New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-18

II laceey demons ate at, once their want
; judgment and of common interest in tn
welfare of Louisiana. Before addressing
ourselves to those Of our fellow-citizen
who have an interest in the business AM
prosperity of the State, we digress a mo
ment to comment upon the extraord'nar.
interferences in this matter by the foreign
press Of this city. We have explained it
direct opposition to the federal govern
ment, on the ground that each Of its ae
partments has oppressed the people o
Louisiana. There comes, however, q
violent propagandist of theological opin'
ions, called the Catholic Messenger. The
editorial conductor is peripatetic priest,
who is is believed to owe no ALLEGIANCE Of
citizenship to the State or to the Union.
| This newspaper so far departs from its
ecclesiastical mission as to indorse the call
for white men's party, and in which the
following positions are embodied l..
That the negroes are carrying on legis-
lative war on the whites That there is ga
deliberate and well understood conspiracy
to heap on taxes until landed property
shall have become q burden and shall
lapse into the possession Of the State as
forfeiture for ts unpaid imposts. To
this it is answered that the Legislature in
which the negroes commanded q majority
at the last session, &c luced the debt snd
consequent taxation for its payment, forty
per cent, or about ten millions Of dollars.
2 ''There is but one way now to manage
the negro. He must be starved into the
common Pc ;eptions of decency." At
this point we include all the advocates Of
this insane proposal to involve Louisiana
in rrin, because the arguments appica-
bic to +Nis clerical carpet-bagger are
equally so to al who unite in the meas
ures recommended.
Let no man hinder the negro in carrying
on such avocatioDs as 81 t him, but certain
ly no one is boz I'D to patrouize or encour-
age them with employment. If they
are really dependent on the whites for
evel I element of COP Fort, civilization, and
even life! (or ita''cs) they may be thereby
brought to their senses.
The Hibei Liam paternity Of this propo-
sal to destroy labor by denying it employ
ment by those who pei.sh for want of it
is obvicrs. It is the expedient of holding
a dog in the cold till he freezes to death.
We pause in serene astor;shment. Here |
is majority Of the human beings in this |
State, who labor, and who render dones-
tic SCI 'ices indispensable yes, indispen-
sable to the existence Of society. 1t is |
proposed that all the planters Of Louisiana |
shall discharge their laborers, stop their
plows, trim the mules INTO the pasture,
and mr. ke their cotton and sugar with their
own hands. It is supposed that these
people thus declared ga public enemy in
every sense Of the word" will perish, with
out an effort to preserve life by depreda-
tons upon the growing crops and cattle.
Now, we do not ask foreign clergyman,
but we address the question to the Cotton
Exchange and to the sugar factors of Lou
lsiana. Suppose no employment were
lrnished the negro laborer, how many
bales of cotton or hogsheads of sugar
would be harvested in Louisiana this year?
The Catholic Messenger has said that the
object Of the colored people is that
LANDED property shall become burden
md shall lapse into the possession Of the
State" What measure could precipitate
his result so soon and so certainly as to
discharge from seventy-fye to eighty thou
and men, women and boys now laboring
o make the crops? Families are called
N to discharge their colored domestics.
How many colored cooks must quit the
itchens? How many servant girls and
nd seamstresses give up their work?
low many thousand dray and carriage
rivers, and what number of hands on
and barges? Our epidemic {
eason approaches. In the event that sad
alanity shall recur shall no one dare
mploy coIored nurse or attendant on t
ain of excommunication? Our factors t
we millions to the banks; how are these
lanters to make good the debt now due
ON them? How are they to buy the
applies indispensable to the creation Of
le crop? Our merchants and mechanics
ave goods; to whom will they sell, and :
yainst what will they exchange them?
Again, there is widespread and en- ),
uring restitution among our planters
I'D laborers. The same Congress that
firms the reconstruction acts and the :
quality of all men before the law has !.
ven several hundred thousands of dol 8
rs for rations. Prominent among the =
'plicants for these rations have been the !,
representatives. Of these very negroes O.
hom it is now proposed shall be n
starved into the common perception of
scency." For shame! 1t is this negro "
ho now aids to bring bread to the starv- q
g whites He divides CT 1st and y.
umb, meat and bone, equally with G.
e whites. Yet it is proposed to starve =,
is benefactor. Might it not happen :,
ould it not happen, that when the :,
anter ruined himself by discharging h
s laborers, that the federal government
ould rescue the starving thousands, =,
bile it could not indemnify the intol- b.
ant planter who would not employ q
borers, though they were starving .,
ound his fences? !,
We can understand religious ferocity :,
it has been applied to slauchtered =.