The New York herald., 1874-11-09
LOUISIANA.

How tho State Was Redeemed from
Radical Rule-stampede of Radical
Ncgrocs-Beneficial Effect of the Penn
Revolution ON tho Conservative
Cause-A Lesson for Future Guidance.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 4 1874
You people OF the North we're doubtless as much
surprised yesterday morning as were the conser-
vatives and republicans OF this State to learn that
the masses who for so many years have been
suffering from the ruin Of carpet-bag rule had at
the polls won signal victory and routed the
leeches who have been iattening upon the over
burdened taxpayers, horse, foot and or.
tilery, and in tones Of thunder rebuked
President Grant and Attorney General VIII.
iiams for their partisan interference in the
internal afairs OF sovereign State. Such q
result under ordinary circumstances would have
been unlocked Tor; but when they remembered
tnat feuerai soldiers had been roistering through
the state behind federal marshals. tearing innocent
but suspected gentlemen from their homes and
families and by bigh-handed terrorism driving
timld whites by the thousands to the bayous and
morasses, the result was much more marvellous
When the registration returns, manipulated by
radical Commissioners so as to exclude hundreds
OF whites In many parishes from the regis
try (which Is necessary qualification for
yotng, came In and showed over 10000
hope OF carrying the state. Yet they resolved to
exert all their power to reduce the radical majority
and while not sanruine Of securing a sufficient
colored vote to overcome the republican majority
special efforts were made to take advantage of
divisions In the ranks OF the dominant party to
elect members of Congress and o majority OF the
House. How gloriously their efforts have been
crowned with success you have already learned,
and now propose to state what conceive to be
THE SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS
in the campaign You will recoilect that In the
first letter wrote from this point l Gwelt upon
the relations existing between the two races, and
charged that the prejudces OF the whites pre-
vented them from forming union with the blacks
against the advent turers who had remained here
at the close Of the war; These prejudices
alienated from them the respect and
confidence OF their former slaves, who were
easily led to believe by the men who used them
for political purposes that rhe whites would re-
ensave them. SO great was their confidence In
the power Of the Kellogg government that they
felt 1t would be permanent and could not be over
thrown. The revolution OF September IA cured
them OF this idea and reassured them that the
whites nad no personal hostility toward the blacks.
In consequence there began az once stampede OF
negroes from Kellogg to the conservative party.
The course OF the whites in generally agreeing TO
cease employing colored radicals was anoiher
wedge that widened the Ureacn between the white
and black Republicans. The blacks saw that the
cotton presses, the sugar mills, the steamship
lines, the railroads, the cane and cotton helds,
the ioundres, shops and factories were owned
almost entirely by the wnltes TO whom they
must look for tnat sustcnance wnicn they could not
get In politics, where nearly all tine oiilces we're
filed by white carpet-baggers and southern
scalawags, and large numbers decided to desert
the government OF KELLOGG for the party opposed
to H. Leading negroes made promises to the con.
servatlyes, organized In the city ana elsewhere
CUlORED DEMOCRATIC CLUBS,
and only asked as guarantees In exchange for
their votes that they should be employed ana
should he surrounded at the polls oy suflicent
wnlte men 10 protect them rom coored VIOLENCE.
the whites were suspicious o. contemplated
treuchery; but, nevertheless, they resolved to
SINK prejudice and join the blacks IN an effort 10
carry the state. On the day OF the election pusi.
ness was very generally SUSPENDED; the merchant,
the cotton broker. the manufacturer and the con-
tractor gong to the poll with his coiorcd help,
protected tDem irom violence aid gave them
an opportunity TO prove the sincerity OF
their prosessed conversion TO tue demo
cratic aith. Coored cubs. nanked by White
Leaguers, unarmed, marched In bodies to the polls