The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-07
THIS WEEKS ELECTIONS.

| lnuFaCc the success OF the democratic
ticket by a majority of about 10000.
Kentucky used to roll up maiorit;es
of $4,000 and 100000, but it gives the
Bourbons hard work to reach half
those figures now.
Elections were held in Alabama
and Texas this week to decide the
question of calling II constitutional
convention. In Alabama the major
ity in favor Of the proposition ranges
from $1,000 to 10000. The call was
supported by many leading Repub-
licans, and several Republican coun-
ties voted in the Affirmative In Texas
a light vote was polled and q very
small majority secured in favor of
the convention.
North Carolina having already de-
cided to have new constitution, an
election for delegates to the conven-
ton was held Thursday. The con-
test has been very close, and it will
require complete returns to decide
the result. There wAs every indica-
ton that the Democrats would elect
q fair working majority of the 1870
delegates, rs they have a plurality of
AZ in the House of Representatives,
but the Republicans have made a
plucky canvass and gained largely
over the vote Of last year. 1t may
transpire, even, that they have Sc
cured a majority, though tho chances
arc against such desirable cousum-
nation.
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.
New ORLEANS, August 5tl, 1879.
EDITOR CHIEF:
There is !. ripple in the water-the
calm is being disturbed-the political
peace of Louisiana is apparently
threatened by the White League. |
have previously noted tho situation
in Natchitoches and Grant parishes
as unsatisfactory. Now u voice comes
from East Feliciana, uttering unwise,
insane counsel, which Republicans
will accept as u forerunner of the
change of policy contemplated by
Louisiana Democracy. The Patriot
Democrat, of Clinton, says +" the
people are waking mp in this parish,
as IN other parishes, to the necessity
Of taking the control of public mat
tiers in their own hands. The dispo-
sition to compromise that has made
the parish bankrupt and impovcr-
ished the landholders is giving way
to determination to take the proper
position, and govern instead of being
governed. The black man has prorcd
his incopabiHty to hold office, and also
his lack Of Mtegrity.' An appeal is
made to the whites to be united in
thought and action, take matters in
their own hands, and fill the offices
with competent whites. The negroes
who handle jack planes and hold the
pillow are to be protected" but those
who aspire to or hold office" these
creatures soon will realize what they
have lost by arraying themselves
against the Southern white man.,
The editorial is entitled "The Ne
gro's Obituary." and its only reason
able Interpretation is to prepare the
public mini for negro obituaries in
the near future. There is no law to
place the editor of the Patriot Dem
ocrat i'll the working gang of home
business located at Baton Rouge,
and he will continue to set on fire the
prejndices and passions Of his read
ers, but if the people of East Fell
ciana take the general welfare to-
heart they will see to it that his ex-
pressions be not fathered upon them.
1t is significant that John Gair and
Representative Ray are now iq this
city as refugees from violence.
Colonel Wright is still engaged in
the preparation Of the State census,
the returns of which come in slowly.
1t is said that over thirty parishes
have been heard from.
The abolition of slavery in the
British West India Islands i'm 1896
and in Louisiana by the constitutional
convention of 1864 was celebrated by
the Emancipation Club, at the Fair
Grounds on Monday last. 1t was a
pleasant gathering, well managed.