The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-09
THE NECESSITY FOB ORGANIZATION

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on the 4th inst, and which was signed by
host Of the best people of the parish, suct
men as Bienveneu, DeBlanc, VOORHEES,, Mou
ton, Olivier Fournet, DeClouet and Thibo
daux.
That it should have become necessary tc
issue such an address is lamentable, indeed
but the white people of this State have toe
long lain dormant, permitting their dearest
right to be wrested from them by negroes W he
have become at once formidable and threat
ening, through organizations more perfect
than those great secret societies of Europe
and more dangerous because the great mass
who compose them are uneducated-the
dupes of designing politicians and bad men
1t is idle longer to shut our eyes to the
fact that we are drifting rapidly into a war
of races; it is impossible that reasoning and
sensible men shall longer stand idly and
pusillanimously by while the very safety Of
their homes and families de nands that they
shall prepare to meet the danger which
has been threatening for years, and which
now has assumed such dimension that
| it cannot be ignored.
We tell our people here in New Orleans
and in the parishes that there is but one
thing to do, and that thing they must do, in
spite of kellogg's orders, in spite of the
threatening attitude Of the General Govern
ment, in spite of everything ORGANIZE.
Long before Kellogg, the wretched and I'M
scrupulous adventurer was born, long be-
fore the Pilgrims entrusted their fortunes to
that frail bark, the Maytower; aye! long
before Nero trampled the liberties of Romans
under his feet, it was recognized among all
nations whether civilized or barbaric, that
setpreserration was the first law Of Nature.
Under that great first law, then, we must
organize and act, not for the purpose of ex-
terminating our enemies, but for the simple
and necessary purpose of protecting our
selves against assaults, insults and outrages,
which have in some instances already been
perpetrated, and in the near future will, I'm
less checked by counter organization, make
Of Louisiana another San Domingo-a desc
latiOn from which white men will flee as
from the plague.
We of the city have too long been lulled
into feeling of security, by our numerical
superiority within the city limits; we are
apt to forget the danger Of Walking in H. /
lshes, -,wbnmake it up. VIZ. 'iAe country par
racks whnSre, in many instances, the blacks
greatly outnumber the whites, and, Hence, we
have not SO keenly appreciated the necessity
for organizing to resist the threatened assault
upon our race, which the negroes of the
State contemplate, and which. by their Sc
cret and formidable organizations they will
he emboldened to make, unless very de
cisive means are taken to check them.
Inlamed by harangues of white vultures
who have gorged themselves with the life
blood of Louisiana: excited by glowing pie
lures of what paradise this State will be-
come for them when none but negroes rule
deluded by specious promises, and drunk
with the belief that the General Govern.
ment will protect them in any enormity
they may see fit to commit upon the whites,
they have become arrogant, boastful and
threatening.
They parade their mimic rifles and other
weapons in a manner which is meant to awe
and intimidate the whites and do not hest
tate to announce their intention to occapy
all the offices. The miserable white usurper
and carpet-bagger, who sits and trembles
upon an insecure and dangerous elevation
Kellogg-is besieged by them, and his life
rendered nearly as wretched as it ought to
be BY their ceaseless demands for Office, and
either he must yield to their demands or
they will ultimately sweep him away.
Taught by their shrewd carpet-bag allies
the value Of organization, they have profted
thereby and now propose to turn their
power to some practical account; they pro-
pose to throw their riders and canter into
the offices which heretofore they have to a
of voting carpet baggers into.
This is very natural but deplorable re-
suit of the doctrines which have been so
industriously inculcated into their minds by
their white enemies from the North, who,
at the first sign of danger will flee the State,
and leave the battle to be fought by the
white residents It is a result, however
which we regard as almost inevitable, and
one which every white man who proposes to
remain here must prepare to meet.
We have done everything that it became
men to do to avert this danger, we have
pleaded with the General Government, have
laid our grievances before the Northern peo
pie, and have talked until further speech
will make US contemplate. Let us now act
as men who know their rights, and know
ing. dare maintain. Let US prepare for the
worst, and it may be we shall thereby avert
the danger.
Let us say to the negro, eve have tried
to live with You on pleasant terms, we have
tried to conciliate you, we have gone more
than half way to meet you, but you have
despised our overtures and have steadily re-
fused to treat with US. Well! SO be it; we
accent the issna now let IL he race for race