New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-01

withhold our honest conviction, that the
negro was created for slave, constructed
socially, physically, and morally by God
himself for slavery, and nething else
That he, in due time, will return to his
natural state by the hand Of Providence,
either by the virtue of a true constitu-
ti0nal government, or by the mean,
cowardly measure of military radical
despotism. .t ..s
1--WE shall fight against negro equality
Except with themselves and their asso-
ciates), as unnatural possible-debas-
ing to the white man, and unkiRd to the
negro"
Another platitude, you see, and a con-
temptible bubble to deceive, or an ignor
ant ebullition of nonsense.
But he proceeds further: Listen, my
colored friends, and prepare to admire the
high toned and we'll cultivated generosity
of this very refined conservative Demo-
cratic party-a party upon whose support
those who oppose our ticket mainly if in
deed not solely rely. Listen:
ave oppose negro suffrage, because
this is trust, not right, and not to be
placed in the hands CT babOOn or fO0l,
and the white man who advocates this
doctrine is untrue to himself, false to his
country, deceiver of the negro, and
barriers away his own liberty for few short
days of promotion through the vote of
these poor unfortunate victims.
ave can not consent to negro rule. Born
a slave, by nature a fool, educated alone in
blind imitation, he can not make laws to
control the white race. This is too much
for the American mind.n
That is all very fine, and know you
will not fail to appreciate it properly. But
there is more yet of the same sort in the
numerously signed call for pubic meet
ing, the main object and purpose of which
is thus candidly expressed;
"The citizens of the parish of Claiborne
are respectfully and earnestly solicited to
attend mass meeting in the town of Ho-
mer, on Saturday, the 18th OF February
next. The object of this meeting is to rake
into consideration and devise the best and
most expeditions method of defeating the
ratification of the negro radical constitu-
ton, which viii soon be submitted to the
people of Louisiana for their action
thereon"
Thus you see this God and morality
party" is predetermined to vote against
the forthcoming constitution whatever it
may be.
This call " then proceeds to give The
reasons for organization
at is essential that we should organize,
and be prepared to meet this demon Of
raaicalism that threatens to destroy every
Yestige of civil liberty, to annihilate
the dearest rights and privileges Of
citizenship to make you aliens and out
laws in the land Of your fathers to reduce
you and your children to the debased con-
dition of vassals to elevate your newly
enfranchised Slaves to the dignity Of Office !;
to make you bow submissively TO this I'M
principled and ignorant horde of Africans,
who in their savage eXultation will infict
upon you the most memorable tyranny, and
forge for you and your children new and
more CALLING chains of slavery"
Now, my friends, you all can see how
unjust and even Infamous is such language
as this. When | look back and call to
mind what know, from nay own personal
observation, in regard TO the long patience
and submissive suffering of the poor, down
trodden, bleeding slave, and the heartless,
soulless eXactions of some, at least, of his
former drivers and task-masters, my heart
bleeds within me, while at the same time
my soul looms up to the God of freedom in
grateful thankfulness, and am tempted to
shout aloud in renewed accents of fresh
gladness the song of Moses, as he stood
upon the dry and safe shores of the Red
sea and beheld the destruction Of the heart
less pursuers Look back even during
the years of the late war in the South
mark the conduct Of the faithful and
submissive slave to his proud and
traitorous master through those dark
years of trial and suffering; and
then talk to me if you eaa about the
g savage exultationD which the African will
ever infliet upon the white race Of this
country have seen and know too much
of these things to have less than burnins
whitening contempt for the man or the party
who would use such language or resort to
such means for Political success.
might pass from the opposition journals
of my own town and parish--fer we have
two such sheets in Claiborne-to the howl
ing tory sheets of the adjacent parishes.
For mind you, fellow citizens, there is not a
single loyal newspaper in the iifti1 congress
sional district of any long standing and
outspoken independence except the Homer
Tliad And say this neither the more nor
less boldly and emphatically because am
the proprietor and editor Of that paper.
am proud to be so. 1t stands alone in its
glory now as in the past, battling feariessly
for the right against brute and british force
like alton at bay beset and snarIed at by
enraged but impotent jaekals. The Had
will support your ticket, and it is the only
paper In North Louisiana that will, and its
editor will support your ticket on the
stump as well as through the columns of his
paper. shall do so defiantly, asking Of
my adversaries no boot
But must quote another mOrsel or two
from the Conservative Democratic press OF
North Leuisiana-from the loyal columns
Of channel which gives expression to the
loyal and truly converted devotion Of O
truly repentant and loyal constituency
have met lately with copy Of a sheet
called the jackson Flag, well known to me
before, published in the parish of jackson,
adjoining TO Claiborne It is edited by
one civilian Stran Cnstisp who claims
10 be a liReal descendant of the George
Washington family son the mothers side
Perhaps be is. If SO, he is a degenerate
son Of a noble ancestry "But let that
pass find in his columns some resolu-
tons adopted by the white men. ESQ called,
Of his parish, second handed from the col.
umns Of another tory fugieman Of the same
s'school Of music '--the Ouaehita 1eleqrapl--
o certain class Of so-ealled white men Of
which latter parish, it seems, first having
had the distinguished honor Of adopting
them.
will give an extract or two:
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