The daily gazette., 1875-01-30
Hosv Wom,d you like d., ReaderP

The Radical newspapers are continu-
ally hnrping about the prejudice. Of the
whites against the blacks in the South,
and they attribute all the trouble in that
afflicted section to this cause.
These papers know they are not tell
ing the truth. They know that the ig-
norant negroes are treated better in the
South than they are treated anywhere
else in the country by white people who
are compelled to endure the presence of
such an ignorant and debased race.
If the Southern whites and negroes
were left to manage their own affairs
they could get along with comparative
pleasure. But there was class Of bad
whites who went South before the war
to provoke disturbance and prejudice
the negro slave againt his master, and
thus engender strife. They got their
pay for doing this from Northern politi-
cal fanatics. And such characters are
operating in the South now. They are
the scallawags and carpet-baggers; and
they elamored for school assessments
and stole the money. They clamored
for more and took it likewise until the
States were exhausted. They then made
the negroes whom they, with the aid of
the Federal troops, put in the Legisla-
lures issue bonds for millions of dollars,
and the most of the proceeds of these
bonds were stolen or wasted by these
bad men. And then heavier taxes were
hcaped upon the land, until it took all
that could be made out Of it to keep off
the Sheriff. How would you like it,
readerP
The negro officials know the whites
own nearly all the real estate, and tax it
in many cases out of their hands. In
one county in Louisiana the negroes
have assessed the taxes as high as III
per cent. In Issaquena county, which
has 6,146 negroes and 74l whites; the
latter own nearly every foot of land and
. pay aineteen-twentieths Of all the taxes,
which are actually grinding, while the
negro officials squander il and follow the
direction of the carpet-bag thieves to
make re-assessments. In Kinds county,
near Warren, the taxes have been grad
ually increased from $3.50 on the 81 600
of valuation in 1868 to S2i in 1875, while
the price of property goes down rapidly,
Except on the assessment rolls.) being
not half, sometimes not one-fourth the
value it was the year after the war. In
many instances the planters are unable
to pay their taxes without being actually
ruined. Near Vicksburg, besides Issa-
quena county, are Washington county,
with 12, ,405 blacks and only 2,164 whites;
Yazoo, with 1886 black and 1884 white
Kinds. with 2O,659 black and 9,s26 white
Clairburne, with 9,99G blacks and 1890
whites; Jefferson, with 10,636 blacks and
3,215 whites. When the whites in Lou
isiana became so much impoverished by
incompetent and extravagant negro gov
ernment that all industries we've depres.
SGD, many of the more intelligent blacks
aided the whites to elect honest white
Conservative officials; and to have those
officials displaced by Federal troops and
ignorant negroes put into their places
seemed enough to stir tho hot blood oi
any people. How would you havo liked
it, reader?
Certainly the people of the Sbuth were
not told that they would be disfranchis
ed and made the slaves of negroes if they
would lay down their arms and return
to their allegiance to the Union, from
waich they had been driven by tho
threats OF the Radical fanatics Of the
North. Certainly they must feel deer
regret to find that men calling them
selves Americans can SO far forget all
ties OF race as to become tho slaves Of
passion and prejudice and glory in the
injury they can inflict upon their fellow
countrymen.