Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-07-09
Carpst-Daggera


Co'"red men and children, you are ,ol
svs'y day. and sometimes twice ! d.y, III.
tyo"' liberty is conquered Tor ever.
Z you inca" BY liberty tho right Of drum
ming, rasading, g"i"e back and forth, ownin,
pr"Psssy, hnyi"x cakes, vo'ing. sleeping, a"
evs" ss'ons'"g 10 militia, certainly nobody j
i'erF than y"n. 81 help you God!
You meet every Saturday or Sunday. &C
cotdine to . call, to hear and to be heard. I
y = splendid right. But, Of what prof, is tia
meeting I" you ? Tn white people, general,
lsit aside, are not even consecrating BY ,hei
presence the principles proudly asserted b,
y"oF leaders and masters. Aud tie whit.
p~0p'e, 1t we know the moral and social ~
osfaPhy "f onEcoun,sy, are vt least something
u . relied on. Wrhou, them, you canno,
compose a unit, . power, a political and in,e,
lsr,aal entity,
They say, Of conrse, that yon are a Hook Of
sheep ~ the power Of . few wolves in sleeps'
clo,hing. '@
when an ignorant man is drilling You for
= p"rpose eve" unknown To your apmrcn,
captain, yon are still isolated and socialIv
sa'nesess. Where are the white men, vour
country ci'ize"s? How can y"n suppose tia,
yon are the people Of Louisiana, you who do
nat own an inch Of land for each mar? Are
y"u educated! And when Your red uniform
val De worn out by dirt and rain, who will
give yoa money to buy a civilians Goa, ? The
father slrnts IN q splendid unifnrm The Child
n'aes his "akedness . novel sigh. Of progress.
ing morality.
.Co'ored men, We will mt haner Won Nv
aging That yo" are n",hing but tools. Tools
yon are, indeed. Yonr actions all tend 10
s"c'F've The interests Of certain men, your
present masters and h,,terers. Y"nr slavery il
the more xbject because it is covered with
the rarb Of liberty. If il were not 30, w,uld
you seek TO avoid contact with yonr Intelligent
ne'g4bas5- ard I" pit ny blacks agaiu., whites,
ANT o. 'ni'n'cnl I" those who are your na.nra,
friends aud snP~r.1r.e By voting for a riaicn
Ioas canstda,e,-a candiLa,e If yonr own
color or ." carPe,-bag <pecie,-Lo yon think
that yda exali your rights and your liberties
TO the u!mn.t greatness aud duration? And
yen 'aart BE- aware that, BY trns,ing 10 ahyen
toFsfs, ea'pst.baegers, ignoram, men, despi-
cable p"liticians and mendicants of every
dercfspti"n and character, Instead of confidjnp
IN those who deserve confidence and respect,
you TAKE Voluntarily the shortest, road to mis-.
cry, ruin and general degradation.
When : man persists in his error, political
OF serial. there is M salvation Tor him. The
friend Of a sc0nndrel must be the dnpe or tho
vic'im OF that scoondrel. Don't you know
that3
Let ma tell you, poor fools, that Labor i. the
only platform of y"nr present and future
liberty; that such labor, it hard and constant,
Val secure prosperity TO you, 10 your families,
70 your children aud I" The country that there
= no way, hut an abyss, for the c"|ose.i men
Who sever their most precious interests from
the. inisrrsts Of The entire e"mmnni,y. If
poverty makss man Il slave, Union is strength.
T. i possible that the c"Iorph Loni.ixnian
wiH b blind enough, in thus supporting and
sssishing tho isprous carps,-basger, the I
lEs,s II N"'her" .ink-holes, to bring .bou,
~ "wn and tie inevitable rnin Of the white
L~stsssnisn. when by uniting with his white
.ssghb"', bs could form a solid phalarx Of
neu, =. dive back The common invader, who
. mes 70 onr States 10 suck the Ii(s.blood oil
! sps"f'sf This is insani,y If we canno, be
What will becon,s Of us3 :
- thu coming result. :
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