The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-23
THE WAR OF RACES.

| The attempt of Radical journals to make
the No.thern people bell We that a "war o.
races" has been inaugnrated in the South,
las not succeeded to any great extent. The
| intelligent and impartial thoroughly under
! stand the object of these maIionols, and SCI
| through the tianspar Mt veil OF deception.
TIE Brooklyn Etgle a Republican paper.
efuses to be imposed upon by the absur,.
| lowlings Of carpet-baggers at the South, en-"
heir insane rawlings about war Of races
The Eeqle discovers in the political contes
iere the true issue.
It is a strug lie in behalf of honesty against
corruption, intelligence against ignorance
N the one side is banded together the negroes
led and controlled by white Adventures.
without character or ability, and on the othe,
the entire white people of the South, VIII
have been piand-red, oppressed, an fairly
ruined. They believed that the time has
come when they SHOULD 10 longer ta,nely sub
nit to the farther preparation of such out
RACES as have been put upon them.
They now propose to assert their manhood,
heir independence and theiI power. If Ill
heir resistance to the rule of thieves scme OF
the authors of our mistortuues should be
compelled to flee the country, or made to pay
the penalty of their crimes against a long
orbearina people, it will be i'll vain to make the
Northern people believe that this uprising OF
the Southern whites has any other significance
OF meaning than determination to definitely
end the sway of bad men, whose infamous
practices have been death to the country
1t is in this light the Eagle views the con-
test now progressing here, and ridicules tue
idea that it is war Of races" 1t says, very
truly, that it is a fight for economy against
,tealage," and the article concludes Il US:
The cry of "a war OF races arises from those
who have all Interest III precipitatng it. We
know such a can't be raised in the
south. We dol't be.ieye that the apprehension
Of one can be Ii d down the throat of the North.
every retectlug man knows that in the South
Aow 1t IS not race against race" 1t Is honesty
against thieves. 1t i, retrenchment against
bankruptcy IL is economy against siealaSe. In
Vicksburg the simple question was ''shall a
pc icy which has rolled up a debt of one SIKH OF
all our poss, sslons SO on till it takes all! The
question was answered I'll the negative. and it
fault OF their tutors, not OF those who in yer,
self preservation voted no" We do not blame
the negroes altogether. They simply followed
their new masters, and because their old masters
lid not follow Hten1 we are to have "a war Of
races forsooth.
In North Carolina and Tennessee the questions
for the people were made III advance for them by
Congress. lhey hinged on the pending Civil
Ri. hts bill--a measure Congr S. has, BY passing
It IN one Hou a,d suspendlng it Ill the other,
.J,.no H., Al
and question whicn almost exclusively affects
the Southern STATES themselves. Ly the forms
Of e!ectiua-thc co..atitlta nal Ala,-.icau way
those tates have overwhelmingly voted to rejec,
the bill, SO far as 1t has been referred to them
decision There are not three Northern Slater
which would not do the same on direct vote
And becau~e this question, by its very nature set
Oft the races for the time, the defeat which the
blacks received ls to be succeeded bv "a of
races. w. do not see who is to make that war.
The whites have acted on the defensive III the
two eases oil outbreak wh Oh have occurred in
helmingiy. negro predicts Of Tenn e and
nentu, ky.
so soon as Congress shall cease to tinker With
the flag ends OF reconstruction and let each race
stand on Its merits, each having low all the |
9 rights" OF the other, the whites and til,
blacks vi range themselves il politics just l. |
persons do up ere. little principle and a good |
IL al Of Interest efiectlng their POSITION; ana |
aeh par counting the negro vote. The war |
d races VIII not impose on the North. The |
North feels hat il has done for the H. o good |
cal mere tnan 1t would 40 a. all, or ask au,- |
body else TO do Failing Industries, haru times
closed markets. the outlawry OF capital and cutter
prise and Intelligence wherever negro supremacy |
obtains. are facts felt in the North almost az |
,eenly a. III the -outh and the determination o. |
Ill The ope to try change of hands and lnti,l-
cue III this coun ~ will not De ARES I'd by the
asst and worst ''Eugaboo "a war Of races |
Z would better be abandoned.