The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24
SOUTHERN OUTRAGES."

ure, poor Frank Corwin, on the score of his
achievements as u member of the present
congress or fitness for such position in any
point of view, the Joliet SIN in-law) and
Ottawa Republican, (mouth piece,) the only
papers in the district that have undertaken
the uphill job of actively champicning his
cause, are trying to give him boost by
loudly and persistently ringing the changes
on Southern Outrages" The SIM this week
dcvotes three columns to dispatches (manu.
featured at the attorney generals office in
Washington from the south, and the Ottawa
Republican devotcs nearly Il page to the re-
port written in the attorney generals office
in Washington of the Committee on Out.
RACES" of the late convention of carpct-bag-
gers and "thieves" at Chattanooga, AS an
offset to this heavy report we present below
Il letter from Louisiana written by u gentle
man from one Of the Hudson River towns in
New York and whom the New York ECeHiRg
Post a republican paper, vouchcs for las Il
gentleman with whom we have been well ac.
quainted and know him to be Il calm, mod.
crate, clear.headed man, whose representation
on any subject within his knowledge we
should receive with unquestionng reliance"
This gentleman writes
1t has appeared to me desirable, in the in
tercSt of truth, and just appreciation OF the
condition of things in this unfortunate state,
that a candid observation residing in one OF
the country parishes Ga parish being cqulVa-
lent to a county,, who has earnestly endeav.
ored to get at the truth, should give some of
the results Of his investigations and ObServQ,
lions,
First, 1t may be well to state that was a
Wing 50 long as that party existed, and when
the Republican party was formed, was one
of the first to join it, and have continued a
Republican in national matters to this day.
| not only voted twice for General Grant,
but did some work for him, never looking for
office and never holding but one, that of over.
seer of the highway, with emolumcnts to the
amount of four hundred dollars per year.
have resided in Louisiana one year, and
am planter; have spent all my life previ'I
ously at the North, and cast my first vote 40
years ago, My convictions now are emphat-
icaly against the so.called Republican ad.
ministratlon of this state, and l insist upon II
that while the name is Republican, the MiAg
is an odious dcspotism, and that the Kellogg
party is running the government, from Gov
ernOr down to constable in the interest of
officeholders, and using the black population
to get and keep place, and reversing the say
ing of ChiefJustice fancy so as to be, practi-
cally, tie srhtte man las no rights lchtch tie
black nun is b0und TO resp6ct.
1t is significant fact that every northern
man whom | know, or know of, who has set
fled in tln pOIutry nl9ntpr hllSlDp
man since the war, is of the same opinion
have expressed above, and every man of them
was and is a Republican, and INany of them
were officers and soldiers in the Union army.
The course of the powers that be- in the
Kellogg interest, has been such as to eXasper-
ate the white population beyond endurance,
and recent events in New Orleans show that
this condition OF things cannot stand one
hour without the support OF the general gov
ernmGnt. The charge is brought in the re-
publican newspapers that the whites in
Louisiana have commenced war upon the
rights of the blacks, and that the White
League is the offspring of such a crusade.
The reverse of this is the actual fact The
contest was begun years ago by the blacks,
under the leadership OF INSCRIPTIONS office
seekers from the North, and the blacks have
been persstently taught that il the old white
residents Of the state get the political ascen-
dency they will take away all the rights of
the blacks and reduce them to slavery. This
is no Pigment, and 1t is well known in South
ern Louisiana, the section of my residence.
| have made inquiries of intelligent
blacks, and as | am known as 4 Yankee they
are more free to give me information than,
they would be likely to give southern men.
At one Of the parish gatherings of blacks
not far from my residence, in 1871, one of the
white olliceholding orators began his speech
by cracking heavy whip, and saying, " that
is what these whites want to do TO you; they
want to make slaves of you again"
Ny acquaintance is confined to the parishes
Of ST. Mary, ST. Martin, st. Landry, Ncrmil-
lion and Lafayette, and have taken great
pains ts get at facts from northern men who
have resided in these parishes from three to
seven years. The whole influence of the
carpetbag politicians and oiliceholders, To-
gether with the black preachers, has been
against the whites, and 10 prevent the blacks
from joining the whites in any attempt to re
form the corrupt administration with which
this state has been cursed tor years past.
No effort is spared through the organs of
these men to excite the sympathy of northern
republicans in favor of the poor negro, whose
untutored mind sees" slavery in the ascen.I
dency of the whites.
Inc TACT Is, Tie lespeClaDie white popula-
ton OF the country parishes is very friendly
to the blacks. The labor of the blacks is a
necessity, and 1t requires 10 great amount
of common sense to know that they cannot be
oppressed consistently with the prosperity of
the planting interest; but the whites are a
unit in the determination that they Will not
be oppressed by the blacks and their unscru.
pulous leaders.
lone present source of evaporation Is the
Registry law passed ut the last session of the.
legislature, and which virtually gives the re-
suit of the election to the control of the Gov
ernor, as he has the appointment OF the Su.l
perviSors of Registry, and there seems moth
ing to prevent them from giving just such al
list as suits them.
"A copy of an alleged secret circula from
the chief office TO the supervisors was pub
llshcd a few days since in the New Orleans
papers; which substantially inStruc;s them
To see that their lists OF registry are so made
nm NJ In rive tbp IN a iOrty la tho Rapu hl leans