The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-18
ORGANIZATION OF THE WHITE
LEAGUE.

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sion Of the negro, is rapidly progressing.
The parishes Of st. Landry, st. Martin
Lafayette and Yer ion have already acted
in this matter, and we hear of other par
isles preparing to follow. Is it not ime lc
move in this city.
| We believe every white man recognizes
the necessity of a uniication of all parties
opposed to Radicalism, upon white basis
We should not be behind our country friends
in this important movement.
| In connection with this subject we publish
the following extract from private letter
received by friend in this city from an in
telligent and highly respectable citizen OF
St. Landry. He says:
If we had had the BULLETIN to advocate
the cause of Louisiana during all the weary
days and months through which we have
passed since 1872, Sherman, Morton and
others could not, and doubtless would not,
have uttered that basest Of all ISLANDERS upon
our people, that they, the tax paying people
of Louisiana, were submitting quietly to the
usurpation Of Kellogg. Unfortunately, our
hopeless and lifeless supineness has been
falsely construed by our enemies, and been
made the engine OF our destruction as peO-
pie. We know, of course, how villainously
false and malicious have been these charges
for they amount to nothing less) brought.
against us by the national vipers assembled
at Washington City; but the question now
is, not how best to mourn over the past, bnt
how shall we do in the future-what will
correct these falsehoods and give the most
reasonable assurance of delivery from the
black horror now brOOding over us. We
know not what you think in New Orleans,
or whether any effort is being made in this
direction, but we do know that the white
people of the country parishes have long
since been convinced that further efforts at
Cancellation and compromise with the
colored population, would not only be
futile, but suicidal, and destructive of
every hope for a return to a good and honest
government of the State. We no longer ar
que the question of the propriety of race Or
CARNATIONS, considering. as we almost uRan-
imOusly do, that this measure has been
forced upon lis by the prior organization of
the colored people upon basis of r,ce
alone. This, in our opinion, not only ijust-
tes, but absolutely drives us into counter
organization of the white race for self
preservation alone if nothing else.
Hence the White League was organized
in st. Landry, which means nothing beyond
Il UNION vi dill Wulle Hlen 10 put tne govern
ment of the State into the hands of it's
white Taxpayers and law-abiding white
men. 1t appeals to no party, but hopes to
make of all the willie people of Louisiana
an organization sufficiently strong to ac-
compllsh the redemption of our Stat, and #
not this, to force upon the National Gov
eminent an issue for decision, which must
and will be, Shall the Caucasian or the At
rican rule Louisiana We have no fear
for the result of such decision, but what
ever it be, the white people of Louisiana
ought to know it without delay. Mix, con-
ciliate, compromise and they will never de-
eide except from a party standpoint; but
make the question of race, and they would
not dare, in the abroad sunlight of the civil I
cation of the world, to perpetuate the rule
of the African in the once Sunny South.
We make no war on any party, but desire
to ignore all party lines tor the purpose of
the coming campaign. In other words, to
combine all the white elements Of all other
parties in the State in one grand effort to
win victory for ourselves, our wives and
our children. There is no time to discuss
party preiudices and personal chickering's. |
From these we would be delivered. We are
Democrats Liberals. Reformers and Repub-
licans, and will be none the less so whenever
a contest arises between those parties as
such; but whether we be one or the other,
we are white men, and no party lines ought
to separate us from our race when that is
the issue presented for consideration. The
fate of our beloved State is at stake, and
the cry is, White men to the rescue. lis
above and beyond all petty party consider
atiOns