The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-28
e OUR CoLORED CHIT,

| are yen lItt III youl Will, GIN Winning
to listen to an old trooper, and render
justice when it should be rendered
and reign accordingly, listen to the
last chat, the friendly chat, the home
ly chat Of one, whose head is level to
his own interests, to your interests,
and the common and mutual interests
of the community in which We live,
and earn our bread. Nothing short
of this impels US to volunteer good
advice to you, for we have no further
aspiration .or ambition at our present
stage of life to ask but for peace, a
good living .andsthe good opinion OF
our people,. aa is !, m.a
For seven long years you have fol
lowe ed the banner of Radicalism, I'm
der the lead and forced guidance OF
the very men, white and black, who
iu the present campaign are again to
the front as your leaders, your mas
tiers, and who have always voted you
in "solid phaladanx'' for themselves
and the benefit of their pockets.
Now right here, good darkies, comes
the question, what have you earned
by it, what gains have been yours,
where has your chicken pie come in,
and have any benefits directly or in
directly flowed to you or yours, by
your long and persistent course in
favor of our enemies, your enemies,
and we might add, the enemies Of the
human race? Another question, a
serious one, and one which we desire
you to ponder on, looms up right
here too: in this course of yours thus
helping and ever enriching your enc
mics, under the garb of friendship,
have you not all the time hit your
real friends, the white people, the
land owners, many hard and unde-
served blows9 We believe you have,
and in proportion as the bad men you
have helped have prospered and fat
tened, the good ones have staggered
and suffered. Well, you have tried
this one-sided game of blind right
straight ahead for over seven years,
with devotion which we can but adj
mire, and you are now bound to ask
yourselves, what have we made by
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES does our gain
come in? We know many Of you
have already been busy in PROFOUND
ing such important questions, and
the answer is but too plain and a
bitter pill to digest. Nothing, abso-
lutely nothing, has been your share
of the covenant, and you are worse of
than when you started in your new
birthright, and in many regards, you
have chilled the good feelings Of the
white. people for you and your race.
But there is an end to every row and
hope and redress for almost all
wrongs, and here we come to the gist
of our chat and it's intentions. You
have tried for seven years the men
end the party, which now again
cringingly ask for your support and
votes, and bring out the same old
layout, which have deceived you time
and again, and that party and these
bad men stand confronted and are OPP.
posed by most respectable, decent
and talented ticket of gentlemen
whom you have. never tried, neve,
trusted. And are you not willing
now, after having been fooled so Of
ten, so persistently and from the same
source, to stop right short up, put on
your r e fl e ing cap and ask your
selves if another sort of medicine
tried one time won't effect some cure
some relief to your illness. We Offer
you this panacea, we hold to you now
thesam inducements, the same gooo
faith, which you have always shun
ned, and now ask you to try it one
time, this time, next Monday. Sim
ply on the score of the vast difference
in the men, if the radical ticket Car
claim to have men on it, we ask you
to make the trial and give us YOU
countenance, your support at this
election. The first step is the one
that counts, and when taken to re
trace many false and bad ones made
is always rich with good fruits. NJ
worse can befall you; you have moth
ing to risk, nothing to lose, but every
thing to gain, the chances for goot
being all on your side, and richly il
favor Of good government, ,peace
contentment, which we all need ant
will certainly get by any change, par
ticularly the change we offer you
Try US, try US one time, try US thi
time! s y#.....