New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-31

| ln0nenslVe department.
What would be the result if this should
| be acqulesced IN bv our white fellow cltl
zenss There would be no demands made
by hoisterous or filthy people at first class
public houses for entertainment or amuse-
ment. Low black people would as natural
| ly go to low places for food, amuseme Mt
| and liquor as low white people do now. A
low cOlOred man with no money would no
| more go the st. Charles Hotel for enter
| tanment or to the Opera House for amuse-
ment than low.spirited and badly behaved
| white people do now. There are many
| reasons for this. In every man there is
| moral thermometer which tells him his de-
gree in society. He feels it toe warm when
the mercury gets above him, and he goes
back into his shade. 1t requires a culti-
waited taste to enjoy Devoyod's Hamlet,
Booths Richelieu, Salvini's Othello. Mo
reau's pates, or the dessert of the st.
Charles Hotel. Two dollars for ticket to
the opera, or five dollars per day will not
be then offered by low, ignorant black
| men any more than by such white
men now. Thus by letting loose these two
fierce cOmbatants they will tind when they
see they have no obstacle to their rushing
into each others arms, that neither wants
to do so and the fight will be over.
Will not our white fellOw-citizens con-
sent to this Will not our colored fellow
With some thing of an intimate acqualn-
tance with both classes, l undertake TO say
tLat / believe that, properly presented by
some recognized and respectable authority,
disconnected from party or party leaders,
unembarrassed by electioneering interests,
it would be accepted by both peoples, and
we would see the society in which we live
for the first time free to be impressed bv
suggestions for the material and ecOrom
;nol ;pta 70 Of tho uoo1th Whila
this question Of civil rights is pre-eminent,
there will be no looking into candidates
with a view to ascertain. by the standard
Of morality, virtue or capacity their fitness
for Office or their wOrthiness for the suf-
frages of the people. The man who is
sound on the civil rights question, indorsed
with the nomination of his party, will re-
ceive the votes of its followers, though he
may be known to have sold his Vote or his
duty for money. or may be ignorant of the
duties of the office for which he is a candi-
date. With this concession on the one
hand. and cordial acceptance on the other,
we will see the day Of jubilee. White men
and colored men will strike hands in pledge
Of each others support on questions of pub
lie concern. Men who would keep arrayed
against each other the two races, would
find their level in ignOminy and disgrace.
Looking at the interests of the State, and
the political, material and social advance.
ment of the people, the public schools would
thrive. Education, coming cheaply to
every child, would be seized upon with
,, avidity, and the next generation would be
so intelligent, so virtuous and 80 good that
the history of the past and the present
would be read and laughed over like the
contests of Don Quixote over the wind
mills of Spain.
Our country's dangers in the future, fell
lOw-citizens. are to be apprehended from
ourselves. The passions and prejudices of
men, the ambition and seltishness of par
ties, the avarice and corruption Of officers,
presents the great dangers Of the hour. A
great man has said that, Sin looking back
through the vast and dreary ages of the
past and reading the epitaphs which impair
| tial history has inscribed upon the tomb
of fallen republics, we will learn from its
melancholy teachings that no free govern
ment was ever destroyed by force, but only
| by the insidiOus encroachments of cOrrup-
| ton" There are nearly two million graves
| in which lie Northern and Southern braves
| TO attest the nations power. They are to Us
enduring pledges that the republic shall be
maintained and perpetuated and beautitied
| They are monuments at once TO our past
and future. to our love and hatred-tO our
pride, am bitiop, ignorance and prejudice
Let us be content with them, and demand
| no further sacrifices. In their vaults are
| our hearts; their deeds of glory are written
all over our memories. We need no in
scribed battle flags to tell posterity where
we fought, or our brothers fell. 1t
was in conflict enough of which will be
remembered if we profit by the lesson it
taught US; and we would emulate the
| kind example of nature, which drinks up
the blood, covers the spot with grass, heals
| the scars on the trees, grows out the twigs
and leaves, covering our battlefelds with
verdure and health, Turing the living by Its
very smiles to forget that our fellow-citl-
citizens ever fought.
In the language of a great orator, ex-
pressed at Massachusetts funeral OF Charles
| Sumner:
| mo civilized nation, from the republics of
| antiquity down to our days, ever thought
| it was wise or patriotic to preserve in con.
| spicuous and durable form the mementOes
| OF victories won over fellOw-citizens in civil
| wer. Why not! Because every citizen
! stall feel himself with all others as the
child of COMMON country and not as de-
| feated foe. All civilized governments of
our days have instinctively followed the
same dictate of wisdom and patriotism.
The Irishman, when fighting for old Eng
| land at Waterloo, was not to behold on the
red cross floating above him the name of the
| Boyne. The Scotch Highlander. when
standing in the trenc hes of Sebastopol, was
| not by the colors of his regiment to be
reminded Of Culloden. No French soldier
at Austerlitz or Solferino had to read
| upon the tricOlOr any reminiscence OF the
| Vendee. No Hungarian at Sadowa was
| taunted by any Austrian banner with the
surrender of Villages. No German reg-
| ment, from Saxony or Hanover, charging
| under the iron hail of Gravelotte, was
| made 20 remember by words written on a
| Prussian standard that the black eagle had
| conquered them at koniggratz and Langen-
| salza. Should the son OF South Carolina,
| when at some future day defending the re-
| public against some foreign toe, be re-
| minded by an inscription on the cOlors
| floating over him that under this flag the
| gun was fired that killed his father at Get
| tysburg! Should this great and enlightened
| republic, proud of standing in the front of
| human progress, be less wise, less large
hearted than the ancients were two thou
sand years ago, and the kngly govern
ments of Europe are to-day Let
the battle-fags of the brave volunteers,
which they brought home from the war with
the glorious record OF their victories, be
preserved intact as proud ornament of
State houses and armories. But let the
colors of the army, under which the sons
of all the States are to meet and mingle in
common patriotism speak of nothing but
union, not union of cOnquerors, and con-
quered, but union which is the mother Of
all, equally tender to all, knowing of moth
ing but equality, peace and love among her
children. Do you want shining momentos
of your victories! They are written upon
the dusky brow of every freedman who
was once a slave; they are written on the
gate-posts of restored Union; and the most
shining of all will be written on the faces
of contented people, reunited in common
national PRIDE
The society of ex-soldiers and officers of
the Union army, under whose auspices we
meet to cele brate this occasion, have deter
mined to erect monument over the graves
of our dead companions. 1t was our sad,
maud 4ntr IN, 10 tha cnrnar stnna Of