The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-06-26
The Louisiana League.

The annexed summary, as contained IN
telegraphic dispatch, sets forth the action of
Gen. Beauregard and others in the recent
movement to unite the whites and blacks in
Louisiana, which movement is attracting atten-
ton throughout the country, and is likely to
prove a solution of the vexatious troubles in
that unhappy State. The basis of agreement
is quite similar to the terms proposed by the
white people of South Carolina in 1870, and
which were rejected by the large majority of
negroes in every part of the State, and after
wards abandoned as fruitless and hopeless by
the white leaders. But we verify believe that
some such arrangement is obliged to result from
the present status of public affairs, and if the
movement in Louisiana is made success, we
shall take fresh hope and courage for other
States oppressed by misrule and partisan blind
ness to the injury of both races. We append
the summary:
New ORLEANS, June 18.
At an adjourned meeting of white and col
ored citizens, last evening" resolutions were
unanimously adopted favoring, for the welfare
of Louisiana, in her present extremity, an
afiliaton of all men of whatever color, race,
or religion, who are citizens of Louisiana, and
who are willing to work for her prosperity.
The resolutions recognize the equal and inn
partial exercise by every citizen of every civil
and political right guaranteed by the constitu-
ton and law of Louisiana, by the constitution
and laws of the United States, and by the
laws of honor, brotherhood and fair dealing.
They maintain the right of every citizen to
soiourn at will at all places of public resort,
and to travel at will on all vehicles of public
conveyance upon terms of perfect equality
with any and every citizen so far as our infiu-
ence, counsel and example may so to make
this right live and practical right. They
recommend that our banks, insurance offices
and other public corporations recognize and
concede to our colored fellow citizens, where
they are stockholders in such institutions, the
right of being represented in the direction
thereof and recognize as distinct IN public
schools a State educational institution. They
declare in favor of encouraging colored citizens
in the rural districts to become proprletors OF
the soil, and recommend to all land proprietors
of the State the policy of considering the
question of breaking up the same into small
farms. in order that the colored citizens and
white emigrants may become practical farmers
and cultivators of the soil. The resolutions
pledge the honor and good faith towards rapid
fy removing the prejudices heretofore existing
against color, and deprecate acts of violence
from whatever source, and further declare that
in view of the numerical equality between the
white and colored elements of the population,
we shall advocate all equal distribution OF ofii-
ces of trust in our State demanding as the only
condition of our suffrage, honesty, diligence
and ability, and we advocate this, not because
of offices themselves, but simply as an earnest
proof upon our part that it is an equal union,
and not an Elusive conjunction brought about
for the sole benefit of one or other OF parties
Signed G. T. Beauregard, chairman J.
Marks, C. c. Anton, Geo. Il. Kello, Charles
Fl. Thompson, James j. Day, August Bohne,
Aristides Maxy, DR.. L. o. Rondance, VIM.
Randolph, committee.
A committee of fifteen was appointed to call
mass meeting when deemed expedient.