New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-29
ANOTHER CANARD EXPOSED AND Re.
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gramme, but Gid not come of and now
we have the statement that ga well known
gentleman Of the city" saw ''some pre-
parations for the coming campaign which
consisted OF some boxes" which con-
tanned "new muskets." They were at the
junk shop Of zone Reas, a negro, and
from the direction and other circun-
stances had just come from the CustoIa-
house for the political trade.
Yesterday morning we had the adnIs-
sion that "these evidently new mUskets'
were .'a lot of nineteen old weapons. y
That instead Of having 'just come from
the Customhouse," they had been bought
of Louis Fix at the price of one dollar
each, instead of being 'intended for the
country political trade" they were intended
for sale over the counter Of Mr.. Ries, and
finally that Mr.. Ries himself is not a
negro, but ga white man of very good ad-
dress" We suppose that there have been
as many mistatements corrected by this
swift reporter, as could well be packed
into the same number Of paragraphs.
| But these statements 60 to the country and
| encourage tie belief that race war is
imminent, and the high authority CT the
Picoyune is quoted to prove it.
It may be fortunate for Messrs. Ries
and Fix that they live under the p-otec-
ton OF the police. Had such statement
appeared about them in the Shreveport
Times, they might, if inhabitants OF that
section, have been visited by vigilance
committee, who not finding them guilty
of having arms fit for use in their posses
sion, might have blown out their brains
for having given these young men the
trouble Of turning out for nothing, and
might have forfeited what ready money
they had upon their persons, to disable
them from bringing any more guns.
But there was still another poster head
ing in the same issue of the Piccyune.
It is headed Black Leaguers. Their
tricks and manners in the country" ga
cheerful little plot" This was notice
that there was plot among the negroes
to sack store the next week, which was
asserted to be preliminary to plot ''to
deyastate the country as far as possible.
Thereupon the Governor is asked by SIX
gentlemen-not by the parish authori-
ties-to send troops, and a respectable
merchant is requested ''to secure rs few
stand Of arms and ammunition I'm
proved arms, if possible" Of this con-
certed purpose to "sack the store at
Elmwood, and thus provided with the
means of campaign to march to the de-
vastation of the rest Of the country, we
have heard nothing more. The improved
armsif possible" may have been shipped to
order. But does not the Picaynne see the
inequality and injustice of its position
Ole paragraph on the twenty-sizth in
slant denounces supposititious shipment
Of arms to the country because it is al
legged that they are to 60 into colored
hands. On the twentieth instant an order
was received from the Atchafalaya to Sc
cure ga few stands of arms and ammuni-
ton" and ship them to the white people.
The Picaypr,e seems to consider it proper
to send the arms and ammunition asked
for by the whites, but denounces as in the
highest degree criminal the possibility of
a similar shipment to the colored people
asked for FIVE or six days afterward.
We condemn the private army Of either.
TIE militia force of the country is suff-
Gent to keep order, if it is not there is
the army Of the United States to repress
domestic violence" But if the citizens
of the country are really equals has not
man Of color "the right to keep and
bear arms We condemn any arnling
for purposes Of civil war or domestic
violence" but cur condemnation applies
to all alike. We would be incapable of
insisting that the colored race should be
armed to the exclusion Of the whites, and
yet the Picayune has committed just such
an injustice. It would ship arms and
ammunition "to the whites" of the latest
improvement, if possible, while if it
should catch Louis Fix shipping even
musket worth one dollar, he would 60 the
way of the Spaniard Munos.
We often ask ourselves what has be-
cone Of the real chivalry of the South?
Was it all killed out in the war? Are the
bumners and bomb-proofs, and exempts
and heroes Of Paris and Niagara, who are
now so conspicuous in Southern politics,
the survivors of those men who illustrated
their valor in the field? Here is q party
which claims a majority Of white voters,
and wishes to make the election turn on
the difference Of race, get with this nu-
merical advantage to make it dead sure
thing, it is proposed to arm the race
claimed to be more numerous, and to dis
arm the minority in numbers, intelligence
and wealth! Shades of Keitt, Rhett and
Quackerboss! How have your successors
disparaged the standard you bequeathed
them.
In view Of the extremely infanmable
state Of feeling in the parishes, we would
respectfully suggest to our neighbors the
propriety of desisting from the sensational
headings sustained by statements which
the persons concerned are compelled to
correct We are aware in the great nickel
race between the three papers, each hav-
ing ''the largest circulation in the South
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