Year: 1875

provision that one can hardly rea


it without a laugh. Beratari
never saw such a bill. Artemu
Ward never cracked such 'goak,
This bill empowered Kellogg t


appoint registrar in every parish
and it authorized the registrar 8
appointed 20 revise the list 0
voters. The registrar was to ad,
names to the list, to strike name
from the list ss he saw fit; in fact
he was to settle who should vot


and who should not vote. From
his decision there was no appeal
10 prevent any one whom he BAT
disfranchised from coming to tn,
urn and claiming to exercise hi
right, the registrar was not only tx
take the votes, but was authorized
to choose u number of suitable per,
sons to stand by him at the voting
urn and help him to maintain order
Thus, the usurper WIS to choose the
voters, to conduct the elections,
and to declare the polls. Louis
Napoleon's officers used to boast ot
their adroitness in the management
of popular suffrage, but M. Rouhel
never contrived, and General Pail.
kao would hardly have dared to
carry out, system so unblushing
as that of William P. Kellogg. The
White question lis in the air and
on the water; it is present in every
railway car, at ever dinner-table,
and in every drawing-room. 1t is
because the White question is
everywhere, that the White League
is nowhere This pride of race is
useful as an electioneering dodge te
the other side. The northern man
immersed in his business, is hard to
rouse: bul the negro has cost hin
SO much in blood and treasure that
whisper that he is wronged, 9
story that he has heen outraged in
flames their blood. In front of such
a situation all the common-places Of
political debate give way to ont
vast storm of passionate rage. A
such moment, anyt hing may bt
voted, even a third term; hence the
negrao's s wrongs are now the fash.
ion 'The real White Question il
broader than the present hour, lon'
ger than the life of President Grant
Can the colored people live in pre-
sence of the white? Are they
doomed, like the Redskins, to fade
away before the fiercer energy, the
tougher fibre, and the higher men
tai power Of their pale brethren
Has the white man, who gave them
freedom, only issued, in his ignor>
ance, an edict for their slow but
sure determination from the soil
This is the true White Question,
which awaits an answer from the
hand of time


You may be sure of one thing
says a distinguished confederate
officer, we shall have no disturbance
of the public peace; the time is gone
for argument of force. We see our
way. The white man is too strong
for the black; it is the struggle of a
man with woman; the weak h. s
no chance. 1t is the same in
masses. Why, then, should we
provoke another issue in the fight
We only need to wait. The negro
cannot stand the impact of white
life; the friction is too great. As
slaves the colored people were pro-
tected and provided for by the whites
AS freemen they have the burden
of providing for themselves. Hence
they are not only more poorly lodg>
ed and fed than formerly and not
increasing in numbers; but while
infanticide and child-killing is 'as
common in the negro swamp as on
the Tartar Steppe' the white mans
energy, not to speak of his moral
quality, prevents him from killing
the great tree of life ON his OWL
hearth In word, and Accord
ing to Mr.. Darwin, and 'our old
friend Lucretius,' who explained
lone ago how the fttest survive and
the weak are laid low the future
lies with the race having the high
est gift of vitaIity;' which, in the
South. at least, according to Mr.
Dixon's Virginia friend and his
countryman, is the white. There
fore the hopeful conclusion, thai
the White Question is Que of time
Whatever wrong the white mar
suffers, he can live it down.