The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-19
A VOICE FROM TIE PEOPLE.
To the Editors Of the Bulletin:

To the Editors Of the Bulletin:
ST-Pormit me, citizen Of Louisiana
deeply interested in her welfare, to express
through the columns of your valued paper
what consider should be the sentiments o
every white man in the State, who has hi
own interest, as well as the interest and wei
fare of the whole State at heart.
Our politics al and social condition is Ger
tainly most deplorable aud degraded, and
have been locking, long and anxiously. fo
some one to suggest remedy, an etfectiv.
remedy, for our great and unbearable ills
but thus far, no one has struck the keynote
or touched the chord that has sounded thu
music of our recovery and deliverance from
this vile thraldom of political ostracsm
oppression and social degradation.
For thirteen long years the United States
Government has been making unceasing
and unremitting war on us. cannot realize
that cessation of active or passive resist
ance to the unconstitutional and aggressive
policy of the United States Government, in
the spring OF 1865, has made any difference.
in our status or " elfare, as regards the hos
tile attitude Of that Government toward US
cannot help but feel that the war still
continues.
We have the evidence daily impressed
upon US that the same malignant, veno-
nous fanaticism, which controlled the &C.
ton of the Congress of the United States
in the beginning of the war, still controls,
still dictates, and is yet actively-persist-
emily, connecting and enacting their malig-
nant, hellish, revengeful laws especially
against us.
The last revengeful enactment of the
United States Senate, by q strict party vote,
what they style their Civil Eqality bill, but
which should be more properly called our
social degradation bill, is the last feather
that breaks the back Of the patient camel.
And now, as we lay PROSTATE and with the
iron heel of revengeful despotism upon
our neck, having heaped upon us their dirt
lest filth and nastiness, they now attempt to
rub it in.
The time has come, fellow-citizens, when
further fOrbearance has ceased to be vir-
tue. Let us rise up as one man, and throw
off this intOlerable incubus, not by war;
not by violence and blOodshed, not BY re-
sisting the legal enactments Of the Govern
ment, but by asserting our inalienable, God
overnight those rights secured to us by
our great "Msgna Charta," the right of
life, liberty and property. Have we reme-
dyf We have; and propose now to pre-
scribe the remedy.
Dudli VIC uuEDC Iuc NIpOI Ill our DObOm
that stiRgs us to death Let every true
citizen, every white man, every property
owner and taxpayer rise up with me and
say. alphabetically, no! and our deliverance
will be effected, our liberty achieved, peace
fully and efectually.
The Republican party of Louisiana is
composed of negroes, or the negro race, con-
trOlled by few imported, characterless, un-
principled white thieves, the very scum of
Northern society, and this is the party, and
these the elements of the party opposed
to US and with this party and with these
elements are oar malignant and unr, lent
ing enemies OF the North scourging US, hu-
initiating 10 and destroying our property, in.
sulting our honor and robbing US Of our last
remnant, our only support Of our helpless,
defenseless wives and children.
The open and unreserved declaration of
one of the chiefs of the Republican party
Of this State, that the party was a COM
pound of ignorance, venality and cOrrup-
ton" win Justify us in the sight of God,
and in the enlightened, impartial judgment
Of mankind. Let us unite, then, and cast
out this ignorant, venal and corrupt viper
from our bosom. Let every white man,
woman and child, every true citizen, prop
erty owner and taxpayer, enter into
solemn compact, binding ourselves our
lives, liberty, property, and sacred honor,
that we will not give employment or sup
port, in any way, shape, or form, to any one
of the Republican party, or of any of the
negro race composing that party. That we
will not tolerate any conservative or half
way measure in this our work of regenera-
ton; that in this fight for life, whoever is
not in full accord with us is against us, and
must be regarded as our enemies and the
enemies of our State; that in entering into
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apply to every business transaction and SO
cial condition in our State.
1t every merchant, banker, broker. me-
chanic, farmer or planter and laboring man
in Louisiana opposed to the Republican
party, opposed to negro domination, ignor-
ance, venality and corruption, will enter into
this compact, our deliverance will be certain
and speedy.
Who is it that sustains supports, feeds
and nourishes this black viper, and keeps it
here eamOng us to sting, wither and destroy
uss 1t is nobody but the people of the State.
Who is it who give employment and sup
port to the negroes of Grant parish, who
are now being used by these few unprin-
cipled white thieves, to persecute and de-
Btroy themf 1t is nobody but the Demo-
cratic white citizens themselves. Without
the employment, support and protection Of
the, or afforded by the white people Of the |
State, who compose the Democratic party,
the negroes who compose the body and |
strength of the Radical party could not
remain in our State three months.
Ten thousand ignorant, vicious negroes
Are to-day employed, supported and nour-
shed in the city of New Orleans by our own
too, who are complaining
and groaning under this oppressive, dis
yusting abOmnation of negro government.
Thousands and tens of thousands of indo-
ent, vicious negroes are supported in idle
hess and kept here by the labor Of their
wives and that employment for these ne
presses furnished by our own citizens If
We persist in this suicidal career we deserve
10 better fate. hope and trnst our citi-
ems will see this thing in it's proper light,
lud act upon it without further delay. We
lave no time to loose; another important
Election is near at hand, and already the
lack cohorts are organizing and marshaling
heir clans, determined to perpetuate their
'ower, and this time too as q race, black
gainst white.
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