The weekly Louisianian., 1872-11-23
= THE SOUTH AND TaR RL1lTloa."

the SvUTh AND THE AEE1l01."
The Nation Of November IA, con
cludes IN article, written under tn
above heading, with the following
emphatic and significant paragraph
I'VE wish most sincerely tht
South could now be convinced thai
her future ism her own hands, and
yet such is tho truth-melancholy
it may be, but still the truth. Con.
gress has done all that it can do;
the North has done all that it ,ciA
do. Every Southern State is now
handed over, a. all States are, to
the rule Of he majority of it's own
people. II it be true, az many think
that where the negro voters are in
a majority, Or where they hold the
balance Of power, there is no hope
Of improvement from the education
of public opinion, the South must
look to immigration for her resur-
rection. Those white men who
groan 20 dreadfully under negro
and carpet-bag rule must get other
white men to come down aud settle
on their wastes. and give them a
majority. If they can neither dc
this nor win the negroes over. they
must suffer on. They may rel,
upon it, there is. something wrong
in their own policy, as long as hum
dreds of tn ,usands Of newcomers
from Europe seek homes two thou
sand miles away on the semi-barbar-
Gus Western frontier, when they
could have them almost for the
asking all along the Atlantic sea-
board, within q days journey of
French and German and British
steamers. 1t is not for nothing
men thus plunge into the heart o.
the continent If the South cal
find no means Of attracting them
beyond the publication of flaming
advertisements, i when they get
down there they cannot
make them SO happy and hopeful
that they shall ask their friends to
we do not know what reme-
dy there is for Southern ills. All
restrictive and ~coercive legislation
is done away with, and if the white
race is so far paralyzed or degraded
that it can find no honest way OF
:ts,lf Of tie domination
it makes a boast of despis!ng,
it mast make up It's mind to suffer
without help if not without pity.
We do not. however, believe that
This is the case. In more than one
State, the modern spirit-the spirit
which takes facts as they stand and
mikes the best of them, and meets
not with oaths and exc
:rations, but with labor and craft
9 rapidly showing itself, and it will !
spread and do its work"
There Is q leading idea in the
'bove which accords perfectly with
'ur views and sentiments as our ,
eaders know; and that is, that the major {
shall rule. There is, however, a {
allacy ~followingi it that we must dis {
'el. It is the merest vagary to /
hink that where the negroes arc
the majority, or where they hold {
be balance of power, there is no {
'ope of improvement from the edu~
a.ion Of public opinion" There h
every hope of Improvement in c
very direction If the Southern '
will only accord the negroes n
heir rights, and enter into those .
relations with them which p
re dictated by every consideration e
+ justice, prudence and economy. c
nd here in Louisiana, We are to- /
watching and waiting to emerge c
Mt Of the political maelstrom in 8
'hich We are involved, hoping that y
'hatever turn our affairs may take v
,e people Of Louisiana, white and Il
lack, may profit by the many q
liter lessons they have been taught Il
= the contest. Lessons that The ii
will not hesitate to de- b
are and inculcate. And II it require c.
70 fires of strife and bitterness-it n
require confusion and even tyran- CT
y.and treachery to teach the colored Il
eople of Louisiana the absolute u
scessity Of union and mutual con- Ia
and self-reliance, for the Al
stter protection of their civil and Ut
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