The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-12
A VOICE FRoNyHE c0LeEED PEOPLE.

The following letter from a colorel man we
print both as an evidence that there is an
awakening among that class to the true pur-
poses Of their pretended friends. the carpet-bag-
gers, and to encourage others to break from
their unholy and wicked alliance with men
who only desire to use them, and whc do not
care how many OF them may be ruined or
slain provided they, the carpet-baggers, get
the Offices:
New ORLEANS, September 10, 1871
Editor New Orleans Bulletin:
seeing at last that the colored men of this city
and State are beginning to get their eyes open III
regard to their true interests, and being one of
that class myself | am anxious to throw in my
mite toward what l consider to be general
awakening which the action Of the coored clubs,
now organized, plainly foreshadows. We are
Taught by our pretended Radical friends that we
owe to their party eternal gratitude tor. as they
assert, freeing us. | assert that our people, or
at least the ma iority of them, have but changed
masters, and are to-day in a much more degrad-
ing ate Of servltude to the scalawags and adj
ventures Of that party than they We're before the
war, and nst i'll proportion as mental slavery is
worse than physical. There are hundreds OF
freedmen to-day who think as do in this matter
but are afraid to come out and avow it, Their
lives won be unsafe If they did so.
keep division between the colored men and the
Southern people, and by doing so to rob both. |
like many other men OF color, have little prop
erty. | was never Il rebel, no more than they.
and yet the Accommodations of our hives and many
Of Us are pretty old have we'll nigh disappeared
into the pockets Of these robbers. by the terrible
decline III the value of zeal estate And for years
have they had the masses of our ignorant people
organized llk, an army. tor the express purpose
of carrying ont their wicked designs: and Vet
tHt. knaVtS when the whites for the
purpose Of trying to check this cowarClly conii.
carton, carried on, not by the Government. but
by the vilest set of wretches that ever diSgraced
Gods footstool. crv out ''Whitc League Z" ku.
kluX. and send their time serving uudcrIings to
Washington for troops. We have had enough Of
this. slrs, and if the leading and moneyed men Of
this community. instead OF buying kelloggs
bonds and enabling him to perpetnate his rascal
ity. would take the stand they should. scallawas.
ism would soon be doomed.
can't, for the life of me, see how men Of wealth
and intelligence can be 80 base rs to JOIN such
vile wrctches in impoverishinS the people among
whom they have lived all their lives. raised then
families. and made their fortunes.
And would have every intelligent and wei.
meaning colored man in this community Shun the |
teachings OF THAI carpet-bas sheet. the Re!tt'A.
rHu.
If the colorei people Of this city and Stat
will persist i'll enrichng their greatest enemies al
he expense OF themselves and their natural pro
ect rs, the respe table whites Of the State |
will be inclined to think that freedom to them is
curse. and that they incapable Of appracia.
ing it. But should they require anything fur
her to arouse them from the stupOr that over
shadows Them let them look at the Freedmens
Bank. That institution vas organized for the
xpress purpose Of robbing them, and from the
irst. they were told the United States was good
or every dollar deposited. Under this barefaced
e thousands Of our poor people have been III
uced to put in it their all, which they will never
et cent of-many Of them having made de.
osits in it of over several thousand dollars
They have called in the pass-books, the only
violence of Indebtedness the depositors have.
heir Office is for rent and fixtures for sale and
hat will be the last of it. The Rcluilte,qn has
tile to say Of that swndc. You may hear from
he again. JOSH GROVES.