The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-05-03
A Few words.
Is. %. Picayune, April 20. !

convention OF colored men, now IN
session. in tins city, and that,is,
that whatever causes may have OPP
Grated to produce the discomfort
which is rife among the colored
laborers OF certain parts OF this
State, the occasion is seized by the
refugee colored politicians as an
agency to promote their own pnr-
poses. These persons are deter
mined to confuse the question to
that extent that its real character
will be obs ;ured, and that they
may be enabled to turn it into u
political Issue on which they may
seek the alliance and support Of
the great Republican party of the
country. That issue is nothing
else than the overthrow of white
domination in this State, and the
substitution for 1T of negro domi-
nation. There is no meaning III
the charges of violence, intimida-
ton and outrage against the white
race, and the complaints of the loss
of so-cailed political rights on the
part Of the colored race, if they do
not mean this. The avowal of such
ideas and such purposes necessa-
rily tends to repel much of the
sympathy. which wonld' otherwise
he felt for the sufferipgs of the
negro laborers, Just as the wild
and disintegrating schemes of COM
munism proposed by selfish dema-
gogues, and the organization of
destructive associations among de-
luded masses of workingmen, have
tended to repel the sympathy of
the country from the white labor
ing population. If the industry
and the commerce of the country,
directed by an intelligent public
opinion, combine to resist the
threatened attempt of agrarian
communists to seize the govern
ment, what can be more natural
than that the same influences IN
this State should combine to resist
the threatened rehabilitstpH OF
governrnentwhicifno clviiiz-,icom-
munity can tolerate? The evils 10
be feared from the rule of Comma
nists and Socialist theorizers are
evils which intelligence foresees,
but which have not yet been ex-
perienced. The evils of the KIND
of government upon which the ne
gro politicians of Louisiana aud
their Republican coadjutors INSIST
have become historical. Ii the is
sue is whether or not that sort ot
government shall again be sc, up
IN Louisiana we are ready 80 meet
it. We appeal 10 the common
sense Of the country and Vi the
world to decide whether 1t IS more
for the interest of civilization, OF
free government, of humanity, that
The white rage should pc expelled
from this State by goverunent OF
organized robbery and corruption,
or whether the negroes should not !
be permitted to emigrate, II they !
insist on running away simply be- I
cause the leaders of their race are
not permitted 10 plunder the State
ut will. We ask the world to look
calmly at this state of facts AT
the point of thezbayonet, and uu-
der the direction of military Off
GERS, the agents OF the Republican
party, the white people of Louisi-
ana were driven from the control
of public affairs. Under pretense
of universal suffrage thousands of
white people were DISTINGUISHED,
concurreatly with the enfranchise-
ment of all the negroes. A gov
eminent was set up which, from
1867 to 1877, ten long and weary
years, was administered by negroes
and their white allies. What sort
of government was it? 1t is hard
for persons who did not live in
Louisiana at that time to form an
idea OF the pandimonium of crime
which exercised authority in the
name Of law and ju'tice- We shall
not attempt to describe it. We
shall content ourselves with say ,
ing-and it is a conclusive answer ,
to the pretensions set mp by negro I
politicians, of a right to control
Tue government-that from first to- ,
last, from high to low, there never
was negro in public Office i'll !
Louisiana That, did mot sell his
public functions for money. And 1
these are the persons who are vex- G
ny the ears of the nation with "a. I
oud complaint that their political e
rights are denied to them - meun-