New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-02

doubt as to what kind of Banner this
White Mans Banner may be. The O. S. pa
pers wyn't tell us, though we have inquired
earnestly with tears.n 1t isn't the U. s..
flag, as we have already suggested, for that
protects yellow men and Dutchmen, and
black men and Irishmen; nor is it the Con-
federate bunting "so-called," for marches
to that are played OUT" it can't be the
French flag, for Louis Napoleon had black
Major General at one Of his balls last win
ter; nor the English flag, for that waves
over l4O,000,00O of. colored people. What
banner is it? We burst in ignorance.
We draw from our Bag some advance
sheets of the report of the officer sent by
General Buchanan TO investigate the Mill
ken ''riot."
The plain facts of the affair are, that in
the little town of Milliken the Texans,
black and white, were accustomed to carry
revolvers and knives. A bad custom GER
tainly, but general one thereab0uts.
The chivalric white Texans waxed wroth
in their cups at the reflection that they did
not monopolize the "navies,n and COM
menced firing at the negroes. The firing
became fusilade, the negroes ran from the
town, and sought shelter behind some rising
ground.
The whites followed in crowds, shooting
Unfortunately.
AS a result seuen negroes were Killed and
some t,oenty wounded.
Not white man was injured
The Sheriff, a Texan and a Democrat,
says he is about to resign his office. He can
not discharge his duties in that ruf1lan com.
munity. He says he could have controlled
the blacks without difficulty if the mob bad
not furiously interfered.
. And this is the great ''negro riot which
was telegraphed all over the country to
show that the negroes were disorderly
and dangerous class.
We are foEdly amiable Bag, and having
quoted mean thing from the columns Of
the Pic, we hasten to hail possible era of
good feeling by quoting very kind and
just thing from the same source, thus:
We desire to expressly commend the very
graceful and magnanimous act of Governor
Warmoth, in nominating to the Senate
Judge James G, Taliaferro, of Catahoula,
to the Supreme BeEch upon which he is
now sitting. Judge Taliaferro was an indie
pendent candidate against him at the late
election, but this did not prevent the Gov
ernor from selecting him among the five
who are to hold this most important of
trusts for the next eight years, an act in
which he does honor as much to himself as
to the recipient of the nomination.
Two years ago, when Judge I. was nomin-
ated by Governor Wells to a Democratic
Senate, his nomination, though that of a
Republican, and by Governor who was in
illrepute, was unanimously confirmed.
Such honor is due to man who has been
consistent and sincere; and though men
may differ from him now, and may have
differed from him heretofore in political
opinion and conduct, they should never let
these considerations cause them to fail 70
do honor to rectitude and sincerity.
The following comes to US from colored
man, who states that he was born slave.
He evidently does not propose to forget
those who helped him to his freedom, He
Is rather severe on willis"
AUGUST l.
EDITOR CARPET BAG:
We colored people ofthe Republican party
feel shame for the conduct of one of our
race last evening. He is nothing but poor
ignoramus, who does not know his head
from hole in the ground.
Two years ago day before yesterday, If he
had been caught on the streets, he would
have been killed by the very people who
now hire him to make monkey of him
self
was born and raised a slave myself I
know what slavery is. would not ex-
change two months of freedom for all the
"leeks and onions and ''tlesh-pots
of Egypt that we ever had in
bondage. We know who won our freedom
for US. 1t was GRANT at the head OF his
army, and CoLFAx who was in Congress to
back him up. That's enough for us.
We don't pay no attention to any stupid
Niger who is hired to tell US to vote for
Seymour.
we know that Radical Congress gave
us the right to vote. We know Seymour
and Blair are pledged to take away the
right If they can. We stand up for Grant,
for Congress, for our Governor. No Sey-
mour for US ! No Blair for us
MIR. Editor, please correct all mistakes
for one who was born a slave.
The "Ides of November whatever that
may mean, is in the mouths of all the brain
less stripiings who constitute the brawling
mobs that nightly perambulate our streets
shouting out the meaningless cry of "Sey-
mour and Blair"
Well, when the sides of November" is
DER, good reader, you will See-more Blair
eyes than were ever seen at an Irish wake
But these resurrected boys in gray mean
more than appears upon the surface. With
all their professions of patriotism, love for
the Union, and for the old flag, what they
mean and what they intend is blood-more
blood they are not yet satiated, but they
may be.
Let the ball roll. Let the Times and
Crescent hound on their bloodhounds. "The
blood of the martyr is the seed of the
church" and there is plenty of the red cur
rent yet left in loyal veins
So to your allotted work, Sir Knights of
the X. w. G.
What fortunate thing it is for the willy
and unscrupulous leaders of the new fedged
Democracy that some men who esteem
themselves DI.ite are born without brains
Were there but small modicum Of that
very desirable essential in the working and
laboring masses, what on earth would be-
come of the scheming and selfish leaders of
the new Democracy, What would be the
political fate of Duncan F. Kenner, with his
score of plantations and his hundred race
horses2
But the toiling masses have no time 10
think, and therefore Kenner and his disci-
pies of the new dispensation can flourish in