The sun., 1897-12-05
DISFR4NCHIsED AFRO
Louisiana Proposes TO Follow tho Lead or
Nississippi ana south CnroIinn.

Somebody has defined n Bourbon to be a
person who learns nothing and fOrScts nothing.
AS applied to the royal family OF France his
tory corroboratcs the accuracy OF the definition
Tho term has also been applied to the white
citizens OF the Southern States in their mas
tcrful bunRling with the question OF slavery
from the Henry Clay compromise period to
1860: with The reconstruction dilemma" from
which, In its Inception. they stood nloor
"grand. gloomy. and defiant" and with the
whole intricate question OF citizenship under
the Federal Constitution since they have had
undisputed control of all the Southern State
governments. from 1877 to the present time
II the Southern white citizens have learned
anything or forgotten anything since Henry
Clay and John C. Calhoun first locked horns
on the question OF slavery in Congress. the fact
has not lrcn recorded In the history OF the
times whore the student could reach It. In.
stead OF accepting the verdict of n majOrity-of
the electors Of the country. as expressed in the
adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth. and
Fifteenth Amendments 10 the Constitution. the
Southern whites started out TO nulify them in
their letter and spirit. and in the effort TO it
have Eop. the politics of the country in tur.
moil and imperillcd tho financial integrity and
economic welfare of tac nation by presenting
solid antagonistc front in their Congressional
delegations and in the Electoral College, for
fully twenty years; not because they feared
Afro American supremacy, as they have always
VGhcmcntly protested, for they are actually in
a minority in only three Of the tn rtecn States
South Carolina, Louisiana, and hissiSspp-
hut because they were and are opposed 10 the
lett or and spirit OF the war amendments. and
have done and Hrc doing MI that they can to de-
strOy their vitality by fair and hy fOll means
and by the latter oftcncr than by the former.
this H. the unyarnishcd truth of the mAltcr
Any other statement of the case II u suhtCr-
fugc. and II i- hish time that the people Of tho
whole COuntry. who are constantly Injured in
their vital interests by the existing condition
nf affairs, sno' Id 80 understand 1t. Tho cry ~
'pcacc. peace when there is no peace" will
finally result in a crisis, lust us tho question Of
slavery which WINS treated in tho same way
from 1910 10 l''m did. unless tho Supreme
Court when / 'umcS to pass upon the revolu
tioHAry and illegal Constitutions nf Mississippi
and south Cnru.iuH. takes different yiGw Of
the matte from that taken by the cOur: in
1885. IN tho fimOus opinion OF thirf Justice
Roger b. Tancy. in Drcd Scott against Sanford
1t IL no, pc. -ihlo TO disfrlnt hisc 10000, 400
people by STAT action and in direct deil lnCc
of national constitutional guarantee without
their CnnPcnt, "a was done by the white Citi-
zers of Mississippi and South Carolina, and nS
those Of Louisiana prOpOsc TO do and keep
them disfrauChi-cd unless all tho Afro A Amcri
can schoolhOubcS and churches In those States
are shut up as hcrmetically rs they were under
tho system OF slavery, without producing .