The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-18


o these outcasts, or received at their table i
n broad daylight and permanent friendship. Out
/ then, with that bogus philanthropic sent
mentality that cheats human nature Of its mobiles
z gifts OF manliness, frankness and honor.
1 Now, what we wish to lay most stress upon, i
/ thus short and imperfect sketch, is the most dc
q plorable result that must attend such course
Here We have the blacks thrown upon US withou
educatlon-wlthout moral guidance; but on tn
contrary, given over, body and SOUL to unscru
pulous tends, desperate politicians, whose teach
; 1ngs are sinking them, day by day, deeper an
deeper. in the slough Of despond. And if tina
pohcy Is pursued rigidiy to the last, we are fire
to confess that Helper has expressed in Noiouu
the true sentiment of Northern Puritanism wlel
he argues the total humiliation of the blacks a
blessing just as he had previously, in the 'irre
presslble conflict argued their full, complet
and immediate emancipation Truly. no shorte
road can be taken for the absolute disappearance
OF the negro than the present one pursued b,
sarpet-ba ggers, scalawags, the Northern peopl
and the Administration.
=, Examples are overwhelming in numbers t.
Illustrate the above assertion. We have not on,
OF our black legislators, Office holders who i,
not In some measure. ameanable to some briber,
ofense. The whole South can testify to tnt
truth that farmers, planters, laborers themselves
to raise poultry Of every kind, to keep decen,
garden, and even mich cows, on account of the
wholesale thieving and robbins that obtains in
the country, more or less in towns, cities and
| .AAoSCo "AUdA originating III THIS wiz ch4rAc.
ter OF our semi-barbarous civilization, in this
hcentfous state OF our social order, and caused
by the broadcast preachngs of carpet-baggers
There Is no way to shake off the pernicous etfiu-
via that steams and fumes from that internal
cauldron. We take it for granted that the purest
man, II he once joins these malefactors, he is
| forever lost to decency honesty and honor Stores
IN the country are daily and nightly ransacked,
burned, and their owners often murdered, for the
purpose to satisfy wanton greed for plumber and
robbery, that finding no check, develops itself
into alarming proportions.
Ihese low organisms finding centre natural
to their evolution, spread out into all sorts of
af1inlties and selections. Marriage among blacks
| is held as ''cheap as sinking mackerel." and
therefore III still less reverence than by the low
est Turk or meanest Mormon. Wedlock for
them has no meaning, either as civil or reli-
Slous contract. They marry whenever they wish,
ana break OF the ties as suits their fancy best.
Add to this an enormous consumption of the
most deleterious Of cheap spirits which take
away what little reason or cash they NAV have
and one can picture to himself the frghtiul state
we are IN. We feel no inclination nor need to in
troduce here the financial question. The gene
raj misery and periodical crashes speak loud
enough.
To allow such state of degrading agencies.
Alarming circumstances to last much longer,
what control could hereafter be brought to aIlay
the evil and stay the tide of corruption, OF crime.
leWdness, drunkenness, murder, ETC.. that must
necessarily result from such social disoreaniza-
tiou, lulpeucQ Oy the fOuleSt elements?
Indeed, what Hercules could undertake the
task of cleansing.
The blacks have churches, but what are they
but pretext for political fanaticism, to have a
more secret place for their midnight gatherings,
so as to plan in the dark the diabolical schemes
that are sure one day to end in their
utter ruin, ii they are persevered in
We Southerners, as class. can have no con- |
troulng influence over these awful prOclivities-
towards anarchy, because the blacks, believing as
,e% hi, -
white confederates, our words of thrift |
order and economy are lost to them, because
what OF secret meetings, church meetings,
political meetings and midnight conclaves, caucus
which go swiftly to deprive them of honest COM
potency, upright morality, clear reason and
sound sleep. Not one out of fifty blacks COM
pletes weeks satisfactory work not over one of
hfty but has more debts than he can ever
settle; they all drink whisky to an alarming ex-
tent and the young generation of blacks, now
growing, are past all redemption
il. There are but few to whom could not be traced
The robblnS OF plates, glasses, forks, knives, cab
oage, linen. clothing, calf chickens, turkeys
aorses mules, or any Of the other thousand Of
mail items that compose and constitute the COM
orts OF well ordered house, and of which we are
deprived by our utter inability to correct their
buses. II we catch or shoot q robber. we have
Judges ready to decide on the wrong side. for fear
II losing political prestige, and then, when en-
arSed, the innocent criminal boasts of his high
leeds, and threatens murder and arson for re-
,enge. And cases are not few where such
10 fancied picture. 1t looks most lurid and l
:hostiy, we admit, only because nothing like it |
has yet taken place in the annals Of humanity L
Even the famous age OF gold, where tent-life C
ffered TOR occupation nothing but chronic war; s
Then little was produced and much consumed: |
'hen art and sciences could not flourish, was | t
aradlse IN inauguration to this vagrant, idle, c
life of our land. The blacks to-day b
ave not the least conjunction about usual civil r,
ties OF life. They will abuse indiscrminately K
hildhood, old age infrmity, in both sexes, using
Dmetimes language most brutal and beastly. 8,
n many occasions, we avow, under the influence IL
t bad whisky, but where is the difference; can IL
nat alter the case?
Ii we consider this question as Southerners | ~
ny, we say we want the black man, he is neces- IL
Try ia us, we wish him good, we would like to &c
evate him, If we could-but not descend TO his OF
vel, with his groveling propensities- improve BIZ
Is moral and physical being, so as to make out ri
him, gradually, good citizen and . useful "
ember OF society. IT, on the other side, we wish kt
consider the question solely as Christians, hui til
anltarians, or under strict natural laws, our m
ties are not altered or changed; we have to try us
If utmost to fashion out the best garment we ,h
Z out OF poor stuff And the first step to be RI
ken, SO as to reach rational end seems to us, kr
consist in this: to put the wards of the q
atom out of all possible reach of ssN
" communicating influence. to instruct them to III
az we do to children, gradually lead them ne
to the light of social life, and show them that ris
g duties of life are many, arduous, and are
iy learned through long practice, abnegation 81
,rice, and strict rules OF discipline and con. 1,
ct. For as some author has it, "The chief in
OF education is the accus toming of the mind att
run in certain channels, or to proceed by GER wA
Il rules W.
Therefore let us, henceforth, keep the negro tn,
estion dead as political question, and strain, th
'tually, our best energies to educate and his
vate the black man gradually. LIBERAL, Ki
pa
HINT TO YoCNG MEN.-There has been a do
able change taken place, says the Kingston gu
eenedn, within recent years in respect to the dir
; at which men can do business best Young thi
of them under thlrtv-are now filling dol
mnent and responsible positions everywhere "A
happened to see Mr.. J. N. Abbott, general cal
senSer agent OF the Erie Railway, few days sta
&c, and were surprised to find him young
n-much younger than we expected-he can the
Oily have passed HIS thirtieth year. And yet IT
position he fills calls for great executive abil- tire
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