The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-01
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! For more than q, year it has BEEN
we'll understood by thoughtful Re-
publicans. white and colored, OF
that certain men elevated
to power mainly by colored votes
aud certain others seeking power
from the same source-both classes,
those in Office and those seeking it.
mainly white men~~knewn chiefly.
the fact that they are
chronic Office holder, either State
or National, assisted BY a class OF
super-serviceable, treacherous, col
ored paatisans who. have obtained
office mainly by sycophancy, loud
profession Of fidelity to their race
and by most abiect todyism to the
men in these men IN posi-
ton or seeking it-Shite or color'ed
have made q programme to per-
feet and perpetuate their power in
the State, which embraces as q 9
principal part thereof the political
demolition and overthrow Of all or
a majority of the recognized colored
Republican leaders and such honest
white men-new Corners and old
residents of the State, especially the
latter who are willing TO labor intel
ligently for the protection OF the
rights of the colored, citizen for the
SUCCESS of the Republican party,
harmony between tho races and
prosperity Of the State. This nefa-
rious plan found its first expression
in the secret and insidious attacks,
emanating from this point and
made in Washington last December,
against tho Senatorial recognition
of Senator Pinchback, and has found
a further expression in Washington
and here in the treacherous, Eft dis.
claimed but as oft repeated opposi'
ton to Gov. Pinchback up to the
adjournment of the last session Of
Congress. ..
We hayo always been able tc
place our hands upon a few Of the
miserable demagogues ord traitors
engaged in this foul conspiracy
against not only the recognized
colored leaders of the State, but
against the colored people and the
great party represented by him. In
carrying out this miscellaneous pro-
gramme tho policy has been to pro-
duce popular distrust toward Gov
Pinchback and other prominent
colored leaders; then division. and
contention among the colorec
voters; then to raise the cry O
danger from the native white mel
in order to force the colored citizen'
who have been taught industriously
to distrust prominent men of thei1
own class to fly to these white ad
yenturers and their colored subor
dinates for guidance, protection
and leadership. A line of action
so base in its purposes and so dis
creditable in its agencies as tina
we have suggested and to be fol
lowed by consequences most de
plorable to the citizens general.
and tho colored people especially
is now sought to be rendered sue
~cessful by an interruptions an
iniquitous use Of the patronage c
the State in some one or many c
its various departments and forms
There are ugly rumors abroad
currently repeated and believed, tia
industrious efforts are being mad
to pack the Convention in the in
terest of the men who have bee
more or less fully engaged in tn
discreditable war upon the Senate
elect from this State; and it is II
ported that the popular will mus
he controlled in the interest of thes
men at all hazards and all cost.
will be remembered th:.t gres
; public indignation was excited prio
to the State Convention OF 1877.
when it was alleged that Governe
Warmoth was using the Police