The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-05-23
THE CoNFL1oTo OF RACES.

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to organize a white mans party for
the next campaign, is that it is an
effort to array the white race
against the black. This is not. the
fact, and if the. whites do organize
a party upon that issue, they will
not be responsible for the arraying
of the two races in political conflict
The responsibility will rest upon
the negro, alias Republican party
who, since 1868 have held the
balance Of political power in this
State, upon that issue alone. The
strength of that party consists in
the fact that it is the negro party.
the representative of their peculiar
ideas, the ex, onent Of their views
upon matters Of legislation, and the
sworn champion Of their rights in
contra.distiDction to the rights Of
the white men. The few white men
who belong to that party, have sig
nified their complete transmigration
by accepting social as well as polit-
ical equality; by becoming in fact,
egroes III all but the complexion
Of their skin. So jealousy has the
negro guarded this point that moth
ing less would satisfy him, in no
single particular would he relax
the vigor of his insOlent demands.
The marriage Of negro concubines,
with the strictcst formaHties of the
law, and the open and avowed &C
acknowledgement Of the paternity Of
negro offsprings, were sweet smell
ing sacrifices that they have persis-
tently demanded should he made by
their white allies upon thee altar of
race.
The closest bonds Of union among
themselves and complete and entire
abnegation Of every tie that bound
a white man to his race, have beef
the controlling ideas with the negro
in his social and political relations
with the whites. Legislation has
been directed to the securing Of the
supremacy of the negro, eand the
law has been made to bow and
kncel to this great mogul of their
|idolaery. Courts have becn crea-
ted and Landed as they have sacri-
feed every principle of law, and
trampletp upon every ves:ige 81
right-in asserting the supremacy of
the negr9; and justice has been
made to tear the bandage from her
eyes and hidden to see only the ne
gro; ordered to weigh him and
his rights alone i'll her scales. He
has sat ie the halls of or ~ legis'a-
ture and with an insolence that no
Russian CzYr riding roughly over
the PROSTATE and shrieklng foriH of
a bleeding Poland, ever dared as
sumo, and with the grinning CON
seriousness Of a power to Cypress
| that never entered into tho widest
dream of the Turk, he has bNlden
us educate bis kinky headed cchil-
dren and we have kept ours at home
and paid the money for their edt,-
cation commanded us to pay out
rageous taxation to support him
and his party friends in fat offices
with exhorbitant salaries, and we
have toiled and groaned and seen
our own families suffer for the
common necessarics, that we mi ght
run with the sweat of honest toll
pouring from our faces, to hand our
contributions to his ease and luxu-
Try over to his tax collector, before
he could have time to put up and
sell our property.
He has made our halls of legisla.
ton a den of thieves, our courts a
mockery upon justice, and the Ex-
ecutive department OF our Govern
ment a synonime for .rascality, a
reproach and a bye-word among
tie honest men Of the world. Huge
monopolies, under his rule, have
reared their hydra heads all around
us, and we have been made to pay
tribute toothem, without mercy and
without ceasing: Chaos and con
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