Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-17
Are We to Have a War of
Races!
J. HENRI BCRCH ADVOCATING CoLoRED
SUPREMACY IN LOUISIANA.

lately ON our pOiltlcai horizon
causing no little alarm to order
loving citizens, by its growing pro
portions assumes an aspect which
threatens to disturb the reign o
peace and good will among men
The baleful war-cloud which fingered
on its fiery orbit had not gone
down, and the first faint ray o
returning peace had not relumeG
the desolate scene, ere the genius
of discord, 70 mingle anew the
triumphant shouts of the living
with the subdued groans of the
dying, would raise once more the
standard of strife in our afflicted
land. The heart less knave, whose
love of war war q passion fol
plumber, foiled in his mercenary
calling, would renew the clash OF
arms, and gloat over the common
ruin which brought him place and
profit. Unable to rekindle the
smouldering embers of a sectional
conflict, whose burning footprints
are visible at many a desecrated
hearth, he would decide the ques-
ton of supremacy between two
hostile races by terrible appeal to
the sword. And fred with no
holier impulse than the lust of
power, he would inaugurate war
of determination, whose untold
horrors, the imagination fails to
realize
Foremost among the incendiaries
who would fire the social fabric,
and initiate a contest in which color
and caste would be the shibboleth
of embattled hosts, stands that
arrant demagogue who has con-
verted the Grand Era into a vehicle
for the dissemination of sanguinary
doctrines among the colored people.
In the mysterious death of that
patriotic, representative colored
man, the lamented o. j. Dunn, he
discovers the plausible pretext which
had ever been wanting, to justify
collision which seems to be the
darling scheme of his life. For
since no declaration from the truth
full lips of that good man, counte-
nances the outrageous theory of
the cause Of his death, assumed by
the fire-brand Burch, his effort to
foment civil commotion is less to
avenge or honor him whom he I'M
worthily calls his chief, than to
consummate his cherished design
against race which he intensely
hates. The revolutionary tenets
which the fanatic of the Grand Era
is sowing broadcast will produce
their legitimate fruit. Let us hope
they will not find tho sentinels
sleeping on the watch-towers- of
liberty.
While Mr.. Burch cannot point to
a single act, in which he has served
his country or his race, his ribald
denunciation of men who covered
themselves with glory in defence OF
both, deserves the fitting rebuke
which belongs to an impudent i'm
poster. And whenever the Legis-
lature of Louisiana patronizes the
Grand Era with a Printing con-
tract, it sanctions the Objectionable
course of that vile sheet, and fosters
in the bosom of the commonwealth
a viper which ever strikes with a
fatal dart. This foul-mouthed ad-
venturer had the assurance, on
visiting our town on certain occa-
sion, to question our claim upon a
people for whose liberty our sword
had been drawn, while be was
sneaking far in the rear of the
Grand Army, gratifying his love Of
military glory, in the part of a
Substitute Runner" When next
he crosses our path, we will put to
a new test the faith that is in him,
and teal: the mask from hypocrite
who has passed too long for
Representative man.
Iberuiue Ne,cs.