The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-07

| Dpstte uIlu lIttuVUu VI bAAp Nvoiipi wiz
for It's moro than probable third term
candidate for the Presidency, thus vir
tually changing our Republic into an
Elective monarchy to all intents ano
purposes.
MISREPRESENTATION NOT ARGU-
MENT.
The organ of the Louisiana Radi
Gals in It's Tuesdays issue says:
"This leaf from Southern's life o.
daily labor in Massachusetts, should
teach every intelligent Confederate
another lesson. That lesson consists
i'm the fact that the educated laborine
people Of the North can never DC
and seliishness which the pro-slavcry
spirit represents. When the issue be.
tween the colorcd laborer OF the South
and his Confederate taskmaster is fairly
made. the Northern worker will side
with the Southern worker. In taking
this side the Northern toiler will not
place much stress on the question oil
race He will care more for sweat
than for color. Tho sweat line OF an
honest labor life will attract his vote
against all the color line arguments
that d Southern Confederate may ad-
| dress to him.
The leaf from a Southern Life OF
Daily Labor i'm Massachusetts" is in
reference to description OF her daily
life BY some feminine correspondent OF
Mr.. Kellogg's official journal, whose
signature is b., and who AYERS that she
is Southern by birth.
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The fair Boston correspondent. with
soft, lustrous eyes, bestowed by the
bright Southern stars, under which she
AYERS they first saw light, but now, on
account of wonderfully earnest love
for liberty and negroes, wasting them
selves on Northern ice and SHOWS, is
no doubt, some peculiar favorite with
the statesmen Of the Republican, for
they not only per nit her interesting
letters to find space in their admira-
BILE journal, but actually make edit
truthful contents. 1.-THE pride and
selfishness which the pro-slav-
cry spirit represents" is nothing
more or less than an earnest aspiration
for good government in Louisiana in
the hands and under the direction of
the native people of the State. Slavery
has been abolished in this State for
more than eleven years. and there Is
not now q pro-slavery man TO be found
in the commonwealth. 1t Is positively
miraculous how little pro slavery spirit
there exists In men who were born and
educated in ownership of African
slaves under the Constitution of the
United States. Very few citizens would
consent to have African slavery forced
upon them again. Their quarrel
is not SO much with the blacks,
(and not at all with the blacks SO far as
their freedom and legal privileges are
concerned as with the carpet-baggers
of all sorts, and the native spoilsmen
who watch like dogs for crumbs from
their table, for an honest and properly
representative Government. One of the
yilest things done, or being done, by the
Radical party South, has been. in every
State from Maryland to the Gulf, in the
many but finally successful contests
Jwaged by the conservative classes
for their escape from a torturous
carpet-bag and scalawag domino
ton, to endeavor to convince the
African citizens that the whites
would be hostile to their freedom. In
Virginia. Georgia, Alabama and other
States they were made really to think
SO. and thus to become full of fear and
bitterness. What has been the result.
and what will be the result i'm Missis-
sippi so soon as Morton and his pes
tilent politicians can be induced to
desist from their Presidential machina-
tions! For the first time in years of
struggle. in which ignorance and venali-
ty have done their worse, there is an am
icable understanding between the whites
and the blacks, Government has passed
into enlightened and competent hands,
and both races are beginning to look
forward to improvement, contentment
and prosperity. AS for the senseless
and false inference that the negro Is
the worker" and the white man not,
in the Southern States, it is as thor
oughly hollow and baseless as most
other Radical propositions. BY their
energy, intelligence and labor, South
ern men, Notwithstanding their changed
social habits and relations and loss
of property, calculated to drive them to
laziness and despair, have made since
the war by actual statistics two
billions six hundred millions of dollars
in pure gold in the staple of cotton
alone, which, il 1t had not been stolen
from them by the most atrocious combi-
nations of Congressional laws and alien
State governments, would have served
to have shingled over our overtaxed and
bankrupt communities with this pre-
cious metal
Delegates TO the National Convention.
Hon. Robt. c. Wickliffe, Hon. T. G.
MANNING Hon r II Mari and Major