The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-17

on the Grand Jury In the county 10 which live.
But the cases widely different: numbers must
count; and &c is best and absolutely necessary
tnas the negro shall take his share OF tue respon
siblities OF citizenship.
TINE, TUE oURE-ALL.
But you cannot quiet unreasonable fears or
change wrong habits by act OF Congress. asked
citizen Of northern parish, frank and lntelli-
gent man. whether they had schools for the coored
children. lie replied, 'of course, as many
as for the whitesn and added, "at urst
all our people were bitterly opposed TO
negro schools; when after some time we
had come in 70 tnat then we would not for
a while allow white men 20 teach In them, but
we are all az eed that II Is Just as wen not TO
interfere, ana one or my own neighbors, weakly
man, Is teacher In q c0lored school, aud nobody
thinks the less OF MIN FOR it, prominent citi-
zen or New orleans said to me- "when, In 1865 the
blacks were for the first time TO vote | was
candidate for once and heard Just before the
election, that John, man had raised who was
my personal servant, and who, since his freedom
had lived with his family in house Of my
own, rent Tree, was going TO vote against
me. Now, love the boy like a brother, but
called him 10 me and asked the question, and
was deeply irrltated. He replied that Ii was on
the republican ticket he would gladly vote for me-
but IL not. he would certainly vote against me.
told him that II he did ne must leave the house In
which he lived and must never show me his face
again. The NEXT day was election day. watched
/ tue poll, which was near my house. | saw John
\ come to vote; he aid not me, but he pulled
out his ticket unfolded IT, be d 1t over MS head,
! and said in Iona voice Pm voting de repubt-
4 can ucket' | drove him out Of his house, took
4 away all his employment and ordered that he
\ should not be admitted TO my house. !
4 was very sore and angry toward him.
My pride hurt. It lasted several
months, and missed john One day on the
niyersary OF the death or one OF my children. he
sent me bouquet oi lowers ana did not refuse
the peace Offering He lives with me now aud
Will till ne dies, but since then have never tried
10 control black mans vote. / have learned
better Nowadays they come TO TO ask how
would like them TO vote and as those / employ
necessarily lose day If they 90 to the polls no
Iiced that IN 1874 many did not vote at an.n
How clearly such instances show that the freed
man would never have been a Tree man without
political rights. but, also, that the adjustment OF
lis new relations needed time well as law TO
complete it.
Y one thing more was very much needed, and
4 that was a vigorous enforcement or the laws
i Unfortunately the reconslructors Of Louisiana
nave utterly failed In this. 1t was not only muir
4 der and personal outrage they should have pun
ished and represseu, but malyersation In offce
pubic robbery bribery fraud. When the United
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clsion, denouuces ineXcusable fraud and
breach OF trust the act OF man who IS now Chef
Justice or the Supreme Court OF Louisiana, and
when neither the Legislature the Governor
taxes measures for months after that decree 10
purify the highest judicial court IN tile state, that
Is only straw which shows the general drift or
political Generalization. All sense OF honor, OF
honesty OF propriety and selrrestraint seems 10
me to nave been lost by these men VINO have
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extravagantly In mere iue remuneration let
tnis recent instance show you. The re-
publican or Hahn Legislature, that which
after the dispersion OF WIZ Assembly IN January
was recognized oy the federal government, among
other acts passed new charter for the city or
New Orleans, an instrument calculated, ! am
told, 10 facilitate still greater robbery and mis-
government or the city. Governor Kellogg did
not sign the Dill; but neither did ne veto Il. The
Assembly adjourned while il was still properly In
MS nands, aud under the constitution lie must re-
turn Il aligned or vetoed on the nrst day Of the
next meeung-namely, last "Wednesday. the
merchants aud property owners were alarmed at
the mischief which woaid De wrought II tbs bill
became law. they petitioned against 1t, and
tue Governor quietly gave them to understand
that II tleY would unite to prevent the election OF
WIZ as speaker he would veto the bill Now,
do not believe Wntz to have been the best or even
7 excuse a Governor FOR trading upon the fears OF
cillzens. More tnan TINS an honorable repuO-
ncan, man respected by tue other
SIDE tod me, with Indignation that
ndmDer or radical members or the
Legislature had made II condition or their sup
porting the adjustment, that Injunction issued
+ BY state court stopping the proceedings or a
corrupt Board Or Audit should De dissolved ana
il vas % dissolved the day before the Legislature
met
PARISH RoBBERIEs.
AS f0r minor rOBoeries, take this an ex-
ample The parish II PiaquemIne lies Oh the MIS-
7 sissippi, below New orleans. u contains large
numbcr Of sugar plantations and besides these ITS
people mostly French ereCles aud coiored men,
I cultivate rec aud the orange i Is charming,
quaint country, AMI the small farmers vi no mostly
speak Frenc4 better than English, are quiet ana
4 smple-nearted people In the year lsGs, when re-
4 construction began, ths parish hal debt ana
Z 5000 Ia cash 10 It's treasury, which sum was
\ turned over q the reconsrructors Among these
+ was Christopher Columbus Packard. a brother,
am tod, III tie United states Marshal
Tor Louisiana. This Packard owned a small
sugar plantation 10 the parish; lie was
4 elected 70 the state senate. and, by ca.
rious coincidence, the Legislature passed a law
y removing the parish seat from Point ia Hacne,
\ where i had been time ont OF mind 70 a spot at
/ Jesuitsi Bend, further up the river and on Pack
ards plantation. Or course 70 get the county
town removed 70 ones farm i not bad specula-
ton. Lawyers and many other people must live
near the Court House. and they make market FOR
town lots. The records n the county were
Il fact removed; Bat the people made such a clamor
tnat, after i struggle 81 year, tie project
given up. Presently Packard became bankrupt;
but be Is all riznt, Tor tie Governor mas appointed
MIN Tax Collector Or the parish, place SAID 70 0e
worth $4,000 year.
Butler. coored man, rom me island Of Naa-
sau also came ia 1868 Brainard waite
man formerly In General Neal D0wis corps
which campagned ID this region,
other politician lie became Supervisor
member of tile Police Jury they cal them