New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-05

| as cast at the elections of 1868 and 1870, th'
Warmoth returning board returns Demo
cratic majority OF 1856, thus assuming tina
over $4,000 colored men refused or failed Il
vote the Republican ticket. This committee
is satisfied that not 100 of this "a, 600 col
ored men voted against the regular Repub
Hcan nominees.
We conclude this document by asserting
the fact that this CON mittee represents the
views, the feelings, and the interests O.
every Republican in Louisiana, including
10000 colOred men who are unanimous IL
their adhesion and devotion to President
Grants administration, and they deem II
unnecessary to dwell upon the reasons fOl
such attachment, in view OF the aid and
| assistance General Grant has ever afforded
them in establishing their political and per
sonA freedom. The political history OF
Louisiana exhibits the remarkable fact, thai
| in connection with ner sister Southern
States, the defeated rebels have but changed
| their line of base, and have fallen back
| from the battlefields of their humiliation to
wreak their smothered vengeance upon the
| weak and unresisting people Of color.
From the era Of Lees surrender at Apo
mattox until very recently, every engine OF
| oppression has been unremittingly employed
| against them. They have been scourged
| with merciiess ferocity; they have been
murdered by thousands; they have been
| driven from their homes in multitudes, and
| forced to seek safer asylums; they have
| been denied the privileges of education, al
| though the State laws expressly provided
| for public schools for ALL and they have
been put to as bloody death for daring to
vote according to the dictates OF conscience.
No violence has been thought too great-nO
fraud too con temptible-to coerce or deceive
the colored voters, and obtain their ballots
for the Democratic party in the South.
H. r ,1z h.
State is but type and sample of the spirit
and anirnus that has so long prevailed
Your committee has discovered and bears
witness of innumerable and undeniable
frauds and trickery, by which the unedu-
Gated masses were deprived of their votes
for their chosen representatives.
These colored men firmly believed that
the right of suffrage had been given them
for their protection, and that they would be
enabled to cast their votes fearlessly and as
their conscience might dictate, and, more
over, they assumed that, as the wards of
the nation, they would be protected by the
government in the exercise Of their rights,
at least so long as they remained in a state
of political pupilage. They felt assured
that they would not be left to the tender
mercies OF their former task masters. They
did not dream that the enmity of the Con
federates would be transferred from those
bitter to the peaceful plantation They had
heard of the sword being turned into a
plOughshare, but not OF carrying the bru
talities strictly appropriate TO the scene of
carnage to their quiet homes.
But events seem to have proved that the
civil war is not yet overt is merely
changed in form. The Ku-Klux assassin
and the political demagogue have taken
the place of the brave, chivalrous and
II
racy, as now existing in our sister Southern
States, and in this State are the guerrillas,
the bandits, the camp followers of the war,
and it is not surprising that their atrocities
have called forth the execration Of all good
men, and that the perpetrators of the crimes
referred to have been branded as the putrid
excrescence of Democracy.
One of the most popular fallacies that
may be supposed to have influt need the bad
feeling and vicious conduct OF many Demo
Gratis, is the belief that the colored man is
striving to place himself in state of social
equality with his Caucasian brother. Such
an argument, deliberately considered, will
strike every thinking man as eminently ab.
surd, from the mere fact and truism that
the so much dreaded social equality never
did and never can exist, not even among
the white race itself But nothing is fur
Their from the wishes of the colored people
than the advancement % So absuGG d docs
tFine.
This committee expressly and fnSss en-.
Phatically denies and repudiates the impu-
tatiOn; yet, while it would scrupulously
avoid any derogation of the claims of the
white race that may be founded on reason,
on the constitution of the United States, or
on the statutes of the State Of Louisiana, it
will no less inhexibly maintain the guaran-
teed rights of colored citizens to a perfect
Il 1rr6 wi
The results of the civil war gave them those
rights, and the individual States ratified
the amendments to the constitution grant
ing those rights. If, then, the South is sin
cere in the expression thatft has accepted
the situation, let us have no more so phisti-
cal defense OF fraud and outrage as a means
Of depriving the colored men Of the right of
suffrage. We must have free and impair
tial registration and election, without which |
there can be no peace in the Southern
States, and in Louisiana especially.
The Democratic newspapers of New Or |
leans, which may be presumed to represent |
the sentiments of the large numbers of our |
have endeavored to make |
the matter in dispute a pure question of |
color, and in their estimates OF the result |
entirely ignore the coIored vote cast III the |
recent election.
1t is such yapid obtuseness that prevents
JiIC DVhOtI dlIS PAL y 1IOH dCQul6SClug III
,he righteous decisions of the courts, which |
nave decided in favor of the Republican
candidates.
The New Orleans Picogune declares its |
satisfaction that SO many inofensive and
colOred men have been sacri-
iced, and points out carpet-baggers" as the
lext victims of Democratic malignity. 1t
S not by means of riot, of massacre or OF
assassination that peace and prosperity is
n hp q N This Histrar%. |
he country. Such maudlin rawlings NAV
certainly excite the destructive passions of
demOrallzed mob, but all such utterances |
hould be rebuked and frOwned down by /
he solid men and good citizens who pos
ess an interest in the welfare OF the State
Every record of an outrage that flashes
long the wires throughout the country
auses relative depreciation in the securi-
les and values of the States-checks or en-
rely prevents immigration. and Injuries
rade and commerce.
If thinking men would Jus put sheif
houlders to the wheel and aid III destroy.
IL the infamous coalition existing between
Governor Warmoth and his ex- Confederate
lies, the excitement in political lotteries
ould cease. and peace and quiet would |
Ike the place of recrimifatIons and angry
'ehngs. 1t is conceded by the most able
gal minds in the country that William PITT .
ellogg is the legal Governor of this State.
1d that the factious opposition which yet
,ars its hydra head is wholly unlawful. {
'hy, then, should parcel of demagogues
: allowed to continue to disturb the peace
Id endeavor to excite contention and ami .
oslty among our citizens There is %
medy-a violent one 1t is tius-buf rioa !
ne diseases Se9uire correspondent. Ye:n.
Sc
SinaflT, people 90 Sn1sqicA. ha-ing ernas.
pateG and enfranchised us, we now ask .
u to protect us in the rights that you +
we conferred upon us, by making Us your !
llow-citizens Tins we do and expect in ,
e name of the 10000 colored voters OF g
luisiana who support the State govern q