The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-10-24
ture as a voter, and making his in

sympathy of his more experience
and better Informed white neigllbors
and in many intances against his bit
ter opposition, he has been compelle
to select the new conner among tn
whites as his adviser and leader.
Accessions to the number Of Re
publicans from the native whites @
the South have been retarded by tn
business, social, and family proscrip
ton enforced against this less preju
diced and more liberal and advanced
class of our citizens. ....... T..
The field for the selection of po
litical guides by the colored citizen
has been intetionally narrowed b,
the opposition, through denunciatiol
and oppression of every stranger anl
Southern born man who espouseG
their cause. Nor have their selections
always been happy or judicious. One
class of their advisers, whether com-
petent or not, is viewed with harsh
prejudices us strangers the other il
regarded as faithless to the cause OF
the South, while the aversion OF the
masses Of the resident white people
to both classes has greatly contrib
uted to iembitter tile opposition
against the colored man. ..8a..
There can be no doubt but that the
creation and Introduction of this new
political class at the South
licans by necessity and preference
alike-acting in concert as race,
for protection against political pro-
.scription, and the personal pre,judices
of their fomer masters, seeking coun-
sci and sympathy from strangers, be-
cause both were in great degree de-
med them at hOme-may be consider
ed the original, if not the main source
of the violence and turbulence that
manifests itself in all political strug-
giles in that section.
Incidents of common occurrence,
and expressions of more than a casu-
al nature, make us, who are witnesses
OF them, skeptical of the professions
of the sincerity with which the stu
alton is accepted by the Democrats
i'll the South. Our fears may possibly
be grouEqless, but we do believe
that it is the well matured and de-
liberate integtiOn of the latent seces-
sion element to forever battle against
the reconstruction measures, the con-
stitutional amendments, and against
the political and civil rights of the
coloIed man. Disregard of law, nm
less contributing to their objects, and
determined hostility to all authority
that does not cater to their views,
are prevailing features, and we fail
to discover any love for the govern
nent against which they rebelled,
and which continues to repress their
hopes and Efforts to discard it. He
that looks for loyalty among the Dem
Dcratic and Conservative elements in
tle South, to the American flag, as
a government based up
on principles which they regard as
will look in vain. Recent
events have developed to common
conviction what we have long been
satisfied of, that no Republican State
government will be able to maintain
tself in the South without Federal
assistance until the Democracy here
shall become convinced that it is vain
% make war against the idea of civil
Ind political equality for all.
Persistent and determined efforts
ire made by our opponents to create
} public opinion at the North that the
at the South are but a
'and of robbers and plunderers, and
hat the remittal Of the control of the
states to the old citizens will insure
lonest administration, prosperity,
nd peace. We find ourselves per-
istently naligned through press
mainly owned by the men who led
he South into rebellion, while the
associated Press agents are known to
e hostile to us. Failures and extrav-
gances in the State financial affairs,
ven coiruptlons Of insignificant
mount when compared with many
otable instances in other sections,
re magnitied and declaimed against
S prohisacy Ill the Republican party,
'hile like occurrences Of quite equal
laSnitude happening under Demo
"oAc AoAS esAc oCs'iSAy AollCcu3 anu |
arely exposed. Crime, outlawry and
iolence are represented as peculiarly
to Radical rule. The cry
oes out that all Republican officials
re wanting in capacity and integrity,
nd the continued lament OF proscrip-
on against the old inhabitants is but
u excuse and subterfuge to conceal
&c real object in view. Tennessee,
and Georgia are otticered {
i every department by members of
le Democratic party. In Tennessee $
nd Kentucky the same lawlessness
xists, though the excuses are gone ;
Ne war Of class is continued as per- ,
silently in those States controlled ,
bsolutely by Democracy as it is in ,
lose States the Republican party yet ,
ave control of, and throughout near- {
: all the reconstructed States the {
over of the Federal Government is
'voked to insure tranquility and {
rotect life. --.--- ;
The laws of the States, designated
II the protection of life and property, t
e not enforced with certainty, and !
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