The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-06

right OF Suffrage OF C0lOred cltl2ens. Win
out dissenting vote the convention adopt
ed an article (No. 1889 declaring that mo
qualification Of any kind for suffrage or
office, nor any restraint upon the same, on
account Of race, color or previous condition,
shall be made by law" That declaration,
made by democratic body, was ratified
by eighty-fve thousand voters, and it is
now a part Of our fundamental law.
Third-The charge is made that the ne
groes are cheated out Of their wages and
are made to work for the whites without
pay. There is as little of truth as Of COM
mon sense IN this charge. When labor is
plenty and the demand limited, wages are
low but labor is IN the demand through.
out the more productive regions OF the
South and fair wages are regularly paid for
| it. Taking the year through, coored labor
ers get more than twice the average wages
paid in Europe and quite as much as are
paid in the Northern States. They are
adapted to the Climate and familiar with
Southern crops. Being unrestrained in their
action, they 90 where they
can get the best wages and where
they are most needed. If ill-treated
they do not return to the same employer, but
that seldom happens, because few planters
are so unwise as to drive away the laborers
on whom they depend tor making and Sc
curing crops. While perfectly at liberty TO
emigrate to Kansas or elsewhere not one IN
every five hundred of them has gone.
Those who were cheated into the exodus"
movement are either coming home or anX.
ious to come You know that they have
the same natural attachment for the land
Of their birth as white people have. They
are providing themselves with home com.
forts, and now that they are less misguided
and deceived by mischievous political adj
venturers and agitators, they are contented,
and steadily gaining ground. In word,
their white neighbors are honest, and thor
relations with them are universally AMIGA
bic. They have learned that they were
greatly damaged by the bad government
and high taxes of the carpct-bag dynasty,
and they are fast finding out who their best
friends are.
Fourth-Itis charged that the people Of
Louisiana are neglecung the education Of
children-of white children to a great eX-
tent and of colored children altogether,
We must admit that the enormous losses
resulting from the war and the damages,
equally as great resulting from the intru-
slve radical state and local misrule and
spoliation, have left the people Of Louis
ana too poor TO compete with wealthy
states in public education. But what are
the factsl Before carpet-bag state rule
here we had tree school, seminary and
university fund Of about million and q
half dollars, represented by bonds on which
the state paid interest for the support Of
public schools and institutions Of learning.
Under the carpet-baggers, the whole Of this
fund was embezzled, squanderel,
diverted TO bad uses or irittered
| away. Yet our constitutional con.
vention of 1879, Democratic body, de.
cared the original fund TO be a debt due
by the state and made the state treasury
perpetually chargeabe with the payment Of
annual interest thereon for the benefit Of
public schools, the seminary and university.
The same convention appropriated the state
poll-tax, never less than 81 per capita, ex-
! clusiyely to public schools. Our state tax
/ is limited to six mills and Of this one mill
is for educational purposes. The interest
on the proceeds Of all public bonds granted
! by the United States, and all grants, be.
! quests and donations to the state and all
vacant estates falling 10 the state by escheat,
are devoted by the constitution 70 the same
purpose. In addition to these sources of
support for schools each parish is authori-
zed to levy tax for the public schools
| therein. Funds from all sources are equal
! ly distributed according to the number Of
! children Of designated age and they are
employed impartially for co.ored children as
well as white. There is, moreover, an insti-
tuition, that Southern University, pro.
vided for by constitution and statute excu-
siyely for the education Of colored students
| Let these facts speak for the slandcred
white men Of Louisiana, The foundation
Of thorough school system has been laid
again over the ruins Of that which the car
pet-baggers destroyed. If leftat peace AMI
favored with prosperity our people will
complete and perfect the edifice. The cause
ofuniyersai education has many devoted
supporters all over the state and il Is uni
versaily encouraged by all classes Schools
for co!Ored children are oper every year in
all sections for period as longas the funds
will permit, and their instruction is every.
where fa1ored and no where opposed or
discouraged.
In conclusion let me assure you, and
through you all who are interested in our
welfare. that the white people Of Louisiana
expect for themselves and their descend
ants to remote generations that the colorci
people and their descendants will be with
them as fcllow.citizens and as joint occu.
pants Of the land, and tina, therefore we
desire to see them improve in every respect
calculated TO make them intelligent, honest,
peaceful, law.abiding, thrifty and prosper.
Gus.
The foregoing statement may correct or.
roncous impressions elsewhere than in your
town and county. You are therefore at
liberty to give this letter any circulation or
publicity you may deem proper.
I have the honor to be your obedient
servant, LOUIS a. Witt,
Governor Of Louisiana.
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