The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

mo have q vote OF looUs AM
nou ee1ored people have a majority o
'n1 , eo. ESQ, and how do we1stan'
.hont The organization of a "Blacl
Mans Party" Here is the list w
have Is parish officers and OF thes'
II arc white and 4 colored-Parisl
jndee. white; Clerk Of Court, colored
DEPUTY Clerk, white; Sheriff, colored
Detuty Sheriff, white; Tax Collector;
oolored; Deputy Tax Collector, white
Recorder; President Of the Police Jury,
Parish Treasurer, Parish Attorney and
three Justices Of the Peace, all white,
and Supervisor Of Registration, col
ored. +
But the sensational newspapers in:
form the country that we are drifting
into o war Of races, and should We
grant the statement to be true, whose
fsu1t will it be? Surely not that Of
the patient, forgiving and long suffer
ing negro! They say that *+the very
safety Of their homes and families de-
nands that they shall prepare to meet
the danger which has been threatening
for years." How preposterous! Have
they already forgotten the hazardous
times of the rebellion, when the old,
the tender, and the young OF their
households were entirely left to the
care and kindness of their servants?
Why within a month after the awful
massacre of unarmed men on that
bloody Easter Sunday in Grant parish,
the plague broke out in Shreveport,
and the fortunate survivors will testify
to the care and attention they received
from their colored nurses, many Of
whom fell victims to the dread disease,
It is under these circumstances that q
New Orleans incendiary paper says,
"Let us say to the negro, We have
tried to live with you on pleasant terms.
we have tried to conciliate you; we
have gone more than half way to meet
you; but you have despised our over
lures and have steadily refused to treat
with u.s. Well, so be it; we accept
the issue now; let it be race for race,
since you so elect" And SO on with a
lot Of ridiculous nonsense. That it
may be understood what is the ami
mus Of the miserable paper from which
lam quoting, will add another sen.
tence:
1--WE are for white menin eve,vsAiiuq.
in our public Offices, in our STORES, n
on our steamers, on our drays and
floats, in our families and in our fields,
Everywhere"
The truth is, and the writer of that
article knows it as well as you and I
do, they could not get white men to
I'LL the positions and suffer the hard
fare, small wages and the brutal treat
ment they inAict upon colored people.
And ''such is the spirit Of the ad-
dress to the citizens of s.. Martin"
md which the writer says was "siened
BY a host Of the best people in the par
ish.' Let US pray for them! Now,
Mr.. President, if instead of such news
papers endeavoring to excite the one
race against the other, they were to
ns' their best efforts to effect aperfect
harmony, how much more gratifying
would DO the result! The colored
people have no animosity against the
!n'ses, but will sacrifice much to live
u peace and quietness, and if The
enosts Of those newspapers are exerted
N tnat~ direction, Louisiana will soon
teouperate from the disasters under
winch she has suffered for years, and
AGAIN resume her place es foremost
s@ong the States of our glorious
onaon' By their present system of
aaa'ne' the maternal nest, they edec-.
exclude and prevent i~mmierants
nom taking the benefit of the vast FAD
.s'.es7 offered to all. by the ane
s'laase and splendid soil which is
found n tbs choicest portion Of the f,
a~iasianppi bottom. I;
But should they accept my advice !
.ee devote their energies to the deve-
'epelaapt Of the resourceso of or State, !
Iaea. indeed, they will become public !
4saetestos, and the Pelican State will :
a become celebrated as not only a
nv OF the land of tks free and The
. %: OF the brave, but as the most '
and Pleasant home within
" sa* limits Of the American Con:i-1
"hen such bite. feelings have sub s
aueo' when bad men in this State viii )
se to illuminate such atrocious =
s I1eas aea'nstthe lei IN oftepsiye eolored =
' suow citizens; when the people of this
70 remain on terms of :
'esce and Har,nnnv With xh..--1, O