The weekly Louisianian., 1873-01-25

e, vices to the cause of Republicans,
nor because OF his ability, or b
integr;ty-nor, in fact, on account
any purely personal reason that v
shat tie pmans OF victory in homo
OF this election, although Mr.. Pine!
back might well claim that disti1
gn'shed office on those groudds. "
rejoice, as Republicans, that at las
after 50 many tears, and tolls, all
j., struggles, by this one action a noun
tain OF prejudice and ill-seelini
against the colored race has bee,
swept away to eternal perdition
We proudly point to a mar ofcolo,
self made, self-taught, filing ever,
posi- ion in his native State with re
markable ability and honor; anc
then receiving from tae hands ofl1is
fellow-cltizeus, white and %colored
alike, the meet reward Of advance
ment to the d;gnigcd position o1
Senator of the United States-placine
him officially, Oh a par with Clay,
Webster, Adams, and the host OF
giant minds that have guided the
ship Of State; in safety through so
many terrific storms. It is by such
an election that the mouth Of brutali-
It,y and nesro-hating i11solcnce and
itg,norace is sileHcoA as the newspa-
per press proclaims in every city,
town and hamlet in the country
aye, and in the far off empires O:
other continents-that OH the Fourth
day OF Marcl,'ia the year of grace,
one thnusand eight hundred and
seventy-three a colored native O;
Louisiana took his seat among his
peers in the Senate of the United
States, there to remain as one Of the
supreme Lawmakers Of the nation
for the tenn OF SIX vear.:*.
it IS true that our sister State Of
had somewhat the advan-
Of Us in 1870, by sending another
man, Hon. Hiram Il. Kevels,
10 occupy in the United States Senate
chair vacated by the arbitrator
Jefferson Davis. Ii making that Sc
surely Heaven designed to
.ender the colored race a stern ret,i- :
Justice, as though to illustrate !
The saying of Him OF Nazareth, "In s
hat day the first shall be last, and the
asst shall be first" But the circum-
t.nces r also widely different. In
Mississippi, the colored majority is
cry large, over 60, 900, while in Louis =,
ana the census returns show a very l
hight difference in the numbers Of the
and colored races. Again, MI.
had already distinguished him a
elf IS an eloquent and learned divine
pd orator before he entered l-.lississip- $
is borders, while Mr.. Pinchback was :
to the manor born" and has lived j,
nd worked amongst us ali the years of
is life. Has It prophet noAonor in '
own country? The election OF our I
onator gives 3 pleasant ref utati6n to t
who believe that their abilities 4
i'll he better appreciated abroad than I
home; although wherever that gen :
emnn had been domiciliated, he GER X
'iniy would have been honored and
'spected. Ar. Revels has been CEN
red by the hypocritical for not
avingg more loudly asserted fhe rights =
the colored peol,ie in the Senate ?
'iam5er, during his short term of Of q
y, but there are many excuses fol s
even if the blame We're justly de- d
rved. It was an. extraordinary .occa- y;
on, when a ;colorel man first trod, as
Senator, the august precincts Of the
Mr.. Revels is essentially and
en- unnecessarily ditident and Of a
Oldest and retiring temperament, and
his " judgment might, have d,
'evented him making himself over RI
nspicuo1s. Be that as it may, he =,
quilted himself with very great credit :.
himself and his constituents, in the
,%precEttion Of which he has recently -
called upon TO I'LL the high posi- q
N of Secretary Of State Of his adopt VI
State. . %
Lo~uiaianians have no doubts or sc
as TO the future career, as SEN go
u, Of Dir. Pinchback. Born and II
sed in orr midst, 1,o man in the j,
untry better knows the wants and 8,
requirements ofour Stase-no man
better informed il regard tosthe po- e
and social status oil thescoloted y
8 South, than Mr.Pinehhbsa.ek, lo
N1lenAailee tkAsesh ia seat 1he win " y !,