If, on the contrary, they recognize and sustain the new government of Louisiana, the converse of all this is made true.

We encourage the hearts and nerve the arms of twelve thousand men to adhere to their work and argue for it, and proselyte for it, and fight for it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete success.

The colored man too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance and with energy and daring to the same end.

Grant that he desired the elective franchise.

He will yet attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it than by running backward over them.