New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-17

social position that they, by all principle OIL
right and justice. are entitled to. would sig
naily fail OF success until the right of uni
versal suffrage" was accorded to him from
one end of this broad land to the other, and
that when that were done all minor details
would soon follow. So. be little patient,
and all that you could desire in the way OF
Tree access to public schools, saloons, places
OF amusement, hotels, steamboats,, ETC.,
Will soon be accomplished. The law &C.
cords 1t, and you must and shall have 1t. 1t
may be difficult to carry out this law, by
the force OF the law, until some Of gu.
Judiclal courts are Srganlzed Oh q better Re-
time.
am of the opinion that so great will be
the desire of our political enemies to secure
your votes, that they will be among the
first to insist upon the Inauguration OF the
new order of things. They will demand Of
our saloon keepers and others, that the col
Ored man shall be admitted with them. to
drink his sOda.water and partake of ice
cream the same as anybody else.
On the eve Of our next fall election, they
will probably desire TO escort such of you as
will so. to the public saloons, and there de.
mand that the proprietor shall serve you
the same as he does him. He doubtless,
will consent, for he will say to himself,
'this is one of my big Democratic custom
ers and dare not offend him." When you
are there they will try to make you believe
tina. they have no prejudice against the col
ored people, especially such as will vote
the Democratic ticket. or 1.-The Peoples Con.
ssrvative" ticket. They will fairly weep
as they tell you Of good old Jane, or good old
Aunt Mollie, who nursed and handled them
IN infancy and childhood, and they will shed
crocodile tears over the long oppression and
social ostracsm of our long down trodden
people. But be not deceived by their base
fattery.
"Whatsoer q man soweth, that shall he
also reap" They have sown the seeds of
untold wrongs and oppression against you,
and now they must reap the whirlwind of
political defeat until the last wrong is
rlghted, and the doctrine of equal rights
for alp is fully known an recognized, and
carried out Throughout the length and
breadth of our country.
In the meanwhile neglect no opportunity
to educate yourselves, and especially your
children, so that before the next decade
rolls around it shall be universally admitted
that the colored people have equally as
much average education as the white
people; aud in addition to all this, be i'll
dustrlous, hard-working people. Let none
or your hard earnings 90 for whisky or
lottery tickets, but be temperate and pru-
dent in all things. Acquire the habit of
saving up your money. 80 that your names
may soon appear on the record as the
owner of the little or big lot, upon which
stands your dwelling. When you have
saved ten dollars ana safely put it away,
you are ten dollars up. When you have
got hundred dollars matters are comire
on fine with you, and Won wi, sOun nave
more. When you bave got thousand or SO
these white .olKs will be coming around
ven, a.a they will say, How do you do,
Mr.. Bailey Shaw, this morning, How is
your family! all well. hope;" and then
some Of them will say, oh, Mr.. Boyd, won't
you please go my security on this little
bond? I've got in little trouble down to
the court;" or, "Wont you please endorse
this little note for me to go in the bank ~
what ! will the bank give the money if l
go security for you9" "Oh, yes, they don't
know anything about color down there"
Oh, tell you, my friends, money is the
great thing to level all distinctions, and for
comfort, too; 50 get it and keep it as fast as
you possibly can.
And, now. another thing. Don't be seek |
ers tor public Office. except in rare in
stances. 1t is a delusiOn and q snare and |
will bring you to grief, the same as it has |
lone thousands before. But few ever sue |
iced, aud the great n ajority come out in the |
,nd bankrupt and beggared, and then they
lang around trying to get some little Office |
which they rarely geO, where, even if they |
10 get it they can only get enough to keep |
,ody and soul together. Oh, it is big |
lumbug, and beg of you have very little |
o do with it. Let those who want to, try
I, and see if it does not come out as / have
,redicted.
1t is infinitely more respectable to be
lard working aboring man than it is to be
seeker for public office, for it ia the hard.
working men that are the bone and sinew of
ur country. and it is upon them that this
nightly fabric OF free government rests.
When they drop from its support we are
uined and "gone up and the whole con-
titution, fifteenth amendment and all, is
wreck.
But do not let what have said deter some
t you from being candidate for Legisla-
i've honors, etc, for some of you have great
alent in that direction, which your State
eeds and demands. / am not unmindful of
ne debt we all owe mainly to the colored
lembers of our Legislature for the passage
the election bill, the militia bill, the con.
tabuary bill and many Others, and I want
} see many Of them in our next Legisla-
Ire. What l have said l meant for the
reat body polite of all men, including. of
purse. our colored fellew-citizens.
The fit enth amendment gives to all of
1u the same political rights that George
Iashington, Thomas Jefferson or Abraham
incoln ever had. They could do no more
IAN cast one single vote and you can do the
Ime. Under the laws which will probably
2 enacted before the present Congress
oses in July, you will be fully and amply
rejected in your civil rights, so that each
ne can cast his vote for whatever political ,
arty he chooses. It will be made crime
lnishsble by heavy fine and impris onment
r any man to use any intimidation, either
7 threatening to discharge from his EN-. ,
oy, or in any other way hin Ter or prevent
~ one of you from exercising your own
ee will and accord in voting.
The law will fall alike upon all, so nobody
eed complain about it. Its penalty Will
: the same to the Republican employer ss
is to the Democratic employer. SO why
led any one find fault with it? If there be-
about the passage of such q
W it must come from those who feel and
low that the colored man ought, by every {
inciple Of right, cast his vote with the
apublican party, hence his animosity
st, it will leave you the same as the
lrlstian religion does, free moral agents,
I'd you can vote just as you choose, with
me to modest or make you afraid" Ii it | i
all appear to you, after careful in
stigation of the matter, that the Demo.
attic party. under whatever new name
ey may adopt, is best entitled to your i
tie, by all means vote that ticket; but if
shall appear to you that the Republican Z
rty is best entitled to it, by all means
tie and act with them.
l thank you for your kind attention, snd
n only add that trust it will be my good
rtune to Of en- meet with you, to talk over
d consult together as to how best we can
Up move the golden chariot of Republican,.
n and Progress triumphantly forward, go
at its broad democratic principles may
cover the whole earth as the waters do the
eat sea-"
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