the White League candidates, that
would otherwise remain uncast or
else be cast with the Republican
party. Our adyersaries really mean
IN the parish of Orleans, where
white labor is comparatively abund-
ant, if possible to rob the colored
man of his work and his bread, in
order to conciliate the !shc.-ing
white classes, Or to intimidate the
colored. This line of action cannot
be followed however in the country
parishes without irreparable, fnan-
cial injury to the white proscrip-
ZIONIST himself. A different class OF
expedients must, therefore, be
adopted in the country, where the
colored votes so largely FREEDOM
mate. Systematic efforts to dis.
courage, teo: demoralize. and to in
timidate: Republicans, will be made
in the parishes, so as if possible to
prevent the casting of moro than
two-thirds of our vote. They pro-
pose to say TO the colored. voters,
who are unprovided with paper and
mail facilities, and cut of from con-
tact with reliable sources Of infor-
nation, that the President has
abandoned the colored people in
Texas and Arkansas, and will do it
here; that the Federal Court, upon
which they have relied for the pro-
lection of their, civil and political
fright, cen no more be depended
upon, as was evident from the de-
cision OF Justice Bradley, in the
Grant parish cases; and the Ma
tional Congress and the National
Republican party, as Was evidenced
in their action on the Civil Rights
Bill, are getting tired OF the col
ored voters, and do not propose
any longer to champion them; and,
finally, that Gov. Kellogg, distrqst,
ing the colored people, proposes tc
conciliate the white conservatives
by the use of his patronage, and
That in order to protect himself
against supposed danger, will sign
, the Election Bill now in his hands
and through the machinery that il
, furnishes secure such q Legislature
as will act in harmony with him
: and deprive the colored people o
:, their due proportion Of represen
tation in the government. Al
these plausible and specious mis-
representations, in their varied ane
t multiform phases, are to be mad
and reiterated to tho rural voters
80 as to inspire suspicion of thei
leaders, and their party; distrust Q
= their friends, encouragement il
their eforts-to be followed u
with threats, implied, suggested o
l.rol m nc nv con,a ~. a