New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-19
The RACE FIGHT Merf ooaE OFF.

between the whites and blacks. The black
plowman snail be set against the white
planter, the black drayman and deckhand
against the shipper, the black laborsr on
the levee against the contractor, the col
ored nurse agains. the white infant that
she rocks nightly to sleep in her arms,
the colored nurse shall be driven from the
couch of the fevered patient This is the
meaning of this crazy sentiment:
We are for white men in everyth:ng-in
our puolic Offices, in our stores, on our
steamers, on our drays and floats IN ouI
families and in our fields. Everywhere.
| We wish every rejecting American to
apply this proposal to his own affairs.
Can he adopt this resolution of non-inter-
course? Can he discharge the colored la
borers and domestics in his employ and
await the intro duction of other labor to
supply their places Observe. The col
ored race is in an admitted numerical ma
jority. OF its 100000 there mus. be OF
male and female adults and children 100,.
600 employed in the industrial and do
| mestic service Of society. These places
must be supplied by the whites, resident
or immigrant. How many of our white
people can afford to quit the more lucra-
tive pursuits and professions to go into
the field, serve as deckhand, or drive
the float? How many of our delicate
ladies can supply services Of their
cooks, nurses and washerwomen? To
look to emigration, seeing an in
adequate resource, since there does
not arrive at this port an average Of 4O0O
foreigners annually, and of these there
there does not remain 1900. Such, then,
are the advisers OF Louisiana; men who
counsel the discharge of every colored
person in the State, without the most dis
tart suggestion for supplying the vacuum
thereby created; men who recommend
the loss OF crop, the abandonment of
the levees, the dismissal of the force en-
ployed in making the commercial transfer
n New Orleans.
r The parish Of St. Landry has taken the
lead in the proposed resistance to the
amended constitution giving equal rights
to all. 1t is not willing that black people
shall hold cfice.l/Thls is followed by
an address FROM the parish of St.
Martin in which, with true Gallo
defamation, not only are all de-
nounced who accord political rights to
the colored people, but all the sons Of
Louisiana who will not join the white
league are denounced as cowardly, de-
generate, or treacherous. Being Ameri-
cans we will be pardoned for not flying of
the helve at this passionate defamation,
or enlisting in this huckshot canvass with
out knowing precisely what it leads to.
We are 50 sordid that We would not will
ingly forfeit our ignoble right Of nations
without excellent reasons.
Why then are these heroic people Of
these parishes go terribly afraid OF negro
supremacy Let US take them to the
American test
NThe parishes referred to present the fol-
howing staten ent: The parish Of St. Ian
dry has population Of 25,035, of which
but 1885 are natives Of any other State or
country; of these people 1880 are white
and 1864 colored The parish Of ST.
Martin contains 1904, of which but 443
are natives Of any other country. On
examining list of 220 callers of the White
League in st. Martin we find less than
twenty names that are unquestionably Of
English derivation: the remainder are un-
mistakably French. We have right to
infer, ther efore, that the American ele-
ment of our population does not units>in
this demand of war against labor Our
Gallo friends are irascible; they love
strife; they do not weigh the mate
rial welfare of the State against
the discomfort of its malcontent
members. That st. Landry should
be the leader in this ''reign of ter
ror" is little singular. She has popu-
lation of 1880 whites, against 1904 |
colored. Of what then is the parish |
afraid? To see the physical majority thus
alarmed at the danger threatened by the |
race weaker in numbers, and attributes, |
reminds us of an ante-war incident told, |
perhaps, Of this very parish. There was
q rumor of an instruction among the |
slaves, and many of the terrified slaves
betook themselves to the swamp for
safety. One of them, having been cap
tured, was required to tell why he had
Fed. He replied that he ''see ole missus
had horse pistle an big knife, and he
was afeard she was gwine rise" Why
St. Landry should be '.gwine rise" against
he minority in numbers and guns,
We can not see. But it occurs to
Is as not impossible that these
French people of st. Landry may not
De aware of their statistical strength.
Dur authority is an American work called
he census of 1870. AS it is published in
he English tongue and emanates from an
that they are taught to detest, it
nay be they do not know the facts we
,ow publish. Let them, therefore, be
They can manage their parish
sffairs in their own way. They are in no
LANCER from the black domination Of the
Bee. We are, therefore, inclined to look
IN the war against the washerwomen
Is purely Gallo sensation. The White
Jamelia and the White League are
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