Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-22
1r,,n the New York Tribunc.l
THE CATO MURDER.

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,,,ncer revulsion of feeling there
- al tbs other outrages Of the
rot during the recent election 1t
5,, come to be a matter OF course
;. that city, it appears, for the
Deuocratic police to guard the polls
M iuoonti,chtly knock down or
'root oolored voters who claim their
,,bt to support tho Republican
20, IN tho Fourth and Fifth
Wards, at this and the previous
lection, negroes were shot down
Ike sheep, sud no result followed,
a,,bsr in the punishment of law or
.se Indignation Of public sentiment.
Any c,lored man under the present
-,,s who attempts to vote does it
tnosinsly at the risk of his life.
T,;. WAS an acknowledged fact, but
nro.luced no effect on the peace
loving Quakers until the assassina-
,;or n Cato reused them from their
.,rnor. The indignant call for the
,pbLc meeting of Saturday to de-
rouDcs the murderer was signed,
se perceive, by some of the leading
ven Of the city; and the funeral,
,.s.er,iay, is represented as i'm
r,,jng in i.s display, and attended
il q great concourse of excellent
Trjzeps Cato wss the Principal
fan Institute for colored children
IMAM of culture and a quiet, inof-
t.a..ve gentleman, obnoxious to the
roushs simply because he had de-
voted himself to the amelioration
and elevation of the condition of
bls race. While going quietly home,
on the day Of the election. he was
rAot on the sidewalk by some ruff
ian, who coolly walked off among
TIE crowd.
Now, for the life If US, we can
not See why the aristocratic Phila-
dslrlians should make any pother
about the matter, hold mass meet
i1gs in National Hall, or show their
l.ghteous wrath at the murderer
b. uuwonted zeal in funeral services
fra martyr whose life they did 50
lite to protect. The poor wretch
Ga murderer but acted after the
hb.ts Of his kind. He was a wolf,
li he bit. The teeth were his by
nature, but tho woltish spirit came
70 him from his betters-from the
ray men who hold meetings to de-
loance bin. There is no place
where the colored man has striven
hsrir aud more successfully t.
prove himself q MIN than in the
tI:Tof Brotherly Love, and there
sno place where he has had to
fsht his way against greater odds
N the intolerant tyranny that rates
I'm IA not man, but brute. The
.,ro regiment drilled and camped
inside OF the city, was forced tc
saeak i'll civilians clothes to the
tain that was to carry them to the
battlefield, lest they should be
nobbed for lighting for their coun-
Try This was before Emancipation
It's true but now, although some
Of the most scholarly and wealthiesl
citizens OF Philadelphia have black
blood in their veins, although their
schools aud colleges rank with the
highest, no colored man is adj
ntied to place of amusement, and
lie Directors of the Academy OF
Muse, grave and rational men who
Hl4l' all the indecencies of the LEG
aana to their stage, refused it for
sIecIure from Senator last Winter.
ilsverS professor Cato purchased,
l"l Year, a share in one of the In
'uiutes, and obtained entree to the
nc'ures, whereuron q certain DIR.
N'Ap annulled his contract for lee
"''eS' and refused to speak if Cato
were present. Rand and his class,
'"au'e man is black, put him ont
%'lsht by setting an iron heel upon
-'' intellect, his finer tastes, the
human ties that bind him in the
Brotherhood of man; the ruffian,
'''au'e he is black, rids himself OF
~ less cruel and more direct
l a'I'0n BY putting a ball through
llsbody.
!, PHYSICIAN, heal thyself," would
:, suggestive text for the meeting
I-a'saant philanthropists; it will
r 1AFaly worth while to begin the
r ne with the ignorant murderer,
q close cor,;dar,@;., ,f L..