The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-14
WHERE WE ARE DRIFTING.

~ not all matured yet. We daily see the e
effects Of the doctrines which have, sedulousl
: been instilied into the minds Of the negrot
- and the recent occurrence at Port Gibson
illustrated them most repulsively. That al
Cd white maiden in the South should be so 10
to decency and shame as to unite her 70
S, tunes to those Of negro, whose character
h. as black as his skin, is bad enough al
: humiliating enough, but that mike
N assembage Of blacks and whites cou
r be found who would sit and listen to mulatt
- rascal exult over the affair and boldly al
nounce that this marriage was but the init,
: step towards universal miscegenation, an
d defame and insult the women of the South b
:, asserting that they were anxious to unit
2 themselves to negroes, being only restraine
by fear, is past belief. And yet that is pre-
cisely what occurred at Vicksburg on the ST
inst. The Vicksburg Herald, Of the 9th
prints the following synopsis Of the speech 0
this villain, who, it appears, i, member O
the Mississippi Legislature by the name O
Davenport
The time was not far distant when the Por,
Gibson affair would be repeated daily - il
would be nothing to see large numbers follow
the example of that young lady He would
go further, and say that there were thousands
OF Southern women. many here in Vicksburg
OF the most respectable families, who would
do so to-day, were they not afraid. But these
things would change, barriers would be
broken down, for the white women now see
that the negro is the coming man and that
| they IF fbo citx- o,,I C<o<o
governments
Ii he were not married man he could get
| the daughter of one of the best families in
Vlcksburg, and were he in the matrimonial
market he would buckle on a brace of reyol-
vers and meet the women's brothers or fathers
who would dare to interfere with his love
affairs or rather, attempt to prevent daugh-
tiers and sisters from their choice in the selec-
ton of a good husband (whom they were
anxious to have) among the colored men"
These sentiments, it will be borne in mind,
were uttered by colored legislator of Mis-
sissippi to sn assemblage of negroes and
white Radicals, not one Of whom uttered
be regarded as app.auding them since silence
gives consent
This is truly alarming condition of affairs
and deserves the serious consideration of eyerv
white man and woman in the South It is the !
natural result Of the pernicious teachings Of
the white monsters whose presence we have tol- |
Grated in the South after they had forfeited |
every claim to consideration, and unless we
would see still more deplorable state of af-
fairs, we must look to it that the lines are more
closely drawn and that the incendiaries who
preach miscegenation be made to seek more
'ongenial chimes
The attempt made by scribblers for such
'artizan and malignant journals as the Chicago
''ter ocean, to prejudice the minds of the peo-
lie Of the North against the combined move
nent OF the white peop'e Of Louisiana and the
'outh, to defend themselves from the signifi-
ant and alarming aggressions of the negroes,
ombined as they are in their 6. Black :
leagues, and organized and armed as f
ley are, must prove abortive, for the c
eople all over the country now very fully T.
Understand the South must either be gov 4
med by the white or the black race. and {
lat this ptin11tum has been the choice of the G.
egro, who, boasting of numerical power, =
roposes to assume the reins of government 81
I'd to make Of this most beautiful and fertile n
'rtion Of the United States second San o.
emlngo, from whence white man would y
TEEN it privilege to migrate. m
The whole world must see that this is re
ruggle which was inevitable from the first; al
at it Is the natural result Of the enfranchse- ~
ent Of four millions of ignorant slaves
the scratch of pen, and of their being OF
'thed with all the rights of citizens from the ",
oment they were free. Every thinking man - =,
IL indeed find cause for wonder that two an er
'onlstic races should for SO many years have to
ed together with SO few collisions and bf
ubles.. That this comparative harmony ta
lid have been maintained, and that the Pc
IDLY relations formely existing between the mi
ties and blacks could have been perpe- !,
ted and possibly increased, we believe. had co1
not been for the human vipers. who wrig rec
q down here from the North and instilled for
h poison into the minds of the negro as was Pr
cred by the wretch Davenport at Vicksburg. IA
IS white men having in our bosoms the SO
te OF race We can take only one position esq
his emergency, and that is to stand by our -, ua
", and to urge union and organ ization for
detense-not secret organizations, as have
ely been alleged by the Inter- Ocean,"
e forming, but organizations open as the -.
and objects fully avowed. no;
e have said before and we repeat it now, VIII
We mean no violence to the negro; we gra
> no thought of deprving or attempting ne ne
epr've him Of any of the rights or privil- s
which are legally or properly his, but we LAM
mean to stand firm By orr o,ca rights and to Dill
r 10 intrusion upon or riolation Of them, SO
as We have life. This we know to be the
ct and the sole object of the White