The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-12-27
we'll as the white men.

1o"' "" nS 10 NGAtoStit'Nt
will not amonnt
to the screechlng of a night OWL
All the right that he seems to
want is the power to ride over the
white people, lax them to death
and steal their taxes and be au
thOriZed to make such laws as
they please. They have every
privilege which the white man
has, no more are they gcing to rel
ceive. The last election was "a
fair one, every man voted for the
Republican ticket whose stomach
was strong enough to swallow
the dose. Aud yet we see the
columns of the half dozen radical
sheets talking about frauds and
false counts, etc. Such disgusting
NONSENSE is enough to sicken any
one who reads it.
The Independent thinks the col
ored labOrer is Il necessity in the
South, and asks:
"Who suppoSes for a moment
that he Can tind white men with
their families, who would go on to
the plantations and live, like the
negro. We do not believe such a
class .: white men ale to be found
on this continent. No one seems
to think, Or suggest, hat the la
boring class among the white PEG
pie here, the creoles for example,
wOnld take the place of the color
cd man, why tlten expect the la
boring man OF the North, who
has certainly us much energy,
and Intelligence as they, 10 come
South, and work on he p.anta
tons, at soc. per day, 81 pounds
OF meat, aud IL peck Of meal, per
week, when he can go West and
preempt 1GO acres of land, and in
Il few years make himself Il home"
Well, We do not suppose that
white men are going to DO any
such IA THU e. We would he sorlN
to see them do it. But there is
no Necessity for it. There axe
other ways Of working land ex
celt the one specified in the above
extract. When the negro leaves
here, If ever he does, there will be
an opening for the white a~gricultn
riSt to come here, not the r~0rthless
rupscaitions that have been prowi.
i5g over the South, robbing and
plundellng, using the negro as Il
tool to pu, themselves in power,
and having no interest in the
prosperity OF the public only Sc:
far AS their ind.vilu Il pocket was
concerned. Tho ruin that the In>
dependent seems to imagine
would follow the eXOlrs of the
colored race from Louisiana, is
all the effect OF IA diseased inayi-
nation. A visible plain result OF
the immigration of the colored
man from many Of the Gotten
States Stands out in bold relief IL.
tore the eyes of any unprrjudice,i
man. AS fast az he leaves the
cotton districts the white farmer
comes down from the North. takes
his place and doubles the crop of
cotton.
VIZ have here, numerous exam
pies i'll Lafourcie, of crops Of SIT.
gar that are cultivated by white
men, which are far more rt'muner'
alive than the same quantities OF
land worked by the negro.
The Independent has IA good deal
to say about the Northern mai
and why he will not come here,
etc.
There has never been an open.
. ing here for the farmer of tue old
free States to come aud enter
They are not coming here to 60
into the field, with the coIored
man and be driven aboutin gangs,
it is not the way they do business,
Bat that does not prove that these
rich lands cannot and will not {
cultivated, il the present labor
goes to Kansas.
The change would he so great
, the improvements so vast tina
the most enthusiastic man wOuit
be astonished.
Take for instance, as an exam
pie, one single plantation. We
have in our mind one that pay.
out annually SoO,OOO III wages tl
colorcd men. How much richel
is the State and parish at the
close of the years Is any of il