Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-16
A coLoRED ORGANIZATION.

A COLORED ORGANIZATION.
The colored population Of West Baton
Rouge have banded together on principles
Of mutual protection and benefit, giving
the go-by, very properly, to political clap
trap and humbug, II we are permitted to
Judge from circular Of theirs just issued,
which has been placed into our hands, and
TO which we give publicity below.
The organization already numbers, we
are told, some 2, 100 members. If it can
preserve itself free from the communicating
influences of low white men, whose secret
motives and ambition are to entrap the
poor blacks by soft-sawdering and intrigue,
into money getting schemes, for self-ag-
grnndiEement, it win be acting both wisely
and well, and be enabled TO accomplish
great good for its members and to enlist
the aid and sympathies Of respectable
whites who really wish well to the oolored
folks and sincerely desire to see them sue
coed in their efforts ut amelioration.
We caution the blacks against the wiles
Of those unworthy 'fpale faces who talk to
them ID honied phrases and sing to them
in syren strains by way Of lulling them
into unsuspecting moods for the purpose
of fleeing them afterwards. BY listening
TO such false-hearted propagandists, they
will be led unwittingly into troubles and
be left to their fate by that very class,
whose policy 1t Ia to flch and Hatter. We
have heard Of two instances (and doubtless
there 10 multitude Of them, wherein the
Golored people OF this city have been made
the dupes Of swindling devices on the part
Of designing whites to rob them OF money
they had contributed for certain purposes of
mutual benefit. Our colored friends should
he constantly on their guard against those
wolves in Sleeps olothing--those false
teachers of false doctrines, whose ultimate
aim is to fill their pockets ut the expense
OF the poor darkey.
As rule, we are pleased to state what
has long been acknowledged, that the col
ored people in our vicinity are wel-dispos-
ed and law-abiding. Exceptional cases, it
is true, are to be found, but where is there
a white population in which the same ex-
ccptions are not to be met with? The
colored soldiers also, manifest degree of
commendable department, which coupled
with their generally neat appearance and
their excellent army discipline, reflect
much credit upon themselves and their
officers. "Honor to whom honor is due |"
The N. o. Bee, in the course of its re-
view Of the late excellent address of DIR.
FRENCH, of the Freedmen's Bureau in
Georgia, to the freedmen collected Mt Al
bauy in that State, closes its remarks with
the following paragraph which we adopt, as
suited to the object which we had in view
when setting out to pen this article:
THE great thing for the blacks at pres
ent is TO be imbued with just sentiments
of moral and legal obligation. Whatever
they are to be in the political or social
scale hereafter, depends upon their pro-
ficicncy in learning this indispensable les
son. Their true friends, who are true
friends of the country, concede that this
lesson cannot be learned in day, and it
is only the fanatical, incendiary, and re-
yolutionary who would take the pupils
from the preparatory tuition and force
them ut once through spurious and pre-
posterous graduation"
We revert now to tho National Union
Colored Society of West Baton Rouge,
whose Circular we copy entire:
National Union Colored society.
(orgdnired in West Baton Rouge June 5tt, 1867
Society called the "National Union
Cora Society, has been organized among
the people of color in the Parish Of West
Baton Rouge, with LEXINGTON V. PfERsoE,
Teacher, as President.
Tho Articles governing this Society are
as follows:
ARTICLE 1sT. This Society shall pro-
vide for its sick.
Arr. 2D. This Society shall bury its
dead decently,
Arr. 3D. This Society shall strive against
All disorderly conduct.
Arr. Arm. This Society shall regulate
properly the conduct of its children.
Arr. 5rH. This Society solicts the
friendship of all the whites who feel them
selves free TO give it.
ART. 9TH. The main object of the MEM
bers of this Society is to contribute mutu-
ally, by their mites of money, to fund
for the purpose of purchasing lands for
home colonies.
Very respectfully yours,
iSignedl LEXINGTON V. PERSON,
President Of the Society.