Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-18

mischief, shameless unscrupulous-
ness and arrant demagoguism, are
seeking to array one set of negroes
against another set of negroes on
the veriest pretences imaginable.
But Ike all such efforts from such
quarters, it is doomed to ignomini-
GUS failure. This one is false in
philosophy, pitiably absurd in doc
trine, inaccurate in history, errone-
GUS in figures, and downright false
in every proposition; and no Won
der since the undertaking of know
ing, or caring anything about the
negro is so new and so strange to
Democrats; and perhaps some mar
gin of allowance ought to be made.
MIR. PinchbaA is the special OBJ
ject of utilization; and why is he
denounced and sought to be hunted
down by these myrmidons of a party
whose history and whose actions
are not yet inumined with one single
liberal or humane proposition in
the interest of our race? Since when
have these men taken any interest
in what concerns the protection
and improvement of the negro race?
Let us tell these men that colored
men spurn their purely officious in
termeddling in their affairs, when
we know that it is solely for the
purpose of disunion and disorgani-
cation.
MIR. Pinchback's position is not
IAN anomalous one" The fact that
che is a man of mixed blood in no
way affects either his position or his
relation to his race or to the white
people, who created the discrimina-
tons between us by being more cru
el. more unrelenting and more bar
rous in their treatment to members
of our race in proportion as we re-
coded from the pure type. The at
tempt to array one class of our peo-
pie against the other is so manifest
a dodge, and SO contemplate
piece OF partizan strategy as to car
ry failure in it's train. MIR. Pinch
back is neither urging a conflict of
races" nor is there any such tenden-
cy in any of his acts in any relation
ship. The dissertation on the pecu-
liar status of the mixed race and
those who the Picayune is particu-
lar to say in italics held negro slaves
in bondage, which were like most
others only manumitted by war"
possesses not one atom of signiti-
canoe as far as Mr.. Pinchback is
concerned he being like many |
others of mixed blood" procreated
by slave holding father and occu-
plying some timenfter his birth that
peculiar anomalous position, so
we'll understood by the Picayune
people, of being the son and the
Slave of the same man ; and never
1T any period af his life holding any !
negro slaves in bondage"
1t is not true that even the clssa
Of colored men who were free before
The war, are laboring to stimulate
The discomfort of the black man on
he Levee against the white man
who works with or employs him.
It is not true that the right of SUI
rage was accorded to any kind of
,olOred men in this State before the
war. And it is not true that colored
men did not desire to have political
rights" 1t is not true that the
recognition and enforcement of
lie constitutional amendments have
been accorded and confirmed by
The pledges of all parties and people
IN the South.
1t is not true that our people
ask separate schools for the edu-
cation of their children. The mixed
school is meeting with the hostility
Of such people as run the Picayune.
It is not true that MIR. Plnchback
appeals to the black people to give
him a seat at the Opera and where
be may appear respondent in white
kids and diamonds, etc. Is 1t OBJ
iectionable that a gentleman should
appear in "dress circles IN appro-
pirate costume? Were diamonds
and white kids intended to be worn
by those able to procure them or |
not? And is it more Objectionable
in MIR. Pinchback to wear them than
It is for any other gentleman who
MIGHT deck himself whle hundreds
Of his kind might be ."tolllng Tor
rent or victualsY >,
1t is not true tina. Mr.. Pinchback
is endeavoring to nominate himself
successor of Mr.. Dunn. Mr.. Finch
backs thoroughly representative
status has been long established
and antedates even the deceased's.
The position to which he has been
elected was but in obedience
TO the dictates of claims long and
universally acknowledged by his
people and by the party whose free