New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10
NEGRO EQUALITY NOT ACCEPTED.

ROOT OF THE SOUTHERN EyILS-REMAkhS or wv
M'ENERY-RMPTY PROMISES or DEMOCRATS.
To the EdttOr Of The Trtbune.
SIR; The active cause of the Louisiana
troubles is deeper and further back an last June. Is
part and sequence tho great rebellion, which deyOved
upon the white people OF that and other Southern stato
the dsagreeabe necessity of conceding to the enahc
pafed blacks equal political rights The Democrats OF
whites Of Louisiana have never yet made np their minds
in good faith to do this; and Ivy means OF the Kuknx'
White Caueliia White Ecague BnIldozers &c. acting on
the white line policy all the time, they nave attempted
by tricks frauds, intimidation, violence ana murder
by the Wholesale to overcome, cheat, detfano m'hh
date and erroze the colored voters, and thereby 10
render white minority superior to coored msIoriV'
The world aghast at the crimes OF tic White League
In Louisiana in 1874 Such incidents OF the campaign OF
that year as the Coushata and tho l4th OF
spptemDer In New-Orleans gave terrible emphasis 10
the significance OF such OrganzaOn spread AL over
the State and breathing forth threaenng ana terror 10
every Republican within its borders.
The people the North ought 10 know that the poti
cal disorders in Louisiana in 1876 are only continual
ton Of tho general scheme Of violence and intimidation
inaugnracd by the Democracy 1868 to defeat recon-
srnction in this State AZ time the organization Is
known KuKlux and again the White Came'iias' the
White League Rifle Clubs, BuldOzerS. &c But the
change Of does not change the thing ITSELF ana
through all changes that policy means the intention
TO overcome the Republican majority In Louisiana ny
violence intimidation, and fraud. II is mistake 10 sup
pose that scheme is organized for each successive
election It is all the time the same scheme and the same
instrlmentaty to be used, and we In Louisiana know
that fundamentally well by one name IA by another
Mr. John McEnery sometimes called GOV. McEnery
in speech delivered at Monroe june 1874, said as
follows:
There is not decent thinking man in Louisiana who
will deny that lines OF distinction are already
sharply drawn, and that each day passes the breach
gapcs WIDER that separates the white from the c0ored
race In this state IL ours Further that nnless TINS IN
solcnt cncroachrnent the rights, political ana social
OF the whole people OF Louisiana Is ended the day OF tire
ir-cprchs conflict i'll wien physical loICe shn
solve the political problems OF Louisiana politics The
only means ayerting this calamity lies in the union OF
the white people, representing as they do IT'S virtue cour
age. ana WORTH into one compact ana imposing phadhN
Nor are the promises mentioned anything at all new.
The Democrats profnse in their promises ana
pledges of protection ~ public two fOur years
ago as they in 1876. But the blacks have long
since learned that Democratic promises are the cheapest
and most worthless Things we have IN LOIis,na-es-
pecnl ly lust before election Reference 10 The Demo
cratic platform Of 1874 viii show that the Democracy
In the Baton Convention OF that accepted
an the constitutional amendments and pledged the faith
Of tie party every effort to secure to the eiacAs
AL their rights, and yet az that very convention the
leaders organized and adopted the White League as the
mean, OF carry ing that election L.
Neir- Orleans La, Doc - 1875.