The weekly Louisianian., 1874-05-23
or PUBLIC RESORT.
On Tuesday last Gov. Pinchback

On Tuesday last Gov. Pinchback,
in company with Gov. Warmoth
and Major John W. Roxborough,
passing casually on Common
went into the Beer Saloon
kept by MI. Redwith, for the pur-
pose Of obtaining a glass Of beer,
Gov. Warmoth declined to drink
after going in ana the bar-keeper
after some hesitation waited upon
our handsome colored friend, Major
Roxborough, but declined waiting
upon Gov. Pinchback. When asked
his reason for declinature, he re-
piled he chose to select his own
customers, and added, addressing
Gov. Pinchback, "that you shall
not make any political capital out
of this" The bar-keeper subse-
quently pretended to believe that
Gov. Pinchback was q white man,
and that he was treated with this
discourtesy under; the impression
that he was seeking to produce mis-
chief by introducing colored citizens
into the beer saloon. The bar.
keepers defiance in the presence Of
Mr.. Redwith, and his insult was
applauded by some of the rabble
who were in the saloon. We make
mention Of this occurrence because
several Of our city journals have
with their usual complacercy and
self-gratulation, endorsed and her
aided this gratuitous and contempt.
able insult to a prominet citizen O
the State.
The pretended belief that Gov
Pinchback was q white man was {
sham; for he has repeatedly for the
last two or three years, accompanied
by white and colored citizens, beer
waited upon and served in the same
saloon, and that without insult.
He is not disposed, whatever hi
rights entitle him to in the pre-
misses, to visit saloons that do no
desire his patronage, nor would tn
desire to annoy the saloon keeper
or to acquire a cheap notoriety, have
induced him in this instance t:
visit Redwitz, if he had not bee,
under the impression that it wa
the disposition and, habit of tn
proprietor to welcome all customers
who conducted themselves will
propriety and paid their dues, will
gentlemanly courtesy. His self
respect forbids his feeling any spe
cial citation at receiving any cour
tesies from white men, as a favor
and his regard for his race pre-
Guides the acceptance of such cour
tesies under the circumstances, tina
would not be accorded to the hum
blest colored citizen. : It. is yer,
probable that the proprietor c
Redwitz Beer Saloon, may learn, t.
his cost, that politeness, apart fror
its being an excellent quality in
gentleman, pays better than impu
dence. The subjoined article fror
1.-THE Bulletin will show how the cor
duct of MIR. Redwith appears from
Democratic standpoint:
Mr.. Hugo Redwitz, the keeper {
a lager beer saloon on Commo
street, is making a good deal {
cheap reputation on some extrao,
binary conduct on his part in refus
ing to wait on white people, whe
accompanied by negroes, in hi
saloon. He refused to serve Wal
moth and Pinchback some days agt
but expressed a willingness to serv
Roxborough, an unmistakab]
mulatto. Yesterday he elected
white man by the name Of Orator
and offered to give drinks to hi
negro companions.
This would seem, to the initiate
to be an exhibition of a determine
ton to exclude negroes from hi
saloon by insulting the white me
who might introduce the ofensiv
negro. But this is too Transparent
1t is, to our knowledge and person.
observation, that this saloon be
entertained negroes, and We
among the very first to permit the1
to receive that attention which
denied them by every frst-clas
house in this city.
This demonstration, then, of hi
at this hour of the day is obv