New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-27

| made to the presence of federal troops IN
| those parishes is the strongest possible
evidence of the illegal and revolutionary
purposes of these men, and should alone,
without other evidence, awaken the fed
eral government to the necessity of afford
ing the necessary protection on the de-
nand Of the State executive for that pur-
pose, and doubtless it will be viewed in
that light.
An anomalous condition of affairs exists
in this State at present. The Republican
party has had the control of the State
government since June, 1868, now six
years. The opposition to that party,
under its different names of Democrat
Reformer, Fusion;st, anti-Taxpayer, ETC.,
have all this time been heapihg unmeas-
ured abuse on this party for the delin-
Guency and fraud of it's officers. The at
tempt in 1872 to wrest the sea. of govern
ment from the Republican party by the
party that thus styled itself the Fusion
party by the most infamous bargain that
ever disgraced party in this country, in
volving on one side treachery to the Re
publican party, and on the other the most
outrageous election frauds ever openly ad-
vocated in this country failed. This dis
graced the Fusion party so it could never
again raise its head. Now, the same
persons, under another name, 1.-The
Peoples party" are organizing to effect
the same purpose by even more repehensi-
BILE means; that is, by intimidation, to
be produced by violence and murder.
We would ask why the officeholders in
1873 were not compelled to resign, as they
are now, to save their lives or be permit
ted to remain in the country? Most Of
them were the same persons that have
been lately compelled to resign; why wait
until 1874 before taking this step against
them? The reasion is obvious. There
was no election in this State in 1873; but
there is to be one in 1874, and this is
seized on as pretezt to create the intimi
dation necessary to prevent the Republi-
can party from voting
The cry against federal troops being
sent into the country is to enable this
party to compass its objects, by creating
through bloodshed and murder that in
timidation that will drive the Republicans
from the polls in fear of their lives, and
prevent the organization Of the party.
There never was more peaceable and
unofending people than the Republicans
in this State, who are mainly composed
Of colored men. They are mainly en-
gagged in the agricultural or other manual
labor pursuits; they mediate no personal
injury toward the whites, but, on the
contrary, a strong disposition to harmon
ize with them in all other than political
matters. 1t can not be truthfully said
tina. there is a white man or community
in this State that has any good ground to
fear violence from the colored men; that
there are cases of individual crime perpe-
trated by colored men occasionally as
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speak here Of combinations of colored
men against white men, as there are Of
white men against the colored. We hon
estly believe none such has ever existed
in this State.
The whole ofense of the colored and
white Republicans is, that they are not
willing to trust politically those who
have shown from the beginning 10 the
present time their opposition, first, to the
freedom Of the cclord man; second, to
his equal civil rights; and third, to his
political right to vote and hold Office
Those opposed to the Republican party
are unit to-day, as they have always
been opposed to the rights of the colored
man, and if in political power in this
State, no doubt would do by legislation
what they attempted to do in 1865, when
they were in power in this State to rem
der the colored mans position little if
anything better than Mexican peon
Under such circumstances, who can
blame the colored man from being po-
litically opposed to those opposed to the
party?