New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-27
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WHY the CeloreA vseers 9upport the Re.
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lCommunicated1
WHY the Cslered vseers 9upport the Re.
publlcan Ticket.
EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
Your correspondent having read an article
in the New Orleans Democrat of Wednesday,
August %, has concluded for the first time
to address the public through the medium
of the press.
Ihsve not been favored with much of an
education, being the property of another
until freed by the proclamation of Abraham
Lincoln, consequently must labor under the
disadvantages of the conditions of my birth
and the color of my skin. have, however,
picked up little general information and
scsnt knowledge of the use of letters,
but not sufficient to place my thoughts
upon paper in such order as would give q
reasonable guarantee of suiting the reading
public. But in this case, having waited
patiently for reply from some competent
Republican to that extraordinary editorial,
and not having seen any, have been COM
PEELED to waive the considerations that
should always prompt the incompetent not
to assume q duty beyond their capacity,
and make an effort to reply to the best of
my ability.
The article referred to in the Democrat is
headed Intimidation" which reads as fol-
lows: THE negroes have been kept in q
solid political body for the past few years
by intimidation. There has never in fac
been q canvass in Louisiana since the en-
franchise meut of the negroes in which the
Radical leaders have not resorted to every
species ofmoral and physical intimidation to
force them to vote the Republican ticket"
Does tho writer of this article intend to
make it appear that the negro does not
know his friends!
To quote further:
The Democrat says "in every canvass the
negroes have been assembled secretly ct
night in churches and in other places and
taught that if the Democrats obtained con-
troll of the government they would be re-
duced to q condition as bad if not worse
than that of slavery" The negro does not
require to be taught that unpleasant truth,
a. the most simple can arrive at no other
conclusion.
l quote further: "And leaders anon
them assured them that Grant had ordered
them, under penalty of death, to vote the
Republican ticket without scratching it,
and if they failed to vote that ticket their
ears and toes would be cut off by order of
the government"
Shades of all the dead humbugs that have
ever flourished upon this earth! What have
we come tot Is this what you call instruct
ing the people9 What can be the object OF
the writer of this srticle9
And then the Democrat adds by way Of
giving proof to its preceding series of
"That in parishes where the
whites predominate the negroes have not
been murdered"
This can be easily accounted for. Why
kill the negroes when the Democrats are
in the majority! You need them to do your
work.
But why do you kill them where they are
in the majority! Simply to reduce that
majority and to carry your parish by your
MINORITY
To sum this matter up, I will make an
effort to assign some of the reasons that to
all the negroes are simple and fully under
stood:
l. We vote the Republican ticket, becsus
the Republican party has freed us from
slavery; and We will not voluntarily vote
the Democratic ticket, because We know
that if the Democratic party gets into power
We will be reduced to q condition as bad if
not worse than slavery.
2. We vote the Republican ticket, because
the Republican party has saved the Union
and made of our country nation that
the respect of all the civilized
nations of the world; and We will not vote
the Democratic ticket, because the Demo-
cratic party, in accordance with it's peculiar
States rights tenets, would permit the ma
ton to fall to pieces.
3. We vote the Republican ticket, beca use
we believe the Republican party to be the
party Of progress, Of liberty and fair pl ay;
and we will not voluntarily vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, because we believe the Demo
cratic party to be party of retrogressio n,
and to be composed Of the enemies of our
race.
4. We vote the Republican ticket, becsus
we know the Republican party to be the
party of true reform and of true political
and We will not vote the Dom O.
cratic ticket, because we know that the
Democratic party is composed of the hun
cry and lean of the nation; and We belle We
that in that party can be found the orea m
of hypocrisy; the vilifiers of the regulations
of good men; the enemies of united nation
and free government.
Very respectfully,
ACOLORED VOTER,
NR1