The weekly Louisianian., 1874-07-25
THE NEW ORLEANS WEEK.. LOUISIANA.
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Auditor qlpte. haveps>eh.seas 81
New Orleans Times newspaper, and
we- informed that=ths former
gentleman is in charge Of the edito-
rial management of said paper:
This so-called Independent journal
has given the State government 81
sort of negative quasi support but
has been. exy~pzoaenaeed=in-as
antagoniam=aad bAterneass toward
our race. In view Of the anteoedents
of its. present ,proprieteEee and q
its reppted managing editor the
colored. people bad d 2 right to ~
peot improvement, in the temper Of
the paper in this direction, under its
new. management: But the: old role
is being played: only more 60. The
paper has a virulent attack. on Hon
David Young and Gov. Pipchbaek
in its late issue and in season and out
Of season, since there has been more
or less prejudiced, unggenerous and
vulgar assaults upon the masses Of
the colored voters. We have been
at q loss to account for the course
OF the paper, but az that journal has
always made money-making it's OBJ
iect rather than the improvement
Of public opinion; and the great ma
|jority Of its readers are anti-Repub-
lican in sentiment, it may be that
expediency has suggested an addi-
tional exhibition Of luminosity to the
negro, and especially to such indu-
ential leaders as Gov. Pinchback
and others, whose power over his
race is dreaded because it cannot
be perverted and used to further the
interests Of these Gme-serving,
trading white men, or in order
TO prevent a loss Of patronage.
Again, it may be, that. this journal,
seeking under the. guise of indie
pendence and the nominal support
of the existing State government
the confidence Of Republican
readers, proposes to disintergrate
the Republican party and: de-
moralize their great army Of
voters by attacking in detail the
representative men of our race
well knowing that when the colored
citizen ceases to respect he will
cease to follow his leaders. Again,
it may be that personal animosity
against Gov. Pinchback, springing
FROM jealous anxiety or unprecedented
danger on the part Of some one in
terestAd in the Times. NAV incite
these impertnent attacks upon our
leaders and our people. We do
not admit Che subject matters
charged against our chiefs, but if it
were true that in the past they had
committed both mistakes and
wrongs there is neither sense or
charity in the supercilliousness that
would question their sincerity or
discourage their endeavors when
they seek to repair the wrong and
correct the mistakes of the past. Yet
euch is the temper of the profes.
sional reformers who run the New
Orleans Times. Gov. Pinchback
doesn't need any defence from this
so.cslled independent journal, in
order to retain the confidence Of his
constituents He is not without the
faults and .in6rmities that belong
to humanity, but he is q wise, brave
and true man-able to master him
cell, and peradventure, as some OF
his maligners may find: to their cost
equal to the mastering of some Of
the unmanly foes, who fight hin,
under cover Of Independent Journal
ism and other shama. ..
TIE REPUBLICAN, ENEH1H or CIVIL
R1aHm.-As a matter of continued
reference and of service to our,
~a>1oro uo hovo 6nfoy1nine1 tn aid