The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-17
A Letter from Petroleum V. Nash!
RepublisEod after Thirteen Years.
Moo ORLEANS. Dec. Il
|, His EqQslencu A. Johnson,

joy. The principle bizniz citizens y
again about the streets clapin their
hands and hellerin "HalIelujer.' 4
The order of the CRATE and the good
Hancock hez restored confidez in the
bussins NV our friends and consternaa
tion in the breasts NV our enemiess
Juries thank God. are no more polus
ted with niggers onto 'em- They are
now drawd from the old citizens,|
many of wich served under Bore
gard in the late unpleasaHtness.|
Bizness therefore goes on without.
delay. Ez sample of how much
bizness is facilitated, Imay msnshsin.
that iffaone c0uft there wuz i I ss.sl /
in which niggers Wuz plaintiffs, and
As in which niggars wuz defendants.
The tryin Nv all these cases okepied
3 hours and 10 minutes, the verdics
in the At cases being invariably for
the defendants and in the other 45
cases fur the plaintiffs. Wv the time
specified, 2 hours and % minutes wuz
consumed by the niggers in Dayin
costs. 1t is singular thing how
wrong the niggers alIus iz.
In addishun to this boon, the citi-
zens NV Louisiana he'd, | am happy
tc state, got back their habis copuses.
Gineral Hancock, with courage
wich l can't too highly commend,
ashoored the people that so long as
he had power here they should never
again be deprived NV EN-.
In Texas affairs are going ON as
well ez Good be expected. The Gin
erals order fur holdin elecshuns gives
general. satisfacshun to our friends.
The elecshuDs are to be held only at
county seats. wich, OWN to the size
NV the conhties, will probably pre-
vent a great many uv the niggers
from attendin. Then wher a judge
of elecshun can't sit, the civil author
lties appoint another in his stead,
instead of the military commander,
wich our friends think will give us a
majority on the elecshun boards; and,
finally, thet Wich pertickerlerly binds
Gen. Hancock to US liz that part uy
his order wich prohibits the military
from bein at the polls. 1t is eggs
tremely probable that the Etheopeans
Nv Amerikin descent will ne geniralfy
persuaded not to vote at all. The
citizens NV Texas hev way NV per-
swadin the niggers, when thew aint
unconstitooshunally interfered with,
that will, | think, enshoor the tri-
umph NV correct principles in that
state. A native Texan. IA gentleman
who is now in New Orleans a>pur-
chasln cartridges fur 7-inch reyolVers,
to be used IN reconstructin the state.
gave me sich informashun az pre-.
clooded the necessity NY my g0in
personally to Inspect.
The land OWNERS of Texas, with AM
ardent desire to avoid distress in that
states next winter, both fur them.
selves and the colored populashun.
hev wisely determined that the mig,
gers shell work whether or no, and
in sich a way as to make their work
profitable. They are going to form
labor leagues, the object of wich is to
extract from the nigger the labor that
Is layin dormant into him, at about
So per month. They hays Iuootoo-
ally pledged themselves to pay no
more than S1E per month fur able
bodied niggers durin the workin
season, deductin board and so forth
fur their families and, further, that
no one will employ a nigger from
another naborhood onless he kin
show permishun from his last en-
ployer. They hev other roofs for the
proper reguiashun Nv this perverse
people wich is hardly worth mem
shunin, but probably it would be as
well.
One is that if the wages NV the
nigger is more Il an is eat UP by the
family expenses, the nigger shell
work it out the next season ;and that
the supplies upon which they live
shell be furnished by the employer,
upon such terms as committee NV
employers in each deestrick shell
agree.
70 prevent mismanagement uy the
soil by these undeYeloped in'teleks,
and to enshOor their acceptance of
these laws, it is olso party NV the
league that no land be leased or sold
70 anyone NV Afrikan blood ,and that
ez much NV the wages ez the employer
considers proper to be retained in hiz
hands.
They accept the situashuh and ac-
knowledge the bindin force NV eman-
sipashun, but they must regulate
labor themselves. 1t is thot that
by Twin faithfully to these regula.
shuns cheap cotton kin be agin pro.
dOOsed in Texas. Eff this legislature