Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-05
Reflections Political and otherwise.

| c0ndlGl0Q 6a freeQEneny cannot De nOnefUty
!. denied. This, we believe, every intelli-
gent member Of the colored race, will con.
cede, nor can they in reality be made &c
feel otherwise, Notwithstanding all the I'M
due interference to the contrary, on the
part of outside political agitstors, who from
sci fish and unworthy motives would. tain
, delude the colored race into the belief that
they are their best and truest friends.
We are willing to see the freedmen
Afforded every suitable opportunity for
improvement in the scale ofmorals and in
telligenee, that they msy arrive at fuller
understanding and knowledge on this
point. A much happier destiny viii be
theirs, if, by listening to wise counsels and
iniunctions they can learn and realize the
fact, that it 10 not by vain longings after
political equality with the whites, they
can ever be made to enjoy either hap
plness and contentment, or that by obtain
ing the political franchise, they will have
it in their power to shape their own des-
tiny Designing white politicians would
take care Of that, and would soon arrogHte
to themselves all the advantages that
might flow from that privilege.
! If on the other hand, it should uutortu-
nately turn out that evil counsels are al
| lowsd to prevail and the blacks be placed
in position to be banded about as q
mere football in the hands Of artful dema-
| GoguGs, they will axe for themselves
bed Of thorns from which they will arise
| only TO be crowded out altogether from
their fancied political rights. sISps worse;
| they will be apt to hasten tho time, when,
like the red men the original proPrietors
of this vast country, North, South, East
and West--thsy may have to give way aud
| disappear before the migratory trend Of
thoss white legious who aro always rendy
to supPiant and Gil ny the placas Of the
non Caucasian rsree. So long as African
slavery continued 70 he profitable thing
IN New Euglnud and other Northern States,
the blacks wera tolerated and cared for just
as any other spscief Of property, bnt when
| theT did away with tue institution thu
Hnrthernsys ca NO to regard their Original
ss7vils populstiou "a being in shs white
man's way, and they we're rooted ont Of
those States almost to complete eX'inelop.l
They coud not Withstand competitor and
collision with tbs native whites and the
stream Of humanity from Europe which
poured i'll to supply all the wants of the
country as to labor in all the departments
Of business and commerce.; and now, in the
language Of Southern coptem porary that
the proIssk and valor Of the Northusn
has crushed slavery and opened Up thess
Southern States to the food Of immigrs-
shickly populated towns, cities and dis
tricts of thu whole North will throw
their surplus population upon us. The
poor will come in search Of labor, those
Of small capital viii come TO better their
condition, and tho capitalist will come
to invest; and within ten OF twenty years
two-thirds Of the land Of the South-
ern States will change hands, our popula-
ton will be doubled or erebied, white la
borers will abound, and the negroes will
move southwark, until within thirty years
they. will be as scarce here as they are in
the Northern States now. And why? Be-
cause the Southern people will be unkind
or prejudiced against them No. Blu.
because now they are free, we shall become
rs careless about them as the Mortimer
are, and when we find it to our interest
to employ whites to perform the mental
services they have been performing, with
an eye to seli-interest, we shall not be slow
TO do it. IF pressed back, it will noise
the Southern but the Northern people and
Europeans that will do il. They will
leave because the superior and more ener-
getic whites will take their pl aces; and ~
they own no part of the soil, as soon AZ
they cannot find employment they win
begin to disappear. The negro prospered
physically and increased in number ~
slave; but with this tide Of white immigra-
ton pressing forward, rs the result Of his
being freed, We do not believe he can now.
Already we hear that the intelligence
Offices will be able to furnish white -erv-
ants for families who wish them, in North
Carolina, and no doubt by the first of Jan
uary nextit will be as easy to get any kind
Of white "helpn that may be desired, in
that State, AZ in Baltimore and New York. |
And when this comes to. DO the case, and
those people who have to hire, ind that
one Irish or German woman cnn do the
labor Of two negro women, like the people
of the North, they will give them the pre-
ference. If the negro is driven ont. az we
believe he will be ultimately, it will not
be on account of any prosecutions by the
former owners, but by tho food Of inmi-
grafton which had pressed slavery before
it, before the war began, from Nassschu-
setts to Maryland. /