New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
WHAT rs THOUGHT ABROAD


The valorous and intolerant Knights
the White Camelia, who assemble in tn
courthouse Of parish having popuia
ton of $500 white men and nllitar.
force Of $50, armed with guns OF variou
| calibres, l'isten to the threats OF its ola
| tors and the proves Of its soldiers
superior to any possible resistance. The.
| decree the humiliation of the negro Will
q confidence that no power can prot !,
| him.
Lift your eyes by telegraph, to thu
surrounding populations of the Union
spreading from ocean to ocean. Behold the
crowds of we'll dressed, stalwart and intel.
ligent men. Listen to the din and clans
Of machinery; enter the clearing house OF
millions, or note sixty thousand miles OF
railway, capable of carrying armies and
ornaments to any point Of the compass.
These people are occupied with their
own business, public enterprises or So
cial recreations. They pay no atten-
tion-these forty millions-to The court
house meeting. They do not regard
these myriads Of armed and disciplined
men-the six hundred and fifty
armed with shotguns and pistols. No
more attention is paid to these $50 in
their indignant demonstrations than
would be accorded to the tinpan or toy
drum beaten in the streets by the ragged
and ambitious urchins who ape the pomp
and circumstance of war. But when
these courthouse demonstrations rise to
such pitch that they threaten the lives
of the liege citizens of the United States,
to whom has been given and guaranteed
the right Of suffrage, then these &c, 0OO,O0o
pause and ring the telegraph to know
what all this teapot tempest means. That
the public mind in the United States is
not Indifferent to this shotgun suffrage
is shown by an extract from an indepen-
dent aud even neutral journal, the New
York Herald.
The American people are just. The
were indignant to learn that unworu
men were, in the name of Republicans n
robbing the South, and employing th
agency of the colored people to id i
such nefarious transactions. BIZ t tn
same sense Of justice is awakened 10 lear
that the humble cultivator of the soil an
~ 90 4o hf
out of the use of suffrage and exclusio,
from employment by race leag oes.
The Herald, with character site sagac;ty
has noted this quality in he America,
mind, and then admonishes the souther,
people that the F.u-Klux without mask
will not do. Here are so me extracts tina
may be read with advan cage by all cotto,
and sugar factors inter ested in the grow
ing crops or mortgage sales Of warlike ant
intolorant parishes having force of 81:
hundred and fifty fighting men and /;
White League in flu Il regalia:
THE COURTHOUSE DISTURBANCES.
In little town on the Mississippi river
there are events n foot which are chiefly
important as indicating the condition of so
ciety everywhere in the reconstructed
States. Two races of men whom their re
spectlve claims to superiority and to equali
ty have placed in an attitude of hostility to
one another on fundamental facts are in
such az eXcitable condition that any occur.
ence E1ay provoke a collision, which col.
lision may become battle. >
1t may not be longer possible to ultimately
avoid the collision which tends to generalize
itself from these elements OF hostility. Col
lisiors like this at Austin, and like others
before it in different places, will continue
to trouble US from time to time, and we can
not Justly complain, for we have prepared
and stored the elements of such trouble
But it is out of the laws that will be made
by these collisions that the new social "a b.
ric OF the South is to take shape.
This controversy will be regulated by
tie federal government preserving the
peace.
The relations of the races in the Southern
States must be fought out, and the position
OF the negro must be wen in a conflict that
has in great degree been made necessary by
his own acts under the bad advice of men
who pretended friendship that they might
use him. So far as yet appears, the general
and try to aid the average OF justice where
it may.
SOUTHERN OBLIGATIONS TO THE NEGROES,
Candid Southerners must admit, however,
that they have many reasons to think well
OF the forbearance and fidelity OF the ne
groes. During the war they took no ad-
vantage OF the absence of their masters and
OF their opportunity for com bination to
assist an enemy who was fighting IN their
interest to achieve their freedom. From
the beginning of the war to its end there
was not a negro instruction in the whole
South. If blazing buildings threw their
glare upon the midnight sky the fires were
lighted by the federal soldiers and not by
the Southern slaves. II Southern matrons
and children were put in peril and terror 1T
was not by their black servants but by the
invading zoe. Throughout the war the
negroes toiled as faithfully in the planta.
tloDs, and Obeyed as submissively their
defenseless mistresses, as if nearly all
the adult white males had not been
absent for military duty On the frontiers.
The unbroken internal quiet of the South
during the war IS one Of the most wonder
full facts in human history, especially when
we consider that the war was waged by the
South TO retain these slaves, and that the
success OF the absent masters would have
riveted their chains for generations. This
astonishing fidelity of the negroes can not
be accounted for on the theory that they
are natural towards. Negroes fought well
enough in the Northern armies. The South
is under strong obligations of justice and
gratitude to recognize the industry, for
bearance and good order exhibited By the
colored population during the war, and for
the sake OF it they should make some al
lowance for the insolent pretensions with
which the negroes have been inspired by a
white political party in the North.
1t might be added that these negroes