The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-11-04

STOCKTON says, and join with Mr..
Shepnerd in den0uncing ssuch
malicious falsehoods as he tries
to impose on the Northern mas.
ses. l reside on Oaklawn Planta.
ton. situated on our beautiful
Tecbe, in the Parish OF st. Mary,s.
The owners, Messrs. Leverich &
Co., reside in your city. We have
been frequently visited by The
Messrs. Leverich, and l call on
them to bear me out, if, during
their sojourn in our beautiful
country, they have not always
found both white and black liy.
ing on the most friendly terms.
although we, the black people,
were invariably Radicals, and
the whites, Conservative Demo>
cratic. For over eleven years we
have exercised the rights of tree.
men, and for over eleven years we
have undergone a more terrible
slavery than servitude. We have
been the slaves, dupes of a few
Outcasts, who, uninvited. have
forced themselves upon rs, and
taking advantage of our ignoran>
ce, and well knowing that if they
kept open the wounds of a life>
long bondage, they could easily
control us aud use us to enable
them to lay out their own schemes;
to rob aud pluder and bankrupt
our once prosperous parish and
State. And to day we are made to
feel the great wrong we have in.
f1icted upon our State, and we
have made up our minds to aid
the whites in undoing these bands
OF thieves and reestablishing or
der and peace.
The gentry of the South have
no ill feelings toward a Northern
gentleman. be he radical to the
backbone, and they know how to
distinguish between this class aud
the thieves who come down here
with view of CREATING strife be-
tween black and white IN order
to carry out their own villainous
designs. Our parish is thronced
with the best Northern men in the
United States. They eujoy all tire
rights a Northern man enioy At
home, and by their Industrious
pursuits and habits have won
upon the hearts of the Southern
people, and are enjoying all the
advantages Southern society can
confer upon them.
The whites despise such men
as the Darrals, the Syphers, and
the Stocktons. These men have
come among Us to fire the hearts
OF the colored people against the
whites, and as white and black
have to work and toll together.
for IL months in the year; is it
not natural thst they should de.
spise these carpets baggers Has
the New York Tribune forgotten
the scorcbing it gave j. Hale
Syphera What, then, must be
the feeling of our people when
We have to live in the same at>
mosphere as this notorious
Sypher
vas surprised to read a let>
ter in Harper's Weekly, by one
Lawrence, in which he states.
that while riding by a plantation
III Mississippi. all the laborers
ran from him for fear he was y
ku>Klux. Perhaps can enlight>
en- both Mr.. Lawrence and the
Messrs. Harper on that subject.
The colored laborer invariably
takes his meals with him in the
field; day after day they are often
robbed by prowling starved car.
pet-baggers, and upon seeing Mr..
Lawrence thev mistOOk him tor
one of that class, and ran to hide
the buckets containing their
nicdiS 10 prevent rald upon
them. | am sorry such intelligent
men as the Harpers allow them-
selves to be imposed upon, and 1
trust in future they will send cor.
respondents whose non>resem>
blance to the theiving carpet>bae
gers will spare them the humilia-
tiOn Mr.. Lawrence must expe
rience when he learns the truth.
Northern people, do not credit
the millions of lies these carpet
baggers circulate throughout the
North. We tell you that these lies
are q slander upon both whites
and blacks. We tell you that the
scales have fallen from our eyes,
and We tell You that we intend
joining hands and hearts with our
own people, and in November
next We intend, with Gods help,
to give Tilden and Hendricks
such q majority in this State as
Louisiana has never before given
to president. But you Northern
people must likewise do your duty.
for if Hays and Wheeler are elect
o6 wo will n rvo,,, xr;k.o -