The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-12-12
THE EXODUS.

P.B. 8. Pipchback's organ, advises the
negroes of North Louisiana -ssto aban-
don their homes and seek refuge In
Kansas 1t is an entire change of
front in that paper. What has induced
It? The campaign was destitute OF
excitement and turbulence, and the
election wore the appearance Of the
Sabbath day. Since 1876 there has been
a distressing quiet all over the State.
The outrage mill stopped, and great
majority of the people have been hap
nv and contented and DESTROYS to see it
remain so. -.-e..
Madison parish is the home, so-called,
of Pinchback. Madison parish has
been a Republican stronghold and the
cradle Of Pinchback's hopes, but Madi-
son parish went back ON its record and
arrayed itself ON the Democratic side.
Pinchback has been repudiated in the
home of his adoption. 1t was terri
BILE blow to the mans ambition and
must be counteracted; hence the tele-
gram to the Republican campaign
committee pretending to instance a
number of outrages and the victims,
that for barbarity would rival the sto.
ries of the most savage and cruel OF
Indian life. They are not true. The
people of Madison parish would not do
such things or suffer strangers to do
them. Hanging and whipping are not
so common as to fail to attract atten-
ton, or so trivial as to pass without
observation. And yet nothing of the
kind was known or thought of until
Madison parish was known to have
polled her vote for the Democratic
candidates. It did not occur to the au-
tl1ors of that telegram that the feuds of
the Republicans in Madison parish for
last four years have been'a7disgrace to
Louisiana politics, and that the non
office-seeking portion of the party have
been disguised and driven to seek quiet
in the ranks of their former opponents.
We know with pleasure that the
colored men now think more of their
own comfort and interest than they do
of this or that politician, or of this or
that party maxim. All promises have
failed them. They must work out
their own destiny here or elsewhere.
To be cultivated in mind and refined
in thought and manners they must
study, and to acquire wealth and in
fiuence they must work and econo-
mise.
That being true, whore are they most
likely to succeed In a climate to
which they are suited and in occupa-
tons in which they are skilled, or in a
climate that is rigorous and in pur-
suits to which they are strangers ?
There has been no complaint on the
score of treatment or profits during the
past yenr and season. In this parish
some laborers have been paid $3.50 over
and above all cxpenses. They have had
good houses to live in, plenty of sub
stantial food and close attention when
sick. And yet the Louisianian advises
them to rclinquish all those advan-
tages for new country, and simply
because they voted the Democratic
ticket. 1t does look as if the advice
was intended to work a future punish
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agined dereliction Of duty.
We know there Is discomfort here
and a disposition on the part of some
colored men to go abroad. There is no
argument in it to convince any body,
and what persuasion is found to be ef-
fcctive with them is secret which we
have been unable to draw from them.
Now and then we find one who wants
to go. Why, he knows not, and how
he cares not. Such people are beyond
reason and nothing but experience can
make them realize an error or correct
a mistake. But it is a little remarkable
that while Pinchback and the more
intelligent class of colored men urge
others to try their fortunes in new
lands, they evince no disposition to 20
themselves. A land rich in milk and
honey for the poorer men ought to have
some attraction for the aristocratic class.
Now, our advice to colored men is to