The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-11-29
4 DsuOCRAT ASKS A MEARlNG.

that city for the purpose of visiting
some Of the parishes Of the State in
which, It has been charged by the Rad
jcals, troubles existed prior to the
election. The parishes are not named
by the Democrat, but press dispatch
states that the Governor will first visit
Concordia and Tensas, and will then
10 to Caddo. And these, so far as we
have seen, are the only parishes In
which any conflict of races or political
teouhles are charged as having &C.
CURED.
Gov. Nichols, we think, Is acting
wisely for, although, no such duty Is
required of q Governor-that is to say,
30 become an investigating committee
on tho spot-he has shown a wise
and timely discretion in person.
ally acquainting himself with the
truth or falslty OF the charges made,
because he will thus be enabled
to judge with a confidence and a
knowledge of the real facts not to
be obtained by hcarsay, or written
reports. 1t is disagreeable, we are sat
isiied, to a man like Nichols, and q
man who has, as he has, barely the
means Of locomotion, to become a
Governor peripatetic; but the emer-
gsncy seems to demand that even a
man who cannot walk, must walk, in
order to meet the extraordinary re-
agreements Of partisan hatred and
btSotry. We can understand, we
think, the humiliation of spirit under
which Gov. Nichols as Governor is
acting. Not that he distrusts the peo-
pie of Louisiana, but that the political
inequality OF our State in this great
siseerhood of States should compel her
Executive to abandon her Capital and
thread his way through the rural dis
tricts to make sure the partisan libels
Of her political enemies are false.
We shall not deny that there has
been trouble in this State, not only in
certain parishes, but all over the State.
There has not been scarcely an hours
tranquility In Louisiana since the enact
ment Of the odious military Reconstruct
ton Act OF Congress, In which it was re-
quired Of the freemen of the State to
surrender their manhood, and to ac-
knowledge their equality with liber-
aled slaves. Such an odious violation
Of the laws of nature and of education
- that Act, was calculated to produce
trouble, just as the commingling of
Of the white and blue papers of Seidlitz
are manufactured to cause effervesence.
There has been trouble in Louisiana,
and It has extended to the babe in its
little crib aud to tho mother whom it
milked. There has been trouble
trouble double and treble trouble
tho most needless and unnatural. The
people have gone to bed with trouble !;
walked up with trouble wider awake
than they, and have struggled, foot
sore and almost hcart-broken, with
trouble as their only companion and
worlds Of sacrifice for the sake Of peace.
Trouble has been plentiful, and, like
the but-cut, all at one end of tho log.
Can auy one wonder--can any one,
with life and vim In him, say that
there is not somewhere IL limit to hut
man endurance of wrong? That man
answering nay, does not 1.-Two in Lou
lsiana.
AS to the conflict of races, or, what
the Republicans charge, as to tho de-
NAL of the negroes right to vote, there
has been mono, so far rs we know, in
any Of the parishes named. In Con-
cordia parish there was n fusion of
whites and blacks, and officers were
elected acceptable to both, without
any sort Of conflict. In Tensas there
was q conflict, brought on by the MUIR
der Of Capt. Peck, prominent white
citizen who, at the the time of his
death, was endeavoring to pacify the
negroes. A reign Of terror at once be-
gan, and the whites, both men and
women-there, at the mercy Of igno-
rant negroes-were In momentary fear
OF indiscriminate slaughter. The aid
recaived by these white people was
aoAl n,>rH o,,rl so ~,os1