New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

| So, too, theljudge owes impartiality, ability
and pure Observation-Disclosures to the discharge
of his duty; but where is the sanction
Who can cure the evils of bad decision
Who can punika the unworthy motive ct q
corrupt judgeT Without enlarging, then
the Legislature is not only the popular, bE
the most important and powerful branch o
the government. 1t is the law-making
law-repealing, .law-modifying power. L
was the Congress Of the United State,
which began and carried out the recon
struction Of heeeceding States-possibly
uader the frowns of the supreme judiciary
and against the views and with the avowet
hostility Of the President. 1t was, in real
ity, the Legislature of Arkansas that de
throned the pretentious Brooks, and re
stored the undisputed supremacy of Baxter
And it will be the Legislature Of Louisiana
to be elected 10 November, that will con
firm in his place, w. P. Kellogg, as chic
executive of the State, and render the fina
Judgment for the validity of his administra
ton. -C3- r4s5a
To that Legislature, then, will be Intrust
ed the destinies Of Louisiana. In theiI
hands the fortunes of our people will rest
whether for veal or for woe, and the mag
nitude of the charge makes it your duty
and mine, the bounden duty of every good
citizen, to see that the trust shall not BIZ
conided to unworthy servants. What We
want in Louisiana to-day is confidence, q
sense Of security, q feeling of harmony
To secure these blessings two things are
necessary: First, the selection of honest
and capable men for Office, and, secondly,
the people must be divided into and must
vote by parties and not by class. The Con.
dition of politics in Louisiana, as in some
other Southern States, is abnormal unnat
ural and diseased through the folly and
want of wisdom in our own people. That
man who advocates q white mans party,
or that other who seeks to continue black
mans party, is an enemy to his country
and his action is hostile to the best inter.
ests of his people, whether they be white
or black. He is sowing the seed whose
harvest will be murmurs and protest, re.
sistanee to law, riot and bloodshed, ruin
and degradation. What people ever pros
pered under q war of classes y What
nation ever escaped destruction where
caste and not opinion divided the political
power of its citizens. Patrician against
plebian made the first grand republic an
empire and then despotlsm; prince against
peasant brought on French revolution,
with its horrors of anarchy, prison and
guillotine, and lord against vassal, has
made the English throne tremble to its
foundation. But now that opinion divides,
that views of public economy, trade, edu-
cation, foreign and internal policy, and not
the color of skin or accident of birth, sepa-
rate into political divisions and constitute
parties in those countries. France and
England challenge the world to present a
happier, drawer, more spirited and patriotic
people than are found within their borders.
We do not want black mans government,
we do not want white mans govern
ment-we want government Of the whole
people, untrammeled by class prejudices,
and unbiased by ambition Of race for
supremacy. Why is it that there ia muir
muir and .distrust, discomfort, often riot and
blOOdshed, an I'M settling of values, sense
of uncertainty and alarm in Louisiana,
attending and consequent upon each cleo.
tionf lie is because we have been divided
into classes, because we have been cursed
with political war of races, because our
parties are founded on color and not on
opinion. Does it affect the price of proper
ty in Connecticut because Democrat de-
feats Republican! Does it check Western
enterprise because Allen wins the race in
Ohio9 Or does New York slacken her
energies because Republican Governor is
there triumphant! Not at all. There po-
litical defeat involves nothing more than
the chagrin one feels in being outstripped
by a friendly competitor; no more disap-
peintment than lawyer feels when he has
lost verdict. Brother votes against
brother, and son, is arrayed politically
against the father, for two minds were
never made in the same mold, and men
differ in their views as do the faces they
wear. Each voter proposes to promote the
interests of society at large, and the bless
ngs he hopes to attain by the supremacy
of his own party will attach alike to him
and to bis political enemy. Q l4l ,i
! l. II
n Louisiana. No happier opportunity
,ould occur than the present. There are
10 political principles to separate the white
nan from the black. There is not plank
n the Republican platform on which
white man may not stand, with safety to
himself and honor and profit to his coun-
ry. Then let him eschew the preiudices
IT the past. Let him abandon the pro.
'cription by which. he would deprive the
,Olored man Of the fruits Of his freedom
md citizenship. Let him come up to. the
ull measure Of his duty to the urgeGt de.
hands of the occasion, and linking his for
lestrOy the solicitude of the black man
or his rights; and equal as freemen, equal
IS citizens, let us run the race that is set
,efOre us for the honor aud glory and pros
,erity of our beloved Louisiana. The
white man may be Republican without
'iOlence to his conscience or his sconvic.
lons. There is not q principle Of the party
o which be can not subscribe, and ii he
ind in its administration practice to be
condemned, his vote and his counsel will
'e there to purify and correct. Did not |
ven the Democrats support Greeley, who
aid there was not Republican dogma he
lad renowned, or Democrats belief es.
,oused in becoming their candidate.
even but yesterday the wires whis.
'ered that Southern Democrats advo.
ated . third term for Generalz Grant,
Sut on the other hand, the .cOlored man
an never be a Democrat. Connected with
hat name and that party are all the bitter
COLLECTIONS of his bondage, his ignorance
nd his degradation. He knows it to be |
be party which fought his emancipation in |
be District Of Columbia; that 1t is the |
arty which struggled to increase the area /
erritories; that it is the party which com. |
atted the irrepressible conflict doctrine of |
fr. Lincoln, that "this country must be all I
ave or all ftee;" that it is the party which |
pposed the, war for the Union, and after
ne Union was saved and freedom secured. |
pposed the suffrage that alone could guar
ntee and protect that freedom; he knows
to be the party which now seeks to array
Ne white man in solid hostility to the negro
wee, and to divide the citizens of Louisiana
Ito classes inimical, intOlerant and destruc-
ve to each other. No; the black man can
ever be . Democrat, nor can he ever
rove faithless to the Republican party.
ooner could he forget the mother who bore
no; sooner could he be ungrateful to the
cd who permits him to drink in the free
of heaven e pure as it comes to his for
or master. We may all be Republicans. We
AZ all labor with these former slaves for the
mmon good Of our now common country.
0 people ever emerged frsm2 IN inferior
I'd degraded position with more rapidity
ever acquired 80 much of knowledge and
lizen character in 90 short . time, On