The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-18
CASTING PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.

| The Times this morning INDUCES in a po
negroes of the State. It invokes them " 70
| their own future good to see to it that tn
race Of leeches and knaves which flourishe(
in the late Dryades Street Legislature is il
| some measure eliminated" Such homilie
have been written over and over again. Will
how much efficacy, let the present con
dition Of the State Government an
swer With each successive Legislature, the
negro element has grown stronger and
stranger and lori possu, the plundering Of
the State and the ignorance Of its Office hold
ers, and outrages upon the people have in
creased in enormity, and in holiness and
effrontry The last Legislature brought to
the front rank i'll the army of thieves the
Youngs, Mahoneys Buffers, Murrell,, Stamps,
Barretts, Vigers, BARRIERS, Burches, Antoines.
Pichbacks, and a number of other black
birds, most of whom deserve cage in Baton
Rouge. To talk to negroes Of honesty is a
waste of time, but hint at peculation and he
will 81 i've an attentive ear.
Reason with him about the prosperity of
the State and the necessity Of good govern
ment, and he will gap at you with idiotic ex-
preston but tell him of the pelf divided by
political rings, and he will not hesitate to
"join in " tor his share Of plumber. Persuade
them as you will to 'select honest and
capable men :" to try this ''open sesame to
a new era Of harmony, peace and prosperity"
and they will only be deaf to all such appeals
They are welded to their idols, and cannot be
induced to abandon them SO long as their
worship is SO fruitful of wealth
The general character Of the Republican
party III the South Is such that it is impossible
to obtain honest and capable men from its
ranks. The negroes compose four-ffths of it
and the balance is made up of scalawags and
whose venality and corruption
ire their only distinctive qualities. Hence it
s idle to expect and useless to ask the negro
o nominate and elect respectable and com
,etent man for Office. This they can only
10 by travelling outside of their own party and
electing from those whom they have been
aught to believe. by designing and unscrupu-
GUS adventures, have but the single object in
Jew of re-enslaving the blacks or depriving
hem of their political rights. It will be,
therefore,, difficult to make them adopt such |
curse until at least they are satisfied that
here is an urgent and irresistible emergency,
,hich will compel them to abandon the party |
nd men who have SO long and so earnestly |
lisled them.
The organization and unifcation of the
hite people; the determination to give e..',
loyment to white men in preference. 'M-
roes, and the bold stand taken to as 20 ne
lpremacy and superiority of tsc'''~' Ser' 'ne
re events that are rapidly IT, 'ne WINE race
nergency which ;~oat--iy prec'pltatlng that
% 70 ! md it. IS required to bring the ne
wiz : Proper realization Of his position
zeal demonstrate how utterly depende,
is upon the white people and
w powerless ne can be made by a reso-
te determination and united action on the
rt of those who have so long and SO tamely
omitted to his arrogance, his ignorance and ,
! domination. This alone will make him
use The sudUiter in nsOdo has been tried
d failed, now let us use the fovtiter in re-