The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-07-15
COMMUNICATION.
ALEXANDRIA. La, !
July -, 1874


bic man TINT the Republican party in
Louisiana has, especially since the CAM
paign OF 1872, developed a rapid
tendency to the establishment of an ex-
elusive negro government in the State,
and the engrafting upon our body po-
little the doctrine of absolute negro
supremacy. Experience and common
sense tell us that the colored people of
Louisiana will never affiliate in politics
with the white race, nor trust them to
vihdicate their interests or their rights.
They have, within the past two years,
conceived the insane ambition to rule
the State. They. boldly assert the right
and express the intention to control all
the offices, to make all the laws, to con-
fiscate all the property, and, if need be,
to hold in their hands the very lives
and liberties of our white citizens
They have not only manifested the dis
position to do this, but, to accomplish
these ends, they have put in operation
all the machinery of law making power
which corrupt and tyrannical general
government has placed in their hands.
They have exercised this tremendous
power with an animus Of peculiar Bit
terness and hate toward the white eiti-
zens Of our State. They have marked
out their line of conduct for the coming
campaign upon the distinctive and def
ant principle of exclusive supremacy
for their race. They have drawn the
dividing line between themselves and
us too distinctly now for any sensible
white man to hope or expect their CO.
operation in any efforts to improve our
political condition, to enhance our ma
terial prosperity or to rescue our State
and people from impending ruin
They have gloated for years, with fiend-
ish joy over the multitude of misfor-
tunes which they and their party have
inflicted upon US. They have witnessed
for years, with that reckless delight
which only the tyranny Of combined
brutality and ignorance and power can
feel, the utter helplessness and humili-
alton to which they have reduced u.s.
They are familiar with the long cata-
logue of unrighteous wrongs we have
so long and patiently endured at their
hands, for they are the authors Of those
wrongs. They know and they feel our
superiority, aud they have an instinc-
tive foreboding that that superiority
will ere long be in the ascendant
They have been taught to hate us, and
their past record of tyranny and public
crimes, aud their bitter policy toward
our white citizens for years, prove that
they would crush us into a condition
far worse to sensitive mind than that
of a galley slave, if their power were
but equal to their will.
They hope, therefore, to make the
coming campaign an auspiciohs time to
grasp more tightly than ever the reins
of absolute power. This we know to be
their pasamount aim.
The question, then, that addresses it
self more seriously than all others, to
the mind of every reasoning white man
is, shall they prolong their lease of
power far an indefinite term, and there
by be enabled the more swiftly to ac-
eoinplish our complete ruin? 1t Is
their fond and sworn desire to do this
Then it behooves our white citizens to
harm onize, to put on the panoply of
self-defence, to marshall their strength
and unite their energies to meet the
gauge of contest in the coming cat1-
paign. In such crisis, then, is it not
the part of wisdom and of patriotism
and of common sense, for our people to
cling to that party that offers the most
effective resistance to these encroach-
ments?
Candid reflection tells us that the only
organized political element that ca n
promise redemption, that can hope to
cope successfully with our enemies, is
the National Democratic Party. That
is the only constitutional party known
to our people. 1t possesses the prestige
of a glorious past. 1t possesses an un-
mistakabte, inherent power and moral
strength, as shown by its many trium-
plant successes in the past twelve
months, to command it to the confidence
and support of any people who wish to
perpetuate their liberties. Its name Is
tower Of strength in the land. Its
power has been dealing terror to the
hearts of our political enemies through.
out the North and West, and its glori.
Gus mission is to bring back the bless:
ings of free government. of prosperity
and of happiness to our people. But
above and beyond all, it will have the
additional virtue in the coming cam,
paign of being to all intents and pur
poses for the salvation of the people o.
Louisiana, a WHITE MANS PARTY
1t will be a white mans party, no
because of proposing to deny to the col
ored people of our State any of the pc
litical rights they derive from our pres
ent National and State constitutions
but because it proposes and pledges it
self in this State to vindieate the supre
macy af the white race. 1t would b.
childish vanity for any party to at
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