The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-12-01
LOUISIANA

The population Of Louisiana in 1870
was S1.O76 male white adults Of whom
15,lSG were not citizens, natives of
France and other countries who had re-
fused TO become citizens, which left a
white voting population of 1880. At
the same time there was population os
colored adults ofS6,913, or a majority of
1928. Since that time, accepting the
". o. RicaJane, a radical Democratic
paper as authority, and We have its dec
laration, that
@For six years there has been
a steady influx Of negroes" and as
steady an emigration of white people to
Texas and other localities free from the
curse Of Radicalism. Negroes have
been converging upon Louisiana, and
whites have been radiating from it"
The Statement of the Pjcawne is sus-
tanned by the State Census of 1874,
wherein it is shown that the negro pop
ulation exceeded the white by $4,000
In 1874 however, the Democracy claim
ed 10 have carried the State by a fair
vote and arguing from that conclusion,
say they should have carried the State
this year, and any other result shows
fraud. Their statement is not correct as
the following from the Investigating
Committee report will show:
In view of these facts, we do not hes
itate to find that the election of1S74 was
neither full, free, nor fair; that in large
portions of the State that usual means
OF nstructing and persuading the
people, Of organizing and conducting a
campaign, could not be carried on by
Republicans without danger to their
lives, and that many more voters than
were needed TO give the Republican
party a complete victory were prevented
from voting at all, or coerced into voting
the white mans ticket
By use Of the same artifces and coer-
cions, at the present election, the Demo-
cracy sought to gain the ascendency in
the State. Then they only claimed be-
tween two and three thousand majority,
and had the Liberals with them. This
year the Liberals we're strong supporters
of the Republican ticket; and in orleans
parish alone the Republican gain was
almost equal to the majority the Demo
cracy claimed TO have had in 1874. In
the p parishes where the election re-
turns are not disputed they gained 2.669
more by Democratic admissions, but
many more by the actual returns
Why should they have carried the State
this year? Only, if at all, by the negroes
going over the whites, but this the fig
ures above given prove could not have
5eenso. Besides in the parishes of Lad
do, Rapides, DeSoto and Bossier, which |
in 1872 gave Republican majority of
2,S73 and which the Democracy carried |
by force in 1874 BY majority of 1921,
-hls year the Republicans have a major
Ity of sos, a change of nearly 1000.
To offset these the Democracy ask us to
believe that of the 2,127 registered |
blacks in East Feliciana, not one voted
the Republican ticket and those who
voted at all voted with the Democracy.
The same storyis told of West Feliciana,
East Baton Roge, Moorehouse, and Ona-
chita. is too much entirely for our
especially in view of Demo
cratic precedents. The colored people
n those precincts were not different in
feeling from the colored people of the
Of other precincts and only were pre-
vented in adding to the Republican
in the State by the terrorism
exercized over them by the Democracy.