The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-09-02
ALEXANDRIA, La WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1874.

southern WnlbeS auN peiPeCusliAS
the domination over the whole coun
try Of the Radical party The
Southern negroes, utterly ignorant of
the very existence Of such thing as
political responsibility, were disci-
plined by the agents Of the Radical
policy, backed by all the machinery
Of the Federal Government, into a
belief that their liberty depended on
their putting and keeping the whites
Of the South completely out of all the
offices and administration Of the sew
eraI States Of the South. These
agents Of the Radical policy were
disseminated throughout the whole
itSouthern country. Wherever there
was post Office, o military station,
an Office of the Ereedman's Bureau,
a fiscal agent Of the Federal Govern i
ment, there were they at their evil
work, dividing.eyery county and ev-
cry village against itself, compacting
the blacks into Q body Of ignorant
hostility against the whites, making
in short that ''black mans party" by
which they were to rule and ruin the
country.
They succeeded in their atrocious
undertaking. Thieves in the State
Legislature, thieves in gubernatorial
chairs, thieves in the Senate, thieves
in the House Of Representatives,
thieves on the Judicial bench, attest
) to all of US the completeness of their
) success. Bullock, Scott, Moses, kel-
logg, Patterson, Sawyer, Durell, need
/ we go through with the miserable
catalogue Of the presidential scoun-
, drels inflicted first upon the South
t. and then upon the whole country by
! this "black mans party" thus con-
t ceived, begotten, brought forth and
e brought up?
I Now, this ''black mans party"
i having been thus created, what pos
n sible form Of opposition to it was
It left at the South which, from the
l. very nature Of things, must not be a
! "white mans party?" What is a
o party? It is the result, is it not, OF
i q division of the community in which
n it exists? And division has its laws,
/ has it not, like any other arithmet,
a ical operation? In that famous par,
II tition of the turkey and the crow be
'e tween the Indian and the hunter, il
'd is clear that the Indian would have
y preferred half a turkey with half
II crow to the whole crow which he got
a But as the hunter appropriated thu
III turkey, there was nothing left TO
Sc the Indian but the crow. The South
n ern white people have to live in on
IS country with the negroes, the hon
nc estly rewarded labor Of the negroe
" is as essential TO their prosperity a
ne to the well-being Of the negroes
ne But it is essential both to the white
'ei and to the negroes that the profits {
Oh the capital and labor of the Who'll
az community should not be left at tn
~ mercy Of a mob Of legislative bloch
GIL heads controlled BY gang OF legl
ne latiye rogues. And as these bloci
'AS heads and those rogues are in pow'
&C. by the force of the "black mans pa
Oh tyn how are they to be put out
va power except by a "white mans pa
d. ty?" It is not a question Of race
'he 1t is q simple sum il arithmeti
ley Politics at the South is not gan
5he of dominoes where all the pieces a
er- white. It is a game of checle
en- where half the pieces are black. Fl
Ftl- Radical thieves have monopoliz
va the black pieces. What can the co
'sh seryatiye, honest men DO but play t
the white?-IN. 7. World.