The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-16


The New Orleans Republican of last
Thursday, had the following
The census and registration statistics
of the State showed clear majority of
colored over whites of over 10000. 1t
was notorious that the colored men were
a unit in favor of the party which had
given them freedom and civil and polite
al rights and the means of education.
When the Democratic nominating con-
vention met in Baton Rouge on the 9th
of June last, confidential circular,
signed by the chairman of the Del %
cratic State Central Committee, was cir
culated among the delegates, which con-
tanned, among other assiduous advice,
these significant paragraphs:
"Second-We recommend that in con-
versations with each other no gloomy
forebodings shall be INDUCED in, and
that the result of the coming election
shall be spoken of as a foregone colclu-
sion "as we have the means of carrying
the election, and intend to use them"
But be careful to say and do nothing that
can be construed in,o q threat or intimi-
dation of any character. You cannot
convince negro's reason, but you can
impress him by positive statements con-
tinually repeated.
Third-We recommend that clubs
shall be formed in different sections of
the parish, of which there shall be fire.
quent meetings, and as often as may be
convenient, a GENITAL meeting of all the
clubs. That occasionally tho ward clubs
should form at their several places Of
meeting, and proceed thence on horse
back to the central rendezvous. Such
meetings would terd to produce harmo-
ny. besides being an occasion for amuse-
ment and interesting ceremonies. Pro.
ceedings of this character would impress
the negroes with a sense of your uuited
strength. They have been taught that
they greatly outnumber you; such meet
ings would convince them OF their error
In pursuance of this programme, five
strongly Republican parishes, which, in
1874, gave an aggregate Republican ma
jority of 3.679 for the Republican ticket
and in 1872, even according to the count
of the Forman (Democratic) Returning
Board, went still more strongly Republi-
can, were deliberately selected for the
application of the means of carrying
the election which the Democratic party
had in their possession. Three of them,
East Feliciana, West Feliciana, and East
Baton Rouge were close to the Mississ-
ippi line. The successful adoption of
what is now known as the Mississippi
plan" in the neighboring State gave an
impetus to the project OF the Democratic
leaders, and with the ready aid of Miss
issippi desperadoes, rendered their task
an easy one. Ouachita and Morehouse
parishes were the stronghold of John |
McEnery, the representative par excel |
lence OF the extreme, Incorporating |
Bourbon sentiment of the Democratic |
party, and at the same time the chosen /
champion of General Nichols, the Dem |
ocratic candidate for Governor. The /
still unsettled controversy as to whether |
Mr.. McEnery, in public speech at Mon
roe, the parish seat OF Ouachita, did or
did not openly advise, in the presence of
Gen. Nichols, the assassination of Mr..
Packard, and other prominent Republi-
cans, will be fresh in recollection. These
acts, at least, are undisputed. Within
! few weeks of Mr.. McEnery's speech
DR.. W. II. Dinkgrave, the most active
white republican of the parish, was as
iassinated in broad daylight in the pres
,nce OF at least one prominent Democrat
If the parish, and the whole Democratic
tacitly concurred in shielding
he murderer from arrest Still later,
wo prominent colored leaders were shot
lown on their own thresholds by distin-
uished white men under circumstances
ecently so graphically narrated by the
United States army officers commanding
he post The shooting of a United !
tates Deputy Marshal while conveying
ballOt-box to one of the strongest Re i
ublican precincts of the parish, and the
onsequent prevention of any vote at 1
nat poll, was recorded in our dispatches i
esterday I
In Morehouse, the adjoining parish, a
ne proceedings under the Democratic c