The New York herald., 1874-10-31
THE SECOND POLAND.
IA Picture of Federal Terrorism
in Louisiana.
INTOLERABLE TYRANNY.
Private Life Regulated by United States
MarShas and Soldiers.
Astonishing Registration
Frauds.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 25, 1874.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 25 1874.
.Take this condition OF things home TO your
selves at the North,' said leading citizen OF
Louisiana to me few days ago when the minlons
OF the Washington government began the arrests
oil the Shreveport merchants under the Enforce
ment act, Tor dlschargng colored iaborers and re-
placing them with whites.
How long would you people or New York tole-
rate the central government In ordering you 10
employ German, Irish, Scotch or French servant
In preference to an American. or race cersa. II
Congress took general cognlzance OF your mode OF
Employing and discharging servants and factory
hands and indicted
HEAVY PENALTIES Upon EVERY HOUSEWIFE
who discharged an American maid servant to
make room for o foreigner, do you imagine the
people OF New YORK would submitY II the gov
ernment sent into the city of New York an army
to enforce these obnoxious laws-lL when VIOLA
iions were made this army was used 10 arrest
your citizens and haul them into jail, would your
people not rise up In rebellion and, by peacefu!
means or by iorce, drive the agents OF the
despotic government OF Manhattan Island
Yet this is just what the federal government is
DONG here to-day, and your people OF the North
rrn States, because we enter our pro-
test against such tyrannical interference
in our business and social afairs, charge
us with entertaining the old feeling Of
hostility toward the government that existed
during the War. tell you, sir, such is the posi-
tion we are in, that any man who discharges
colored porter and employs white man is subject
TO arrest and to be marched before federal bayo-
nets TO dungeon. All the authority ior this that
is necessary affidavit OF the discharged negro
upon which warrant viii issue.n
This gen tleman uttered the truth.
THE ONLY OFFENCE COMMITTED
by these high toned business men OF shreveport
was TO discharge BLACK servants, whose votes Tor
years have aided in piling up taxes until men
were compelled to forfeit their property to the
STATE and advise their fellow business men to
discharge all employees whose politics are IN hos
Ilhty to the best interests or the Common
wealth. As well might the federal govern
ment say to william E. Dodge, "You shall
not discharge dissipated dishonest CLERK
and employ another;n to A. I. stewart,
"You shall forfeit fine OF $500 and be imprisoned
one month II you import goods on a vessel carrying
o foreign nag;" TO the cotton manufacturers OF
Lowell, 'You shall not enter into combinations or
pledges to employ only American operatives;" to
the great coal companies of Pennsylvania, "Iryou
discharge society miners and replace them by
English ones will send our marshas and our
soldiers into your Offices aud parors aud drag you
before United States Court;'' TO the members OF
Plymouth or Christ church, "No matter how OBJ
noxlous they may be to you, II you discharge your
pastor and employ another we will fine each and
all OF you S3O0;n the editor OF the HERALD, III
you discharge journalist and replace HIM
by another you lay yourself open to fine
aud Imprisonment With equal justice
might the federal government thus interfere with
the business affairs OF the people OF the North as
to attempt to enforce the obnoxious laws OF Con-
na NJ ia Gtat TO vi hn ri i'm
the right OF freemen, TO say whether their cooks,
their iarm hands, their black ksmitns their carpen
ters, their bakers and dressing maids shall be Chi
nese. Irish, mulattoes, octoroons, Germans or
Americans. ] am conscious OF uttering the truth
when place the case In this light. True, in dis
charging the blacks, they violated an obnoxious
law that ought to be declared unconstitutional.
but they doing no more in this individual
capacity than the national government is doing
In its corporate capacity. They discharge blacks
who vote against them, and the government does
the same with all It's servants IN the pubic
works. The government, in other words, says,
ait is q CRIME Tor you OF the Southern
States TO prescribe persons on account OF their
political sentiments, but 1t Is not crime for us or
the people OF the Northern States to do so. We
will 40 1t in coming elections and permit Massa-
chusetts, New YORK, Pennsylvania, Gc, TO regu-
late their employment and DISCHARGES but II you
people in the South who are endeavorlng to recu-
Ierate from great war do IL We VIII drive you
before rev0lvers, our bayonets and sabres TO
dungeons and the criminal dock Tnis Is what
President Grant, Attorney General Williams, Mar
shal Packard, United States Attorney Beckwith
and Lew Merrill OF the seventh cavalry, are doing
to-day In the interior OF this state ana what they
may do here tomorrow. Let our Northern people
VINO next week 90 10 ne ballot boxes ponder wen
these truths This
FEDERAL DEsPorIsx IN LOUISIANA AND ALABAMA
Is Tor other purpose than TO intImidate and
dlshearten the white people and carry those
states In the interest OF the thieves OF the State
mt md fna lnfPA Ffnn nf
Dltlous sphinx, shall say Let them remember
that while innocent persons. for daring TO direct
the internal arrangements OF their farms, their
kitchens and their workshops, are being torn
IRON their families in Louisiana BY IeGera
Sayonets to-day perhaps only twelve short months
upon themselves in New York, massachusetts,,
pennsylvania and the great West. Every vote
gwen by the freemen OF the North in these fail
elections for republican Congressman VIII be a
vote in favor OF making the brave whites Of the
South slaves, and LOUISIANA, south Carolina, MIS-.
sissippi aud Alabama
THE POLAND OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
1t will be worse. Every vote will be an invitation
Congress TO further leqslate away the rights OF
the masses; and every man who approaches the
wishes the despotlsm and terrorism that exist
to-day in these states transpianted next year TO
the north OF the Potomac.
The condition or the whites in this state cannot
be realized by the prosperous people OF the NORTH.
Words ceDnot be found to express IL; and were
II possible to draw iathinl picture, many would
characterEe 1t as a romance. Yet, with all these
grievances ut the hands or the Washington aud
keUORR ROVeTuIneuLs, Inls peOple, WHO were uur-
ing the last war among the bravest OF the brave.
hope and wait Hope Tor a return OF reason at
Washington, and wait patiently, pat complain, n
the manufactured MISREPRESENTATION sent over the
wires, never comes. Sent here TO take an uaoi
assed look at the situation, IN all truth and
canaor, must say 1 am astonlshed 81 the Tor.
bearance OF TINS people. am utterly astonished
that they did not long ago organize q "vigiance
Jommtteen and hang the tnieving advent turers
on the ampposts and telegraph poles, as the
hardy farmers OF the West elevate horse thieves.
naVe inf dat ha
ecoundrels and ignorant blacks combined would,
II practsed IN New York city or State, nave driven
the people TO open resistance not only to the state
government, but TO the federal government that
protected aided and abetted the thieves and high
wavInen. Yet, strange to say, have never heard
but one gentleman express a word looking like re-
Blstance 10 the national government. on the con-
trary, the officers and soldiers of the army are
everywhere cordially greeted and Hospitality en-
Iertalned. The officers assured OF the fact,