New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-04
WEIIE MEE FOE COUNSEL AND TEE sc.
GEO FOR TIE HOE.

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Tsry much il the post ion OF the IrishmaE
that rang one mans door bell 70 awake
another living across the street, wio had
none. ''Be aisy." said the polite Eiber.
MAN, sand don't be disturbed at all. I'm
only borrying your knocker to wake the
spalpeen ever the way" The White
Leaguers are knocking at all che doors Of
the colored people and warning them 70
leave all the public and private employ
ment Except plantation work. and to
make MP their minds to vote for the seven
lawyers ticket mex: fall. OF sensain away
from the polls altogether. A. tie same
time tteis ora:oss ard newspapers are
continually protesting that they are not
making war upon the negroes e. all, bu.
only the white and eo!orsd leaders who
are persuadirg the co!ored voters to stand
by the Republican party and its friends.
Mr.. Mari IS reported 20 have said At
Baton Rouge: lie: Is make j: known
| throughout the United States that sc are
not here 10 make war upon tie co,ored
n.an. TO which the convention responded
by putting tickle! in tie field tina. does
not contain tie name Of !: single co,oreG
man or one recognized by them IS their
! friend. The leaders CT :he Baton Rouge
convention would rot have been ira niore
absurd position fifth ey had planted thistle
seeds and declared they we're intending to
raise figs.
The subss.!zei:: retrospective 1e:!ar:.
ton Of the orator that previous 70 ''emals-
cipation Of the colored race we occupied
towards then: patriarchal relation"
is deprived q its intended effect upon
the coiored man by ,iyed re-
collection tia. TIE benefits Of this
boosted patriarchal relation Injured to
one :ace. one party to the arrangement.
only. and its dissolution has for years
been celebrated by the former proteges
as grea. jubilee. The short time that
has elapsed since tie great burden o:
patriarcbai benevoience has been removed
from the slave population has sufiiced to
teach them tia: It is no: absolutely essen
tiai to :heir tappin ess that their ..late
masters and bes. friends should be over
SOLICITORS about them. There is intelli-
gencs enough in the race to look after
their own Interests. material, political and
religious. There is not the slightest
tendency to paganism or barbarity in the
coiored race Of the South. So far from
that, they may proudly stand up and say
to the White Leaguers. especially the
heroes Of tie ,Ieeha nics' Institute, Of
Colfax courthouse. Of the McFarlane
place. and numerous other similar affairs,
"Prove :ha; you have human feelings ere
YOU proudly question ours"
We can assure Mr.. Mari that he is NOS.
egreg!ousiy mistaken if be supposes that
lis professions Ct afte elton for the colored
race, couched though they may be in
millihuous phrases. will not be taken for
good coin by the most ignorant cornfeld
darkey SO long as their existence is
ignored Oh the ticket and men profess.
edly in the White League ;nteres. roam
about assaulting and killing the colored
leaders and their white friends. The
mere assumption that g whole race can be
SO hoodwinked is an evidence tina. the
most Intelligent White League gentlemen
greatly underrate the capacity Of their
colored brethren for common sense. No
ore knows better than the negro that
'.ins words butter 10 parsnips,0 and that
empty professions Of friendship do not
counterbaiance o substantial denial of
material benefits Mr.. Mari might have
saved himself the trouble of making and
preparing lis plausible speech for publ
cation The colored man may read it from
one end to the other, and then turn it up
side down and read it backward, and then
fail to find in it very lame plea for white
selfshness and greed. The colored man
finds nothing in it for him except some
what vague promise Of continued pa
triarchal protection so long as he attends
faithfully to the hoe, and does not attempt
to vote for anybody but patriarch-s1ch
as the White Leaguers may select! It is
true his manual labor is necessarily i'm
piled in the hopeful picture Of Louisiana
blooming and poisoning as garden
when the whites shall occupy the land,
and make itfruitful and productive" The
first picture will turn to weeds and the
other to wrecked plantations if there are
none left but the ''God-made, dominant
race upon this EARTH" as represented in
this State, to turn hand to honest work.
1t is very evident that the 'best friends
endowed, as they may be, by all the God
given attributes with which the silver
tongned Ma1s surrounds them, indulge in
latent hope that the inferior race. the
negro whos If s'left to himself wilt be-
come savage and idoIator, is destined
to the bulk Of the hard work In the great
horticultural regenerationo which is to
succeed npon the success os the seven
lawyers