The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-05
THE O0LORED PEOPLE AND THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

curatn account OF The recent upllSlhB
Of the negro Radicals In Natchitoches
parish. the dispersion Of the black mob
and the expulsion Of their leaders from the
parish, We recently gave all the authentic
Information relative To the hanging OF the
negro Dalton in West Feieiana and the full
particulars Of the surrender Of the jail In st.
Charles parish by the negro sheriff TO q negro
mob, who took therefrom q white man, Mr.
ValcDur St. Martin, and shot him TO death.
This latter event has excited neither COM
ment nor Indignation at the Custom House Or
In the Radical State Central Committee. 1t
was considered by the individuals who
run those two institutions perfectly proper
for negro sheriff and other Radical
parish officials to cooperate with, or
look with serene composure upon the proceed
ings Of a Radical mob which broke open d
prison and murdered d white man. But there
is no language which can express their indig-
nation at the hanging Of q notorious negro
murderer In West Fellcana, and the disper-
sion Of mob Of negro rioters by the citizens
Of Natchltoches, who gathered to protect their
property from fFe and their own and the
lives Of their wives and children against the
knife, the pistol and the shotgun Of the In
furiatea savages.
Not longer than Thursday last the Radical
| State Central Committee discussed the FEAST
bility of having 8 number OF prominent ctl-
zens of Natehitoches and West Feliciana AT
rested by United States marslals under the
lniuuitous provisions OF the exploded En-
forcement Act. One of the parties whom
these fellows proposed to arrest under that
law was Mr.. M. J. Cunningham, one Of the
Democratic candidates for the Legislature In
Natchitocnes.
i OF course, the scheme OF violence discussed
by the Radical committees Is utterly imprac-
ticable. The Enforcement Act Ia IS dead as
Thad. Stevens or Oliver ?. Morton. 1t be-
longs to the era when Louisiana was gov
erned by the bayonet and plundered by the
gangs who are now plotting and planning
under half dozen different names and or
ganizations, TO regain control Of the govern
ment.
Nevertheless, the spirit these Radical lead
ers. In the Custom House and III the Rad
) iea State Committee, are displaying should
put us on our guard aud inspire every good
citizen to see to 1t that not q Radical or
Independent or National-for they are all one
and the same thing--s sent to the Legisla-
ture from any parish, or to Congress from
any district OF Louisiana. So long as
any representative Of this mongrel
combination holds an official posi-
tlon in this State, or so long as
that party can hold sufficient political power
to prevent It's utter dissolution and the dissi-
patton of Its gangs back into the sums and
cesspools out Of which they arose, under the
influence of bayonet rule like q noxious ex-
: halation, SO long will our politics be pestered
l and disturbed by these race antagonisms and
. conflicts; SO long will our social system be
. kept In turmoil and our commercial pros
perty and agricultural interests made the
sport OF INSCRIPTIONS, irresponsible and ra-
paeious political adventurers
. Between the white people Of Louisiana and
the great mass of the colored population
there Is SO close q community Of interests and
so cordial feeling Of kindness that, were the
| negroes let alone by such politicians and In
: cendiaries as those who recently excited the
mob III Natchltoches. who infest this city and,
to greater or less extent, every parish In the
State, there would never be any trouble be-
tween them. We never hear Of these troubles
except during campaign. We never hear of
grues excent from those lazy, worthless vaga-
bonds among them who make politics living
and who, deprived Of that source Of livelihood
, would sink into chicken thieves and free negro
Migrants.
The white people of this State have every
reason to deal kindly and Justly with the
negroes; the blacks constitute our only la.
boreFs, and without them our fertile lands
would be absolutely worthless What rank
folly, therefore, 1t is for the Radical poll
ticians to charge the whites, especially those o.
the country parishes, with pursuing policy
toward the negroes calculated to exterminate
or drive them from the State. That sort OF non
sense was very effective when the Northern
a people, still embttered toward the South and
lnnamed by the bloody-shirt papers and
! speakers. were blind to reason and
: common sense. It served pur
, pose when the State was filled with
! troops; when the laws were silent, and whe1
:. any sort of bloody shirt lie was both pre-
text and authority to overthrow an election
! or break up u legislature. but Teasun hts
l. resumed its sway; the laws are paramount
! again; the bayonet is powerless to interfere
with the civil affairs Of the State, Hence
these falsehoods have lost their power to con
& troll the destinies OF Louisiana, to subvert it
: legally elected governments or to sustain usur
@ pations and public robbers But unfortunatel.
@ they are still sufficient to intiame the pas
= sions of the poor ignorant negroes, to disturb
n the peace of the parishes and check the pros
T. perity Of the State.
d Very promptly, therefore, these agitator
= here In the city and In the country parishes
h who incite the negroes to riot and violenc
q and In the city give them countenance, Ell
,s enlargement and support, should be rebukec
le What right had the Collector OF this Port t
ID head q gang Of Radical politicians and ca
d upon the Governor of the State to demand prt
lection for the Natchitoches rioters ? The la
A. rules throughout the borders of Louisian.