New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-18

will ask another: Do you think we will
gain anything by following such men
longer? For myself answer. followed
| them till September or October. 1864;
saw cause then to distrust them; l have
since believed them deserving OF the de-
testatiOn of every Southern man, woman
and child.
| venture to assert that these men, our
leading politicians and war-makers in this
section, have brought more mischief and
suffering upon us than would have befallen
US if every negro man among us had been
a constant voter, and many of them been
Governors of States and Judges in our
courts OF law, from the year 1860 to the
present time.
1t this is to be white mans govern
ment. may God preserve us from the rule
OF such white men as have been our leaders
in the South for the last decade.
now propose, fellow-citizens, to place
before you some of the false doctrines, or
hes, which they have preached and paraded
before us to prepare lis Tor dupes and sub
servient followers when the time came for
them to hound us on to war. l shall be
fair as well as frank, with them; and as
they have maintained one truth i think
but one) among many falsehoOds, l shall
begin by presenting their
ONE TRUTH.
They have told us that slavery, as it
existed among our peohle, was benefit to
the African race
Time will certainly establish the truth of
this proposition beyond the possibility of
doubt.
Not many years will pass away ere the
teachers OF abolition in our own as well as
in European countries will be driven to con-
TESS thIt they have been egregiously mis-
taken in regard to the negroes mental
status. This proposition was ac-
complnied with corelative which
10 no sense recommends the institu-
ton of slavery as benefit to the whites
That it is the parent of much evil to them
there can be no doubt. Jefferson has
frankly and phiosophically declared that
II stamps "Odious peculiarities" upon those
| communities that m 4inaln IT,.
! | fancy even now that | see Grcely and
| Phillips, and Garrison and Dickinson in
our land, and Cairnes and Labulaye and
others in Europe brought to standstill 10
their chronological speciality, and beginning
to invent some escape theTefrom. | fancy
that | know what the new phase will be.
a position mus. be chosen that will still de-
our land-that it was as Webster termed
it, "a blight mildew and a curse, but
that it was curse to the whites and not to
the negroes. This, think, will be the new
position. Had this been at first |
chosen as ground on which |
to attack the institution of slavery in this |
country and urge its abolition, its advo-
Gates would have found arguments which |
no logic could have oveFthrown. But |
have depressed.
| must resume.
have placed before vol the only great
aud important truth maintained by our
pro-slayery fanatics and secessionists. |
shall now lay before yoE some Of the many |
talsehoods.
DoGMA-FALsEHoOD NO. I.
They told US that slavery was the nor |
NAL condition Of the negro race" that it is |
heaven ordained institution il |
was founded by God,
This is d transparent lie-none but ignor- |
ant men would have attempted to main
tain it. Had God ordained tue negro for |
white mems slaves, no human power could |
make them otherwise. The governments
Of England, France and other countrI es-
Mr.. Lincoln with a stroke of the pen
emancipated millions Of slaves. Therefore |
God never ordained slavery. He did not |
make negroes to be slaves. Cod purposes |
and plans are not so easily overthrow by |
plrlaments or presidents. II would be /
something for the curious to learn the num-
her Of our pro-slavery fanatics who ever
did in earnest, or do now believe this
dogma to be true. Doubtless some remain
to keep company wi h the anti-slavery
fanatics, their counterparts in the North
the Fosters, Greeleys, G PRISONS, Phillpses,
etc.
DoGMA-FAISEHOOD NO. II.
Our greatest, wisest best read and proud
est champions of secession, our war-makers
told us, with the dugm ,ti>m of nabobs,
that cotton was king and that his throne is
in the Southern States.
DoGMA-FAIsEHOoD NO. III.
With the exception of Calhoun our great
speakers and writers told us that the ma
tons of the world were dependent upon us
for the supply of raw cotton; that it fed
and clothed the poor of Europe; that if our
cotton did not grow they would starve;
that rather than starve they would obtain
bread by revolving against their Govern
ments, which would compel the nations
who used our cotton to aid us in our
- So 'oi
There are at least three f4lsehoods in
cluded in batch No. 3. / find it necessary
10 condeDse, they are too numerous. 1t
was an nntruth to say that the world was
dependent upon us for the cotton staple.
Il was an untruth to say that millions in
Europe would starve or fight without our ,
cotton. 1t was an nntruth to say thIt if ]
hey did revolt against their Governments,
hat the latter would aid rs
Did you, while you were fighting aud |
bleeding amid the clash OF arms to crafty :
he sta esmen (?) who had duped You, see
any French or English soldiers by your
,ide, aiding you in the desperate Struggle
Tor Independence! Did you read in the
papers, as you sat around your camp fires,
Dr lay sick or wounded in your hospitals
OF Federal prisons, that France or England
which must perish ~ it these States did
not supply them cotton, was aiding the
south with either men, money or d.
plomacy2
Ii your leaders told you the truth, it is
yonr duty TO follow them til |. Was this
pretense or prediction fulhlled2 You
know, l know, AMI they know it was false {
FALsEHooD No. ".
They four leaders) told us that Mr. Lin
coin was an abolitionist; that his influence
would be exefted for the destruction of
slavery among us. These statements are
Dolh lalse l honestly believe JEFF. Davis |
was an abohnonist at heart before Mr.. Lin I
com consented to emancipation. Certainly
the power to preserve the institution was /
completely within Mr.. Daviss option in
1862, and he choose to see it oyerthroWn. {
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