The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-19
THE COUN TRY PRESS.

From oil points In the interior we
hear that planters are putting In more
corn and food crops than ever before,
at the same time not sensibly reducing
the acreage Of cotton and sugar. Places
are being improved throughout tho
State, planters generally being hopeful
Of the future, and feeling encouraged
by the good crops OF last year.-[5ugar
Planter.
Why don't Packard get up mass
meeting, so that the committee can see
how the people stand toward his sup
port. Well. its best sometimes that
mans reputation be- not known, espe-
eially IL he is D public man. May be- he
thinks so.-[Vienna Sentinel.
tire satisfaction to hunters. They con-
tend that law prohibiting the killing
Of game from the 18th Of April to the
18th Of September would be right and
proper, but they are opposed to fixing
the time from the 1st oil February to the
1st OF October. They also recommend
that the practice of seining for fish bo
prohibited. Baton Rouge Advocate.
Tho Thibodaux Sentinel says that the
citizens Of that tlourishiBg village pride
themselves upon the facts that their
little town owes no man q dollar, pays
cash for everything its corporation
needs, has better streets and more paved
banquettes than any town OF her size In
the South, and has revenue sufficient to
get along comfortably"
The Nichols Senate already has @
"Returning Board quorum" while the
House lacks but five OF it. Only five
more recruits from the Republican
House are needed to give the Nichols
government u status which even Repub-
leans can no longer question, and to
effect solution OF pending compliea-
| ference or inquiry on the part OF the
| Federal Administration obsolete and
Unnecessary [Donaldsonville Chief.
| During the last year OF Radical su-
premacy in Morehouse, our town was
one continual scene Of rowdyism. There
was scarcely q day but that one, or
probably q dozen drunken radical bull
| lies would run rough.shod over the
whole town. 1t was almost impossible
to keep q town marshal at any salary,
so dangerous, unpleasant and onerous
was the position. But since Democracy
once more prevails in Morehou5e, these
ruffians have abandoned the streets.
Peace and quiet prevails in our town
and our marshal walks around town at
his leisure, having no trouble whatever
to keep good order.- Morehouse
Clarion.
The New Orleans DEMOCRAT OF Thurs
day, the 9Th instant, devotes over col
umn, under the heading Of Supply
and Demand" to the obituary notice
we saw fit to write on the death Of q
noted coIored woman, Nelly Parker,
long the faithful servant Of the family
OF Col. E. q. w. Butler, OF this parish.
The data from which we wrote the obi
tuary was furnished by Col. u. q. w.
Butler, than whom no man claims q
higher respect from us, his age, expert
ence, ability and reapectabiity are we'll
known, and we hardly think any one
would doubt any statement he would
make. The gratuitous article OF the
DEMOCRAT was totally uncalled for, and
while we are accused OF seeking for ar
ticles OF supply and demand" we think
the boot was on the other leg, and that
the editor Of the DEMOCRAT was short OF
ideas and only wanted the article to fill
up space. 1t would be much better for
the official journal in the future to more
worthily occupy its columns than by en-
deavoring to belittle the motives OF
an humble country editor.-[Iberyille
South.
No such threat has ever been uttered
by the whites that, IL the colored peo-
pie gave support to Packard, they would
devastate the country and starve out
the negro race by driving them from
their lands and Withholding from them
supplies to make corn, cotton and
sugar. As the whites are uniformly en-
ploying the negroes. feeding them, and
paying them for their work, 1t seems to
US that the advice OF Blunt, IL followed
by the negroes, would fall heaviest
upon the<negro.
i To follow such advice would be to fol-
low the negro race to the grave. The
white people desire to do right by the
negro and see to it that every right
guaranteed to American citizens is en-
joyed by him; that no right Of his as q
citizen shall be abridged. Under these
circumstances is it the part OF friend
ship for the negro for their leaders to
encourage them to join in war OF races?
The answer may be easily given. A war
Of races would result In the exterufna-
ton Of the negro race. Is the race pre-
pared for extermination?-LB Baton Rouge
Advocate.
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