The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-26
The Race Fight Won't Come On.
LFrom the Nev Orleans RepublLean.I

laborer on the leVec against the con
tractor, the c0lored nurse against the
white infant that she rocks nightly, t.
sleep in her arms, the colored nurse shall
be driven from the couch OF the feyereC
patient. This is the meaning OF this
crazy sentiment:
1--WE are for white men i'll everything
in our public offices, in II stores, on on
steamers, on our drays and floats, IN GU
families and in ourfelds: Everywhere
We wish every rejecting American tC
apply this proposal to his own affairs
Can he adoDtthis resolution OF nOn-inter.
course Can he discharge the colored
labOrers and domestics inlis employs nd
await the introduction of other labor to
supply their places? Observe. The col
Ored race is in an admitted numerical
majority. OF its $4,000 there must be
of male and female adults and children
100,O 900 employed in the industrial and
domestic service of society These
places must be supplied by the whites,
resident or immigrant. How many OF
our white people can afford to quit the
more lucrative pursuits and professions
to go into the fields, serve as a decklland.
or drive the float? How many of oul
delicate ladies can supply services OF
their cooks, nurses and wasllerwomen ?
To look to emigration, seeing an in
adequate resource, since there does not
arrive at this port an average of 1000
foreigners annually, and of these there
does not remain 1900. Such, then, are
the advisers of Louisiana; men who
counsel the discharge of every colored
person in the State, without the most
distant suggestion for supplying the
vacuum thereby created; men who re-
commend the loss of a crop, the aban-
,donment of the levees, the dismissal of
the force employed i'll making the com
mercial transfer at New Orleans.
The parish of st. Landry has taken
the lead in the proposed resistance to
the amended constitution giving equal
rights to all. 1t is not willing thathlaCk
people shall hold office. This is follow
ed by an address from the parish of st.
Martin in which, with true Gallo de-
-clamation, not only are all denounced
who accord political rights to the col
ored people, but all the sons of Louis
i9na who will not join the white league
are denounced as coWardly, degenerate,
on treacherous. Being Americans we
will be pardoned for not flying off the
helye at this passionate defamation, or
enlisting in this bueksiiOt canvass with
out knowing precisely what it leads to.
We are so s0rdid that we would not
willingly forfeit our ignoble right of
nations without excellent reasons
Why then are these heroic people of
these parishes soterribly afraid 0fnegro
supremacy? Let us take them to the
American test.
The parishes referred to present the
following statement: The parish of St.
Landry has a population of 25,035, of
which but 1885 are natives of any other
State or country; of these people 1880
are white and II 1894 colored. The par
ish of st. Martin contains 9034, of which
but 443 are natives of any other coun-
try. On examining a list of 220 callers
of the White League in st. Martin we
find less than twenty names that are
unQuestionably of English derivation /;
the remainder are Enthusiastically French.
We have u right to infer, therefore, that
the American element of our population
does not unite In this demand of q war
against labor. Our Gallo friends ale
iraseible, they love strife; they do not
weigh the material welfare of the, State
against the discomfort of its malcontent
That st. Landry should be
the leader in this "reign of terror is q
little singular. She has a population Of
1880 whites against 1864 c0l0red. Of
what then is the parish afraid? To see
the physical majority thus alarmed at
the dagger threatened by the race weak
er imNN6mber, and attributes, reminds
of an ante-waT incident told, perhaps,
of this very parish. There was u rtmor
of an ~insurrection among the slaves,
and many Of the terrified slaves betook
themselves ito the swamp for safety.
One Of them, having been captured, was
required to tell why he had fled. Here
piled that he Asee ole missus had q horse
pistle an a big knife, and he was afeard
she was gWine RISE Why St. Landry
be HgWine rise against the
minority in numbers and guns, we can
not see. But it occurs to MS as not inn
possible that these French people of st.
Landry may not be aware OF their sta
tistical strength. 0nr authority is an
American work called the census of
AS it is published in the English tongue
and enlanates from an authority that
are Taught to detest, it may be they
do not know the facts we now publish.
Let them, Therefore. be computed.
They can manage their parish affairs in
their own way. They are in no danger
from the black domination of the Bee.
We are, therefore, inclined TO look IN
the war against the WasherWOmen as a
purely .Galiie sensation. The White
.amelia and the White League are dis
bant limitations of ChambOrd with the
banner of the Bourbons. Weinfer
This because the quarter from which it
comes and the organs by which it is in
are the same thathaYe expressed
heir preference for foreign governments
their hostility to the republic, even
% the extentOfa advocating the reannexa-
lion of Louisiana to France. We have
40 objection to their presenting to the
American people In Louisiana, white
md black, any theories which may suit
hem, but they now number so small q
proportion of the voters of the State
hat they have no influence at all in its
and far less upon It's material
GALLO FoLIIEs-Alas alas what
ationaI hope can there be for d political
1arty capable Of the follies to which
republicans of France have succumhed
il their recent squabble with the Impe-
In noticing the crazed denun-
.iatiOIls and savage taunts of the Bona
lartist DFaW-can-Sir, Paul de Gassa-
mac, so far as TO make the proposition
il d duel between the two parties, after
lie fashion of the old Roman fight be-
iWeen the HOratii and Curatii, the Re
DE Paris have belittled and
'aricatlIel b great party, having noble
in view the only party, too, which
secure solid and permanent govern
aent In France. This is truly deplOra-
liz. We hope TINT the sensible lenders
IL that party win suppress their young
Iotspurs, and prevent such Illogical re-
orts to determine political questions.
10 party that relies upon such methods
) aresinYOked by Iassagnac and Gle
nencean can fail TO so0n sink into con-