New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-12


+eeopstruction contrived BY the Radicals.
An of these evils have been aggravated by
the persistent misrepresentation ana CAL
umnies of the "loyal men OF the South
According to the census Of 1850 there
were about six hundred thousand persona
living in the free States land most Of them
in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, who had
been born in the slave States, against only
about,two hundred thousand persons liv-
ing in the slave States who had been born
in the free States In other words, slavery
had driven away to the North three OF its
own people, and those usually the most
liberal and enterprising, while it had Of
tracted but one emigrant from the North
Since the war the spirit Of slavery has
been doing precisely the same thing. 1t is
said that at least fifty thousand enterprising
Southerners have gone into business IN
New York during the last three years
Hundreds of thousands have also left the
South for Iowa, Nebraska, and even Cali
fornia. 1t is claimed that these people
have abandoned the South in order to es-
cape Radical rule, but it strikes US that
any one leaving Louisiana for New York
or Illinois in order to get away from the
Radicals is, to say the least, travelling IN
the wrong direction.
No, gentlemen, these people are driven
away from the South, and thousands OF
willing emigrants from the North and
from Europe are deferred from com
ing to the South by the anarchy
and violence so prevalent here; in
fine. by the blighting and whitening
influences that have been inherited from
slavery. The causes enumerated by our
contemporary do not keep emigrsnts from
Louisiana, but the real reason why they do
not come to us is the publication of justsuch
articles as that from which we quote, the in
discriminate abuse heaped upon Radicals,
the insults and outrages inflicted upon
loyal men and women. Liberal minded
people in the North are sufficiently dis
gusted with the mere reading Of these
tbirgS: they are not willing to expose
themselves, their wives, and children to
thair influence.
At the close of the war vast multitude
Of Northern men were on the point Of
emigrating to the Southern States. They
Stood long hesitating upon the border, but
at last Joined that great army Of
emigration which is now sweeping over the
plains of the Northwest, astonishing the
world not only by their numbers but also
their enormous activity. Why did they
not come to US where the soil and climate
are so inviting, where their capital, their
enterprise, their example. their schools,
their respect for the laws, are SO much
wanted?
Need we ask this question Of any one "a
miliar with the insul is and outrages heaped
upon the loyal whites and freedmen of
Louisiana during the last three years .
Men would brave the pestilenee, men
would spend their whole lives in Alpine
villages overhung by threatening glaciers,
men would spend their whole lives in por-
tons of the earth that culver with perpetual
earthquakes who would hy in
mortal terror from such scenes as
the New Orleans massacre. Everywhere
men strive to avoid anarchy aud misrule
and bad government. Do they ever vol.
UNFAIRLY seek them? Never And the
disorder and violence prevalent in the
South since the war is, of all others, pre-
cisely the kind of bad government which
the free liberty-lOving people of the North
and Of Europe avoid and fly from, as from
the shadow of death.