The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-05-25
The Dullaoze,s and tho Cerrupt:onist,
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In recent editorial tue Chicago In-
ter-Ocean reviews, in it's own peculiar
way, the comments of "the three most
widely known newspapers of New Or
leans'' on ssthe Lafayette affair" The
leading Republican organ of the great
West first filings its arms In loving ten.
derness around the Times Democrat,
aud with many caresses and sugary
terms Of endearinea,, applauds its good
ness and courage in taking up the cudg-
els for the negroes againsf the whites
oiIberia, Lafayette and Gfetna. Our
Chicago contemporary next takes up
the Picayune inia very hippant style,
and refers 10 what it irrevereniIy terms
ssthe foo1ishness'' Of that truly great
and able journal; aud having thas dis
posed of our two mprnings neighbors
the Inter Ocean. pulls utf its scuat, rolls
up, its sleeves and pranc as into the
States 2'ugnis ct calciJ,,s, as il it We're
resolved to leave US a torn and bleeding
example OF the folly and wickedness of
maintaining that. under any ctrcum-
slaDces, in an issue between the whites
and The negroes il the Souih, ihe,whi: :es
could be Otherwise than wrong, or
could play any part save that OF null
dozsrs, aud Regulators, rufliis.,s and
murderers. nv d E sesat~ud sdi et''t
Recently we have had three local and
quite incousequential race DISTURBANCES
in louisiana; aud the, later Ocean,
taking its cue from its New Orleans
ally, maintsins that the whites, the cd
ucated, the property holding, the DOM
inaDt Caucasian race, with reputa>
ton, property, family, every thing, in
short, that is dear 10 civilized man al
stake, were, In each ardevery fnstauce,
and inexcusably IN lhe
wrong, and that the half-barbarous,
vicious and drunken negro
gamblers and courIesans who were
society into pancemoni-
mum were in each and every case 10
the night tl.sBEnrfiu lsa-rFs!uf
u This ia the verdict, absurd and, in the
very nature OF things, manifes,ly false,
Of the New Orleans Times>Democrat
and the Chicago 1uter- Ocean. And we
to predicts, so readily do we
this style ,oi defamatory jour
nalism AS that of the old reconstruction
ara, that il thousand other similar
local fracases should occur In the South,
these Two journals will, on each occa-
sion, come to the front with their old
c,t and dried reports, and with their
same old cut and dried verdict against
the whites; unless indeed, the echoes
Of the Times Democrat ISLANDERS, rolling
back from the North1n a Numbering
diapason Of wrath and {, viiifioatiou,
shall cause that journal to repent, its
apostacy in sack cloth and ashes; and
in the presence ola wronged and indig.
naut public sentiment, il shall seek TO
atone for its punic faith by more sincere
and earnest efforts to repair the wrong
and damage it has done Louisiana and
the Democratic party, than its dull and
wearisome homilies on Hwhite supre-
macy with which it daily seeks to
besugar its bloody shirt reports for the
gullets Of the country press. saals,, ''''
AS for the Inter- Ocean, of course
under any and ali circumstances, it
will continue to be the champion OF
the Southern 'sNigger," even though
the Southern "Nigger'' be of the New
Iberia and Gre,na siripe-an insolent,
riotcus, drunken, gambling brute
against the white man. That journal
exists in an atmosphere Of ignorance
and prejudice on this question and,
often as we have pointed out the fact
1t will not Understand that, after a
quarter of a century of freedom; after
possessing the franchise of twenty
years, with alt the educational oppor-
tunities Of the whites, the negro is as
little qualified to~day for tho duties
and responsibilities OF citizenship he
was the day the ballot was first placed
iu his hands; that he is, in his moral
and intellectual organic alton, not only
unfit for the exercise Of the franchise
In free country; but that a popula-
tlon Of his race Is Incapable of uphold.
ing, and fourishing under any regular
government, even though 1t were one
as strong and arbitrary AS that Of Rus
sta that, during the six thousand
years Of his existence the negro has
shown that he is capable Of filling but
three conditions under the province of
God: First, that OF the savage OF the
jungles of Africa; second, that of u
slave in an enlightened country; and
third, when emancipated, that which
he must occupy in the South within
the next few years, a ward, subordi-
nate to, or dependent on the higher
race-a newer Of wood and drawer Of
water-prOtecicd indeed, by the laws
in his life, his person aud his property,
but excluded from all participation in
the politics and government Of the
country. t
Ignorant as The In!er-Ocean insists
I1Dou remaining on theae moi n Ia for tho