The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-09-03
IA Patriot Governor.

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is willing to travel for her benefit throug
the North. According to reports thl
reach us, the way that Kellogg works fo
Louisianais is by telling the Northern peopi
that under Republican rule their countr
fiourishes in the smiles of partial govern
ment, while under q Democratic Admins
tration the South would prosper. At thi
time, says his Excellency, your country i
intersected in all directions with railroads
your coast sparkles with light -houses, you
every interest ia fostered and developed BY
protecting legislation. Let the Democrati
rule, and you will find Southern cities
growing and Southern railroads being built
One would suppose that the Governor Of
Southern State would not find this proc.
pect 80 distasteful to him as to mako it the
ground of strong appeal sgainst the De
mocratic party. How! You say that De-
mocrstic supremacy would build up your
cities, expand your commercial facilities
and bring ten-fold prosperity to the State
of which you are Governor, and yet you
fight so desperately against the success of
that party! Are your interests in antag-
onism with those of your State7 Are you
warning against community that you
claim to representa- Are yon by your own
showing false shepherd IA bayonet Go
vernon, instead of ballot governor
1t would appear to us that two results
m ust flow from such utterances as the above
referred to. The first is that the Northern
hearers would fnd in them ind q bitable and
damning proof that there ie no popular
government where such relations exist be
tween the State and it's Governor. or
course crazy Radicals will not complain
much at such fact, bat there are at the
North tens of thousands of honorable men
who have the habit of thinking themselves
without knowing exactly
what that means, but who are incapable
Of sustaining unfairness, much less delibe-
rate outrage and despotism. There are
thousands of decent Republicans who will
doubtless be shocked at finding man who
cl aims to be Governor of State systems-
'icaily and ardently laboring against what
le acknowledges to be the interests of that
State. We think that the mere fact of
bringing home to the Northern mind
'uch admissions of antagonism on the |
part of Southern Governors towards their |
states, will gain for the Democratic policy |
he votes of Thousands of men who other
wise would never have realized the state |
# things existing here. They will scorn |
he hypocrisy of a party that creates Pro-
onsuls and calls them Governors.
second result ought to be made mani
est in the negro vote at the South. Many !
# our colored population as men of property
ave always known that their prosperity |
vas identified with that of their State at |
arge. With general prosperity they would |
20 prosperous. Now it may be safely said |
hat much more general sentiment of the
anne Kind pervades our colored people,
even those of them who have no property
AVE found out by the bitter experience of
everal years that labor suffers equally |
With property in time of general depres-
ion. They are all shrewd enough to be-
ieve that their own profits and comforts
would be greatly increased by general
movement of prosperity.
And how could they be more easily con-
inced that Democratic success means
southern prosperity than by bearing the
bove views of KelloggH His admission
# this fact if properly haudled ought to
e worth thousands of colored votes.