New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-04-24

to the teachings Of such negotiating journals |
~ the New York Tribune and other Liberal
leaders in the country. Enraged beyond
self-control at the negro for preferring tot
support the Republican party rather than
party the strongest and most influential ele-
ment or which was composed Of enemies TO
the advancement Of his race tie Liberal Or
gans and leaders throughout the country have
been printing and declaiming against what
they falsely alleged to be the attempt OF the
Republican party to make the negro supreme
in the South. The New York Tribune has
correspondent In South Carolina who through
it, columns attempts to fire the people up to
a relentless hatred of the colored people and
to inspire war of races. This is Liberal-
ism. The argument Of the murderers of the
negro is that the negroes are ignorant and
mast be subjusated. Every attempt of the
black man to gain knowledge and to struggle
out Of his degradation enkindles fame of
hatred eliminating in the most barbarous
outrages. Men Of the so-called superior race
for mere party gain emulate the example Of
barbarism, and with all the savagery of bru-
tai and ignorant whites perpetrate deeds that
slcken and appal enlightened Christendom.
When it suits the purpose Of the New York
Tribune to declare the negro as hopelessly ig-
norant and degraded, IT does so, and when it
attempts to make him responsible for the blot
on civilization in Grant parish, it AYERS that
he has Acknowledge of the questions affecting
the Legitimacy Of the claims of the rival gov
ernments in the State Of Louisiana. The Tn
bune speaks Of the negro in Grant parish as
follows:
Is il not natural that an ignorant and de-
graded people, like the negroes Of many of
the remote parishes of Louisiana, should infer
from the recent transactions at New Orleans
and Washington, that the purpose Of the
Federal Government was to deliver the State
into their hands? They cannot have forgot.
ten that during the campaign the Admins
tration leaders were careful to array them
against the white population, to frighten them
with the prospect Of a revival of slavery if the
old slave-owners ever got into office, to as
| sure them that the cause Of Grant and the
cause Of the black man were identical, and
that the reelection Of the President would
elevate the colored race to place and power,
and put their old masters forever under their
feet. They kno,c that in the November cleo
ton the black mans party, created by these
representations, was defeated at the polls.
They know that it was nevertheless immedi-
ately installed in power by military force.
They kno,c that it is sustained by the Presi-
dent in defiance Of ia,o and Of the remon-
strances of some Of his own warmest friends.
What is more natural than for them to as
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what their leader Kellogg had done on large
one?
Can people, who have just such knowledge
as the Tribune tells US the negroes have, be
justly denounced as so ignorant as to deserve
massacre and determination on the ground
Of their hopeless ignorance and degrade
ton?
How base is the attempt Of the Tribune to
lead the people Of the country into belief
that the Republican party in the late Presi-
Dental campaign in Louisiana were careful
to array the negroes against the white popu-
lation. There is not particle Of truth in
the assertion, and that claim cannot be used
to justify the wholesale slaughter of colored
men at Colfax. The four million negroes of
the South acted and voted in sympathy with
the white people Of the North and with a
goodly number Of the white people Of the
South, they were thus arrayed on the side of
the white people of the country and with the
Republican party. The argument of the
Tribune is simply a justification of political
assassination, and belongs to an age of bar
barism. The colored men in the court
house at Colfax were there as the sheriff's
posse, and were officers of the law under a
the State TO be the legal government; they
were there to execute the laws notwith-
standing who might be offenders against
them. Under the constitution and laws of
Louisiana black men are eligible for just
such positions as they were holding at Col
fax, and the fact that they were acting in
accordance with law, is sufficient answer
to the falehood of Liberal papers that they
were attempting to exterminate the white
race. The truth is, that the whole affair
was inaugurated by the Liberal McEnery-
ties for political capital; and, as the peo-
pie Of the South, prior to the rebellion, were
led 10 believe that the Democratic party of
| the North would give them substantial aid
and comfort in the event OF their striking at
the life Of the nation, so the McEneryites
are led to the belief that the countenance
and support of Northern Liberals will be
extended to them in their murderous warfare
against the negroes and in this belief they
are strengthened by the New York Tribune,
and journals of less influence.
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