The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-13
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Editor Democrat--,The farce recenti
played at the st. Charles Theatre wa
significant, as showing the abject sub
4 servieDcy OF our oolored citizens to thei
! carpet-bag masters. A large majority o
the assembled delegates, say n Inc. ten tbs
, were OF African descent. with here apt
there white carpet bagger and her,
and there white scalawag, who. by de
nouncing their own race, hoped to prac
tice upon the credulitv OF the crowd ant
! secure their votes. Prominent among
them was the fastidious and aristocratie
Hunt. who, In response to u doubt as &c
his orthodoxy, stated that he was and
always had been a Republican; that he
was afraid OF nothing In this world that
he would interpose the shield 6f his in
huerce between the oppressor and the
oppressed, whether white or black that
he couldn't be bought and was incor-
ruptlble Some In his audience 80 Ole
bered the imDOrtaf,A v,uer and the RUE
" the bayonet, and In aavocating the
DEGREES OF that most atrocious Of all tri-
bunals, the venal and corrupt Return
ing Board. With these privileged mag
mates on the stage, sat also suDdry
negro carpet -baggers, who claimed to be
ministers OF the Gospel, but who, for
getting their mission, instead ofpreach.
Ing Jesus Christ and Him Crucified,'
preached Grant, treasury pap. Office,
public plunder, Packard, and the Re-
publican party.
The audience was composed chiefly Of
blacks, who howled and yelled with ex-
citement rs the puppets IN the PIT re-
sponded to the wires pulled by their
! lad
from pit to dome, the day was hot, and
the ventilation none Of the best. One
thing. however. was specially remark
able. In all that seething, sweltering,
surging mass, not voice was raised TO
nominate colored man for Governor.
The great struggle WAS for that office,
~ the source OF honor, pelf and profit,
and bright bonanza In itself. For this
Office there were two white carpet-bag
and three white scalawag aspirants.
Orders, however, had come from Wash
ington to nominate Packard, he being
the man who knew best how to bring
the patronage Of the Government into
conflict with the freedom OF elections"
who knew best how TO start and keep In
motion the outrage mill, and who knew
best how, when and where TO ring In
| United States troops. In obedience to
these orders our dusky fellow citizens
nominated Packard and Warmoth was
repudiated.
Precisely 40 was 1t In 1872 Warmoth
had made his million. Having failed to
secure pile out of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad, Kellogg also wanted
million.
Orders then were sent from Washing
ton to Nominate Kellogg, carpet
bagger. or course. the blacks, rs Hunt
calls them, gave him their votes. SO
| his colnred competitor, vastly his su-
perior In character, intelligence and In
everything that goes to make up the
man and the gentleman, had to take
the back seat.
Pinchbaclk shared the same fate. For
the purpose OF keeping his race In lead
ing strings, they tickled him with
straw by quasi election to the Senate,
position which they never intended he
should reach. Four carpet-bag0ers de.
vised it, Kellogg. Casey, Packard and
Norton, and every effort WAS made by
them. individually and collectively, 70
defeat him, With an old Federal, ali As
Republican, majority In the Senate OF at
least twenty he was ignored; rejected:
His pseudo friends fiattered and cajoled
him, and then turned their backs ON
him.
With l,oasted majority Of twenty
thousand voters In the State, and nu-
ncrical preIponderance OF at least twenty
to one over their white allies, the col
ored people threw their manhood, their
self-respect and their political power at
the feet OF Northern adventurers, whose
sole interest In the State consisted In
plundering It. For eight years Pack
ard has held one OF the most lucrative
Offices In the Southwest, but he wantsd
another million, and in order to ensure
his getting 1t, If elected, our color,d
friends gave him the nomination.
For two consecutive terms, indeed
ever since reconstruction, they have
nominated white carpet baggers to tlle
chief magistracy. mo child OF theirs sue,
TO the absorption by them OF every office
in the State. As the gubernatorial Office
has been manipulated, 1t has been ma le
to yield $3.50, 900 per annum the pub. 1e
printer at least 5000, 900 per annum; the
tax collector for the First District$100, COG
per annum; State Auditor, $4,000 pei
annum Register OF Conveyances, $685.
600 per annum; Recorder OF Mortgages,
1896, 900 per annum. Numerous other
stations might be named, both In the
city and In the interior, out OF whicn
large sums are annually made, ana not
one OF them has been offered to a col
ored man. With their immense major
ity over their allies, the blacks seem tc
be perfectly satisfied with the bones and
SCRAPS which fall from the tables OF thelI
white masters. How long will this
state OF things continue 2 And when
will these people learn that their true
interests consist in acting In conceri
and in accord with the Democrats and
Southern whites? 4? Is v.