New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-04

beginning to feel that while there was a
good deal of poetic justice in South Caro-
lina's being subjected to the domination OF
the very race which to hold in bondage she
essayed the destruction of the Union-the
ching has gone far enough. / make pro-
phecy, and that is, that unless the negro
rulers down in Dixie turn over q new leaf, and
that very soon, too, they will array against
them and on the side of the Southern whites
the very same Northern Unionists who did
and suffered 30 much for them. The ten
dency OF feeling in that direction is very
perceptible hereabouts, and you know how
easy thing it is for the tide to carry every
thing before it when it sets strong in one
direction. After the war county down in
Alabama was named after William T..
| Dodge, of this city. Not long since he and
his son were down there to attend some
| anniversary occasion. Mr.. Dodge was I'M
guestionably disguised with the perform
| aDce Of some of the negro politicians and
| rulers. He said to friend of your CORES
pendent, who was stopping at the same
hotel 81 fear we gave the negro the ballot
too SOON"
The Daily Inter- Ocean, a conservative
paper of much influence, published in
Chicago, says "the tendency of this care
less style Of writing is exceedingly per-
nicious," believing very correctly that it
is not only calculated to breed war of
races by encouraging the formation of
White Leagues, but that it is intended,
and its real object is, to practically dis
franchise the negroes and virtually return
them to slavery. The Inter- Ocean con-
cludes its views upon the paragraph in
question as follows:
The hatred of the negro is finding new
expression in hundred ways in Louisiana,
Georgia and Mississippi. To fan the hatred
into fierce flame, by mistaken sympathy
at the North, is crime against equal rights
and snare to the whites who entertain the
sentiment; for the hope that negroes can be
DISTINGUISHED is delusion which Is awakened
only to be dissipated in some rude way. If
there is a reactionary sentiment abroad
in New York city on the subject of negro
suffrage, it is only another evidence that
the Democratic party, once il power. would
repeal the reconstruction laws, nullity the
recent amendments to the constitution, and
plunge the country into the chaos from
which it emerged at the close of the war of
rebellion.
The same paper comments at the same
time on the pernicious attempts Of the
Shreveport Times to aid in the Inaugural
ton Of reign of terror, and concludes its
wise and temperate remarks as follows:
The Inter- Ocean cherishes no animosity
toward the Southern people: but, on the
contrary, desires to see them abandon absO-
lutely and in good faith the lost cause, ac-
cept the new order Of things. and proceed
to reconstruct their shattered fortunes,
They can not Go this through the Inaugural
ton Of a war of races. ANY serious politi-
cal conflict between the whites and blacks,
resulting from the declared purpose to
ignore the equal rights of the latter class
will inevitably end in bloodshed; and blood
shed in such cause will not only destroy
the white mans party, root and branch,
but place white men once more under the
surveillance of the general government.
The denial by whites of the rights of blacks
will, perhaps, necessitate harsh restrictions
upon the rights of the whites.
We repeat that the demand for white
mans government is Democratic artifce
to bring the Democratic party into power
again. We have white mans govern
ment, but it is not recognized as such by
the White Leaguers, simply because it is
not under Democratic control-not pre-
sided over by Democratic President.