The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-07-03
Louisiana.
From the New York Express, J

II rum lllc NOW lOIh iNNllN-'I
A committee Of white and colored
citizens OF New Orleans has resolved
TO enter to political field, in advocacy
OF q iull recognition of the colored
mems right to be chosen to numerous
places OF public and privats trust, to
visit hotels, schools, DC, upon perfect
equality. The names of the commit
tcemen who have charge of this en-
teFprisc are G. T. Beauregard, Chair
maa; j. N. Marks, {, c. Antoine,
Geo. II. kelso, Chas, II. Thompson,
James J. Day, Auguste Cohne, Arls'
tides Mary, DR.. L, c. Roudanez, W.
NJ. Randolph, These men, after p!o-
nouncing Louisiana truly enough as IN
dire extremity, and threatened with
death in every vital Organ" conclude
to dedicate themselves to the unity o!
the people in religion, race, color, and
to equality in all civil and political
rights, The negroes, like white peo'
pie, are
" to frequent at will all places of public re-
| SUN ~ llhN Nl ~ ~ va w.
public conveyance upon terms OF perfect
: equality with any and every CITIZEN ana
we pledge ourselves, SO far as our lnllu-
ence, counsel and example may 90, 10
make this right a live and practical right;
ana that there may be no misunucrst 1u-
ing OF our views on this point, nrst, we
shall recommend to the proprietors OF all
licensed places Of public resort in the state
t of Louisiana the opening OF SAD places
to the patronage Of both races inAabltlnS
our State; second, we shall further recom-
mend that all railroads, steamboats,, steam
ships, and other public Conveyances pur-
sue the same policy third, we shau lur-
Their recommend that our banks, insurance
offices, and other public corporations rec
ognize and conccde to our colored fellow
citizens, where they are stockholders Ill
such institutions, the right Of being rep
resented in the direction thereof; fourth,
we shall further recommend that hercat-
ter no distinction shall exist among the
citizens of Louisiana in any of on: public
! schools or State institutions Of education,
I, or in any other public place of instruction
!, supported by the State, cities. or parishes;
fifth, we shall also recommend that the
proprietors of ioundries, factories, anu
other Industrial establishments in employ
, ing mechanics or workmen make no DIS
!, ~tinctlun between the two races ana, siXtn,
: we shall encourage by every means III
' our power our cOlOrcd citizens in the ru-
/. raj districts to become the proprietorS OF
( the soil, thus enhancing the value oil lands
and adding to the production OF the state,
while it will create a political conservation
i which is the offspring of pro~prletorShlp;
2 and we furthermore recommend TO all
landed propIietOrs OF our state the policy
of considering the question OF breaking up
=. the same into small farms IN order that
i our colored citizens and white Immigrants
= may become practical farmers and cultl-
/. vators OF the SOIL
e There is q compound of sense and
nonsense in all this, the sense being in
e meliorating the condition Of the col.
ored people in regard to buying lands,
r cultiyating the soil, &c, and the non.
J, sense being in insisting, whether the
people will it or not, upon the equal
footing Of everybody in the same
schools, hotels, boards of direction,
&c, All white people are not upon
. the same footing, nor do they seek to
become SO by legislation, Or by any
political or evil enforcement. The
-. men who go as far as Beaurcgard d
Co, must go n step further, aid insist
upon social equality. If all people,
regardless Of color, are to be treated
alike, and if there is to be no respect
whatever to education, prejudice and
habits Of life, and if these conclusions
are the result Of moral and political
convictions of fright, the men who ar
que thus, il not the merest ~hypocrites
in their prcteusions, must open the
doors Of their homes to prove their
sincerity in this equality. 1t will not
do to insist upon perfect equality i n
: the classes OF the schooiroom and col
lege, and deny it IN the drawing. room ;
or to insist upon it in the bank parlor ;
and to refuse it in the home parlor; to
insist upon it at the public banquet.
and 20 refuse it at the home board, If
one man is as good as another man,
so long as he behaves himself as well,
or has just rs many rights as another
man, let the argument be carried to its
logical and moral conclusions. Let
; there be perfect equality elsewhere.
Let people regulate their own schools,
giving equal privileges of education to
all-cxcludc white people, as in some
OF the West India islands, or exclude
coIored people. as in some or all ofthe
American States.
All the Government owes to any
class Of people it has now guaranteed
and enforced, as in the ballet, in the
right to hold office, and in equal pro
lection to all. The ballot is a better
regulator OF right, both for negroes
and whites, than the resolutions Of any
class of demagogucs. The negroes,
with rare exceptions. now travel lust
as freely as white people. They have,
or can have, their own schools and
their own teachers. They are found
at West Point and at Annapolis. They|
have companies and regiments of their
own, which will not be improved by
any enforced commingling with others.
lhe most Ignorant of the negro race
have become the worst part of it by
being the dupes Of the most selfish
and corrupt among the white classes of
the South. Moreover, what there is of
eVli IN the present order of things will
right itself far better by time and dis.
cusslon than by any pledges, as in
those just made in Louisiana, of san
equal distribution oftrust and emolumeat