The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-08-21
THE SITUATION.

CnaFactef as CnaC OF the Two races III
antagonisn, should not be made out
right by the whites of this State, and
that any effort on their part to make
such an issue would result in disaster.
Taking the action of the several par
ishes In public meetings as guide, we
have found that in majority the
making OF this issue has been avoided.
Thus, the white people of Louisiana
now stand acquitted of drawing the
line Of distraction between the blacks |
and whites.
But as intelligence OF the action Of
the Radical State Convention slowly
finds its way throughout the State, and
the white people become appraised of
the determined effort to which the Rad
icals are pledged, to force the negro
into the society of white men, the white
mans movement, only partially sup
ported at the beginning, becomes gen.
eral aud unanimous, and the white
men who were before hesitating, are
now, as in the stormy days of 1861,
among the most active and resolute in
pushing ahead the column opposing
the leveIing heresies of the Republican
party. This paper spoke for, we are
presumptuous enough to say, a
very considerable number of white
men in North Louisiana who
were not ready to make the race issue.
So far as we can ascertain, all of this
element now accepts the challenge of
the Radicals, of the Negro against the
Caucasian. All the reserve has come
up, and the Republicans have only
themselves to blame for the issue thus
presented to Louisiana-an issue which
has massed the wealth, intelligence and
virtue of the State, against ignorance,
servility and corruption.
Leaving, therefore, the bright side Of
the color line united and harmonious,
we turn to the "dark side" Consult
ing the Republican press of the State as
the exponent of the views and hopes of
the Republican party, we have been
struck with the absence of all enthusi-
asm, so recently q prominent feature in
those Journals. We have attentively
perused the New Orleans Republican,
the leading Radical organ in the State,
and Kellogg's mouthpiece, only to be
impressed with the fact that the Repub-
lican is in sore distress over the dissen-
sions in its own party, and, to IA greater
degree, over the determination of the
honest white masses to hold Republican
officials and the white leaders of the
negro to the strictest accountability
Among these leaders, themselves, there
il q lack of enthusiasm, and of conf
dence in the strength of their cause.
too real and self-asserting to be denied
ment of the Civil Rights Bill, by means
of which Negro Equality is to be en-
forced, not by State courts and juries,
but, by United States courts and juries,
these leaders plainly and painfully SEQ
that the Republican party has brought
made an issue openly that they cannot
as good citizens approve or hope to
carry successfully through this cam
paign. Reckless and INSCRIPTIONS as
the Radicals have always been in this
State to secure and retain political con-
troll, now that their fortune is sinking
and their strength waning, we look for
a beggarly plea for Federal interference. |
Mr.. Kellogg will probably convene his
assembly, and Il request to the Presi-
dent will follow, for troops to suppress
domestic violence in the State. KEEL
logg cannot well leave New Orleans
by sending his Metropoli-
tans to the country; nor, with all his
and effrontery, can he meet
the demands of his opponents for Il free,
fair and honest registration and elec-
tion. His perplexity and the salvation
of the State to the Republican party,
can be solved satisfactorily only
by the powerful Intervention of Presi-
dent Grant-and that is now the Radi-
cal programme in Louisiana.
Anticipating this war-like movement
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