The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-12-06


committed. Norman on our ticket has been
in any way identified with such pra.cti-
ces. Wc shall be elected, but doubtless
the ringmasters will count us out. Next
year, however, VIC will carry tho State
for the Republican candidate, and you
can stake your bottom dollar there is
going to be fair count, even if aThe
Man Oh Horseback " has to make his APP
pearance again to enforce it.
At the conclusion of Judge Boattie's
remarks-of which WE have presented
only bare outline-he announced that,
i'll order to prevent a recurrence of fac
| ton troubles, he would act as president
Of the meeting. This proposition was
unanimously approved, and after music
| by the Excelsior and Crescent Bands,
| the chairman introduced his venerable
friend, Judge W. NJ. Burwell, one Of the
best informed and most gifted men in
the State.
We have only space to refer, in the
briefest manner, to portions Of the speak
er's address, which, like that of Judge
Beattie, was frequently applauded. He
said: What Judge Beattie has told you
to-day, is what he has been saying
| throughout the length and breadth OF
the State, and before some of the vilest
| bulldozers in Louisiana. He is {. square
man, means what he says, and will do
what he promises. He and l are South
ern men all our interests are here. We
| know the value Of the cclorea labor Of
this country, and VIC are anxious to see
it kept here. The welfare of the whites
| is identical with that Of the blacks they
should take these people by the hand
| and raise them up. It is to my interest
and that Of my race that you colorcd
| folks should he free, prosperous and
| happy. When Judge Beattie spoke at
Baton Rouge, forty colored men, women
and children were caDped on the leyee,
| waiting for boat to take them to Kan
sas. They came to the meeting and lis
tened to lis speech, and said they would
Give this country one mere trial, but it
they were again oppressed and deprived
of their privileges as free men and citi-
zens, nothing should keep them from go
ing away; so they gathered up thelr
dunnage and went back home to TRY 1t
again." If an attempt is made to count
out this ticket Or to repeat the bulldozing
outrages of the past, there will be, not
an exodus, but stampede of colored
people from Louisiana worse than
the fight Of any drove of frightened
Texas steers; they will go to Kansas or
anywhere else that protection, peace and
Justice will be accorded them ! have
nowhere else to go; l must stay here,
and want tie colored man, by whose
labor the State can alone be prosperous,
to stay also. He should be treated with
fairness az to his wages and rights as a
free citizen; and there should be ces-
sation Of the practice common to some
localities OF charging him exorbitant
prices for provisions and other necessary
supplies, leaving no surplus from his
meagre earnings at the end of the year.
This would discourage anybody. An old
darkey thus graphically described the
way i'll which his employer made his cal
culation when the time came to settle
up accounts: "a naught is naught, a
figger is a fiyger; nothin' left for poor
old niger" The Republican party CON
tends for the interests and equal rights
of all men, white and black alike. The |
South must recognize the principle; the
great North and West demand it, in tho !
name and for the perpetuation of our
national existence, and they will enforce
the demand, ut the cost of another armed !
invasion of the South, if necessary. I I
don't want such thing to happen, nor
do you. Friend and foe would suffer
alike. We must avoid such a catastro-
phe, snd the way to DO it is to treat one
another as men with cc-cqual rights,
privilege. and aspirations.
When the speaker had concluded, the
band, played again, Judge Beattie de-
clared tho meeting adjourned and the
large crowd slowly dispersed. Another
little scrinllnage occurred shortly after
the adjournment, provoked by a bolster
GUS Constable who had taken aboard too
much fire water, but by the efforts of
Sheriff Jones and several Others serious
disturbance was again prevented. Judges
Bcattie and Bnrweil dinel at the Lee
Hotel with Revenue Collector Marks,
and left fer New Orleans on the steamer
St. John later in the afternoon.
No Democratic Conservative Meeting held
last Monday.
Messrs. F. p Poche and j. r. Winches-
ter OF St. James arrived here ON Monday
last, the LIST instant, for the purpose of
attending and addressing the Democratic
meeting called for that
lay by the State committee of the party.
3oth the day and the season being I'M
aycrable-the country people being en-
ragged mostly at the sugar-honses and
ownspeopIe in mercantile and other ay-