The weekly Louisianian., 1874-03-07
SOBER AND PERTINENT.

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editorial page a leader from that
sterling Republican journal the
National Era, published at Wash
ington, D. c.
The questions 80 patent and so
vital to our whob community,
white and colored, is so fairly
stated, and so soberly and justly
treated, that we bespeak careful
reading Of the Erals article by all
classes. Herein, is indicated the
remedy of the ills we suffer from
corrupt man:
SOUTH CAROLINA.
There is q chronic disposition on
the part Of many of the editors of
leading Republican journals-such,
for instance, as the New York
Times-to attempt to make the
negroes as a race responsible for
corruption in the management Of
public affairs wherever any number
of them are voters. The DISPOSE
ton to condemn a whole race for
bad acts of individual members of
it, and to fail to credit it for abili-
ties and honesty displayed by it, is
so manitestly unjust as to excite our
wonder at such q paper as the New
York T~imes-managed and edited
by able and, when not warped by
prejudice, just men-using its
columns for the purpose Of holding
up to contempt, not the guilty per-
petrators of wrongs, but the race
with which the wrong doors are
identified.
That we are living in an age of
corruption in public affairs, whether
under Democratic rule or Ropubl:-
can control, the charges of fraud;
the Investigations; the seizure of
business establishments; the Credit
Mobilier suits not confined to any
one part OF the country, all testify.
Charges Of fraud and corruption
are as rife against white men as
against black men, and if the whole
race Of black men is to be condem-
ned and NEGRO supremacy" to be
dcplorcd because it may be true
that few black men have followed
the example of white men and
proved themselves r%ascals, we are
unable to decide why in the name
of Inexorable Justice, white supre-
macy is not equally dep;orable.
The New York Times mas been
foremost in bringing about a reform
in New York City, and Of Kidding
that great commercial centre of the
perpetrators of fraud ; in this work
it was jealous and effective it's
articles were clear and to the point.
The blame for corruption was made
to rest where it properly belonged,
and. no nonsense was allowed to
creep in, c~ondemning tho white
people as a whole, nor implying
that they were unfit to take part in
public affairs, on the ground of
q white supremacy having brought
the city of New York to a debt of
over a hundred million dollars,
with nothing secured in public i'm
provements for this prodigal waste
of the public revenue"
Colored men, the same as white
men, are corrupt from selfish mo-
tives alone, and do not care q fig as
to who are injured by their corrup-
ton; neither do they care whether
they misreprescnt their race or
their constituents. Their solo re-
gard is for self, and as in the case of
the New York thieving ';etatesmen,"
punishment should be visited upon
the wrong doors, and they be made
to suffer the penalty for outraging
decency and honesty, instead of the
race identified by color being made
the object of the contempt and mis-
cradle prejudice .of the unjust
editors and color aristocrats of the
New York Times and negotiating
people generally. For the colored
wrong doer, We ask the same pun
ishment as for the white one, and
that the same circumstances admit
ted in mitigation of offenses COM