Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-11

crowded Dryades street with ire
mendous mob, armed to the teeth,
with some characters in it who
would no more scruple to assassin
ate colored Lieutenant Governor
with pistol or a knife than they
would to mix poison with his food,
if by either they could rob the col
ored race of its proper recognition
in awarding the honors and emolu-
ments of the State.
In the very presence of the threat
ming crowd, noisy with all sorts Of
boasts as to their strength and pur-
pose, the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and many members OF
the Senate and House were dragged
before the United States Commits
sioner, and while they were absent,
George W. Carter went through the
farce and committed the tyranny of
turning honest and true Republicans
out of their seats and filling them
with disorganizers and Democrats.
As the object of this arrest did
not have any very strong legal
point, seeing that those arrested
were Immediately released by U. S.
authority upon very slight bail, the
question very naturally arises why
the Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor were arrested at all.
Did Mr.. Carter hope that some
concealed dagger would CLEAN from
its concealment, or that some pre-
pared pistol would belch forth it's
deadly fire as soon as the presence
of these gentlemen should give his
Democratic followers a chance to do
their work, or did he hope that re-
sistence to vexatious and illegal
arrest would provoke general riot
in which these gentlemen might be
shot down without the possibility Of
tracing the assassin's hand. If eth
of these suggestions is accepted,
and so far we see no cause to re-
pudiate either, then MIR. Carriers
statements, as to the assassination
of the late Lieutenant Governor
Dunn are clothed with a new mean
ing.
Now we ask in the deepest earn
estness, and we may add with the
keenest apprehensioEs if the colored
voters Of this State intend to barter
away the lives of the prominent
men of their own race and to de-
stroy their own liberties by being
led off through the agency of such |
a man as George w. Carter from
the ranks of party which has done
but good for them, and
forsake the men of color in the
State who have in all respects been
true ?
OF course the question answers
itself, the colored people with the
scars of slavery still upon their
backs, with the sharpest recollec-
lions of their past degradation,
broken ties of relationship which
can never be mended, the victims
Of a wide spread prejudice, and an
anyielding prescription, and carry
ing their lives in their hands in
almost every Democratic commu-
nifty, cannot lend themselves to a
which will bring the
horrors of slavery back upon them,
or worse still, be cursed with all the
evils of slavery, while dressed in
he fantastic garb of freeman.
They cannot give their aid to a
,lique calling itself Republican,
which works only to the end of
breaking down the Republican
party, and of destroying the lives
md regulations Of our leading COL
,red men especially when they know
hat when our hands as race are
,nce tied in this State, terrible out
RACES may be committed against US,
awful crimes gathered upon us, our
places of business rendered unsafe,
wen the hours of our amusement
,rowded with fear, our political
md religious meetings open to hos
lie intrusion, our bedrooms ex-
POSED to the dagger of the midnight
assassin, and our dining tables to
he MONDAY poisoner.