New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-18

unless, indeed, they be directed by ma
licious motives.
On what grounds can it be supposed that
the colored people wish to organize
"black mans party!' When all the white
men joined the Confederate army, who was
and protect the helpless women and chill
dren but the black man, as they call him!
Who was it that tended the crops, and re-
NAMED faithful to those who were fighting
to keep him in a hopeless and degrading
slavery! And who was it that habitually
made his way across the lines and entered
the Union camp to obtain supplies of food,
which, at the risk of his life, he carried to
the starving families Of those who now re-
vile him? The black man! Who nursed
the white children, and performed every
The black women. If the colored people
had desired to do harm to their white mas
ters, or to establish 'black mans party"
If they had any idea Of renewing in the
South the scenes of San Domingo, was that
not the time! But the danger to the
white race being past, how ridiculous it is
to suppose that the cOlored race would
choose sucn time as this, when their old
masters are in the enjoyment Of almost
their former prosperity. to form "biack
mans party"
Why, Mr.. President and gentlemen, in
our own parish of West Baton Rouge, we
have vote of 1850, and the colored people
have majority Of at least $50; and how do
we stand about the organization of a
"black mans party!' Here is the list: we
have fifteen parish officers, and, of these,
eleven are white men and four colored.
Parish Judge, white; clerk Of court, colored;
deputy clerk, white; sheriff, colored; dep
uty sheriff, white; tax collector. cOlored;
Gooutv fov ool1ocfnr whita. racOr6ar nrQs.
ident of police jury, parish treasurer, parish
attorney, and three justices of the peace,
all white; and supervisor Of registration,
cOlored!
But the sensational newspapers inform
the country that we are drifting into war
of races, and should we grant the statement
to be true, whose fault will it be! Surely
not that Of the patient, forgiving, and long
suffering negro. They say that 1.-The very
safety Of their homes and families demands
that they shall prepare to meet the danger
which has been threatening for years.
How preuosterous! Have they already fer
gotten the hazardous times of the rebellion,
when the old, the tender, and the young of
theil households were entirely left to the
care and kindness of their servants Why.
within month after the awful massacre OF
un armed men on that bloody Easter Sun
day, in Grant parish. the plague broke out
III CUEofClU duO CuC Aoi LuudtO o.
will testify to the care and attention they
received from their colored nurses, many OF
whom fell victims to the dread disease 1t
| is under these circumstances that New
Orleans incendary paper says: Let US say
| to the negro: 'We have tried to live with
YOU on pleasant terms; we have tried to
conciliate you; we have gone more than
| half way TO meet you, but you have de-
| spised our Overtures and have steadily
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| We accept the issue now. Let it be race
| for race, since you SO elect" And so on
| with lot of ridiculous nonsense. That il
| NAV be understood what is the aEimus oi
| tue miserable paper from which l am quot
! ing, | will add another sentence: I'VE are
| for white men in everything-in our public
| offices, in our stores, on our steamers. on
| our drays and floats, in our families and in
| our fields. Everywhere The truth is
| and the writer of that article knows it as
| well as you and do, they could not ge,
| white men to fill the positions and suffer
| the hard fare, small wages and brutal treat
ment that they intict upon cOlored people
! And .!such is the spirit of the address to
| the citizens of st. Martin" and which the
writer says was signed by a host of the
best people in the parish" Let US pray fol
| them
Now, Mr.. President. it, instead of sucl
| newspapers endeavOring to excite the one
! race against the other. they were to use
their best efforts to effect perfect harmony
how much more gratifying would be tht
result! The colored people have no auimosi
| ty against the whites. but will sacrifice
| much to live in peace and quietness, and i
| the efforts OF those newspapers are eXerteC
in that direction, Louisiana will soon re
cuperate from the disasters under which
she has suffered for years, and again re
| sumo her place as foremost among ths
States of our glorious Union. BY theil
| present system Of detiling the materna
nest, they efectually exclude and preven
immigrants from taking the benefit of the
| vast advantages offered to all by the fn'
climate and splendid soil which is found il
| this chOfcest portion of the Mississippi bot
TOM But should they accept my advice an(
devote their energies to the Development o
the resources OF our State, then, indeed
they will become public beretactors, ant
the Pelican State will again become cele
brated as not only part Of the land OF th
free and the home of the brave. but as th'
most delicious and pleasant home within
the vast limits of the American continent
When such bitter feelings have su5sided
and bad men in this State will cease to ful
inmate such atrocious threats against theI
inotfensive cOlOred feliow-citizens: whel
the people of this State resolve to remain
on terms of peace and harmony with thei
neighbors who are below them in social po
sition; when they show by their actions. n
less than by their words, that, as we ar
told by Holy Writ, God is no respecter o
persons and that neither are they: whel
an end is put to the intestine disturbance
that now distract the State. then will Loui
siana rise like Phoenix from among tn
ashes, and, like the pelican feeding he
young from her. bosom, will give nourisi
ment to perhaps millions of her children
and when other States may have vanished
from our constellation, will then loom u
as the most glorious planet of them all.
Mr.. President, insist upon and shall a
ways advocate peace and harmony betwee
the two races, and endeavoring, so far g
1t may lie in my power, to promote the be;
interests of the people of this parish an
State, yet, underlying all, will be found m
most devoted love and attachment for tt
glorious and immortal principles of tn
grand old Republican party which mad
me an American citizen. Tremendor
cheering and the music of the band fo
lowed Mr.. Allain's Oration
On motion vote of thanks was then tel
dered to the gentlemen from Baton Roug
for their welcome addresses, and the NEE