The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-15
THE RACE ISSUE.

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THE RACE ISSUE.
SPEECH ON THE ADOPTION OF THE PLAT
FORM AND RESOLUTIONS AT BATON RoUGE--
THE SPIRIT OF THE WHITES TOWARD THE
CoLoRED PEoPLE-A CANDID STATEMENT OF
THE DIFFICULTIES.
At the mass meeting lately held at Baton
Rouge, La, at which all classes and parties
of white people were collected. Mr.. Morr
made speech, ELECTED by the resolutions
and platform adopted at that time. From
this speech. in the New Orleans Picayune.
the following extracts are taken as being a
fair statement of the feelings and views
among the white people of that State toward
their colored brethren:
= Let us make known throughout
the United States that we are not here to-
day to make war upon the colored man !;
we are here to assert boldly and main
late the rights of others. Gentlemen of
this convention, it should be a sub
ject of congratulation to each aid every one
of you, that your committee have presented
such platform and such resolutions as have
/ been adopted. There is not man in the
State of Louisiana who is worthy the name
of citizen, who can not stand upon this plat
| form, and do battle in support of it, earn
estly, with all his heart, with all his soul,
with all his strength. And now, my coun-
! trymen, desire to call your attention to
the great duty and responsibility which, in
the providence of Almighty God, have
devolved upon you, the white people
of Louisiana, and of which you
can by mo means divest yourselves.
| You know that before the emancipation of
the colored race we occupied toward them a
patriarchal relation. The negro should still
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were formerly his masters. tell, you, my
countrymen, the trues. and best friends the
negro ever had, or ever viii have, were once
their masters and owners The duty that
we have TO pei form with regard TO him. is,
as / say, one for which we are responsible 10
God and our country. wish TO impress
this seriously upon You before you leave
here; it has oppressed me; it has weighed
upon me with heavy sense of responsible
ity; it is to civilze and ChristianIze
I THIS NEGRO RACE.
Left to himself he will become savage, an
idolater. Wherever he has been allowed to
unrestrained, he has become savage and
an idolater. God in bis providence has en-
trusted his elevation to you. Do not doubt
it; do not shrink from it; do not attempt to
shirk the responsibility. God in his provi-
dence has entrusted to you the elevation,
the education and the training of this race
BY the miserable interference of those who
profess to be the friend of the negro. a breach
has been made between him and you, who
were once his owners, and should be his best
! friends, which has made it impossible
for YOU to acquit yourself of that high
obligation and duty which rests upon you
therefore it has become a necessity, one
which is rs obligatory upon you as any
obligation can be, that you. the white
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ization, the wealth. the virtue anu intellect
9th State, should now assume the control
of its affairs, that you NAV exercise tho In
fluence proper Tor the elevation of these
people. 1 beg of each one of you. when you
return to Jour respective homes, 50 proclaim
it from every stump, that the white people
of Louisiana intend simply TO assert tbei,
right to exercise the control and manage
ment OF their own affairs, which right the
great God of heaven has given you. Gcd
made you white people TO be
THE DOMINANT RACE
upon this earth. No race can come in com.
petition with you; all that has been done fol
the advancement and promotion of civiliza.
ton has been done by the white race
Mountain has been leveled, river has been
bridged, and ocean has been spanned by the
telee raph WIRE Whatever obstacles NAV
have interposed to obstruct its onward
march, they have been overcome or removed
by the superior energy and intellect of this
! dominant race. A few ignorant and
misguided negroes can not stand in
the way of your advancement. God
has given YOU this great valley OF
tue Mississippi, the most magnificent
residence vouchsafed to man, to be your her.
itage. 1t belongs to you. You are bound
to keep and improve it. You can not give
up any portion of it to barbarism, or permit
ignorance and in activity to control it. You
are under the most solemn obligations that
can rest upon man, to your God and country,
to occupy the land and make il fruitful and
/ productive. We.do not intend to infrip &c
upon the rights of the negroes but simply
to assert our own. Plant your footsteps
firmly upon this platform, and ii will be no
aggression upon the rights of any human be-
ing. Plant yourselves there, and there
stand, and, my countrymen do assure YOU
Louisiana will again bloom as a garden and
prosperity will reign throughout our whole
State.
A correspondent writing from Kalamazoo,
Mich. says that nothing was more interest
ing than a walk though the factory of the
Rockford Clothes pin Company. where one
sees huge beech log sawed into clothes
pins ready to be seasoned while Yankee is
devouring goodly sized pumpkin pie. No
less than $50, 600 clothes pins are made here
daily. The process of drying or seasoning is
as expeditions as that of making the pin.
In 12hours after the log enters this slaughter
house it is reduced to seasoned and polished
pins, and delicate hands" are putting them