, 1876-12-22

and wounded On his way home from Demo
cratic meeting. But in his testimony, How
ARD, who recovered. admitted that his **difh-
Guilty F" with the man who shot him had been
"about q woman" Where the politics came
into this shooting atray is apparent from his
statement, when sworn rs q witness, that
after he was shot she was furnished with
wood and provisions by white men who came
to see him, and urged him to vote the Demo-
| cratic ticket, which he did,
| For the rest the "evidence" Of the bull
doing of Democratic negroes by Republican
negroes is too trivial to be seriously consid-
cred. The sympathies Of the nation may go
out toward the Democratic darkey who would
have voted for T1LDEx but that his Dinah
would have given him " the sack" if he had,
or who didn't vote for T1LDEN be-
cause had he done SO the brethren would
have cast him out Of the church, OF because
his wife would have given him piece Of her
mind But areading Of the testimony of these
victims by the light Of surrounding circum-
stances will disclose where the victimization
comes in- The winter is upon them, these
victims. There is no work for them until
planting time. Meanwhile they must have
credit for their corn and bacon supply; and
whoever has taken the pains to investigate
the condition of the negroes in the South
knows how pressing that necessity is, and
how, Us n matter Of fact, the question Of such
supply advances is question of enough to
eat or of starvation with hundreds and even
thousands Of negroes; and the story these
witnesses now tell is very good one upon
which to get corn and bacon. Considering,
too, the characteristic cunning and cowardice
bred Of slavery, the wonder is, not that there
are colored witnesses to be- found who will
now say they wanted to vote for T1LDEN, but
that more negroes do not come forward to
better their chances of obtaining credit sup
plies aud generally of being well taken care
of, as from the testimony of HOWARD and
the others Of the Democratic IS 'niggers, the
Democratic negroes are, by the whites.
But there is not one negro voter in
thousand in Louisiana who does not know
what SAMUEL J. T1LDEN and the Democratic
party have done and want to do for the
negro Even those of the negroes who may
have forgotten that the Democratic party is
the party of the ex-slave-driver have not
been allowed by theWhite-L Liners to remain
in Ignorance Of how the Democratic party of
Louisiana WIS intent upon shooting the
nigger out Of politics. The Regulators and
bulldozers have kept the colored voter alive
a. ELL &c i.
Of tile State proposes to do for the negro.
Not one negro in thousand is there in
Louisiana who does not know that
TuDES was the candidnte Of the White
Liners that he was supported by every e1-
slaye-driver and Confederate, and by every
bulldozing ruftian, who, at intervals between
his dining Of the niger, found time to
shoot at one. Not one among thousand OF
the Louisiana co1ored voters is there who
does not, and with good reason too, regard
tie Democratic party with feelings akin to
those with which chased deer must regard
the hounds =; and about as much do the Ne
groes expect Of that party as the deer might
from the dogs. Aswell known to the negroes
Of Louisiana is it that the Republican party
freed them, that it has stood between them
and White-Line hate, and that without it they
will be kicked out and shot out OF politics
and out of freedom, practically. They |
know, too, that HAYES was one of the t1Fed- |
eral' Generals who fought on the side that
freed them; and, with that lively feeling OF
gratitude that comes Of sense of favors past,
to be augmented by protection TO come, the
negroes, to man, are naturally and inevita-
bly, Republicans. Where they were not bull
lozed, they voted the Republican ticket.
Tho real victims of the Republican negro
oul}dozing Of Democratic negroes are the in
1ocents-if any so guieless there be-who
swallow the story. But the verdict Of the
country upon that story which is told BY the
Democratic members of the Committee must
'e in the expressive current slang that it is
: too thin"