Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-02

port of the Republican cause and Its
standard bearers.
We have found instead q series of
eyasions and curtailments of truths
and in fine nothing, absolutely moth
ing but an appeal to sectional preju-
dices based on distorted facts. The
utterances of the patriot and tho broad
views of the statesman fail to appear
in this lengthy dissertation composed
of assertions which could DC trayersed
with pin points as if they were SO
many sleeves with apcrtures showing
the places where their rcfutations
might enter.
1t is the address of q political thin
ble-rigger. "Now you sec it, and
now you DON'T
The solid South has 1873 electoral
votes, says Mr.. Conklin, and needs
but ~ more to elect the President.
He then quotes the census Of 1870 to
show that the South leaving out
deity the States Of Missouri, Ken
tucky, Maryland and Delaware,
though he counts them in the l3S
electoral votcs) had a white popula-
ton of but seven millions, against
four millions of blacks. He then
shows that these seven millions Of
rebels are controlling the Union,
while he quietly omits the other fou,
States in his argument.
In the same manner he touches the
matter Of statistics regarding pro-
ducts, their value, the amount Of the
imports and exports Of each section.
When the number of electoral votes
comes in he takes them from the II
Southern States, and when he bring:
up statistics he only takes in II. Sncl
is his thinly covered dodge.
He tells them that in Louisian;
only $4,000 whites were registered ii
1867, against $4,000 colored. Bu
what he don't tell them is that he
Conlllin, had just voted to distran
chisc tens Of thousands OF whites TO
their participation in the Rebellion
while he cnfranchiscd every negro
whether residents Of the State 0
fresh from the disbanded colorcd rcgi
ments; not to speak Of the thousand
of blacks under age who were fraudu
lcntly registered.
He does not tell either that in tn
State of New York, where there Is
Democratic majority, on]y9 Congress
men are Democrats against "a RI
publicans, this through the gerry
Wandering of the immaculate Rcpu(
lican party.
He does not say either, that in til
great State of Ohio majority
white voters are Democrats and til;
it requires the few thousands Of co
orcd voters who have come thc1
from the South to give the Rcpubl
can party an occasional preponde
ance of Il mere handful.
f.. lie does not say either, that the
is among the whites Of the Union
Democratic majority of more thu
, one million, as proven by the 5000
votes which Tildcn obtained oy
, Hayes, despite the 100000 neg
, votes received by the latter.
He does not say either, that &
: minority of the whites of this count
have controlled its destinies for t
teen years through the legerdema
of cnfranchising the blacks to ma
up for the number of whites viii
they lacked to constitute a majority
He does not say either, that t
sixteen Southern States whose Gle
,, toral strength foots up l3S yo1
number II, 100000 of whites agar
4.OOO,O 600 of blacks, and that it
natural that the whites who "a
Democrats should govern the blac
. who are Republicans.
> He does not say either, as 3
Butler has discovered, that the c.
y ored race can only look for prot'
ton among the large majority OF t
! white people of the Union which CO
stitutes the Democratic party.
At last he forgets to say that t
q majority Of the people OF this count
/, are tired Of being ruled by a sp'int