New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-15

commercial sense, except to spend money.
If the negroes became sick, the most skill
full physicians were employed, and no pre-
caution was ever spared to keep tnem
| physically in the best condition. Now they
are not only ignorant of many OF the COM
I monest laws Of health, but show the most
| utter disregard for those which they DO
know. The effect of this is seen not only in
the advent of q generation weaker than
| their fathers, but also in the increased NOR
| tality among them.
Morally, the negro Of the cotton belt has
| not improved during the last decade. A
! fact to the truth of which the teachers IN
the colOred schools, who are Northern men
and women sent here by the Missionary
| Association, would bear witness, that there
/ had been q marked deterioration in the
mental and moral condition OF the reedMen
since the surrender.
The apparent remedy proposed by this
Scion is to deprive the negro OF his vote
| The intelligence and wealth of scommu-
nifty are its chief conservative elements,
| and wherever and whenever these are out
? voted by An ignorant and pennlless MOB
| there ia sure to b. extravaganza and cor
ruption.
I Now, we ask any reader who has Pc
! FUSED those extracts if the Tribune has not
condemned every doctrine that Horace
Greeley ever taught in regard to the ca
! pacity OF the negro for self-govefnment?
Has he not attempted to show that the
negro in that seyvitude from which
Horace Greeley released him was more
intelligent. more v%irtuous. more prolific
and more happy? The correspondent
states that the negro fears
into power his old master would put him
and his family back into slavery.
W. sincerely believe that the doctrine
indorsed by the Tribune would efectualiy
do SO. The Southern people would never
again accept slavery. 1t would be I'M
proitable-it would be impossible. The
former non-slaveholders now hire a labor
they could never buy. and rather than see
freedmen restored to their former claim.
ants; the white non-slaveholders would
stand side by side with the negro in de-
Tense Of free labor.
But if the views Of the Tribune be en-
forced by the same philanthrophic spirit
which enabled one Of is editors to repeal
the institution Of slavery by civil war,
then we might even apprehend that
another editor Of che Tribune would deem
It . moral obligation to seimpose it upon
the colored people. Again we should have
the theorists Of the world in opposition to
its practical interests. When the Tribune
sounded an advance to Richmond for the
purpose Of enslaving the blacks for their
own supposed advantage il would be met
by a united band Of whites and blacks to
resist as their Southern ancestors did the
planting Of slavery among them.
We, however. attribute to the Tribune a
motive not quite so lofty Gs that which
! inspired its founder. 1t has lost the con-
fidence and the patronage Of the Repub-
lican party at the North. and endeavors to
! replace it with a patronage to be derived
from the Democracy Of the South. This
is a very forlorn expectation. The Tribune
may take its place among the apostates.
It will have lost the confidence Of one
party without having gained shat Of tee
Otner.