St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-05-09
ADDRESS

ADDRESS
70 THE WHITE DEMOCRATIC
VOTERS OF LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, May I. 1885.
A grave crisis confronts you.
tho gravest that has befallsn this
State since the midnight order of
1872, whereby the Democratic vic.
tory was turned into Democratic
overthrow.
The adoption Of tue fifteenth
amendment precipitated M ire
pressible cofict in every Southern
State where slavery once existed.
Men in mass are governed ny
social forces aud race instincts,
stronger than all the formulas OF
law, aud where those legal formu-
las are imposed by exterior force,
aad are not the natural growth
and embodiment Of those So
ciai forces AID race instincts.
they cannot execute themselves.
and can only be executed with great
heat aud friction bv the exterior
force which imposed them.
The fifteenth amendment to tho
Constitution OF the United States
was imposed On the Southern PEG
pie by exterior force. aud by ex
terror force only can it be
executed. as long as their social
traditions aud race instincts remain
the same.
But the ora Of force has been
tried aud failed. Through carpet
bag government aud scalawag de-
lection. through the plumber OF re-
construction, backed by fixed bay
onets and pointed COMMON. our peo-
pie have remained firm snd un-
shaken in their proud resolve that
this land shall not be a Hayti or .
San Domingo.
Both history and the laws Of
soci.l science demonstrate That no
two races rs widely divergent as
the caucasion and the negro can
live together in political and social
equality without complete ainaigs.
nation of the two, or complete
domination OF the one by the other.
| OF the three alternatives, nmalya
nation, negro domination OF white
supremacy, tho Democratic masses
OF thu South have chosen the latter;
and It they will maintain with all
their might and main, personal and
material, social and political.
This is a sacred standard, the
Laburnum. ''in hoe signo vincss'
OF the Democracy.
So we'll has this banner been
carried to the fore that for the
! twenty years Of it's ascendance il
Louisiana thoro has been peace ano
order and prosperity IA far Al
: State government could effect pros
; perity. Tho States judiciary. ii
d nancss aud credi,, her public work.
aud public schools, her institutes
and asvlums have been drawn VI
from 1.-The depths where negr'
e government plunged them, ans
G lifted to the plane Of honesty
a solidity aud efficiency.
= After this twenty years OF peace
and of quiet. orderly domination
the Democracy was confronted ii
l. the last campaign. aud lie confrontc'
d now, with q combination whose in
Il congruity is both ludicrous an
tragic. The lordly and aristrocrati
!" protectionists and ths agrarisn an
g sansculottic free trade Populists
le file National Republican white su
= premacist THAT rare bird on cart
most like unto black SWAMI. nm
the negro preacher who drills li
q Aook in hatred Of the white mar
E. the revived, rejuvented carDet-bal
Or ger, historically Infamous an
te world becursed. the originator I
!, returning boards and false RETURN
:, the great horde Of ignorant blacl
10 who yearn for social equality. an
a large contingent of white me
ct who favor the Jim Grow Car hi
10 all OF these stand together nnd'
leader who has traverssd the Stal
s. in his campaign talking white man
~ government here and shotgun. n
t, gro insurreetion there, attacking Il
to administration, now because it us,
IL idle money to buy cp the interee
IL bearing debt, aud now because
rs robbed the laboring man by b:il'
y ing tue levees too oheaply. Al
descending at all times to every for
of mendaclty and demagogy.
ST This anomalous aggregation. I'll
/, monster, horrid. formIess al
" crowned with darkness. the Demo
'" racy has defeated
But it still stands growing Al
dcfnnt, threatening assault al
revolution.
We desire in behalf of the Dem
cratic 2artp aud the Democrat
is white masses of Louisiana, to wal
to these misguided men in tie mo
:. solemn and emphatic manner tb
the Democratic State officers Al
lA the Democratic State Legislatu
llc have been elected and are going
s. be installed. and woe betide hi
" who lifts his hand to prevent tae'
- These officers have been eles t.
= by majority exceeding 27.0'
re votes. A majority OF $1,000 OF Il
Mt h,te voters of this State ha
o. supported this victorious ticket.
4. The constitution prescribes hc
the vote thus cast shall be tabuls
NC ed. counted and promulgate
e. The Legislature is not returni'
board or a trial court. and cam
% reverse the will Of the people
at declared by the returns made
. cording to law. Any attempt I
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