New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-30


the 'Swithered elders will say to this no.
tilted disobedience. We shall then await
a more authentic and deliberate avowal OF
purpose by the dissenters. The people
may then judge what distance really sep
arates the public parties Of Louisiana.
THE WHITE LEAGUE AND THE DARK
LANTERN.
There are great many voters in this
city who are separated by ignorance OF
our language, and difference of customs,
from the older American element. Many OF
them have been resident in New Orleans
since before the day when man was slain
by the Know-Nothing League, because he
could not pronounce the shibboleth in the
American tongoe or with the American
accent. An excitable Irishman who ex-
claimed "Be Jasus!' or German who
incautiously apostrophised 'Mein Gott!'
were marked for sacrifice if the con-
troll of the ward in which those hap
less linguists voted should require
their determination. We have the best
Biblical assurance that the thing that
hath been is the thing that shall be, and
when we analyze the hostility of the White
League to the colored voters, we find it
based upon the same idea of exclusive
title to Office that prompted the incorpor
ofinn Of fho Of rip1anoa INV
fession.
One is at loss to imagine why city
which invited capital and enterprise from
abroad should have assaulted the foreign
born immigrant. The solution is this:
The vote of the naturalized foreigners was
long given exclusively to the Democratic
party. 1t was necessary to neutralize or
annihilate this vote, because it tended to
take the city offices from one party and
give them to another. Keeping this prin-
ciple Of New Orleans politics in mind, it
will be readily seen that if American nat
uralized citizens could be hunted and shot
for the sake of Office, even when the city
needed their capital and labor, that the
colored people may be bounded and slain
for the same reason and by very much the
same parties who slew the Irish and Ger
mans for the crime of voting for Demo-
Gratis.
This seems to have occurred to many of
these citizens to whom We at first referred.
With the avowed determination of the
White League leaders to have the State
Offices or overthrow the State government.
The American citizen who can not conceal
his Spanish, Italian, French, Irish or Ger
man antecedents naturally apprehends that
when the colored element shall have been
efectually expelled or exterminated,
any pronounced preference for either
party contending for the State Offices
in monopoly would revive the opera
lions of the thug principle. Thus,
the colored element extinguished, there
would be at once the formation of two
parties contending for their political
succession. One of these parties might
have its armed Notifications at Jackson
square as formerly; the other might
erect barbados and bastions at the
City Hall. Was not this the fact
before the Republican party or col
ored suffrage was ever heard Of?
Upon this redivision upon the same eter-
nal issue the naturalized citizens might
take one side or the other. Woe to them
if their vote fell principally on one side
The other party would organize its thugs,
would withdraw its business patronage,
would prescribe, threaten and STAY. The
White League executive committee OF
Shreveport, with revolvers and shotguns,
is not disposed to tolerate a foreign
tongue. In the dialogue reported by the
widow Of poor Manuel Nunez, the Span
lard whom she says was shot and robbed
by the committee, the intolerance of pro-
nunciation appears. They told him,
"None of your French" He answered,
mo, sir; l am talking Spanish 10 my
Wife"
Such things seem to have awakened the
apprehensions of our naturalized citizens.
This revived attention to accent, this con-
STRUNG pronunciation into symptom of
guilt, naturally renders man nervous.
We may anticipate, then, that very few
voters who are not entirely confident Of
their vowels and copsonants will sanction
this prescription Of color, which may pass
by so easy a transition into prescription
of speech.
The British Guards" who survive the
perils of watching over their own property
in 1862 had better be careful, or they may
fad themselves in "a devilish 'ot ole, you
know, you know"
There are evidences that our naturalized
citizens do not like this "dead line" of the
League. They have come from countries
in which such distinctions are common.
In Spain the Carlist kills the Re
publican. In France the Communist
pours petroleum over the premises of the
imperialist, aud nine small editors arm
themselves with small swords and chal-
Iepoe other small French editors to mortal
combat. In Italy the Church and State
governments are at irreconcilable daggers
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