I therefore addressed a letter to the Hon.

Theophile T.Allain, a colored member of the Louisiana Legislature for Sweet Iberville parish, and a large sugar planter.
From Mr.Allain's letter I condense the following statement, which will be found to be interesting for many reasons: "First," says Mr.Allain, "I speak as a man of the South, who pays taxes on thirty-five thousand dollars worth of property, and without owing to any man one dollar.

I claim to be well informed as to the condition of the colored people of the South, the people who bear the heat and burden of the day.
"In the cotton section of the South the Negroes are kept in subjugation, and are not permitted to exercise the right of suffrage guaranteed to them by the provisions of the Federal constitution.

In the sugar-growing districts of Louisiana the colored and white people live upon terms of friendship and cordiality.

In these districts there are thousands of colored men, who before the war were slaves, who now pay taxes upon property, assessed in their own names, ranging in value from five hundred to fifty thousand dollars.