The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1875-12-22
sim ycIpiny.

The Inter. Octou Is growing bite tl,
because Grant ignored the blood,
shirt > In his message. That veracioul
journal says.
We insist that In Missiesinpi. in GEORGIA. IL
trkailsaa. aud N parts Of Alabama. Lo,iiaian,
aud Texas. tho eolerci people arc %virtuallt
BiAvre tp-lHv. Aside from thr fact that they RI
eeivc u mcagre compensation Tor their work
they ARC scarcely moro frte than before the war
They dare not hold meetings Of n political char
artot. save rs they IRE permitted 10 do 80 by til,
whites. They dare not vote. save ut tho viii q
the clubs aud loag,tce who suffer them to do So
| This is lanientnble. II iH not too m,cl, 10 call |
! hiagriurful. The Government Ia strong enough
to con, pol tho recognition Of tlioir lights. but
has not done go. II has rot 1ono IT bocntiso tllos,
Who. above MI others. slould have stood by ant
| defended these wards of tho nation. Joined IN
to II degree. with Tho traditional prosecutors u
tho race md refused to support tho President /,
his policy ol maintaining tlloao rights"
In concluding u TRADE of similar bosI
1t adds:
before tho present session Of Congress phnl
he over tlipar gentlemen will ilnd how idle an,
frtiitlrpa ntc tl,cir efforts. aud lotrn that noihin,
ia glinod by temporizing with an interruptions
foe
The statement that tho coIored poo.
pie of nearly all the Southern States
receive u mcagrc compensation for their
work, and that they dare not vote, save
ut the will of the clubs and Leagues who
Nulitt tlttJit w wv az, VIII w HIttIilIIy
noted.
Could mendacity go farther than this?
It Is a well authenticated fact that the
negroes Of the South are to-day in In
iinitely better condition, as regards the
means Of living, than thousands, we
might say millions. Of the white people
In the West and North. A planter own
ing rich river lands worth say $50 per
acre. furnishes this land, all the teams
aud utensils, in short defrays all the ex-
penses of the plantation save clothing
and provisions for the hands, and gives
the latter one-half the gross proceeds
for his labor. Is there u farmer in the
West who would make such u liberal
contract with his white laborers? We
guess not. IF tho negroes do not accu-
mulatc wealth more rapidly it Is because
Of their own t"hriftlcssncss and idlcncss.
Ten bales Of cotton to the hand-count-
ing women as full hands-was by no
means an unusual crop on the river
lands in the days OF slavery. Nor did
it require harder work to accomplish
this result than white laborcrs I'm the
West, us u rule, perform.
On the other hand, we are perfectly
safe in the assertion that in the Red
river valley the freedmen, to say moth
ing of the women, have not averaged.
since the war, five bales to the hand
made and gathered.
They dare not vote, a V at the will
Of the clubs and leagues who suffer
them to do So" The Inter- ocean, by
the merest chance, here utters a truth
in letter If not in spirit. It is true the
colored people dare not vote save at the
will and djctation of clubs and leagues,
but they are clubs and leagues OF their
own forming.
AS an evidence Of the utter falsity of
the spirit of the above utterance, we
need only cite the fact that at our recent
city elections the negroes not only voted
as they pleased without molestation,
but one of them who was a candidate
for administrator actually voted for
himself! And this, too, in Shreveport,
a place which has called forth more ly-
ing abuse at the hands of the Inter-
Ocean than any other locality in the
South-taking its cue mainly from that
other thieves own published in New
Times.