New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-10
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THE TEST OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP
The New York Herald is responsible for
the following bit Of political wisdom:
The colored people in the South should
have the good sense to understand that
their interest does not lie altogether with
this or with that political party, but that
the interests of the whites and blacks are
so intim ately blended that to disintegrate
one from the other viii naturally eventuate
in injury to both.
To which the Ptoayne sagaciously
adds:
This is what the cOlOred people have been
told by their truest friends In the South
ever since they were invested with the eiec-
tive franchise.
Here is thewhole thing in nutshell
The negroes in the South, and in every
other section of the country, have been
told time and again that they should listen
to the voices of their ''truest friends, " and
vote for then; that their interests lay on
the side against which they usually cast
their votes. But the difficulty in the way
has always been an inconyenient habit
these same colored folks of doing portion
of their own thinking; and being no more
nor less than human, after all, they have.
fallen into the confirmed belief that their
''truest friends" were those who were will
ing to concede something else besides the
privilege Of voting for candidates they had
no agency in nominating. As a rule, men
do not need to be continually toldwho are
and who are not their friends. They find
out for themselves by intuition. It was
always up hill business trying to persuade
an Irishman or q German to vote the
Know-Nothing ticket, because it was the
leading policy Of that party to keep for
eigners off it. And for the same reason
the colored people have never yet been
able to trust the Democratic party; and to
say that they are not competent to see
where their true interests lie is to put their
intelligence at too low rate. Our Demo-
Gratis have lost three or four elections in
this State because, instead of following the
course demanded by their own interests,
they vainly endeavored to persuade the
colored people against common sense.
When party is deserted by any particular
class of voters the fault is with ITSELF and
it is the part of wisdom to reform its action
rather than waste time in arguing with the
disconnected that the fault is-with them.
Before the Democrats of this State can lay
claim to the title of the truest friends Of
the colored race they must prove their
friendship in some more substantial shape
than mere words.
The precise application of these general
reflections is just this; That the colored
people in this State fly from the united
State ticket because it does not represent
them in thought or principle. They can
not discover a single name on that sus-
picious emanation that is in sympathy
with them or their elevation. From Nc
Emery down to Lafargue it is a proscrip-
tive and narrow-minded combination Of
bigotry and selfshness. The united State
ticket is the only one now in existence that
is small enough to stand for nothing but
white men. The miserable prejudice that
existed four years ago has died out in
every other community but this, and its
sole resting place even here is with the
faction that supports McEnery. And
this detestabIe tribe that is at war with
public sentiment and human justice, as ac-
cepted everywhere else, has the temerity
to lecture the very people it spits upon as to
their duty in public matters. The negroes
know what the Picayine and the Bourbons
have done to them, and they know that
the disposition to do this same sort of
wickedness again is the controlling senti-
ment with the partisans of the ''united
State ticket" 1t would have been just as
difficult years ago to induce the Germans
and Irish to vote the Know-Nething ticket
as it will be now to secure the support of
the colored people in favor of any set Of
candidates that the Democracy may put
forth The enmity is natural 1t is the
result of instinct as well as reason, for the
conduct of the Bourbons indicates their
present hatred of the eoIored people as
plainly as their past record proves the
antipathy.
Then how can the Picagacle or McEnery
delude themselves into the belief, if they
have ever done so, that they have infu-
ence enough to control a single negro
And how can they have the weakness to
suppose that they stand any show Of sue
cess WITHOUT securing a portion Of the
colored vote? Their intelligence is of an
extremely limited order if they propose to
run against the majority; and it is equally
at faultif they do not see that they are
contending against overwhelming odds
with weapons that hurt the owners more
than they damage the opposition. The
Bourbons prove their inoompetency by
the lameness Of their campaign equip
ments. They are Hsing bad fuses, and
their bombs are filed with sand.
THE MAYORS BUEOOMBE.
1t was supposed yesterday that the
Mayor would continue his Investigations
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