New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-20
Sjyth-Ifell forneoroes

! lne iase eu1iates gu the rest. From the
top to the bottom the league means sinnIs
'nell for the negroes" This ia sornd
Democratic doctrine in Louisiana. How ~
| freshing will be the presence of these mo-
with the Democrats OF New York in "Na
tional Convention assembled - WON'T !,
| be rich?
| The Louisiana Democratic white leaoue,,
have strangely inconsistent history.
| In 1864 they killed about four hundred No.
groes in New Orleans and drove away n,
murdered the members of the constitpt;o,.,
convention. In 1868 they killed about five
hundred negroes, and many of their white
friends, who were Republicans. In 1870
they killed about eleven hundred negroes alI
over the State because they would, if allowed
vote the Republican ticket. And now. In
! 1874, they threaten every negro in the STATE
with starvation and death. Last july some
of the Democrats of Louisiana, thinking the;
might, by a new policy of kindness, win the
negroes away from the abominable Northern
Republican carpet-baggers (you know North.
ern Democrats in the South are not called
! carpet baggers,) adopted plan which seemed
golden highway to a state of political rest
| for the poor old Pelican State.
A meeting of leading colored men and
| leading Democrats was held on the 18th or
| that month. a committee of a hundred was
appointed to draft resolutions expressive Of
| the new love which was to Danish the shirt
of Louisiana strife for ever and ever. Our
| Yankee soldier boys remember General
Beauregard, the hero of Bull Run and of the
black flag. No one hated the equality of
rights more than did Beauregard. In all the
struggles of Louisiana for civil liberty, uni.
versal education, etc, etc, General Beaure-
gard was in the front rank of the mobocracy
and Democracy; and yet, July 10, 1873, he
was chairman of the uniiication movements
committee on resolutions. The committee
brought their report. 1t was looked for with
bated breath all over the sugar State, and
all over the country. The following is the
report, one-half of the signers being white
Democrats, the other half being colored Re-
publicans:
Resolred, That henceforward We dedicate
ourselves to the uniication of our people.
Resolced That by 'our people" we mean
all men, of whatever race, color, or religion,
who are citizens Of louisiana, and who are
willing to work for her prosperity.
Resolred, That we shall advocate by speech
and pen and deed the, equal and impartial
exercise by every citizen of Lousi-
ana of every civil and political right guaran-
teed by the Constitution and laws of the
United States, and by the laws of honor,
brotherhood, and fair dealing.
ResOired, That we shall maintain and adj
vocate the right of every citizen of Louisiana,
and OF every citizen of the United States, to
frequent at will all places of resort, and to
travel at will on all vehicles of public con-
veyance upon terms of perfect equality with
any and every other citizen; and we pledge
ourselves 80 far as our influence, counsel
and example may go, to make this right a
live and practical right; and that there may
be no misunderstanding of our views on this
point
L-;rs+ Wo sb,n rooon,n,on6 70 tbo pro,r;o
tors of all places of public resort in the State
of Louisiana the opening of SAID places to
the patronage of both races inhabiting our
State.
Secondhand we shall further recommend
that all railroads, steamboats,, and steam
ships, and other public conveyances pursue
the same policy.
Third-We shall further recommend that
our banks, insurance offices, and other pub
lie corporations recognize and concede to our
colored fellow-citizens, where they are stock
holders in such institutions, the right of
being represented in the direction thereof.
FOurth-We shall further recommend that
hereafter no distinction shall exist among
citizens of Louisiana in any of our public
schools or State institutions of education, or
in any other public institutions supported
by the State, city or parishes.
Fifth-That we pledge our honor and good
lalIn 20 exercise our moral influence, DOLu
through personal advice and personal exam
pie. to bring about the rapid removal of ali
prejudice heretofore existing against the col
ored citizens of Louisiana, in order that they
NAV hereafter enjoy all the rights belonging
to citizens of the United States.
&. Il. BEAUREGARD
JAMES l.. DAY,
l, n. MARKS,
GEORGE Y. kELSO,
DR.. L. G. RoUNDANEz,
AUG. BONN,
G. c. ANTOINE,
ARISTIDE MARY,
CHAs. B. THOMPSON,
w. NJ. RANDOLPH
Committee on Resolutions.
The above resolutions, compared with the
present expressed purpose of the 'White
League leave strange impression. They
show people unsettled, false, unreliable,
hypocritcal, fathless. No wonder we have
so many regrets that the rebels were so soon
restored to the rights of the citizenship they
have violated.
THE VIRGINIA "THIRD-TERMERs.
There is nothing but Southern gas in KEN
per's and Mosby's 'third-term'' talk
They make asses of themselves-''who were
dOnkey's before" Just as if Grants cleo
ton, third time, could be carried with rebel
leadership! The whole of this Southern
talk Of Grants future in the South, at the
hands Of Southern white men, has had its
origin in just this 1.-THE President was
talked with about the civil rights bill. 1t
passed the Senate through the persistency
of Senator Frelinghuysen, and the Southern
ers were more afraid of its passage by the
House than they were of instant death.
Some of them went to the White House and
consulted the President, who, foolishly
enough, expressed the hope that the bill
would not pass the House. This fact be-
coming known to the mean Republicans who
opposed the bill, aud to the Democrats, (the
Southern Democrats, especially,) of course
many were heard to say Grant is sound
we will vote for him if he opposes civil rights;
the South wants nothing better than oppos-
ton to the negro, etc., etc. Thinking of
future capital by taking a step in the nick of
time, Kemper and Mosby and other rebels
began to prate of ''third term" and have
made themselves ridiculous by so doing. If
Grant has third term, (Which seems entirely
improbable it will be more by means of the
Grand A'my Of the Republic than the grand
army of JEFF. Davis
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The colored people here and in the South
generally think they have been badly treated
as regards the civil rights bill, and they are
loud and earnest in their blame Of the Presi-
dent for advocating the bill in his last mes
sage and of opposing it with all his personal
influence afterwards. They say that if he
is a candidate third time he will promise his