New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-20
AN oLp ApyERTIs1Na DODGE.

| References exchanged. When the
Democratic Central Committee erected
into a colored man the supposititious
Brown, and through him made inquiries
which it was intended to answer in
delphic phrases, the venerable institution
bowed its Inundated head and volun-
| tarily rendered its references like any
other servant in search of situation.
But characters" are not always what
they pretend to be, as many blooming
maid has found out ere this time. EGui-
vocal hints sometimes "do" the anxious
applicant, and secure a polite negative
where it was thought the pasteboard was
a sure and winning card. Just so with
Hatchs references. His letter to Brown
reads obviously enough in all con-
science; but its sauce qui pe,d is not more
serious than is the sting Of its equivocal
information. Brown can save himself. if
he will, but he must do it secundene artem.
How this salvation is to be wrought out
is not directly communicated, but the
innocent subject is put off with refer
ence, which, if used, will soon show him
the door.
Let us read this recommendation. 1t
is in words and language to the effect that
the Democratic Central Committee, at
whose door Brown applied for situation,
has no objection to allowing him place
in the happy family, but for more explicit
information he is referred to the address
of the committee, which was written in
partnership by Hatch and some other
first discoveries Of Republicanism in Lou
isiana, on the same principle that Ponce
de Leon said he was the first man who
ever saw the Mississippi river. If any
colored man has been misled by the let
ter Of the committee, let him be better in
formed by the address of the committee,
which is not so soft as the lullaby imposed
on Brown The latter instrument is at
tached to and made part of Hatchs COM
now refer. The address, in speaking of
the Republican Legislature, which was
largely composed of colored members,
says:
In their folly and malignity they passed
laws to enforce the social equality, not only
Of different races Of men, but of the bad
with the honest, and of the icentious and
haY no nd nIf IN,
like folly they passed laws to reOrganize
our once magnificent system of public
school instruction, with no higher motive
than to degrade, as they thought, the
white people Of the State and create
breach between them and our colored pop
ulatiOn; all these measures adopted under
the pretence Of regulating commerce, trade,
and the public schools and the amusements
of the people, being really intended to pave
the way to miscegenatiOn.
Mr.. Brown will see, if he is not blind,
or if he is still alive, that the Central Com
mittee has not only resorted to duplicity
with him, but that it has descended to
scandal, and that therefore it is not
worthy Of his confidence. The Legisla-
ture did abolish the distinctions of race,
but it did not destroy virtue nor estab-
lish vice upon a common level with what
is good and virtuous 1t declared that all
men should be entitled to the same rights
in the pursuit of life, liberty and happi-
ness; but it never sanctioned the sugges-
ton that the thief and the wanton were
entitled to the same privileges with the
onl ,n,,ro ou-1o1;1aJ
schools, and endowed them with muniti-
cent hand, instead of breaking them
down and if they fall it will be because
Democrats will refuse to sustain them
with their votes. 1t did not degrade the
white people, unless the proclamation of
justice to all is degradation. It did not
pave the way to miscegenation by con-
ferring on Brown the common right which
Smith enjoys
But perhaps We have bufeted this man
Of straw long enough for one day. The
fiction which was palmed upon the public
by the introduction Of this epistolary in
terview is like the wooden man stationed
in front of second hand clothing shop.
1t was sought by this surreptitious means
to show off a point in bad suit of clothes;
but the rent in the cloth has been detected
and exposed, and if there are any people,
white or black, foolish enough to be taken
in now by its deceptive gloss, our time
and labor would be lost in trying to i'm
prove them. Good-by Brown. Tia, ia,
Hatch.
CREOsOTED WOOD FOR PAVEMENTs.
When the proposition to annex Jeffer-
son City and Algiers to New Orleans was