New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-14
VOLUME VINO. 1877,
FROM CLAIBORNE PARISH.
Letter from S<-snter Blackburn.
HOMER, La, November 10, 1877

HOMER, La, November 10, 1873.
EDITOR Republican,:
The oolored people of Claiborne parish
| propose to have a fun delegation in the
State convention called on the sew enteenth
instant. They will be there. and bespeak
for them cordial reception and every at
tention. 1t will be the first time this parish
has ever had a cOlored delegate in any po-
litical convention in the State.
Poor Meadows. you will recollect, WIS a
member of the Constitutional Convention OF
lS67-6S, and, as penalty, forfeited his life
at the hands Of assassns-educated, per-
haps, and refined, after manner, but assas
sins, nevertheless. trust the colored dele
gates from this parish who may attend the
convention of the seventeenth viii not meet
| a similar fate. But it might be well to
'watch and pray They may be able to
tell their friends in New Orleans something
in regard to the hardships of the friends of
liberty in this section which have never be-
fore been told. One of them, if mistake
not, bears some marks of midnight violence
which think have never been discussed or
explained publicly. Certain am that they
have never been avenged. | repeat, let
these cOlored delegates from Claiborne be
most kindly and Hospitality received by
their friends in the city.
The Republicans of this section ell rejoice
as with one accord a: the manly and de-
tant rejoinder of the REPUBLICAN in re-
sponse to the most infamous attacks and
kaassertions of the rebel press of New Orleans
in the recently reported rape case in the
parish of Grant. l do think that the
attitude assumed and temper displayed by
these journals constitute almost positive
and irrefutable proof that civilization is
fslinre-or that type OF civilization which
claims, or has claimed to be the highest in
the South. And truly, it is so. Such civil
cation is failure-is 80 proved to be-and
thank God for it. 1t was civilization
founded upon the bar barism of hum; \
slavery; upon the barbarism which
said that one human being had ID
right to buy and sell another into
ete rnal bondage. OF course, the will of
Just God could not continue to be
"done upon earth as in heaven" under the
rule and reign of such civilization. And it
is under the blighting shadow of the mem
ory of such civilization that such journals
as the Herald, the Pieayunc and the Times
of New Orleans would Instigate rape and ar
son, and then cowardly and most UNANIMOUSLY
lay the crime at the door Of decency and
honor. To hell with such rotten journalism
Fine crops were raised in this parish
during the past season, and vet the class
that mainly produced these crops are left
almost or quite to starve. / mean the poor
common laborers, both white and black;
men, wamen and children who are de-
pendent from year to year and from day to
day for support upon what their labor pro
duces upon the farm. They make the crop
and then all is taken by some one else
under sOme plea or another, and they are
left t. either starve outright Or set in again
for another year upon a like precarious
P0ssib bility of support. This process !"
should be remedied in some way, and my
opinion is that if the Governor would now
sia a the exeml ton law of last session it
would bear good frmt twelve months hence
| trust he Will maturely consider the mat
ter. Its PRONUNCIATION last spring would
perhaps have had a bad monetary effect,
but do not think 1t would now. At any
rate, some special and safe security for sup
port to those who mainly produce every
thing that is produced should be studied
out and applied at once.
W. JASPER BLACKBURN.