New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-21

/ attempt to establish Southern confed-
eracy, with slavery as its cornerstone,
has political aspirations in reconstructed
Louisiana and among colored men. He
feels that colored mans vote is as good
as any other vote, and that if he can get
enough of them to make him Governor,
it would be mighty good thing; for he
would dearly like to be Governor even in
this way. And he therefore thinks it will
pay to tell colored men of the South that
they furnish the brains as well as the
body of the Radical party If the col
ored men had come to this conclusion
before the Republican, or Radical party,
if you please, had clothed colored men
with the right to vote, they might have
been less disposed to doubt his sincerity
in saying they furnished the brains, as
well as the body, of the Radical party"
in the South. But as it is, the great body
of colored voters in this State, knowing
Colonel Carriers true character and feel
ing toward them up to within a year or
two, will reject his fattery as not only
unwholesome and unseemly, but as &C
tually dangerous, if they were weak
enough to allow it to influence them
favorably toward the man who would
thus deceive them.
If there are any colored men who are
disposed to be pleased with this faint
praise, and feel elated because the colonel
has said they furnish the brains for the
Radical party, let them consider that he
is not great man, but great joker. He
has not said what kind of brains they fur
nish, nor the quantity. Who can tell
what meaning he may hereafter be dis
posed to give this assertion? Who knows
but that he may al pear before his Demo-
cratic friends shortly and make Demo-
cratic speech; speech denouncing the
Republican party for lack of honesty and
brains? He may then explain his asser-
ton that ''the colored people of the South
supply the brains, as well as the body, of
the Radical party" to mean that there is
both great deficiency in quantity and
quality of brains that govern the Repub-
ican party, and that what little they have
is negro brains of a very inferior quality.
This would be an honest explanation of
what he intended as fiattery to colored
men. If Mr.. Burch and the colored men
in the Legislature who helped to make
Colonel Carter Speaker feel compliment
ed by his remarks in regard to the brains
of the Republican party, let them reflect
that what he meant they should receive as
praise of themselves was intended to re-
fleet on the great party of progress and
freedom in this country. Let them think
of this, and feel satisfied that Colonel Car
ter is the friend of neither.
We are satisfied that the Republican
members of the Legislature who were in
duced to vote for Carter as Speaker made
a great mistake. If we were not con-
WINGED of this at first, we are convinced
of it since we have learned of his manner
of disposing of the printing contracts.
He has used the power placed in his
hands not for the public good, but for
the purpose of building up his own po-
litical fortune; and that, too, regardless
of the success of Republican principles
And we regret to say that he has had the
countenance of few men in this bad
work, who enjoy the confidence of the
federal government, and are its accredited
representatives in important official posi-
tons in this city