Louisiana capitolian., 1880-07-31
C0LoRED MEN, READ!
MISUNDERSTANDING.

The Radical papers and speakers in
the North have great deal to say about
bulldoozing in the South, but the follow
ing, clipped from the Fond du Lac, Wis,
Chronicle, stalwart Republican organ,
beats anything ever heard Of in this be-
nighted region. The Chronicle not only
advises that the property of Democrats
shall be given to the flames, and their
children killed, but that their wives
shall be outraged! Hear it:
Every Republican in Wisconsin should 60
armed to the polls on next election day. The
grain stacks houses and barns of all active
Democrats should be burned, their children
killed and their wives outraged, and that they
NAV understand the Republican party is bound
TO rule and the one they should vote for or keep
their carcasscs away from the polls.
"Cive their roofs to the flames and
their flesh to the beagles" was once the
cry of intolerance in another land be-
yond the sea, and it is now repeated by
the God and morality party in the United
States. If the Republicans of Wisconsin
choose to take the advice of this incen-
diary idiot, and Ego aimed to the polls"
for the purpose of intimidatingthe Dem
ocrats, we imagine that the Democrats
may also ego armed" for the defense of
their persons and free snffrage.-Vicks-
burg Commercial.
The foregoing is in singular contrast
with the late action of the Democrats at
Greenville, Miss. w. N. Werles, an in
tclligent and highly respected colored
man, who was holding the responsible
position of District Clerk of Washington
county, died. His death was deeply re-
gretted by the white people of the coun-
ty, and a fitting tribute to his worth as
a man was paid to his memory by the
Democratic paper. A few days later,
the Democrats of the county, in conven-
ton assembled, adopted the following
resolution
Resolved by the executive committee
of the DemOcratic-C Conservative party
of Washington county, That it is the
sense of the committee that cOlOrcd
man be appointed by the Governor to fill
the vacancy in the Office of circuit clerk
of this county, caused by the death OF
w. N. Werles, the late incumbent; and
that in order that one competent may be
selected, that two of this committee be
appointed by the chairman, who, with
the said chairman, shall constitute a
subcommittee Of three to select and
recommend q suitable and competent
colored man for the office.
Let our colored friends read and pom
der the above. These examples are
striking illustrations Of the spirit of the
two parties, and will serve to convince
every colorcd man of mind and heart
that the Republican party is a blood
thirsty organization, caring for nothing
but the maintenance Of power, to accom-
plish which it traYples upon every prln-
ciple Of civil liberty and corrupts the
very clements of republican govern
ment by deeds Of vice and acts OF un-
scrupulous intamy.
On the other hand, as the example
shows, the Democratic party comedies
to the cOlOred man his just claims OF
cmolument while it recognizes his right
of protection to life and liberty.
Now, wouldn't it be nice thing fol
those Wisconsin bloody shirt shriekers
to "kill all the Democrats, burn their
"houses, kill their children and outrage
"thcir wivcsr And this is the great
moral abolition party that how!ls about
Southern cruelty and outrasea Blast
their eyes Of them!
OF course, the Democrats of Wisconsin
will 90 to the polls, prepared to defend
their lives, and then the Republican
buffers and blathcrskites will, as they
did in the late war, "curl their tails
and harm nobodyn'
The editor of the Fond dn Lac Chron-
icle couldn't tell the smell of gun-pow-
der, neither could his father nor grand
father before him. Brave men do not
talk that way, neither do they raise
boys of that stripe!
The best thing the pcople-both North
and South-could do with snch mscr.
able sknnks, is to first brand and then
exile them in the ,jungles Of Africa.
Arrangements have been completed by
Treasurer SkOlficld and the Finance