New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-06

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NIT that the black men are bound, IN self
respect to oppose it, and as they ar
numerically the strongest, it is plain tina
the victory belongs to them. This propo
.sition is made still palmer by the sugges
ton that there are probably five thousand
white men in the State who will vote viii
the colored majority, which places the re-
suit beyond all doubt Do the friends o.
Colonel McEnery realize the fatality o.
these figures? Do they sec that they are
making the useless effort to win a victory
with plain majority against them ? Il
| they do, then, probably they Will thank
Dir. Richardson for suggesting d plan BY
which this majority may be overcome,
which We print without ipdorsing:
There are in the State Of Louisiana about
lO,OJO white voters who are directly con
necteG with negroes as planters superin-
tendents of plantations, landlords and en-
ployers Now, if each man composing
these several classes will select one negro
voter and peraeVeringly persuade and urge
HIM to vote the Greeley Brown and Nc
Emery. Penn tickets until the election, the
State can be carried against the Kellogg
PInch0ack coalition. In pursuing this plan
nothing but the most honorable and fair
means should be resorted to under all cir
cumstances-no intimidation, no threat to
discharge from employment or from occu-
patton Of tenement-only argument and
( persuasion kindly given
To carry out this plan, let suitable or
| CARNATIONS be effected in every parish and
ward of this State, and let the scheme be
maugurated at once. All persons who are
not connected IN their vacations with the
negroes in the modes mentioned, should be
carefully excluded from these organiza-
! hons, net possessing in this matter, any in
| fuence with the negro. At the lowest esti-
| mate, 3OOO negro voters can be induced to
| go with the respectable whites, if proper
| organizations and exertion shall be made
| A much larger number could be changed if
all interested would enter into the scheme
with zeal and a determination to perseyere
to the end but 5000 taken from the coIored
ranks and added to the honest mems tickets
will be sufficient to carry the State the right
way.
That is to say, Mr. Richardson recon-
mend8 that sensible white men reason
with the colored people, and convert them
from the support OF Grant and Kellogg to
the support Of Greeley and 1IcEnery by
the force Of such Arguments as are en-
ployed to influence intelligent white
people. The plan IS good one, and we
freely indorse it as worthy Of q trial, salts
lied that the result will be wholesome,
however the disputants may decide to cast
their ballots. When reasonable white
men consent to meet and discuss politics
with reasonable black men, the wal of
races will be at an end, aud the proba-
bility is just as great that the black man
will capture the white one as that the lat
ter win capture lin. II fact, it can
hardly result otherwise, for the very in
slant discussion is opened that instant
the white people waive their selfish de-
mand for supremacy, and agree to abide
by the arbitration of Justice and reason.
This is what We have constantly labored
to explain, that if the whole people will
cast aside their preiudice8 in reality and
accept Of the coIored voters as men whose
support is worth more to them than the
noisy white rowdies that infest the street
corners, the division Of the body polite
il par les based on color will disappear at
once The difficulty has been, and is, in |
securing this necessary fusion Of the po-
itical elements, for while tie white peo-
PIE speaking through the pIatitudes of
the Democratic party pretend that the
political equality Of all men is accorded
By law and accepted by the public, the
negroes are discouraged from accepting
these expressions by the bitter and acri-
monious denial Of this very proposition by
the orators and oracles Of tie party that
pretends to be the custodian Of the
disposition and intention Of the white
people. Here is the rock upon which
she project goes to wreck, that good
words are unproductive Of good results
because they are accompanied by az
ions that produce distrust and appre-
tension.
Nj. Richardson, therefore, has our as
ent to his facts, and our answer to his
experiment., for we are satisfied that the
negroes are in the majority, and we shall
'e better satisfied when they consent to
asst their votes at the suggestion of reason
ather than by virtue Of their identity
nth party based upon color. And when
7hite and black consent to meet and dis
uss measures Of general interest, without
egard to race or previous condition, the
hances are that the negroes will hold their
wn in the debate, for they are too weak to.
emand more than their rights, and we
N have no cause Of complaint with a !
ontest that results in giving the party 5
hat belongs to him.
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