New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-02
HATE AND HONESTY.

HATE AND HONESTY.
It is a matter of serious question with
tho Democrats why they do not succeed
be tier than they do in gaining influence
wi th the colored people? With all their
no pitality in the last election with all
tn ir promises in the next; with the hos
pitality Of the Hancock club extended to
eye ry roaring negro they can find willing
to amaze their meetings and the public
gel erally, they can show no accession of
stt ength from the colored population.
WHY this so? 1t is perplexity and
grief that they can give no satisfactory
an swer to. And even now, let them throw
on en- their clubs and spread their lunches,
and bow to Sambo, with the cunningest
vile, and shake hands with Dinah in the
III psf seductive form, they find no profit
in it. 1t is Dead Sea fruit. Only ashes
rel main to vex their aching souls.
Why is it? The plainest question has
no palmer answer. The faith OF the
d democracy is mainly dishonest, and all
that is honest Of it is uncomfortable. 1t is
gospel of hate. It is falsehood be-
sihes. With the loudest professions Of
fairness on the lips. the tongue is a
W eapon of wrong and the heart is foun-
tain Of poison. And, unfortunately for
them, this is known. The colored peo-
pie know that the Democratic party is
wicked, treacherous and unworthy to be
tn usted. The know that under the down
Of the cat there is concealed the claws Of
the tiger. They know that the Demo-
CT attic party is opposed to their elevation.
And let the orators of that organization
deny this as much as they may, and let
the platforms of the party be as liberal dis
they may, behind all these the pre-emi-
n ence of hate and prejudice is visible as @
regnant and predominant sentiment. 1t
Id wers out of every look they cast-it
SHOWS its teeth in every proceeding though
they attempt to hide it.
We do not. say this in any such spirit
II is not because we desire it ITO be so
that We affirm the existence Of this hate in
the Democratic heart. On the contrary,
vie declare it in order to extirpate it.
These men are like the patient on whose
limbs the dangerous gangrene of NORTH
C alton has appeared. If they are not
d ravely told Of their peril, how are they
t be saved?
The Democratic party must either die
q it must be regenerated. 1t must change
its sentiments, or it must declare what its
Honest sentiments are. 1t can not thrive
On dishonesty and faIsehood. it is so
narrow minded and selfish that it is vii
ling to allow only white men to hold office
and participate in the politics of the State,
let it say so, and the white men who hold
o that way of thinking will support it.
If it believes that every man is citizen
IN the full sense of the word, then let it
key that But this miserable refuge which
1t has hidden in, as the ostrich hides his
head in the sand, is a sham which no sem
eible man can suffer himself to be imposed
hpon with. When it plays false and
hollow tune in public, to catch negro
votes, while it is cursing negroes with
full brass band at the clubs, it only does
b dirty piece of work which any intelli-
gent man can see through, and which
every honest man must detest. The col
ored people are citizens, or are they not.
If the Democrats are willing to forget
their hate Of these citizens and come up
to the work as the Republicans do we
shall welcome them as honest men. But
while they are playing the game they now
are, shaming themselves and disgracing
all political principle, We can only hold
them as worthy of the contempt of the
true and genuine patriots of the State.
They are welcome to win as many colored
voters as they can convince by fair and
honest reason and corresponding practice;
but they shall not cozzen with promises
which they do not intend to fulfill. Their
contempt for Republicanism is nothing
but hate toward the negroes; and their
assertion that they are willing to do more,
or as much, or within ten shades of as
much for the colored people as the Re
publicans have done, is falsehood which
the white people consider stupid, and
which the negroes consider impudent.