New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-03-06

We cannot perceive the justice in the re.
proaches heapod upon the cOlorel ycoplc b,
Democratic editors relative 10 their i-nor
ince and stupidity, when, if they are laborin.
under either the one or the other OF these
ittictions, it is not from any choice # thei,
own, but : rattle. tie legitimate fruit Of IT,,
icbascd condition Of seryitude from which
hey have bu, recently been liberated. We
oe!!eEe that every candid reader will agree
WIKI US that the intense anxiety os the blacSs
II cultivate their minds and II acuuai.t
themselves !ulty aud iatelliScpt'y with Tie
new duties which freedom requires at ,Lci
lands, IS so great and persistent, that tAel
'Ee always ready u make any sacrifices or :,
undergo any rr!vati0n 10 remove that cloud
u ignorance under which they were envel-
aped In slavery. The man who attempts to
make tho colored people act the part OF slaves
when they have tasted the sweets at free
docl, Will undertake q task which must bring
him 10 an iSnomiu.ous failure, to cscarc the
odiuu Of which he usually takes refuge be-
hind wholesale abuse Of "thc id mig
gers" but upon tbs other hand no who re-
coSnlzes the rights Of the blacks, who treat
them with that consideration to which every
honest citizen is entitled, will not only find
MS intercourse with them pleasant and agree
able, but he will also bear willing tcstimnn,
to the fact that as race thew are making
raSid progress toward moral and intellectual!
improvement Negro worshipers," is the
epithct contemptuously applied to the Re.
Iub!icans OF Mississippi. by that class Of small
politicians who have failed il all their effort,
20 drive the colorcl voters to the POLLS AMI
there make them vote as suited their selfish
purposes. The charge IS based sOlrIy upnn
tire TACT that our party has used its PAST
Efforts aad is still faithfully ldboriug to assist
the co!ored people along, that, to them, new
and uutrled highway which leads to an en-
li9htencd cxcrciso OF the priy eye. Of tiee-
men, anu to the enjoyment of the substantial
comforts and blessings of life. Republican
worship Of the c0lored race, therefore, con.
sists in an honest and sincere desire to make
it worthy the name Of American citizen ship,
a worship, by the way, which Is not confined
to the blacks alone, but embraces within its
broad and charitable influence, the people Of
every nation and every clino, who seek a
nome under The American lag. II forms a
part OF the weekly work of almost every
Demcgtatc editor il tho State to rupeat the
old, Stercotypcd assertion, that I'VE, the.
Southern people, arc the best friends OF the
blacka;" but ii that friendship consists In
reproducing them for the "iguorancc and
stupidity which was entailed upon them by
the whites, OF in denouncing and yili!ying
the men VINO are honestly engaged iii Labor
ing tOr thoig welfare, the colorGd people may
we'll and tcryently pray to 10 delivered from
their friends. But we believe that the men
who arc 50 fond Of denounclng tho blacks as
iguogaD. and worthless, vii! yet live to cat
th2ir wy,ds and acknowledge their great
wrong. We have watched the colored peo.
pie narrowly we have closely studied their
inclinatons and characteristics, as developed
under the changed relations they occupy to-
ward their common country, and we feel no
hesitancy or doubt in declaring that they are
a race Of people that will prove a thousand
fold more valuable to the State as freemen
than they ever were "a slaves. Strictly at
tentivc to their own affairs, eager to educate
their children, singularly attached to their
churches, and faithful in the discharge of
their religious duties, and az industrious aud
frugal as the whites, who shall deny to the
blacks an important place and leading Ia.
huence 10 the future OF the State ?-Mss.
Pilot.