New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-21
THE PROMISED LAND.

If Sumner and Stevens aud P nillips fail to
secure the inestimable privile ,ce of the ballot
for the negroes of the So thern States, their
experiment ofnegro ec. uality can be tried in
another part Of t,,ne country. There is
promised land for the aspiring negro who
fancies that putting slip of paper into a box
in imitation of white folks will relieve him
from the burthen Of labor and enable him to
| enjoy in lazy luxury the blessings of freedom
rhat Canaan lies just beyond the bounda1eS
of Arkansas and is known as the Indian
| Nation In April last the United States con-
cluded treaty with the Choctaws, Cherokees
and other tribes inhabiting that territory,
which treaty has recently been ratified by
fboth of the contracting parties By this con
vention it is stipulated that slavery
shall be abolished and that negroes
shall be put on footing Of perfect equality
with the Indian inhabitants. They may vote,
may marry the squaws, hold offices and do
ANYTHING that anybody else may do, In that
promised land of equality there are none to
dispute that natural right of voting and Of
being as good as anybody else, and something
better, which the melanopholists attribute to
{ the descendants Of Ham. Here, then, is an
opportunity for partial test at least Of the
f radical hypothesis Of negro superiority. Here
the American citizen Of African descent has
ample room and verge enough to work out
his political redemption, and to spend his
I happy days in the practice of those charming
, little stratagems into which he has been
| initiated bv his radical instructor. # ne can
{ not quite rival the unappronchable inflny q
) Brownlow, ~ successfully compete with tins
audaeibg Of a Louisiana eonyeutioNcr, he can
& at least, illustrate his initiative faculties b9
q DISTINGUISHING his Epbieund fellow citizens
e and going through the accepted programme e
+ governing d community by means Of fractional
I IconyentioIs and qrorunless legislatures I'll
= can practice Oh the Indian just as Brownloy
+ and the contentioners have practiced On th
+ people of Tennessee and Louisiana 1t is un
/ fortunate indeed that his supremacy is not
It be exercised on white people-especial o
i Southern i'rebels" but Choetaws, Cherokee
n and Greeks, Will do better than nobody t
+ serve as subjects Of the imperial African race
,eI It would be more satisfactory, questionless
" to prove to the world the perfect equality o
t the negro with Sumner, Stevens and Banks
ii by setting him up as a ruler within tn
IS Southern States.
5e 1t would be more gratifying to the radico
st heart to endow him with the right of govern
Il ing white men, and to feed and clothe him a
lie the public expense but if that cannot b
it accomplished, we presume that radicalisr
o win be content to see him lord and master c
r domain into which he can introduce tn
E. delicate refnements Of Ashantee fetiohism
d modified by the profound wisdom Of the Ne
lie England primer. Surely community i
t. which the great principles of public Hbert
le are to be illustrated by the establishment of
le black oligarchy, and the jealous exclusion c
n white iintruders-a community in which tn
IN negro shall demonstrate the feasibility Of lily
er ing without working and by mere force {
ic voting must,quite fulfil the radical idea of
5. State with a republican form of govern
id ment"