New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14

it to the imputation of insincerity. 1t il
not an uncommon thing that while bald
and benevolent gentleman is reading
the report of the Peace Congress or the
Quaker policy toward Indians in the
parlor, some mischievous urchin of his
household is insulting the passengers by
bawling bad words from the attic window
or squirting dirty water from under the
stoop. 1t is not then surprising that we
should ring the bell CT the venerable pro-
fessor of neutrality to know if it allows
language to be uttered from its premises
utterly contradictory Of its pnilanthropic
declarations.
In the semi-editorial of the Saturday
Picayune we find these words:
/ We have been sneered at great many
ii mes for sentimental professions of atfec-
ii on toward the negro-reviled as hypO-
or ties and branded as designing enemies.
The negro has been corrupted since
"the long years that We bivouacked in
Vir ginia." This last can not certainly be
pre- dicated of the Picayuue, since when
the bivouacking was going on in Virginia
that journal was, as lately published in
the New Orleans Herald, the loyal expo
nent of General Butler in this city. These
are, however, the liberties taken with the
p hilanthropist by its own dependents.
But this explanation Of the avowed posi-
ton Of the paper goes much further. We
| are told that there is to come war of
aces, and that 'men who laid away their
rag ged jackets nine long years ago-these
N en- have stirred at last, and they are the
ones who will face the trouble when it
comes. This is the sort Of campaign we
believe to be gathering" And of this
war Of races it is said zone who loves
Louis lana passing well can say be cares
not how soon the issue comes.
We respectfully ask if this charge of
war Of races be true or probable? Never
were the industrial relations of capital
and labor more cordial than at present in
Louisiana. Never was capital SO depend
ent on the laboring race as at present.
Not only is the country stripped Of its pro-
ducts by inundation, and thousands de-
pendent on labor for subsistence, but the
political influences and social sympathy
for this laboring race are now sending
thousands of dollars and millions Of "a
tons for the common relief. Not only
is this service to be rendered to humanity,
but the representatives of this laboring
race are now at Washington striv-
ing to procure from Congress the re-
paration and protection of the lands
belonging to the capitalist, and to
secure for the commercial interest an |
outlet adequate to its importance. Is it
at this moment that journal protesting |
devotion to the welfare of the people and
an .immovable neutrality" in political
affairs should permit the advocacy Of such
doctrine? What does it mean? Only
this: That the ration given by the United
States shall be issued to the Confederate
and the money granted by Bos-
ton, for the purchase of munitions to ex-
terminate the negro laborers. There is
another point of view in which such in
sane counsels are mischievous. We have
no idea that any organization of Confed-
crate soldiers, now employing this very
labor III making cotton and i'll domestic
service, could be enlisted in this cru
SADIE to shoot the laborers in their own
fields. But does not every one see that
an organization of gray would compel an
antagonistic organization of blue? Would
not this unhappy State be again the scene
Of civil war? viii not it's commerce and
crops be suspended, its capital withheld
Or withdrawn, and all the sympathy now
50 generous, as it is SO just, be turned
INTO uncharitable bitterness against US?
It argues narrowness Of head not to
Know that local majority can not con-
.rol this nation. 1t proves more de-
olorable narrowness of heart to employ
against the weak power that can exter-
innate them. And exterminate them for
what? Because in the irrepressible in
,tinct of self-preservation, they seek to
exercise rights which the whole nation
las given and guaranteed to them.
There is in such counsels want of
ARE for the welfare of this city and its
,auper thousands that can not meet the
appreciation of man who owns build
ng or who rents building. There is in ;
his appeal to the Confederate soldier to
beg money and rations, and implore the
neutrality of the federal government, in
,rder that the Confederate may extermi-
late the negroes, a cowardice which will ]
ind no echo in the bosom of true SOL {
lier. Let US drop this Partisan practice
# settling political differences by local {
lot. It is, no doubt, borrowed from the d,
Inspiration Of the empire and the COM
nune. Americans abide by the laws, and
" the elections. In no other State of the '
south does this mode of holding local
,fice by mob tenure exist. We should
ook to a journal so venerable as the
oicayasne to rebuke such pernicious doc
rines. We should not have expected the
,rgan Of an 'simmovable neutrality to
Emulate race war, and volunteer to
AXE an active agency in its prosecution.
let us know whether ''immovable neu
rality" means war of races?
THE sTIEGS OF CONSCIENCE.
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