New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-07
NOT OUT OF DANGER.
By strenuous efforts of the Republican
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By strenuous efforts of the Republican
press and members the appropriation Of
5000, 900 for the repair of the State Cap.
itol at Baton Rouge was stricken out in
the Senate. This appropriation was
avowedly intended to prepare for a re-
moval of the seat of government from
New Orleans. We suggested some days
since that this measure was intended TO
protect the country colored members from
the threats and contemptuous toue OF the
Fusion press and politicians in the city.
The PicayNns denied this and went on to
say:
We have seen no evidence here of hostili-
| ty toward the colored people. 1t Is the re-
mark of visitors from all parts OF the South
| that nowhere is the cOlOred race tolerated
more completely than in this city.
! Of course, if our recent observations be
true, there has been no evidence seen here
of hostility toward the colored people. !"
If the Picayu,e, however, will publish the
| Cuban treatment Of unarmed prisoners,
as sworn to in the present Grant trials, its
readers will see plenty of evidence Of hos
tility. As this was, however, but poll
teal battle, We suppose the slaughter OF
these poor people, with the insults to
their poor women that wept over their
dead husbands, are no serious manifesto
tons Of ''hostiIity." Listen to those
black COWS believing over the black bulls
are the words attributed to some of the
Grant parish invaders after the killing of
the negro men had been completed. No
evidence Of ''hostilityr'
But those who read the local and
semi-editorials of the Picay,.ne, will have
seen the most contemptuous terms APP
piled to colored men in political position,
and even on the last night of the session
description of insane disorder is re-
ported calculated to defame any class of
people whatever. What credit is given
this Legislature, majority Of which in
the House is colored, for the reforms and
economies effected at the last session?
L llc CIttC tdACb lCuuSCu VA,cOO,OoOs AAO
State debt cat down nearly half. The
State appropriations reduced from IS, &c.,
543 in 1871, when the chief of the |
Fusion was in power, to 81, 1876, O2S.
when the colored majority has been
allowed to manage the finances. Why, |
here is a reduction of 81, $50, Sis! In what |
are these poor people, represented by |
these legislative economists, interested
in those results? They have little or no |
1t is the Picaymne and other |
property holders and taxpayers who pay |
it, Yet this Legislature is traduced as |
'sleepy drunk" "a monster dying like
the villain of some late sensational play
Their sable faces grow pale and an
ominous growl arises as a committee
from the Senate is announced. There is
ga war whoop," chair after chair rises in
the air and falls to the ground smashed to
pieces" Such representations are calcu-
lated to affect unfavorably public opinion
elsewhere, aud probably to favor new
election. Can the colored people see no
evidences of hostility in these persist.
ent defamations? When Mr.. Pinchback
is ridiculed as pinch" and Mr.. Allain.
the author Of the reform report, is described
as 'Soulouque," what else can the colored
people see but hostility, without single
of usefulness or good inten.
lion? Even the phrase quoted from
Northern visi tors conveys an Insult. Wis.,
tors are astonished to see how ''colored
people are tolerated. SO completely" in
New Orleans.
New Orleans has thus been saved from
immediate danger of losing the seat Of
government. VIII it not be well to treat
he majority of the PEOPLE with such terms
If decency and justice as will efectually
prevent any return of the dangera