The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-09-18
A REPUBLICANS VIEWS.
GEN. JAMES DUGAN WRITES AN
OPEN LETTER.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. II, iS'

welcome letter of the 9th inst, cam'
to hand last evening. For its many
expressions of kindness and persona
friendship, you have my heartfelt
thanks. Your regrets in reference t.
the political course | have taken,
deplore. and if | could see through the
political lens with your eyes, | should
not hesitate to take your advice. But
cannot and, strange rs it may APP
pear to you, your letter has strength
ened my faith in the correctness of my
Judgment and of the position have
taken in this political contest. If
needed reason for my refusal to sup
port Garfield, your letter furnishes il
to hand.
You say that the election of Gen.
Hancock would be Il triumph OF
Toombs, Hampton, Davis II Co., and
that we would he treated to Il repeti-
ton of the frauds, outrages and bal
lot-boX stufling of the past. Now my
dear Judge, while | cannot join with
you in prophesying such lamentable
result to the country, in case of the
succy IS of Hancock, yet / am free to
say, that in my humble opinion, even
little of that same fraud and ballot
box stufling would be far preferable.
and less disastrous to our section,
than the negro political domination
with which we are threatened in the
event of the election of Gen. Garfield.
In your letter to me, you make the
humiliating acknowledgement that
you, white man, and a Southerner to
boot, have been removed from office,
without cause, through the influence
of taoo negroes. That, although you
had discharged the duties of your
office with honesty, fidelity and
efficiency-for which you had been
complimented by the Republican
authorities at Washington you,
nevertheless, were powerless as
against Bruce and Hill, to save your
official head from rolling into the
basket of "Civil Service Reform"
All, my dear fellow, you forget,
when you say that you are about to
take the stump in advocacy of the
the election of a man, who, at best,
represents but a portion of the old
Republican, party, and none of its
principles, that that same man whom
you seek to elevate to the head of the
administration of the Government, is
the quintessence and embodiment of
that very same Bruce-Hill idea of
negro domination in the South and,
if he is elected, those two negroes will
WELD, with an iron despotsm, the
whole patronage of your State - as
they have done heretofore under the
present mongrel administration of
Hayes. And are you surprised that I,
who have never voted for a negro in
my life, and never shall, should refuse
to assist in putting in power a man
who would ask meas a condition |
precedent to seeking oflice-to suppl
cate Il negro for his influence? Or if |
appointed to office, to fawn and be-
come sulservient tool to his arrogant
caprices, in order to retain the place
Out with Il party that would require
such an acknowledgement of inferi-
GRITTY from Il white man! I want none
Of il.
We have here in Louisiana, the
idea strikingly exempli-
fed in the Custom-house. You of
Mississippi have only been going
through chrysalis state, while Loui-
'iana, more advanced in the idea of ,
he superior requirements of the oman
md BROTHER" for high office, has been
lodged for years, and is now quite an
I'D bird-a sort of cOrmorant that can [
lot become satiated enough with office.
There are in this city, men who, like
'Ourself, were Unionists during the
var and who joined and worked for
he Republican party in the darkest
lours of its history,-whC suffered
'stracism, and contumely, and in
ONE instances violence, for opinions ,
AXE, and for their efforts to uphold
he banner of their party. These ,
1en's services are not now recognized, !
nd they have been turned out of one :,
OsitiOn after another, on the recon- +
Of negroes, and negroes n
negroes, negroes who, in one p
alf Of the instances | recall, could y
OF write their names--were put i'm u
heir places. q
1t is not an uncommon occurrence T
ere, for il white man to perform all q
the duties of the Office for a stipend, T
lille Il negro draws the fat salary. ;,
here are also, in this city, men who n
'llowed the flag of the Union through .,
'ur years of terrible war, and whose -
lood has stained the patriotic uniform ~
ley wore, on many hard-fought field 9,
defense of the Government that :,
oud not now exist, but for their :,
forts and the efforts of other like n
lem-men who, by their intelligence =,
nd integrity, would adorn the highest .,
atiOns-their claims have been set :,
ide and ignored, in consequence of =,
lie clamOr of the irrepressible negro =,
r place and power.
The original friends and advocates a
negro suffrage intended only TO give a
e cOlOred man the ballot to protect n
mself by putting the Unionists of III
G South into office. where they could w
nder him protection and not, as he d,
opposed, for the purpose of elevating i'm
mself into power and position, to it
ash his white friends. They gave W
m span, he has since taken a rood In
ay of showing his gratitude.) He pr
insatiate in his greed for power, on