The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-06-27
The Morning star and ths Negro.

tiOso WWD t40 DOuTce Oh no lICJIO IT'D
nlation and considerable vexation
Of spirit to the New Orleans Repub.
'tcan, TINT champion Of the ncgro's
right to murder white men and ray.
ish white women, which exults Ia
its own moral and intellectual deg.
radiation and accepts social equali.
ty con amore ] and t. let loose to
walls Of its negro scented wtAth IL.
lon tho devoted head Of Father rs.
an the author Of the Conquertd
Banner, than whom no one ID mose
revcrenced6y al the Southern Pee.
pie, aud went into trade Of abu.e
Of the Morning Star generally.
The article copied below IL the re.
ply Of the Morning Star to the Re-
publican and we commend II to our
readers for its practicle good sense
aud for the happiness OF it's rctort /:
In our last issue We contended TINT
the negro, ~ class, In this State, had
proved himself I, public enemy, wlieth
or knowingly or through stupidity, and
that he should be taught his place
should be starved into decsncy.
The Republican takes Issue with us
on the point, and snstains itself with
what argumentsi First phillippic
against Father Ryan who has not been
In this State or any portion Of tho
South for severa; months; secondly
another philippe against hpriest1y lc,-
ocity;" thirdly, another against for
eigners, and fourthly, an appeal to tho
immediate interests Of The whitbs.
Well let 40 see.
As regards Rev. Father Ryan, this ia
not the first time TINT tho Republican
has grossly violated the rules 81 journ-
alistic etiquette in ito personal attacks
upon that gentleman. when person-
ally present he'has always treated this
grossness with the silent contempt
which 10 deserved ut his banda. Now.
In his absence, we allude to Il not to
defend him, but to show how utterly
unreliable are statements found in tlio
columns Of that paper. Tho Republican
distinctly charges him with b6inr Int.
a "peripatetic priest" and end. proba-
lily not citizen, in fact d ''fvrciru
priest" What will DO. Thought Of tl,o
reckless policy which will launch forth
such allegations withOnt GOOD md
strong grounds for belief In them In
this case, there il not . shadow Of fact
on which to rest the charges.
But whit If they were trne, anil
whnt II Father Ryan had written The
article in question, would TINT have
any thing to do viii, tho merits Of tho
case 7 Is itnot n sign Of weakness IN
fly from the point III controversy and
take refuge ip scurrilous personnliticaf
A. regards the slang Of "priestly TO-
rocity,' It ia bnsed. upon tho same dis
regard Of facts NJ above. Nobody ever
proposed to stnrve the Negro ito death"
but only to tho point Of common sense.
Tho fcrocity which prompts people to
protect themselves from utter ruin, Ivy
Withholding their patronage from enc
mics who are inevitably running them,
10 ono which mnst cop,mend itself 10
tho comnonest intelligence. It is on
y MI extraordinary pioty md forbcar-
ance, like that ofthe Republican, which
would continue to ruin itself, in order
to foster it's enemies, Just as that dis
interested journal does in the matter Of
public printing.
A regards the persistent crusade Of
tho Republican against "foreigners' its
disdainfui' ullusion to CALIFORNIAN" log
ic, its contemptnons allusion to onr
Creole Ataknpas population NJ "French
people Of st. Landry" we leave il to
tho kind consideration Of our African
population who are not descended iron,
the Rcpublican's fore-fatlcrs, and con-
seqnently not Americans" in its sense,
and9we farther commend it to tho SYM
pathy Of the Irish Republican Club.
FINALLY, our critic asks what will tlIo
planters, tho l,ousekeepers, the yellow
fever patients and the babies, do with
ont negroes 7 How many bales Of cot
ton or hogsheads Of sugar will DO made1
How will the planters pay the banks I
He does not ask, chow will the plan
ter pay the banks three or four years
from now, when his plantation will DO
no longer his, but will be growing mp
in bushes and weeds under negro pro-
prietors who viii have bought Il at tax
sales" or chow will delicate ladies do
their housework when they will not
have dollar left from the tax gather
er, wherewith to have a negro girl Z
He does not ask whether il would DO
betteieo drop the negro now, when
there would be something left, or to
wait until no would have to DO drop
ed perforce because there would DO
nothing to pay him with.
But let us answer his question, de-
ceptivo and illogical a. IL 10. Let tho
white people 90 to work. There AFRO
plenty Of them in this State to raise y
good crop. Even If they do not pro-
duce tenth rs much cotton. ~ Will,
negroes, they would mako twice az
much money bv it. Tbey would be-