New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-01

} AISUlO SAC EcN OIlcduo VcTmAu OdLc1tts TItuaS
May 30, 1873.
As etone ,thrown in to the water forms
| rings extending further and further, sc
from day to day the effect produced by Sen
atOr Carpenters visit to New Orleans, in
our local political circles, deepens and
widens. If the great speech Of the Senate,
from Wisconsin had had only The effect
which 10 already making itself felt now,
viz: 70 get our politicians TO reflect, to open
to them new political views, 20 get them to
abandon the old routine. and to make a;
least an attempt at reform. that speech
would have been already Of immeasurable
benefit. The rancor and irritation which
the telling truths told them face 20 face by
the fearless statesman from the Northwest
have produced among our "oldest and
BEST" have not yet entirely disappeared. as
but yesterday he had to poke: the compli.
ment paid to him by the New Orleans
Times. which called him travelling
quack" Nevertheless, the start has been
made to trace back the apparen. effects to
the causes which have brought about the
existing state Of affairs, and there we hit
upon the truth as pictured by Senator Car
penter. and our people az last come 20 the
conclusion that ''something must be done,'
in order TO eradicate the underlying evils.
The diagnosis adduced by DR." Carpen-
ter. al Exposition Hall, after close ex-
animation Of the symptoms on Louisiana's
diseased body polite, has proven correct
one. if we Judge from the results Of two
.interviews," the interesting particulars OF
which were published in the Times Of yes
terday and the day before. The chief
actor in one Of these interviews was 4
prominent conservative cOlOred CITIZEN
and in the other il was like appointment
conservative white citizen" Neither Of
them are professional politicians, but both
Of them cOncurred in the opinion that the
root of the evils from which, one by one,
the different phases OF our political misery
have flown, are the intolerance, the political
ami social preiudices, which not only the
politicians. but also the masses of our
people, bring 20 the treatment Of every
question affecting the common welfare and
the interests of the entire community.
The compre hension Of the nature OF the
disease is always the first and most i'm.
portant step towards q cure. The very
obvious and pardOnable distruse and fear
of the blacks towards the whites on one
side. and the political intolerance and
social exclusiveness of the whites towards
the blacks and al! those of q different
political creed. Oh the other eide, are the
chief causes Of the permanent, unnatural
state Of war in which stand arraigned
against each other the Two great bodies of
the population of this State, whites and
blacks, and they have been .undoubt-
eddy the source Of all the evils, quarrels
and discomfort which have cauked Louis.
anas MisfOrtunes.
Unfortunately. the proposed remedy, in
our opinion, will not NEE: the require
ments Of the case. II 10 TO be found in the
creation OF q new party. to be recruited
from the conservative element among
tie whites and from The same element
among the blacks, and consequently It
would be mixed, OK "black and white
party.
with whom this prescription originated,
will experience decided disappointment.
as far as the nature of the ingredients and
the effects Of the proposed remedy are coz
cerIe6.
I, is no longer denied tina: the Republi.
can party in the State Of Louisiana has an
indisputable majority Of votes. Even it we
were to presume that every white man is a
Democrat and every colored man q Repub-
lican-which is not the case, as. by tie
lowest count, the white Republicans NUN
Der between 5000 and 5000-the compact
phalanx of the colored Republicans would
still outnuHber the total mum Der OF white
Democrats.
Our experience since the April election Of
1S6S-the first regular State election a. which
the eoiored men yoted-makes il appear
70 us impossible that more than .tce han
tired cOlored voters at the utmost could be
won over from that compact mass Of col
Ored Republicans. The first lease in point
was that very State election in April, 1868,
when the so-caIled conservative colored
voters. under the leadership OF the
Tribune. which was then published by DR..
Roudsnez. supported that staunch unionist
and Republican TaliaferrO against the ''car-
pe.-bagger" Warmoth. Did anything occur
since 1858 that could induce the mass of the
cOlored voters TO desert the Republican
party and enter, in opposition TO it, into an
alliance with those whom to the pIesen,
day they hold 70 be their most bitter pOliti
cal opponents. Certainly not after that
unfortunate affair at Colfax. One fact
should by no means 6e lost sight of, name.
", that the influence which this class OF
Conservative cOlOred men WELD over the
mass Of their cOlored brethren, and with
whose assistance it is contemplated to form
the proposed mixed white and. black party,
IL generally overestimated. The aver.
SION and distrust which the great mass
OF the uneducated blacks, vino have
grown up in slavery, entertain towards
their more educated and better situated
brethren of the same race-the former free
colored men'-is we'll known, and is another
of the many pecullarities with which our
State is blessed ~ in preference to other
Southern States. On that account we doubt
that this respectable class Of colored ''con
servatives." but which, owing to its al
legged aristocratic exclusiveness, is dis
liked and distrusted by their own colored
brethren, would be able to ALLEVIATE any
large number of Republicans from that
party to which, until now, they have adj
hered with the greatest tenacity, and for
which they have regularly voted.
So far as the ''programme'' of the pros.
pective founders Of the new party is known
to us, they propose TO have recourse to a
call for convention. in which equal repre-.
sentation would be accorded to both races,
without regard to previous party utilization.
What such "mixed convention would
be able to accomplish and not 20 accom-.
piish. will be discussed in subsequent
article Oh the same subject.