The weekly Louisianian., 1874-09-26
ADDRESS OF THE con
M11EE OF SEVENTY. +

ADDRESS OF TIE coz
471EE OF SEVENTY. !.
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Tmasnd sp.ce-preventsn s inthis issu.
hmESng the address of he COMMITTEES
Of Seventy the attention it observes but Til
paragraph referring to the eolored people,
is such = gross perverson Of truth that We
feel compslled to briefly alludeto it We
deny in-toto tho charge thst 1.-THE blacks
had" ..secret osthbound Leagues under
command Of interruptions negroes The
only secret osHni1atjon off peaiticalchar-
acter existing in the State al the time Of the
organization II the White League WAS the
one known as tho Republican Alliance
whica wrs conceived, organised, and Of
feared chiefly by white men and in the
interest of white men. .
In attempting to justify the White
League the Committee borders on the alb
surd, and in its extraordinary ~extrayagance
of invectives and exaggerations have
greatly weakened the force Of what other
wise appears to be . strong paper. Here
is what they say
nThe incessant demand for officers from
tho city, state and Federal Governments,
for which they were uttely unfit, and for
which thay prodered no no other title than
that of color ; the Development in their
conventions of q spirit Of prescription
against white Radicals, and even against
honorable Republicans who had fought for
their liberation; their increasing arroganoa,
which knew no bounds ; their increasing
dishonesty. which they regard as q state
manlike virtue !; their contemptuous scoEn
of all rights of the white man, which they
dared tfespass upon all these signs, Is set
forth in the platform Of the Crescent City
White League, warned us that tho calamity
We had long apprehended was imminent,
and We must either prepare for, Or perish
underit."
=. In the face ofthe fact that nearly every
Office Of honor and profit in the. State is
held by white men, and that graduallythe
few that were neld by colored men are be-
ing taken away from them and whites put
in their places; as in the cases Of 0audet
Monthieu. etc., tho g incessant demand"
for Office has amounted to nothing. But
the baldest and most absurd thing in the
address is the charge Of prescription of
Radical and honorable Republicans
who had fought forour liberation by our
Who on earth do they expect
will be simple and credulous enough to
that statement? Certainly not the
people they have been telling for 10: these
many years, that no power on earth can
take the negro from under control of the
'' carpet baggerg" and which we regret to
admit has in the main been too true as
shown in the manner in which they were
manipulated in the late Republi-
State Convention, where Lieut..
Gov, Antoine was ignominiously
Defeated for temporary chairman
because he refused to be q party to the
packing OF the Convention with place.
men and tools of the Administration;
Who desired to control the same and
the nomination of Mr.. Dubuclet
ior State Treasurer: and where also
Hon. VIM. G. Brown, State Superin-
of Public Education, was
lenied a seat in the Convention, and
he Tenth Ward outrage upon Sena-
Pinchback, partially endorsed.
Gene friends, let us stop this nom
'ense. You need make no apology for
he White League, the North under
tands I: much better than you seem
o, and condemns it and so does the
civilization of the age. What we need
., a LEAGUE OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE
'Eor1E; under the leadership of men
hat comprehend the situation and
ave tho moral courage and nerve to
meet any and every. emergency that
nay arise. .-5 st