The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-12-13
Ranting!

Observer, and the New Orleans
Weekly Louisianian, in the first
printed after the election.
Those papers are edited by col
ored men. They fill up columns
about Messieurs Peck, Brown and
Armstrong who were slain, drawn,
quartered aud hoisted upon bean
poles somewhere in upper river.
Parishes, all of which we're the
effect OF d diseased Imagination,
and uttered with a supreme con-
tempt of the commands inculca-
ted in the ninth commandment.
Then they take up the cry of their
leader and proclaim the election
n 'tarce' and after ranting around
like billy goats butting at rocky
mountain they advise all their
cOiOred friends to leave for Kan
sas. They growl lugubriously be.
cause TensaS, Madison and other
Parishes, formerly Radical, have
voted Democratic. Well why
could not they vote Democratic I
Is there any Jaw to prevent a
man, who is dlsgnsted with Radi-
calism, to quit the party, and vote
the Democratic ticket?
But these sheets are striving to
convey the idea that the colored
votes were bulldozed.
Is it not a little strange that in
Parishes like Tensas aud Madison
where there are ten cOlOred
voters to one white voter, that
the negroes could he bulldozed in
that style What sort Of cOlored
men are those who suffer one
white man to drive away ten of
their number. Either the colOred
men are a gang of arrant towards
which we do not believe or else
these papers do not wish to state
the true fact and admit that the
former Republicans have changed
their political views. 1t has been
said that the colored men fought
nObIy and now we find one man
driving ten of them from the polls.
These papers prove too much.
Their own statements show the
fallacy of tteir preaching.
1.-THE ION to Kansas" Or to any where else
is the motto which will stand tor IL time to
COME in base relief, confronting the gaze OF
the colored man till he packs up his carpet
sack and starts tor the Northland.'
This is the final confusion of
of the LOuisianian. We give him
our hand On that cry. Let 1t he
"OD to Kansas" Nine out OF
every ten white men in Louisiana
will give IA help to start the ship
aud keep wind i'll its sails. Let
the coIored voter go to his loving
friends up in the Northland. Then
will the hard listed laborer OF the
North come down South and III,
era .: prosperity, happiness and
peace will he inaugurated such as
has never been seen in this cont.
ncnt. "On to kansas," say we,
and make Louisiana a white
mans country. So much for the
LouisianiuN. Now hear the o.
Serre1':
There is no other course left to the hard
working. honest and peaceful ye"manry OF
Louisiana throughout our entire cotton belt
with perhaps the exception ut II solitary
parish, like that of East Carroll. than iii
migration. Judge Bcattie said truly, when
in his speech at Odd Fellows Hall last Mon-
day night, be warned his fellow citizens OF
the direful purpose and objects of the Ring
Democracy III the then pending election,
that 1t that party OF lawlessn.ss. fraud aud
misrule were successful, 5000 black labo.
rers would surely leave this State.
The issue against which every good citi-
zen protested, every honorable voter should
have seriously determined and all business
and agricultural interests should have com
blned, Is now urOn us.
There is not nor can there be any redress
except i'll honest and republican govern
ment An administration not of IL party Or
a faction, but one embodying the expressed
and u~ntranlneilcd will of the people. OF
this We are denied. A republican form OF
government does not exist in louisiana"
Unless the Republican gang of
public plundelers like Krllogg,A An
derson, Wells, aud their rapscal
lion followers can rule Louisiana
there Is no Republican Govern
ment here, hey. That is the song
is it'll Then "On to Kansas.
with yonI 75OOO men. There will
be none to interfere with your
march, but thousands to bid you
God speed. and a safe arrival in
your Northern homes.
L" show the complete disregard
OF the truth, which those papers
have in their ranting, the Obset-
GER publishes Il letter, in "a column
alongside of the one containing
the terrible sufferinss Of the col.
Ored people in Northern Louisia>
Ia. written by II cOlorpd man re
siding in the very region whose
woes bring the lngubr Gus tears
to the eyes Ut the sympathetic
editors.
"Never befare since freedom have the
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