The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-14

don't credit it." It 10 not long since hesrd y,
intelligent man say: "Veli, IL We wa. ~, "a
| the troops are withdrawn from the Gonfh'
every white man will go to the polls win !,
| the Democratic tickeE.n Positively soma n
| these terrorists care no more for the life Of |.
black man than care for that Of o mad doei
At this last election the whites wero bettss.
| organized and more determined than ever =
| strike terror into the heart OF the negro. Thss
went to his meetings, and II he brought
their knives, and often brow-beat the speakere
by hooting and yelling. Iagree with you tbss
| according to the machinery set in motion Til
| den is elected President of the United State
But fail to recognize the fact that, 1ithOot
| the aid of the White Lacquer with Democratic
ticket in one hand and eix-ehooter in The
other, this same result would follow either IN
Mississippi, Louisiana, or Sonth Carolha
The above process is similar to that by whS
that humane butcher, General Chalmers, VA
elected to Congress from the western part Il
this State, in q district with &c, 600 negro m,
iority. It is farce and a sham on American
suffrage.
Lamar and Watterson, in their dispatches
mort, from New Orleans, say that there is no
worthless plantation hands" ] say there ia
far more reliance to be placed in the state.
ment of those simple minded but outraged
people than there is in that of the class from
whom they draw their information. For "a =
Kentuckian, who was in the Mississippi bot.
toms making a crop, and quit in disgust,
lately observed TO mes 1ne0o men live upcn
lies" Public opirion is here all one-sided.
The big guns, or "F.F's.-the " fret families.s
the organizers of facture IL
The white trash" swallow it, as it is not
fashionable to resist the dose, for fear that AZ
doing might exclude them from the smiles and
society of those pseudo chivalrfsts. The LATTER
use the former as their voting CATTLE just ss the
Democratic party uses most of the Irish Demo.
Gratis, never giving them q representation upon
the ticket, bnt invariably selecting eandidstss
from long list of .fMsiahs, "Cnrnawls.n etc
who received their fictitious titles according to
e the number Of niggers and mules their fathers
no. much to be blamed. They are ignorant.
and consequently are easily led against Tho
negro. Those of them who read take no papers
but Obscure country sheets, whose editors pos,
sess little ability, independence, or breadth
To the reader, let me say that am not
politician and never was in the employ ofope
came to the South with my prejudices lam
sorry to say. against the negro, and my syn
patty with the whites. sat in the gallery Of
the United States Senate for eight succeesye
days in February, 1869. listening to the argu
ments for and against the admission of Sena.
tor Revels from Mississippi. witnessed his
swearing in, and (after adjournment) his in.
t. luction by Republican Senators TO their
wives on the Senate floor, and candidly con.
fess thought it was farce upon civilization.
there from New York on election day, and saw
negro officials administering the iron-clsd
oath to white-haired "chivalrists," and /
then have travelled in the South principally
in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. and
conversed with men in all stations in life
from the Governor of State to it's humblest
tizen, and am well satisfied that the negro
10 cheated out of his civil and political rights.
In conclusion, let mo ask yon, Irish Nation
alists-you, sworn friends of Irish liberty
ere you willing to concede to every human be-
ing on earth the same rights you claim for
yourseiff Are you prepared to support the
same principles in the land of your adoption
thas you are pledged to in the land of you.
birthf If you are not, you are unworthy of
sharing the blessings of an Irish RepC Ollie. JF.
you are, give no countenance to any M o.
any policy that does not honestly mean to up
hold the rights of every class, creed and color.
TRAVELLER.
EVERY reader of the Irish World will bear us
witaees that we have never helped to foster
any sectional jealousy ill feeling. but on the
contrary, have always zealously labored to es-
tablish harmony and good will. We have read
this correspondents letter carefully, and from
what he dsclosee, rs we'll as from information
sent us by other trustworthy persons, we are
forced to believe that the negro in many parts
of tho South is subjected to intimidation OF
various kinds 1t would be the veriest hypo-
crisy on our part 80 deuounce the :" religious
test" in New Hampshire. or the property
Island, if we remained dumb as to the - bull
doing" of colored men in Mississippi. We
feel satisfied that the mass of the white people
down South are Loyalty disposed to accept the
results of the war, including the Reconstrue-
ton Acts, But they have among them q mis-
cbievOus set of men who, though they never
struck blow for the Confederacy, are nov
foremost in talking gore and exciting evil pas
sions. By giving any color of approval to the
acts of those disturbers. or by trying to abridge
the political rights of the oolored man, the
South will only prolong it's own agony aud 70
tard the progress of desirable reforms througE
out the whole nation. The South must in tna
end accept the logic of events, and it can gam
much more by conciliating than by intimidE
ting the negro.-Ed l. ".