The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-05
THE DANGER OF THE NEGRO,

Outside of the Pcayute Office we believe
that there is no one in the city, either silly or
timid enough to believe for moment that the
negroes ever designed anything like a general
uprising for the massacre Of the whites, or to
secure for themselves the recognition Of their
pretended right to be entertained in public
saloons. The least rejecting would plainly
inevitably terminate in the total humiliation
| Of the race both in the city and shortly after
in the country.
Whilst the negroes are ignorant, illiterate
and scarcely civilized, they yet have keen
sense of personal safety, and have sufficient
sagacity to avoid course that may be preg-
nant with danger With him, self-preservation
is the first law Of nature, and it is with him
ever uppermost in his mind. His liberty, its
self, would never have been achieved did its
accomplishment rest solely upon his daring
and prowess, and if naught but his determine
ton z to do or die stood in the way Of his re-
Measurement, the barrier woald be slight and
his servitude certainty.
fact. He knows his complete and utter de-
tendency upon the whites. He feels that he
must look to them for laws to protect him in
his impotent minority, and he knows that |
should the strong arm of sympathy. pity and
assistance extended to him by the thirty mil |
lions Of whites be withdrawn his eight mil |
lions of sable brothers would be irretrievably |
lost, and it would be written of the African
race in this country, as it was of ancient Troy:
I Mium .ta,t"
But such catastrophe is not to be appre-
hended. We fear no such conflict of race:
no such shedding Of blood no such annihila-
ton of a people. Civilization is too far ad-
vanced in this country to tolerate such
heinous crime. The genius and character of
our people, the form of our government and
the history Of other nations, would openly
proclaim against an act so barborous and so
nonstrous.
What is to be feared, however, in this State.
md that too with much good reason, is the {
monopoly Of the government by the negro By
legrees they have invaded every department /
# the State, the Executive, Legislative and a
judicial, and now they are clamorous for the 7
xercise of other privileges, which if conceded
ill give them entire possession of all places o
+ amusement, hotels and saloons This once Il
ecured, and living in this city or even in the g
tate will be unbearable. Ignorance and cor 81
lption will control the government; prostra-
in, hing ha, | rs
eneral destruction will everywhere predom- o
ate. g
This is what We have to fear from the ag-
'ession Of the negro and his invasion Of the 81
gh places of government. This is the dan "
r to be apprehended from the great strides 80
ken by the negro, and unless they are al
licked, and that promptly, too, this country tn
II be unihabitable for the white man. When 4.
, find the African, from condition of SER
tude suddenly elevated to political eq
'el with his former master; from the SUI
ow to the pulpit from the cotton field to the -,
'gislature; from the barber-shop to the m;
nch, and from the kitchen to the Executive to-
amber it behooves us, as the part Of wis ga
m, to look to it that we are not entirely
allowed up in the vortex of this revolution
It has brought to this country such fearful
anges, and threatens now to give the negro H..
limited control of the fairest section Of this =
&c happy and prosperous country. VIII
The future rule Of the negro, then, must
d. and the white people must again assert liza,
lr right Of power and demonstrate their age
'eriority Of race. their higher claims to gov
!, and their entire ability to sustain their 4
ID name for industry intelligence and nat nal
lesty