The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-11-19
MONROE. La. NOVEMBER 10, 1875.

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The OUAcHITA TELEGRAPH is respectfully
referred to the result in mississippi, as an
aoss the to naton Ronre renre
sent?" Put it standing in your columns,
Brother McCranie. Eureka-W HITE NJ EN-
In bold Observation-Disclosures Iano'cfto'.
Our cotemporary is only partially correct.
White men certainly did redeem the State
of Mississippi, but it as quite as certain that
the redemption was not effected on tho
Color Line and by white men alone. Mis-
sissippi has a negro majority, and the large
majority Of votes cast against tho Radicals
comes as we'll from colored voters who
were disguised with Radical government as
from white men who, aroused to the magni-
tude OF the struggle, buried their past
differences, threw away their Indifference,
and worked like Turks to convince the
negro OF his errors and to get his vote for
honest intelligent rulers. The result was a
heavy negro vote for the Democrats; and
we find the Democrats of the State express
ing their appreciation of the Negroes aid
through the press, by barbecues and other
tokens alike complimentary to the negro
and to the sound common sense of the
whites. l'H i'.f..'.''. '.
As a matter of fact and experience the
white mans pride of ancestry and intellect
ual superiority is necessary not alone to
win q State, but to preserve it. But this
should be no ephemeral pride-not clap
trap appeal to race that will degenerate, as
with the White Mans party of last year in
some notable instances, into political bar
gains with the negroes, or their white
champions, both of whom were equally the
objects of tho bitterest denunciation by the
white men who led in 1874, but who in rs
entered inio negotiations with them and
were mutually pledged to respect a usurp
ing negro government.
The real point as to the white voting pop
ula:ion is in arousing it's energies, hopes
and pride. Plan q campaign which, while
1t assures the white man of his superiority,
affords him at the same time a reasonable
hope that his exertions to redeem the State
will not be made in vain rnd that the Stat.
once won will not DO abandoned to the
mercy OF Mr.. Wheeler. Mr.. Kellogg, any
one else inimical to intelligent Homo rule.
and Louisiana can be redeemed as .sily.
by the popular vote, as the State OF
Mississippi.
The policy pursued in Mississippi by the
whites was exactly in accordance with ouI
views, and was commended to the people OF
Louisiana, during the canvass in our sister
State, as fit example for the white people
ofLouisiana. Pending that canvass, and in
several issues of this paper, we endeavored
to express GUS views on the race issue, and
In none of our efforts have we been so ably
seconded as in the following from on,
edition of the Sth of October, giving the
exact basis upon which Mississippi white
men redeemed their State:
The word Democracy means at the South
nothing more than n hearty support OF
honest, intelligent home government and
Federal Administration based upon the
Federal Constitution, construed strictly.
1t means the unification of all honest white
and colored men opposed to Radicalism
upon the only existing solid foundation, to-
wit: An earnest, cordial corporation with
tho National Democrats, who alone able
to restore to the South, and to Louisiana
particularly, tho rights to which they are
entitled. Pc.