The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-06-26
VOL. VIII.
QUEER STATE OF RIGHT
AND WRONG FO1 THE PARTY
LEADERS TO THINK ABOUT.

The Philadelphia Press, to show how
thoroughly LOUISIANA is the property
OF the central empire, says it was
bought and paid for by the United
States, and therefore the title of the
u niOn Is absnlu,e. Even so our faith
ers b' ugh: these negroes from the
North, and our title, II under GJd's
Law one man could have property in
another, was ind=feasable. BIT we
have lest it by making the negro cat
IL n, even as the Union lost mastery
when Louisiana, the "Territt ry," be-
cane the State. Bat all the States
supplied the money to buy the South
western Territory, part of which has
become the water logged and Kel-
logged province I, lay, and Louisiana
has refunded the purchase money again
aud sgain. But there is a curious fact
connect d with this purchase made by
J, iTsrson fr' m Napoleon, two of the
greatest men the world ever saw, and
both Republicans, which may serve to
show how. absurd were construct ons
Given the preamble to the ID claratIon
of Independence by admirable or ltors
asst Thursday when the anniversary of
negro emancipation was celebrated. 1t
was argued between fTerson and Ma
p 'ienn that the republics ennstI u irg
the u ,ited S.ates it WASN'T a nation
IN those days--and the French govern
ment agreed that the people Of l.. uisi-
ara should bc forever protected in
their slave proper y. Lnuisianians
were Frenchmen and Napoleon had
read IeIslh's papers ON the subject
of slavery. III : found that a radical
abolitionisis' party would arise in this
county and therefore he thought to
secure Frenchmen in property which
they bought from New Euglanders.
These, having phcketed the money,
might becnme a I'll cted, Napoleon
imagined, with many scruples of con-
science, and finally with dram enough
to become mad, and enter upon an
emancipation crusade. N ipoleon was
a stat, smsn and therefore a prophet
and, anticipating such events, provided
against them. 1t thus happens that
tht UniOn,in freeing louisiana negroes,
violated the treaty between France and
the United States, aud Louisiana
should be paid by France if not by the
United States for the property swept
away by L;ucoln's proclamation, whose
virtues were paraded Thurs lay before
the people OF the Soutl. OF course,
louisiana expects nothing. Good
fifth, since all the negroes in the
SJuth, save q few brought in Dutch
vessels to the Uaited Safes, were
b .ught by Southern from Northern
States, the latter finding free white Ia
Dor tie cheaper. The money paid for
these slaves, and interest on the gold
ayalue OF the negroes is dua especially
ly to shareholders of the South,
who refused to secede or rebel.
This concession would be simply just
and right; but even Tllden scorns such
a proposition and during the last ten
days of the last presidential campaign
asserted his manly abhorrence of the
idea. But why may not G )vernor Nich-
OILS of Louisiana, when his people have
been so utterly impoverished by those
invested with power by these negroes,
call the attention of France to the
solemn oblig, t on resting upon that
nation to see that this perpetuates
slavery in l. uisiana. Why not ask
France to collect damages done French
LDuisianians by this violation of the
compact between Napoleon and Jeffer-
son9 Nahum temPus Occurrit regi
The lapse of elghty-six years since the
treaty was made lessons in nothing its
binding force and we see no hope for
Louisiana's rehabilitation save in an ap-
peal to foreign power tor that justice
denied by Tllden even before it was
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