New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-28
THE CAUSE OF TIE NEGRO

The REPUBLICAN,, regarding the cause
of the negro as intimately connected
with the cause of freedom in this country,
has steadily labored for he advancement
of those great principlesof human liberty
that will secure to all citizens equality
before the law. In doing this, it has been
governed by no preference for color, feel
ing that the perfection Of American insti-
tutions and government was matter OF
far greater considerations the American
citizen.
To achieve this gHat desideratum
the REPUBLICAN has lasored for reform
among the people as he best means Of
securing reform in administration of
government. There an many ways to
improve our people,, in other words,
many of their ways rqured to be i'm
proved before the sunrMn bonum of gov
eminent can be reacbd in our State.
Without meaning to ~ that persons
endowed with learning and Intellectual
capacity are always purand honest, We be-
lieve it is necessary, in rider to have good
government and good laws, that men
of learning and intellect should be
chosen to perform IL the functions
Of government; and re further believe
that the people are mos certain to obtain
good men to administer the government
from among this class than from among
those who, in intellect and learning, are
far less favored. It is not sufficient to
know the color of mans skin, in order
to determine his qualification for office;
yet there are those WHO would make this
the chief test for office. The public has
good reason to know that there are men
in our midst who openly advocate white
mans party n!his State; and if Madame
Rumor does rot, as usual, most impu-
IDENTIFY lie, thTe are men in our midst
secretely engged in organizing black
mans party. This the REPUBLICAN re-
CARDS as the FORK of demagogues-white
and black work that is fraught with
much dangeto the State, if the people,
regardless O color, do not set their faces
against the aischievous, if not dangerous,
leaders, VIII thus are striving to bring on
a war of races. The REPUBLICAN has
spoken OF with equal candor against
these whit and black demagogues, when
ever an pportunity has presented it.
self. Tb success Of self-government
in this country, is the cause Of
both wife and black men, and if
they hop to advance it they must turn a
deaf ealto the willy appeals of dema-
gogues. The country has already ex-
periencd the horrors of civil war,
brough on when there were no negro
demagyues in the country. and the recol-
lectio1of that war is yet ficiently fresh
in theainds of our people to warn them
not toisten to the appeals of the factious
orator and writer's who significantly ask
'howar we [theyl can intrust our [their]
futur to the forms through which they
havesrested from us [them] our liberties
and ights Of the present." This is a
specnen of the insidious appeals of the
viii demagogue Of the present period;
andf our colored demagogues are not in
correctly reported, their appeals are
eqlly threatening to the peace of society.
Tlagh no one feels any serious alarm at
thu manifestations Of political agitators,
yeit is well that the public be notified
TIT their numbers are increasing, and
VII the increase grows the disposition to
cate trouble.
The New National Era, published in
ashington, and edited by Fred Doug
ss, contains the following notice of COL
sed demagogues in late edition:
We find that an article, with the above
lille, which we some weeks ago copied from
he National Republican of this CITY. ia
icing commented on by many of our ex-
,hanges. The fact that we published the
lrticle without comment is cited as proof
hat we approved it. This is certainly true:
We do approve it. We feel that the day
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