New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-22
will be sebuked by the unanimous con.
demna,ion 0: the whole American people.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE COL.
ORED CONVENTION


| When the managers Of the Picayn,.
conceived the purpose of making thei
editorial department. ''co-opefatiye w
| were somewhat az loss to imagine wha
invention N journalism was proposed, 0
what new discovery was to be promui
| gated. It means. we now suppose. tina
half dozen anonymous writers agree I.
prin. whatever each may deem mos
abusive. without the direction o; an,
common and competent director. Il i
the cooperative rowing Of three or fon
men On each side OF yawl. without cox
swain or compass to direct them. In ont
part OF recent paper one cooperative
writes as follows:
No fact is more patent than The universe
desire on the part of the Southern white
population to see the negro educated anc
intelligent, instead of remaining an ignorant
and plastic tool in the hands OF the common
enemy of all races.
In another column occurs contemptU'
ous review of the 'medley of absurdi-
ties perpetrated by the colored eonven.
ton. 1t is called. in ridicule. remark.
able convention-''theAf African :ump Of a
rump''- and the article concludes in this
highly classical confusion OF metaphor:
The shield of the colored Ajax would
have been rounded and complete had the
colored catspaws of Kellogg resolved that
national freedmen's savings bank is a
national blessing and the only security
against financial commissions
Odds! Ajaxes, catspaws and savings
banks! What handful of Homer, animal
anatomy and finance! Yet it is all EN-
ployed to degrade the colored citizens.
whose resolutions the Piccyane has no:
published. How does this contemptuous
notice Of an effort 70 improve themselves
in the management Of their own affairs.
and relieve themselves. it may be, from
dependence upon any other agents COM
port with the universal desire on the
part 0! the Southern white population to
see the negro educated and intelligent:''
Would not one who sincerely desires such
a result touch lightly upon the inexpeIi.
ence OF people not ten years old i'll the
management Of their own affairs! Would
sincere friend Of coiored progress have
frs: suppressed. by publication. and
a ridiculous peryersion OF what the con-
yention did say. and then render them
still more ridiculous by imputing to them
what they did not say:
We have read these proceedings and
resolutions, and do not hesitate to pro-
nounce them sound and sagacious. Kindly
and cordial toward the white people. and
accordant with the spirit Of civilization in
Of what Hon. Mr.. Banks has
pronounced the greatest outrage in the
history o. civilization.
We have heretofore commented On the
noble stand taken by the convention in
behalf of cur great river improvements
and city commerce. The warning to the
government that non-interyention in the
Cuba matter. for fear Of money damages,
might be fatal to emancipation in Cuba.
g eminently sagacious. and will remind
he government and Mr.. Simmer that the
liberties Of six hundred thousand human
beings hang upon the same national &C.
ion with the rights Of our own citizens
md the ma.ims Of humanity. Tie sesoiu-
ions respecting The representation Of the
lights Of the colored citizens, as involved
a the maintenance o: the present State
are very careful aud pru-
lent. This convention. we presume. will
lave the same RICH. to propose and advo-
ate its own rights as that other which is
0 succeed it on the opposite side. While
We shall consider with decorous respect
he proceedings Of the Fusion convention,
We sincerely trust that. in addition to the
Proper representation Of lis own claims 70 |
ecognition as a legal organization. it may |
'resen. as practical recommendation of
measures in which Louisiana is interested |
$ has been adopted by the co.o:el con.
entSon.