New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-16

Most of all it is our duty to leniently re
gard the follies or excuses of the blacE
man. 1t is not so much his fault that hi
demands too much as it is of the white dema
gogue who urges him to it. Upon the latter
should the weight of our disple asure fall
Let the renegade white man, who, having
debased himself below the level of the ne
gro, would drag the rest of his race with
him, be the subject of your denunciation
rather than the negro, Nay, rather try to
take the negro out of his communicating
influence than to drive him down into it,
n o. Pioayatae.
The language we quote above is bat 8
specimen of the filth which for month;
past has been freely flung by the Camp
street press at leading Republicans o.
Louisiana. 1t is directed against such
men as Governor Warmoth, Thomas ].
Durant, James Graham, Judge Talia,erro
B. F. Flanders, John S. Walton, and
others, tho particular enumeration ci
whose names would fill a column.
1t is the purulent discharge
Of malignity which has festered till it
can no longer be restrained by any com
presses Of logic or courtesy. 1t is indecent,
it is unmanly, and, coming from che source
it does, it gives the thoughtful reader a
new insight into the possibilities of human
insolenee.
Who are, the Republicans thus de-
nounced? Men who have in all candor
and kindness argued in speech and print
for the abstract principles Of right, Of lib
erty, and of justice which constitute the
framework of their party platform. They
harm no one, they defraud no one;
with q spirit as noble as that
of primitive Christianity they have con-
tended for the rights of an oppressed
race. that the ignorant might be taught,
that the labOrer might be deemed worthy
of his hire, that the poor might have the
Gospel preached to them. They have not
used carnal, but spiritual weapons. They
have net maligued their opponents, much
less have they attacked them vita the
bludgeon and the pistol. The speeches
they have made have been conciliatory to
the last degree, the public documents
they have put forth have been to the ut
most temperate and logical.
Who are the class Of men who are at
lacking these leading Republicans with
diatribes worthy Of dance-house, and
streams Of fstOr which would do credit
to a polecati Their career is record.
ed on every page of political,
financial, and social scandal in cur commu-
nifty for the last twenty years. There has
not been scheme Of public corruption in
which they have not thrust their fingers.
There has not been financial wreck from
which they have mot Hlched their share of
plumber. There has not been a system Of
social AarlctFy in which they have not
plunged to crafty their appetites.
We take no pleasure in referring to such
matters, but If a man who lives in a glass
house insists on pelting the passers-by. il
is not unlikely that bis own walls NAV
suffer. Wken mea, who claim to be leaders
Of The Democracy, begin to pirate about
corruption, We beg TO refer to The history
Of their party taE he last score Of years.
When they TAN abOut'menaicant loyalists D
We sppsal to thsreeoFds Of tie Firlt National
bank, By which it is sufficiently clear that
the money deposited BY these same ioyalists
for safe keeping in thatinstlsnslon vas loan.
ed 70 rebels. and N the most high,toned
manner sQuandersd ia their newspapsrs
their lsflzoads, heir palatisI drinking al
looms ana their chilh fc race courses. Ana
when they tAlk about tie horrors ofmis
cegenaslon, and iaant respectable gentle,
men with debating fhemssives isbelow the
level q the negro. 2 We again appeal 10 lis.
tory with he Disadvantage however that
canupn decency iorbIds tke telling q ne
tale IL fail Legalizsd 1spe-diahonor
ipzesa CD the coIored women Of New Or.
lsaa4 81 system they could not escape
ooneshleass - bold and unblushiug thai
the injarea wixss Naga driven to revolt ID
publie aeainst VII Ines could 10 longer
conceal bassafdy 0Hsten al over tie