Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-06
COlOred Men Organizing and Maxi
ing an Appeal for Protection and
Justice.

lhS ou hPPCui Aoh Il AVsNseAuh "hos
Justice.
The best informed colored men of the
State of Louisiana have formed an or
ganization called The Young Mems Pro-
gressive Association" having for its OBJ
ject the exposure of democratic crimes
against the billot-box, and the protection
Of the freedmen in the right of suffrage.
They have issued an address to the couli-
try setting forth the terrible wrongs and
outrages which have been inflicted upon
the eolored citizens, and making an APP
peal for the protection they need and must
have if they ever acquire the privilege OF
exercising the right of suffrage guaranteed
to them. The principal points of their ad-
dress are as follows:
when President Hayes inaugurated his
Southern policy which gave the long covet-
ell local selfgovernment' to the South, we
had hoped that the prejudicial feeling in re-
gard to the black mans suffrage had subsid-
ed forever; we had hoped that there would
nave been no more assassinations. whippings,
or intimidations we had hoped that the good
citizens of the South without regard to race,
color or previous condition, would have been
allowed on election day to 90 to the polls, and
in the language of President Hayes, east one
untimdated ballot and have that ballot hon
estly counted Illusory, fallacious hopes
At the first election after the Inauguration OF
that policy the outrages inflicted upon de-
fenseless colored neutrality-suspicious. in pol
n ,b,-r;ders stvI;ng themselves .R.g,,la,ors,
q White Ia.guers in tho larger r.,nhlican
nar;sbes of the Eonr,b E;f,b and Six,h Con-
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no., cons;der.,;on and ha.rtv o,nJonno,;n,
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