The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1877-01-04

the statements in the above refcr-
ring TO my connection therewith are
strictly correct.
~. Is. DKNERrE.
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Colored Democrats In Louisiana
From the Spring acld Republican,.
The testimony produced before
the House committee of inyestigl-
ton at New Orleans, very recently
has only confirmed and supplement
ed the evidence already furnished
The Northern public by such in
tslliYent observers as Messrs. White
of Che New Xork Tribune, Rsdfcld
Of the Ciaci1snGti Commercia1 snd
Handy of the philadelphia Times.
No candid person can longer doubt
that there was large colored
Democratic vote in Louisiana at the
recent election, and that more ne
groes would have voted the same
way but for intimidation that was
frequently practice;l Intimidation
none the less eflectual that it was
Olsen of moral or religious rather
than 3 physical character.
lt IS not singular TINT tho Demo
Gratis should have won over o. large
ecion of the colored people to
their side. AS enrly as two years
ago. they had accomplished consid-
cradle in this direction. Indeed,
the Democratic programme in ell
parts of the State, except perhaps
portions Of the 'bu!ldozed' parishes
scems to have besn the same durinH z
the last campaign as in 1874, which
lntter Republican Congressman IN
Foster, Of Ohio, thus described:
1t became the interest Of the
Conservatives, at least at the late
election, not TO intimi,late, but to
acquire, by every fair means, the
colorcd vote. Parties who were
alleged to have threatened blacks
even VITA the refusal of employment
We're subject to prompt arrest 1t
WAS known that pretaxts would he
sought to deprive the Conservatives
OF the result, if they prevailed in the
election. 1t was, therefore, their
interest to avoid giving any such
pretexts. Accordingly, they deter
mined everywhere to cooperate an
conciliate the blacks. They voted
down the propositions or sugges-
tions which were made in the early
part of the campaign for refusal to
employ those colored voters who
would not cooperate with them,
and generally sought, by combining
with tolored voters, to carry Tue
election.
At the same time the more i'll
telligent negroes were already in
1874 approaching the fact that their
own interest were bound up in the
change of government. can in
telligcnt colorcd Witness says Mr..
Foster, "testitied that be desired
better government, and to that end
was willing to swallow the white
men, if the white men would
swallow the colored.' "These causes
and feelings" Lr. Foster continued,
naturally united to swell the Con
servativo vote in such localities
exactly rs are indicated by the re-
turns, Though the very fact of
such swelling Of the Conservative
vote, then as now, had been seized
upon by the Republican managers
as proof conclusive of Democratic
Intimidation, and justification for
that "illegal reversal Of the result
which incurred Vice President
Wheelers "emphatic disapproba,
ton
If the Democrats got q considera-
bic negro vote in 1874, it would
have been strange, indeed, if they
had not secured much larger ono
in 1876. Two years more of dis
graceful Republican rule have been
imposed upon them,--a govern
mont, the enormity of which has
never been more forceibly described
than in these extracts from last
yelr's files of two Of the chief Re-
publican organs Of the countrywide
New York Times and the Boston
44d0ertiscr.
The government Of William Pitt
Kellogg III Louisiana ls one which
we have never been able to defend
Durclls decision, which aided in
establishing it, was an outrage.
The conduct of tho Returning
Board which declared il elected was
dishonest. The taxation since 1872
has been arbitrary and oppressive.
Legislation has in hundreds Of cases
been shameful farce. Districts
have been represented by men who
never saw them. The small revenue
CLEANED from the impoverished peo.
pie has been diverted to improper
uses.
For years, tho great State of
Louisiana, whose people have rs
good q right to be left alone to
manage their own affairs as the peo-
pie of Massachusetts, has been ruled
not by it's own citizens, but by two
carpct-baggers (referring to Kellogg
| tho present Governor, and Packard. /.