The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-07
THE MORNING STAR CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY MAY

o confidence amounting to faulty. The.
. believed in the Carpet bagger and swal
lowed all his lies. Some of these lies wer
ISLANDERS against the whites, others were pro
mises OF material prosperity. Time, how
ever, brought no confirmation to either
branch OF these fables, but, on the contrary
seriously weakened the confidence of theil
dupes. The colored people began to Fl nd tina
they were actually free and that their form
or masters had n % thought, as was attributed
to them, of re establishing slavery. They
soon began also to laugh at the forty acre
and mule story as " SELL" and finally to
suspect that the Carpet baggers had q one
handled contract with them. The white
Radical was furious advocate of negro
suffrage, provided he was to get the votes
and the oGce
The negro is naturally suspicious and far
from devoid of cunning. He can be i'm
posed on at first, by reason of his ignorance,
but it will not take him long to find out
that something is wrong, and after that his
distrust is unsleeping. The Southern
darkie has finally b come convinced that
the Carpet Dagger is q liar aud fraud, and
that class of adventures. For several
years after that discovery had dawned on
him, the party whip kept him in the ranks.
Pride of new found political Importance,
imagined claims of gratitude, the habit of
party association, and, above all, the fear of
being ostracised, maltreated, perhaps killed
as traitor by Radical bullies, kept down for
long time the discomfort which prompted
him to fling off the party yoke. But all
this has finally yielded to the rising cur
rent of disgust and has been swept away
down its stream irrevocably.
The colored people are no longer afraid
to vote as they choose. The Mississippi
election and our own local elections show
this conclusively, and, in a remarkably |
large proportion, they choose to vote with
the genuine white population who are
really their best friends, and whose mate |
rial interests are identical with their own.
be has, and should quarter the whole of it |
in Louisiana at the next election, we do |
not believe that be could awe or cajole our
negro population into any thing like
for the Radical candidates.
This we take to be by far the brightest
omen in our political sky at this time. OF
course, a general Democratic triumph |
which should give that party full posses
,iop of ali departments of the general gov
,rnment, would put summary end to the
villainous system of legalized plumber
which is now, and has been for years, the
ruin of these Southern States. AT the
same time it would do an almost equal
service to the North in Kidding it of the
most disastrous rule which an organiza-
ton of thieves and malefactors ever had
the audacity to fasten on any people. But
the recent Northern elections do not give |
any clear evidence that the popular heart |
there has responded to the sentiments of
indignation and resentment which ought |
to have fred it. For our part, we should |
not be at all astonished to find the next |
Presidential election recording Northern |
verdict of approval for that administration /
which must go down to history as the Or
ganized triumph of crime.
In the event of Radical National |
triumph we of the South will find our
only hope in the control and posses |
sion of. State and municipal government
by the bona tide population. With gov
ernors, Legislators, and judges from the
people and of the people, and identified |
with every interest of the communities |
where they hold power, instead of itinerant
refugees, vagrant politicians of disreputa-
BILE antecedents, men whose only interest
is to rob the country, and whose only senti
ment towards the people is one of hostility,
the contrast in public affairs could not be
otherwise than most agreeable. 1t is idle
to talk of one party's being as corrupt as
the other. We are not governed here now
by the Republican party, but by party of
Pirates.
The clear interest of Louisiana, then, is to
the white and colored votes. The
heretofore existing between
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