The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-10-11
The Beginning of the End.

The Beginning of the End.
For our part, we cannot see the policy OF
making people of different races citizens OF
the same Republic. The negroes of Hay ii
have, in our opinion, acted with more dis
cretion on this question than the whites of
the United States. They have, at least it
is SO aa;d, provided in their constitution
that no white man shall be citizen. This
we think right, and would have favored the
adoption of a similar principle in this coun- :
try, which would result here, however, in
making q white mans country of it and ex-
cluding colored people from citizenship.
We have heretofore given onr reasons for
this conviction and will not now repeat
them.
But it is q question which we are willing
to consider as settled for all future time,
for the reason that it will continually be
getting of less and less importance practi-
cally. The area of country now inhabited
by our ex-slaves will soon contain popu-
lation of twenty millions of white nhabi
tants, while the colored people and their
descendants will very probably be con-
stantly diminishing in number. We there
fore think that the question may be left in
allegiance until the next time.that nation
finds itself in the same position as the
South did at the end of the Confederate
war.
In the meantime the situation seems to
the numerical preponderance of the whites.
The colored people of this State have re-
Gently put forth an address which no pa
triot could read without pleasure. There is
no antagonism whatever of real interests
between the white asd colored populations
of the South. Their interests are identical,
yet through a groundless distIust of their
white fellow citizens, the colored people
have uniformly thrown themselves into the
hards of a set of hJ pocritical miscreants,
who had no use for them but as dupes and
no object in view but the plunder aud ruin
of both races.
Circumstances have of late, however,
contributed 10 weaken this tendency Of the
colored people. In the first place the resent
ment of the whites in the interior of the
State has taken a more reasonable turn.
1U5ttdu VI UldmiuB tuo noSiueS 80 uuCH
as heretofore for the prevalent ruin they
have considered that the blame really at
taches To the white rascals who lie to them
and mislead them. We can not and do not
approve of Lynch law, yet the lynching of
the five white outlaws at C"ushatta, while
the colored people were untouched, has, no
doubt, had a most beneficial effect in dissipa
=; h.Sr Than
the revolution Of September l45h in New
Orleans. This convinced them fully that
no harm was intended them and, further,
that those mighty Keloggites whom they
had looked on as demi-gods were but little
better than paste board men.
In the meantime, while their distrust of
their white friends has been wearing of. i.
they have been getting dissatisfied with
carpet baggers. The address to which we
referred above sets forth quite lucidly some
Of their grievances. They do all the voting
and get comparatively none of the perqui-
sites Of Office. Some few of them for ap-
pearauce sake are given lower seats at the
official banquet, but all the carpet baggers
are first provided for. The ex slaves, as
stup'u as 'ue iusoie"' Col pe'- -o"SSeiS euih6
them, are shrewd enough to see all this.
They feel the hypocritical meanness which
fawps on them at the polls and spurns them
in the parlor. They are dissatisfied.
The proof of this is that we now see them
making overtures to their white fellow. cit
izens, and these overtures ought to be
frankly and heartily met. This has beeu
done already in Terrebonne parish, but in
New Orleans how is it7 Because we have
q majority here, are the colored voters to
be therefore spurned This would be about
as hypocritical friendship as that of the
carpet -baggers.
lCommunlcated.]
New Plea for Abstinence from Tobacco and Ii