New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-08


can be done for Louisiana.
You certainly should love this govern
ment and the party that has administered 1t
since the war.
For unprecedentedly kind has it been to
you. The contiscatiOns. expatriations and
punishment usually meeted to treason in all
countries where revolts and rebellions have
occurred, have been spared you by this.
And instead of being punished and
held as outlaws and not allowed to take
part in the control and government of the
country, you have been rehabilitated in all
and every right of an American citizen, as
though YOU never attempted by force OF
arms to overthrow it. And, indeed, more:
When, in the year of our Lord 1867, the toe
sin of distress went up from the suffering
people of the South, that same government,
with magnanimity truly royal and re-
ligiOus, responded and granted relief to the
amount of five or six million dollars, and
furnished her ships of war to transport sup
plies to their Southern homes. And more:
Through the agency of the Freedmens Blu
reau millions OF dollars have been spent to
ameliorate the condition of this people.
What sane mind would, then, for moment
doubt that this was not great, grand and
glorious Union of States, administered as it
is by Republicans in the interest Of the
whole people.
would then respectfully appeal to those
standing out of Republican ranks to dis
regard the revolutionary and incendiary
advice and teachings of such journals as the
New Orleans Bulletin, New Orleans Bee,
Opelousas Courier, Shreveport Times and
RGpiGeS Caucasian, organs of the White
League, alias White CamelIa, and bury all
your antlpathies and prejudices; reclpre-
cate the love this government evinces for
you. Join us, be one of us, assist us in
nd oiootipn VUnrrhy and unr,yht
men TO Office, and the powers that be can
easily be influenced to build your levees,
cut your Fort St. Philip canal and other
wise spend millions of money with you.
The tide of financial ruin that threatens
to deluge this fair land will be turned back,
the PROSTATE energies of your people will
recuperate, capital and labor will join
hands, your vacant lands will be titled,
your plantations will be repaired, and
tide Of prosperity and good will will set in
that will make the streets of the town Of
Plaquemine resound with the noice Of the
hammer and saw of the artisan, the busy
hum of industry and trade, and erect
churches and schOolhouses whose domes
and steeples will tower high up in air, re-
mindihg and pointing the passing pilgrims
the way from earth to Heaven.
Some, too, would frighten and prejudice
the black man with the spectre of an awful
with the white man, and that his fate will
be that OF the wild Indian. No such thing
is at all probable The position of the black
and Indian race with respect to civilization
is radically different. The former Joins in
and loves it, the latter shuns and hates it.
1t is true these woods once rang out with
the sharp crack of the Indians rifle, and in
this valley and along the banks of this
mighty river his camp fires blazed. Here
IN opl ucoIpoafaA ind
shipped some unknown Great Spirit in the
blazing sun, silver moon, twinkling stars
and muttering thunders as devoutly, no
doubt as we worship the true and living
God.
But the tide OF civilization and emigration
to which he was opposed pushed him west
and will continue to push him further west
until, like the sun that bursts through the
east and sinks in the waste of waters on the
west, he will sink to rise no more, save in
his happy hunting ground. You, fellow
future before you. You are brothers with
the white race, in the same common coun-
try, and God has given US this mighty con-
tinent to live in. The white mans interest
is the black man's interest, and vice versa,
''and let no man put them asunder." He
who would counsel you to injure, hate, Op-
pose or Cypress white man because he
was white man is foe to you and your
every interest. You should not fall out
with a white man, nor white man
fall out with you, because you differ
politically. 1t is no part of wisdom
to fall out with another because he does
not think, act or vote as you do. A safe
and honorable rule tor you to adopt is,
when there is more than one or two candi-
dates in the field, vote for the man you
think will do the most for you and your
children-and concede that same light to
your neighbOrs and all others.
You should not conclude that because
man is Democrat that he is naturally and
necessarily bad man, and that he is medi-
tating harm, and intriguing to deprive you
of all your rights. Nor should they take it
for granted that because a white N an is
Republican that he is dishonest and full of
corruption
Now, ladies, recognizing the great power
welded by you in the good government OF
the country, would be derelict in duty
not to solicit your special aid in the coming
election. While you are not permitted to
vote, gentler and more congenial work is
left for you to do. In the quiet home hour,
when the husband leaves his work and field
and seeks rest and comfort in your society,
when his children cluster around hin and
exhibit in every act and look dependence
upon papa, then ask him if he would pre-.
serve intact the government that gave them
liberty! Would he make and enforce equal
laws! Would he love to see his wife happy,
and his little children grow up to be edu-
Gated men and women! If SO, tell him to
90 and get his neighbors and friends and
answer the roll call OF this country in No
vember next, and assist with all his might
in the election of Republicans to office.
Iwould, fellow citizens. suggest to you the
necessity of selecting your best men for
office.
You doubtless know that it would re-
quire good deal of moral courage to at.
tempt to justify the official conduct and
all legislation had since the party to
which you belong came into power.
have no doubt but that it would contrast
tavorably with any and all Democratic adj
ministrauions of this State. But in the ln-
terest of the people, and the party you
represent, l would like to see it approx
mate as near perfection as man can
make it.
You belong to that great party built up
and sustained by the praying. men and
women of this land, and it wen becomes
you to select your best representative men
for office, and be yourselves orderly and
good men, be ever courteous and kind to all,
be the friend of every man who will let
you be his friend, and stand by the well
abused scalawag and carpet-bagger, who,
you can wager your inheritance in the
future, is al. right so long as your avowed
adversaries anathemstize and abuse hin
lhe reason they want you to drop them ie
plaiH-they want them themselves; they
need them: and I am of the opinion that