Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-17

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noyal of Packard & Co., who can
never again do any good in this
community for General Grant or
else
OUT or DARKNESS coMETH AioHT.
Wenote with pleasure promising
effort making in Mississippi to unite
the respectable white and colored
suffragans in a body to vote down
the corrupt party in power at the
approaching State election. The
freedmen are holding meetings OF
their own accord, and pass resoluf
tons in which they express thei-
determination not to support the
carpet-baggers any longer. At a
barbecue held short time ago in
Northern Mississippi, two thousand
persons were present, very large
humber of whom were freedmen. 1t
is reported that the colored men
gave hearty concurrence to the add
vice of such able and distinguished
men as Gen. Samuel j. Gholsen,
who said to them:
against You, colored men, !
cherish no hatred or ill-will. God
forbid that | should! Yoa are more
imposed upon than imposing l
know that | have been represented
as an enemy TO your race. Ii Is
false.
A sentiment of gratitude that Is
: common to the human bosom would
alone impel me to think kindly o
YOU if from no other consideration
, for when left wounded, paralyzet
, and bleeding in the freezing mud
! in fighting for cause l deemed t.
! be Just; when beyond the help q
= my retreating columns, stretched
, helpless on the ground, those Q
. your color came and ministered +
me; took me mp and bore me ava
. in safety. 1t is to your color that
am thus indebted for my preserve
ton, and for whom 1 cherish til
n kindest feelings. You have no.
e your freedom; go and exercise
+ like men worthy of so great a bool
- Vote for the men that you thin
;, will best subserve our common II
Il terest; vote against men who ha,
Il only come in our midst for spoil
II and .who would to-day build Il
W frightful fires of domestic stri
upon the bosom of our land ar
o. rob us all in common of the hit
IL that we have"
i We look to the redemption of Il
le South from the hands of the 'lFr
Thieves" that, under legal guise
rob her of her life blood, and int
lie fere in every way with her specs
er and peaceful reconstruction, to t
EN- continued efforts of those Southe
IN public men, who, like Gen. Gholso
" lose no opportunity OF disabusi
y the freedman of the idea the scOu
en- drels we have named, seek constai
NJ " to implant in his mind, name
eft that his former owners and prese
~ employers are his enemies. Ma
:, Southern public men hesitate to 9
," dress the colored voter in the ID
lat guage of Cancellation and good fe
pie ing, for fear, too, of being cons
he cred, by the honest public, as havi
mt sold their birthright for mess
900 pottage, and abandoned patti
principle in order to secure pull
plumber.
III Whilst the conservative wi
in people of the South thus hold al
tie from the freedmen, it is but natr
but that he should be equally reser
T.; on his side. 1t needs but to br
the ice, however, as the Misslsi
Oh plans appear to be doing with ci
acteristic energy and determinat
ject to inaugurate an era OF good fee
ion which, spreading throughout
a.. area of reconstruction, shall rea
'' that dream of peace which a Pr
ana dent has made automatic in W
fort but which appears to be, so fan
r of peripatetic as a successful colo
RI q minstrel troupe.
the We copy the above entire +
the Picaylne Of Tuesday, on
,rrs,- principle, that we are willing to "
Is IN the devil his due" We have
anne repeatedly compelled to wondt
most the incomprehensible course OF 8
nos. Democrats. A course that rem
MOD their conduct the more habl'
ann suspicion, while at the same
.tra- they are wondering at the estfa
"a, ment of the colored race. Ii
ncb- look into this thing. No SO
Il in does q Democrat Of any note
f., oil sess sufficient manliness to I
. the such language, as effectually
m Of ceals his thoughts, while on its