The weekly Louisianian., 1874-07-25
THE ERADICATION OF CIVIL
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!Th4enfofceme19 Of; Civil HghA
tke paa<ilee of Ne bll novlpend-
iig tie action Of, ,a,e n.1t sesiionM
Congress, Is, as our readers well
know, a measure not only heartily
desired but earnestly advocated by
us. The failure 81: the bills passage
ct the last session. due 70 the nppq-
siition Of the Democracy. and the
twelve ,recreant Republicans who.
assisted them, has BY no means
abated our ardor IN the capse or
given m reason to despair Of iit,s
ultimate triumph. On the contrary
We; are infused4wih new zeal for tho
battling down. Of the absurd spirit
Of te-the bulwark and citadel Of.
that slavery whose dead carcass
still infectss>t tie land and from which
We and ours suffer in the denial Of
the dearest rights common to Am
erican citizenship. = ...
But that chagrined at the con-;
duct Of some unworthy Republican
representatives, We shopld either
charge the party with infidality or
refuse our support in it's continued
existence, when it alone. commends
and seeks the. solution. Of the evils
from which the class of Americans
with whom We have an identity,
suffer, would be to our mind the
sheerest folly. '.T.".
Democracy, rampant with no
wish nor thought Of considering the
negro as . citizen or man; but
striving ever to undo the results Of
the great revolution through which
we have passed in his enfanchise-
ment, is not surely the party with
whom any intelligent colored man
can affiliate. On the contrary. the
continued policy and constant. pro-
testation Of that party are to repel
the colored voter. When, then,
under these circumstances any in
fuential colored leader feeling deep
ly,as all do the continued indigni-
ties resulting from the violation Of
our civil rights advocates either
BY reference Or. implicitly; political
action with the Democracy, We are
ggrieved knowing that such = coarse
can but serve to continue tho policy
Q fthat party whose sole opposition
to Republicanism to-day is its cry Of
elias government and citizenship;
That our friend Geo. T. Downing,
10 whom we have much esteem,
should have permitted himself to
have been swa5ed in any sense from
his true position because Of the
chagrin he experiences in. common
with. other citizens in the failure OF
the recent Congress to pass the
Supplementary Civil Rights bill, is
only an indication of weakness to
which the strongest ere liable and
none too blamable." ~, 49,.
MI: Downing, no doubt reasoning
from the standpoint Of Washing
ton or New York, and writing to
the 2ribune-which he forgets has
ceased to be in any sense either the
advocate or friend of the colored
citisen-has deemed that the sop he
offers to the Democratic Cerberus
in his letter by the equivocal
phrase:
ITO our party I would put the query:
Will not . continued course of treatment,
like that we are securing at its hands nat
urally suggest the thought to "a whether
it is not best to have p neerer equalization
Of strength between parties7 -
Might prove serviceable. Un-
fortunately for our friend whatever
may be the private assertion of in
dividua1 members Of the Northen
Democracy, that party's dictum and
it's Southern advocates and file
leaders are one and the same, in
hatred Of the negro and love of his
prescription.
No, the Acolored citizen will only
enforce his manhood and citizen
ship by welding the ballot inte11i-
gently and Discriminatory, in the
Republican party.
Let him vindicate the asperaons
daily bestowed by the enemies of
Republican governments and more