Richland beacon., 1874-07-11
What 1t l.. and What 1t Means

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is styled the white mans party but
the idea it expresses of the nature of
that organization is so thoroughly and
radically incorrect that we feel certain
an explanation OF the true character,
aims and purposes Of the white move
ment will enlist the Sun in its supper
and such an explanation We shall
here endeGvor TO give.
The Sun, in substance, says, "this
organization is selfish, for its design
is to promote the interest of one race
at the expense of the other; it is bound
to lead to partial legislation, and not
to legislation calculated to advance
the general interest of the State and
all classes; it is calculated to keep up
a bad feeling between the two races. !"
Our contemporary then expresses it.
self in favor of a great conservative
organization comprised of men with
out regard to race, color or previous
condition, which shall have for its OBJ
ject the advancement Of the interests
of all classes, and which shall legis.
late so as to bring back the State of
Louisiana to her wonted prosperity,
and place her again in the proud posi-
ton she once stood in the list of
States.
Before discussing the scope of the
white mans movement, let us inquire
into the possibility of organizing such
a party as that suggested by the Sun.
Since the day of the REIMBURSEMENT
of the negroes, we have never believ-
ed that such an organization was
practicable because the theory of it is
antagonistic 10 the laws of nature.
The distinctions and prejudices ofrace
even among the different white ma
tionalities, are too strong to be over
come, and in every community where
there is considerable body of French
men, or Germans, or Englishmen, or
Irishmen, or Scotchmen, the people of
those nationalities, instinctively as it
were, draw near together, and form
social, and to certain extent, polit.
cal circle among themselves. The su-
perior intelligence and education Of
the white races; their multifarious
and common interests their energy,
liberality of spirit, and
scope and boldness of thought, pre-
vent them from antagonizing each
other, and warning upon each others
interests when living together under
the same laws and institutions, and
they freely combine in measures for
the general good and in political par
ties to advance what they believe to
be the public interest.
Between the whites and the ne
groes, however, the result is entirely
different. The timid, brutal, irreso-
lutte, unintellectual, non-progressive
descendants of Africa, fear and an
tagonize their bold, adventurous and
progressive neighbors, and will readi-
ly combine under the leadership of
any INSCRIPTIONS demagogue, to rob,
or insult, or murder them. Wherev-
er the white man asserts his power,
the negro will bend to him, obey and
and follow him ; wherever the white
man descends to an equality with the
negro attempts persuasion with him;
attempts to deal generously with him,
and to recognize him as a rational be.
ing, the negro becomes arrogant, pre-
sumptuous and domineeriDg-in 9th.
er words, be will either bow to the
white man, or trample him in the
dust. All history proves these state
ments, and DeTocqueville has truth
fully observed that, wherever the ne
gro has had the power, his aim has
been to exterminate the white race.
But we need not confne ourselves to
theories on this subject, or resort to
long past historical facts to prove our
position. We have had a striking H.
lustration of the truth of every word
we have written in the conduct of the
negroes of the South since their en-
reimbursement. And we now ask
our contemporary of the Sun, nay, we
ask any press or any man in the
State, to mention any reasonable
proposition the white people of this
State have failed to submit for "the
Of great conservative
party comprised of men without re-
gard to race, color or previous condi-
ton" What reasonable guarantee,
we ask, did the white people of Louis
lana fail to give the negroes, either in
1868, 1870 or 1872, that they should
IN the event of triumph of democracy,
Or conservatives, fusionists, be fully |
protected in all their rights and liber-
lies! No one can mention a single
such guarantee that We have failed to !
'fer. And yet, The Organization
of men without regard to
ace, etc." is no more a reality now
ban it was when suggested, and
noso wtv "r~ P~-.~i>e it arc "fho !
of vanished dream.n
We promised the negroes protection
o their rights and liberties the car
promised them the oppor-
unity to trample upon ours, and they
the carpet-baggers. We
alked to the negroes of their duty to
abor, practice economy, and purchase
ZONES; the carpet-baggers inspired
hem with political aspirations, with
lreams Of idleness and the promise of
obbing the whites of their property,
nd they followed the carpet-baggers.
We promised them educational facili.
les for their children, and sought to
irect their ambition to the moral and
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