The weekly Louisianian., 1872-08-24
AGAIN WE PROTEST.

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Once moro we have 70 enter on
protest against the conduct lwhic
our contemporary the Repu6liica
will pe~rsistently follow in misrepie
%senting the colored race. We hav
been repeatedly accused Of favorin;
a black mans party in Louisians
this paper as ON acknowledged OF
gan Of the colored: people, has a
frequently and emphatically repu
dated any such desire, and the uni
form conduct Of our people ha
given open denial to the allegation
It is painful, therefore to be mis-
represented by our professe.
friends.
In its issue of Tuesday, the Re
publican accuses both Col. Levi
and Mr.. Pinchback with adyocatin,
"a black mans party" MI. Levi
favors no such thing, and he ha'
too much common sense, and knows
too well the utter futility of an,
such effort to either attempt it him
self or encourage it in others.
It is a prcposterous preversion o;
logic to conclude that because Mr.
Pinchback accepts the nomination
for Governor, therefore he is an
"Africanizer." If this be true, is
the converse also true? Yet colored
men never dreamt that Goyerno,
Walmoth's acceptance of the nomi.
nation in 1868 was establishing a
white mans government.
We suppose that the aspirations
of, and the honors rendered to
Messrs. Pinchhaek and Lewis would
be in perfeets<erder, ii they were
only white, b5nt being of o race
deemed inferiefss they ought to he
content with tie subordinate places
becoming interiors. If this is the
doctrine of our neighbor, we can
well understand why it is that the
instant colored men assert or as
positions to which by merit
they are entitled, white Republicans
can be found to join in the cry of
"Africanizing Louisiana" Has it
come to this that our friends (?)
upon whom our race has showered
every honor, into whose hands they
have committed their dearest inter-
ests, cannot accept the necess ary
and logical conclusions of their own
doctrines? The negroes, and the
negroes alone have bestowed all
the positions which have elevated
our white Republican friends into
prominence and power, with rare
'elf-abnegation, which has boon re-
as appropriate reticence,
hey have been content with almost
exclusively whito leaders, when it
vas admittedly in their power to
,avo done tho contrary, and yet
here was no cry Of white mans
from any quarter. lis it not
hen cruel, unfair, and unjust to &C
colorod men of q desire to
'Africanizo" the State because they
manifest a preference for a compe-
ent one Of their own race for high
Are we to be alarmed
'verlastingly by this scarecrow?
We are not, and colored men are
'eing educated by developments,
nd hints, and insinuations as much
IS by anything else, and they are
earning just how much value to set
n the friendship of some of our
'hite Republican friends, and to
Understand distinctly the terms on
7hich that friendship can be secur-
4. Colorod mon feel deeply these
rounds in the house of their friends,
if the time has come when we
70 to understand that the equality"
and practiced by some
'hite' men to ingratiato themselves
ito negro friendship and confidence,
not the equality to be aforementioned
r%attempted to be enforced after they
ave been made powerful, and in
uential and wealthy, tho sooner
G are told SO the better.
DgThe Cincinnati platform may J
9 very good, and the Liberal idea
nv also be yerv good. but lust