New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-25
coNr1DENCE AND COOPERATION.


) results 1t is speaking entirely With
proof that Horace Greeley educated MOI
: men and women to abhor bondage tina
any and every teacher who ever spoke.
is well known that Raymond Away
| claimed to be an abolitionist without re
serve. The nantes Of these men hav
fallen upon persons incompetent to wea
! them. The mantle is ''world too Wild
for the shrunk" limbs of their SUCCESSORS
They complain Of negro incompetence t.
l conduct the government of South Caro-
lima. and even intimate that the fedora
: government may find it necessary to i'm
pose some restrictions upon the cxerci5'
| of representative discretion. These things
might have occurred to these philanthro
pical journals when they gave the wal
cry, 'On to Richmond!' Men Of SO much
wisdom might have embodied conserya'
tive stipulations in the measures OF wal
or peace. They implored and accepted
the military and mental service OF the
! negro to achieve their policy. and now
these fertile Phatons. who aspired to drive
the chariot that lighted the abolition
world grow dizzy. and the reins seized in
their weak ambition drop from their
neryeless hands. The Times AMI Tribune
passed the reconstruction act. 1t was in
tended to secure 70 the coioved people by
the ballot what the bayonet had given
| them. The Southern people looked with
! apprehension upon this unconditional
gift of poiitica! power. and in some parts
o: the South added to this apprehension
the dread Of surrendering all local Office
and patronage. The consequence of this
fear has been to put the colored people in
dread lest the rights conferred upon them
by the Republican party should be re.
pealed OF qualified. Hence q chasm has
been opened between the whites and col.
ored people. which has separated the in
terests of each. With the whites it has
resulted in enlarged debt and increased
taxes and in diminished productability.
Toward the colored people it has pro.
duced vindictivc feelings and violent
acts. In many places the laborer who
tolls on the crop or renders mental ser
vice is looked upon as social enemy.
and not uncommonly treated as such.
The Times and Tribune are respectfully
reminded that their premises are entirely
inadmissible. The right Of suffrage can
neither be taken away from the colored
race nor limited by federal Intervention.
The adjustment of difficulties is domes.
tic question. and our outside advisers
should remember that those who. when
they cut the dyke did not foresee the
foundations, are unsafe advisers how the
waters may be directed to feytilize or re-
fresh.
1t must be evident to all. that when. in
States like our own. there is maj ority OF
numbers. and productive force which
creates almost the entire crop Of the eli.
mate. this element of wealth and useful
ness should not be ignored. When it is
remembered that these numbers have been
endowed with the power Of political rep
yesentation. and when the people OF the
United States are bound to protect them
in the exercise Of that power. they can 10.
be ignored.
. With such numerous and such obvious
motives for social harmony in Louisiana.
why do not our people follow the example
OF those Southern States which have &C.
cepted and even improved the situation?
Why should not the experiment. Of mutual
confidence be tried? We may concede that
there are some of both races WHO are I'M
charitable. but the common interest is too
precious to permit either prejudice OF
cupidity to conduct our affairs. Blu.
has our white population tried the
effect of kindness toward their for
ner slaves; II is to be feared not.
The relation on the part of the negro is
fear and distrust of political oppression.
There is a dominant sentiment that the
negro has deep-seated sense of wrong
md malignant desire to destroy the
in the possession of which he
loes not participate. This does great in.
Justice to his nature and to his acts. The
immense reduction and restriction of debt
md taxes made with the active assent of
\ negro majority in the branch of the
Legislature where said reforms can alone
originate, prove an intelligent conviction
hat the interests of all are the same. They
sfford an earnest Of what the colored ele.
nent will do for effectual reform. These
measures have been enacted under storm
If abuse and ridicule of men who should
.ccept with pleasure every measure Of re.
ief We recommend to the whites to try
he experiment of confidence in the col.
red people. 4 war between these two
dement's of political and productive
orce would be followed with terrible
to each. If the COL
red people could be killed. disabled
n driven out Of the country, is i: supposed
here would not be attendan. des.ruc.
ion Of buildings. Of stock. of the levees:
Would the restored ruins Of the after-war.
nd the suspended industries Of the State.
eplace the whites in power or prosperity:
Would land sci! better under federal sol.
lieys and martial law, with white men hid.
ng in the swamps. and colored people
luddled around the camps: On the other
and. how would it profit the colored PEG.
lie to deprive the iandhoides Of all means