New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-06
LETTER FROM NORTH LOUISIANA.
GOOD Effect of Grants Proclamation and
Carpenters Speeck-Senat0r Brewster
and the Cause Of Education.
MONROE, La, June 2, 1873.

| MONROE. La, y uNe <, Is! ).
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
| Grant has ruined the country again Since
| the publication OF his proclamation there is
| not an item Of politica! news TO be heard in
| North Louisiana. Quiet reigns unbr9ken.
| hard on the FusiOnists as the Presidents
command to dispense. The Telegraph OF
| this town says: Carpenter is 70 true friend
| OF louisiana" He tells colored men TO
defend themselves. This is shocking. They
didn't expect this from the Senator who
recommended new election. What's the
| use of a new election if the black man is to
fight those who attack him 1t won't do.
The chivalry were willing, IN case of a new
election, to do all the voting and save the
colored people the trouble. But if Carpan-
ter tells them to stand up for their rights
| and knock down the fellows who insult
them, it's no use. For eight long years the
chivalry have struggled against fate, and
now Carpenter, their last hope, has failed
struck dumb, the friends Of our common
schools are actively at work in the good
cause.
Foremost among those who labor to pro-
mote the establishment ard insure the eff
cheney OF free schools is the Hon 0. H.
Brewster, State Senator from the district
composed Of OuaciIita and Caldwell. He
Ouachita parish since the first organization
under our present system. Every school in
the parish has been repeatedly visited; in
every Neighbo,hood he has delivered adj
dresses on the subject, awakening an inter
est in the minds OF the people and encOur-
aging the teachers and their pupils by dis
tributing books and papers, furnished at
his own expense. In this work he has spent
mo;e than $1,000. This spring lie has tray
eled extensively in other parishes, every
where laboring TO interest the people in the
cause of education, and the establishment Ct
free schools. It's probable that no man in
North Louisiana is known to so many
school children as the Senator from Qua
chta. His exertions are prompted solely by
his sympathy Tor the poor ana unaducated,
who, in times past, were deprived
Of all advantages and unable to edu-
cate themselves or their children. He
finds many hard working white men whose
| families ale growing up without schools CT
instruction OF any kind, but who express an
| intense desire for improvement and are
anxious 20 have free schools established in
| their neIghborhood. Among all classes he
| is and long has been doing a good work by
encouraging and awakening the latent in
| terests in the cause q. progress and improve
| ment. And he does this without pay or re-
| ward, simr.y because he understands the
! vital Importance OF intelligence among the
people under our form OF tree government.
| He informs us that the prejudice against
| coloreG schools is much less than at first.
In many places it has almost entirely di.ap-
| peared. Some of the largest planters have
| found it necessary to encourage such
| schools if they. would keep the best class Of
| hands in their service. IN some localities
where his life was threatened on his first
visit in the interests of cOlored schools. he
can now speak publicly without insult or
interruption. The world dnoves even in
Louisiana. OBSERVER.