New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-23
THE POLITICAL EFFECT OF THE WHITE
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We Goy bUppOoC 10os WIZ yo~Ao
Of the Arrapahoes entertained the con-
fdent belief that the power of the United
States was contemplate, and that thei1
rife, tomahawk, war paint, scalp lock
and war cry would terrify this whole
country as it did the lone women on the
frontiers. We learn from history that
when the early colonists sent some In
| dams to England one of the chiefs-no
doubt an inventive statistician-began to
notch down on stick all the people whom
he saw pass on the streets Of London.
History states that in few days,
or perhaps hours, he discontinued
bis census History says also that
when Black Hawk was defeated, the
United States, with practical wisdom,
made better use of him than delivering
his dead body to the surgeons to solve
some theory Of the comparative pathology
of the races. The government ordered
General Black Hawk and staff to be car
ried by railroad to the principal cities OF
the Union. This deputation saw the
millions of men, the manufacture of guns
and gunpowder. They saw the military
regiments, marching with the method Of
machinery, Glad, armed and accoutred for
battle. They saw the brightly FURNISHED
"big guns which they fear even more
than arms Of precision. The deputation
returned, and it does not appear that
General Black Hawk ever threw another
stone at the hornets nest, Of which he
had been kindly and safely permitted to
view the interior.
Now, we are very far from comparing
the many excellent and educated men who
compose the White League Of Louisiana
to these untutored Arrapahoes and Winnie
bagoes. But as their intelligence is SO far
superior to that of the ardent young
braves who think they can stampede and
scalp the whole United States with the
ease that they con raid cabin and corral
in Arizona, so we would reasonably expect
that our young braves would see or be
taught by their White League chiefs
and sachems the political force which
they may awaken by an intolerant and
impracticable political strategy.
1t is proper to undeceiye our young
political braves. Louisiana is the only
State in which an open and organized
issue has as yet been made between the
white and colored races. There can be no
organized coo peration therefore through
out the Union since parties have nominally
acquiesced in the reconstruction laws and
the exercise of rights arising hereunder.
1t is then solitary manifestation of
local discomfort or thirst for Office. Lou
isiana has no longer any such alliance
with other States south of the Missouri
line, as will lead them to make common
cause with her either in politics or COM
merce. The sole bond Of party union
with those States was the maintenance of
a common title to more than three
billion dollars, once taxable and trans
terable as property, now represented
by four million of free people with q
million of votes. In the developments
of the age much Of the great commerce to
which louisa ma was once exclusively en-
titled has been conveyed, by artificial con-
duits, to Atlantic ports. Baltimore, Nor
folk, Charleston and Savannah are all,
therefore, the rivals of New Orleans, and
out of forty-seven votes of the Atlantic
States, formerly slave holding, there were
but thirteen, or about one in four, cast for
opening the Mississippi outlet by canal
after the jetty bill had been defeated.
Our young braves need not believe in
the Dem ocratic tradition Of South indi-
visible. The Missouri latitudinal line of
and distraction has been
obliterated. The new division is upon
the meridian of the Mississippi. Louis
lana thus has no power of combination
on the dir ect basis of color.
Now, if Louisiana has no power of COM
bination in the common interests Of these
former friends and present rivals, it is
plain that the great States of the Missis-
sippi valley will not sympathize with her
in the color contest. Let us, then, see
whether she can go in on the lone hand
If White League.
Hon. Mr.. Sypher, in explaining the po-
,ition.of Louisiana before Congress, said:
1--WE are small State and have only six
congressman in q House Of three hun |
lred." Do the young braves hear that?
Then perhaps they will hearken to this.
Of the whole population Of the United |
States Louisiana has one man out of
,very fifty-three; Of the whole assessed
,alues of the United States Louisiana has
out one dollar in every dfty-six. This if |
Louisiana was united. But more than |
lalf Of the people of Louisiana can not |
possibly join the White Leaguers, leaving
he proportion of that intolerant body one
o every one hundred and three persons
n the United States. If all the capital |
controlled and collectible bys foreign |
owners should be from any cause pro-
1ibited from contributing to the White |
League movement, it would be as feeble |
n credit as it ould be futile in votes.
We have thrown these figures to-
,ether for considerate men to read and |
Use. We do not expect the young braves
If the White League to see them until
hey, perhaps, shall be brought up all
standing by some signal exhibition of this