The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-08-24
AFRICAN vs.. CAUCASIAN.

It IL with a modicum of hesifsncy q
hat we submit even q word on this b
ubiect. We do not shrink from Its !
liscussion. We have decided and en- 6
,hatic views, or rather we should say, 1
respecting It.
But the TELEGRAPH has been in
bs habit for just twenty five years Of
arguing about issues. |,
It may not be impairment to add,
that the TELEGRAPH Is par e:ccele''ce,
! Louisiana paper and most especially
4 North Louisiana paper.
Let ii be conceded, then, that the
race question Is an issue In this conn-
try. Ia the South-ls 1t an Impending
issue in Louisiana?
We do not apprehend that there is
spot In the State where the pubiica- |
ton Of such q paper as the Selma INDIE
pendent Is possible. Certain it is that
sentiments such as are expressed In
the subjolned extract from that paper
would not find tolerance. we quote
tsWere you to leave this southland,
in twenty years 1t would be one OF the
grandest sections of the globe. We
would show you mossback crackers
how to run country. You would
never see sonvicts half starved de-
priving honest working men out OF an
honest living, as you great Il ans
now have 1t. 1t is only matter OF
time when this whole state of affairs
will be changed, and hopS to your
SORROW. We've never destined to
always be servants, but as all other
races we will and must have our day.
"You now have yours. You have
had your revolutionary and civil wars,
and we here predict that at no very
| distant day we will have our race war,
and we hope, as God intends, that we
will be strong enough to wipe you out
of existence and hardly leave enough
of you to tell the story. It is bound
to come, and just such hot-headed
cranks as the editors of some of our
democratic journals are just the right
sort to hasten 1t on. 1t Is fate"
| These expressions reach the very
access Of diabolism.
They breathe incendiarism and in
surrection.
They violate every sentiment o.
humanity.
Satan himself, and BeIzebub, ant
the rest, in their rebellion against ON
impotence, scarcely attained depravit,
go supernaI, and yet SO impotent.
May we not reasonably expect tina
the vile contagion may spread to on
own State, aud plague US with its solu
ton =?
Is there no effective quarantin
against its advance ? can ounce O
preventive is worth pound of cure.
Preventive measures are better ans
cheaper than punitive measures. Pre-
ventiou, In this case, is the solid, un
wavering, unfaltering unity Of III
whites.
This unity. can be only attained upo
certain easily detinable lines.
Eliminate the negro from Democrat
,. politics
So long as this question is with u:
tolerate no party but the Democrat
party;
y II differences of expediency or polio
arise, as indeed they will and mus
arise, let them be settled by the whites
y between the whites;
h Relegate the negro 10 the sphere fc
n which nature created him, and kee
him there;
e Iuaugurate, snd carry out, syster
IL of absolute fairness and honesty j
10 party machinery, so that no man ma
charge fraud or corruption
.s Treat him who appeals to the su
1t frages aud support OF the negro, as
;. public enemy and suppress him.
c. This is the platform, politicc-socia
of the TELEGRAPH.
Is Let the Democratic press Of Louis
l. aua set squarely on it, stand there
le unterrified and immovabie, and we al
is safe.