New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-07

the rule Of a different race, a xule
made harsh by law, custom, and preju-
dice, q rule enforced under the i'm
pulse of caprice and passion, rule
from which there was no appeal, a
rule which held its ground against
reason, right, humanity, republican
ism, and religion, rule which could
be overtlrown only by a revolution
that shool the continent ...
You hare heard of poetic instice."
You have sometimes been pleased at
seeing a specimen of 1.-THE bad man
getting frSm his intended victim, not
what he ssught for, but "what he de-
serves" Suppose the great Superin-
tending Power had so ordered it in
this case Suppose that for hundred
years following 1862, it had been APP
pointed that the black men should be
masters AID the white men slaves
Shocking hOught, is it not! But con-
slider little. Would the case have
been mucl worse than it was before.
Do you think that blacks, in such
case wouli look out any more for No.
l, or am less for No. ?, than the
whites did before them Of course
they wouH scorn the idea of working,
and would see that all the necessary
work waslone by the whites; of course
they would take for granted that
whites hal no rights which black peo-
ne were Quad to resnect But then
they would be humane to their slaves;
it would We their interest, you know,
to take god care Of their own prep
erty.
The vey statement of reasons like
this in behalf Of a real supremacy of
the black shows how fimsy, how hol-
low, how iypocritical was all that men
were accustomed to say in defense of
a supremacy Of the whites, and also
how flimy, hollow, and hypocritical
are the complaints now made against
the voting Of negroes, and the epithets
used to describe that state of things,
Under the reconstruction acts most
favorableto the blacks they will have,
and can POSSIBLY have only SO much
political POWER as the proportion of
their numoer to that of the whole pop
ulation fairly entities them to. They
will have only what we claim for our
selves as natural justice, the inherent
rights q man. Why should they
not have hese rights How weak
must be tie cause which feels unable
to opposenegro equality without first
calling it 1negro supremacy !"
! What the actual position of the
Southern BLACKS in regard to the reali-
cation OF an Improvement in their
condition A national edict has pro-
claimed tat they are no longer slaves.
Is it strange that they aspire to be
men and dtizensl Wicked and shame
full laws, snacted by Shareholders, de-
priving item Of the rights of free To-
comotion property, marriage, educa-
ton, the IoweTof contract, and voice
in the election Of the rulers who were
to goven then-these relics of the
old system are null and void, broken
by the rebellion that was designed to
enforce ITEM. Is it strange that the
black MAJ now claims to use such civil
and political rights as the nation has
conceded to him =! Is it strange that
he is disposed 10 vote, and to send his
children % school, and to get fair
price, for his work, and to take coun-
sci with he fasnds Of freedom rather
than wit thosswho seek the re-estab-
lishmentM slayeryl
The ipde-H6on which the colored
people the South have shown in
moving brward toward the possession
of thes rights-rights but lately
granted hem BY us, though our most
venerate standards declare them the
inherenand inalienable rights Of all
meh-isruly wonderful. They mod
estly ancquietly venture to take what
the new laws and customs offer to
them. hey buy small patches of land
when thy have money and opportu-
nifty. Thy send their children to school
when tere is a school. They are
, ready 3 accept any fair contract for
labor. When election day comes, they
go to he polls and offer their vote.
} And thy hold meetings to consider
the bes modes of making these new
+ opportunities available. The whole
) demeanr of the colored man, under
) the impoved conditions of the past
, FIVE yeas, has been such as to show
him woIhy ofthem.
? StraTe to say, it is the oontinu-
? ance ofthe colored people in a quiet
: course f improvement like this which
S has bDught out from the white
0 people of the South the frantic
: screamWith which their newspapers
f are nov filled about the danger 0.
i negro supremacy" Five millions
Of peots b Fiag entered simply anC
nafura upan the discharge Of the
PLANE, dn Is Of citizenship, twelve
: millior of liieg people cry out il
e alarin W. thsg Are threatened, tina
E they et essssed, that they are abou
0 to be rined Non conStat. 1t doei
' not appear. The whites have th,
maiorit. The schools, the polls
and al the occupations of life ar,
Z as freeto the twelve millions as Il
= the fiv millions; most of the lent
5 and tb whole of the press is il
d their hnds; they have the habit o
2 organisation, and they have Away
: been scustOmed to govern. Wher
!. is the dangerl The pretense 0
y danger is at once a falsehood an
t an absrdity.-Staadard.
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n God, Wholesome Advice.