New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-21

| would sign her ana ner SlsteI JULIUS.
The court declined to reduce the bonds
and decided that as Mr. Dawes had not
formally surrendered Ellen FOllen IN open
court. he was still responsible for her .ap
pearance, and would be until the ternlna
ton of the trial She did not require
another bond. The court also decided to
accept William Green as bOndsman IN the
sum of five thousand dollars Tor Louisa
| Murray.
The case went over until Monday, at ten
o'clock.
while we do not endorse all the views
! and sentiments in the following commune
cation, we, nevertheless, commend 1t for
perusal on account of its excellent style
and generally moderate tone.-EDIroH
| REPUBLICAN,
| Communicated
THE FUTURE OF THE COLORED MAN
| The abolition of slavery was necessity
of civilization; the negro was only fact
in respect to it. 1t was not his need but
the nations; not the vindication of a senti-
ment, but of a principle belonging to the
intellectual unfolding of every people and
waiting only on development. The power
| full constitutional barriers in its way defer
| red it; and only these imposed war as a
means. But for these the social element in
the South would have been incapable of
war; but for these abolition would
have swept the political course in
Southern partisan contests long be-
fore. The constitution not only fur
nished arguments, but imposed conscien-
tious convictions in favor of the right of
slave holding; convictions that found ex-
preston in religious sanctuaries; were pro-
claimed from the pulpit by eloquent teach
ers and profound theologians. And more by
reason of the authority of such law, scrl-
Piles prevailed among many to whom aboi
ton was sin-nOt crime by statute, but sin
by conscience. So fully do men deliver
themselves over to authority, whether law
full king or usurper, if it have it's source in
the past, and find sanetity in great names.
With slavery will be found to have de-
parted the traits and characteristics of the
pure negro. The irresponsible chattels re-
moved by his condition from the care of
providing for himself, with no mind-aches
or sense of WEAKNESS from worldly strife
ONtTuoNluS Will HuluiOF. ufuIlk WITH Jointly
riOtous from excess of delights that flowed
from every source into his fun-loving brain.
is rapidly passing-not away, for he is
gone but out of memory. Essence of old
"Nirginy' is already tradition merely.
Ethiopianism is not a reality but fiction of
the stage and concert saloon-a memory
dramatized and few of those who witness its
peculiarities of song and dance ever saw
it in its real plantation life
1t was in 1916. six or seven wears before
Uncle Toms Cabin came to the rescue of
the tlresOme old abolition societies, that
'Old Nirginny' became concertized into a
stage entertainment. beginning with i'm
mense fulrOre. and remaining so popular as
to have exiled the legitimate drama from
the stage. and. to a great extent. taken its
place. and kept it from that day to this
New York, for twenty years, kept two
broadway theatres nightly Overlooking
with the lovers of negro melodies and yet
entertains its thousands nightly in all va
rieties of place and style.
But the very extravaganza of these negro
delineations, giving them the appearance of
carricature, will present their perpetuity
overriding. When the type of the planta-
tation negro shall be seen only on the stage.
having died out in the fields and home
stcads. leaving none his like behind. and
another generation of people shall recall no
actual memories of such type, and the
whole will have subsidized into legends
and traditions. then he will be esteemed
only carricature. and will cease to be pop
ular, and the portals of the stage last
stronghold will soon after close forever on
him-the most perfect embodiment of gen
June lolllty, freedom from care. gushing de-
lights, humor and true melody the social
world has known, or nature and society
prOduced-the negro slave
The future OF the negro i'll the South, his
place in the social world. and his business
relations, are yet to be ascertained.
Emancipation in the North was fruitless of
good to the black. We remember the
States iber and freedmen of New Jersey
Without striking traits of industry or thrift.
he was OF good general behavior, peace
full, law abiding, and rarely drunkard
But the population of emancipated blacks
RAPIDLY declined: marriage being rare and
but little increase attending it. There was
no demand for his labor nor any fair field
in which to work out his destiny. But the
South is the natural and congenial sphere
for him; there is mutual adaptation and
mutual demand: home, education and the
enloyments OF life await him. But as with
all men, these depend upon his department;
upon his sagacity and industry. His destiny
seems now to be opening upon a new IRE
pressibe contlict-that with the Chinaman.
in the sugar and cotton fields of the South
We are frank to say that the advantages
appear to be on the side of the Asiatic.
He has the freeman's sense of responsibility
as well as the habit of voluntary work
The lack of these is the chief obstacle
in the way of the freedman he has
spent his life in involuntary toll. He
has been moved to work by the masters
command or whip. Daily confronting the
stern necessity of toll made him by habit
watchful for means to avoid it for day or
an hour. The necessity now urging him in
the shape of his personal wants is no less
exacting. and he has impunity at his will.
Let our freedman learn to resist the danger
of inefciency from INDUCING habitual ten
denotes. His needs will soon educate him
to this point. 1t he do not master it in ad-
vance. To compete with the shrewd. dill
gent, patient, labor-loving and thrifty China
man, he must overcome his repugnance to
work, and acquire the practice of strict adj
herence to his bargains He must determine
upon a plan of life. and make these the
means Of his success, keeping them watch
fully in his front. His race will 90 under in
this competition else. There is no better Or
ganized laborer by his habits of life than the
Asiatic, and the best regulated. most relia-
BILE, frugal and diligent one of the whole
East is the Chinese. From these very
qualities are produced his sole dan ger-that
of insanity. He is not a migrating animal,
and bis rational powers are severely tested
by immigration. He is a religious and re
Elective animal, and his attachments are
rooted. 1t is therefore seen that these com
petitors are wholly opposite in respect to
their personal characteristics; that our freed
man must borrow from the Asiaman some
of his traits.
But, with the viii to become thriving
and happy people, and to establish advan-
tageous and congenial relations with the
whites, our freedmen will find an easy way
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