New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-16
ASSAULTS UPON TIE NEGROES,

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! ASSAULTS UPON TIE NEGROES.
The tacit covenant that there should
at least sort Of game law, under wLic
the colored laborer should not be slai
during the period when he was engage
in making crop for the white peopl.
has been violated. Both a. Vicksbur
:: and near Natchitoches acts OF wanto
violence have been committed whic
;. have caused terror among these laboreys
and they have even published motto
that unless their life and labor shall
protected. they will migrate to som
other country where there is more h1
mainly and sounder sense Of interest.
| We appeal TO the conservative sense o
interest which actuates al! men. I'll,
land-holders Of Louisiana find their land
far less valuable than they would be wer,
there more laborers. Suppose we remind
them that but one third Of the land arabic
and under enclosure in Louisiana is il
active culture? Would it not be obvious
that this land will rent or sell for less
than if il were all under culture: Is il
not plain that more labor would bring
more crops and more money? Undoub.-
edly. Then is it not equally plain that If
any fraction Of the labor now employed
should be slain or driven away, o cor.
responding reduction in the value Of the
land and its products must follow:
Should not the conservative interest,
then. protect the laborer? Should it not
set its face and raise its hand against any
who. having no interes: in the property or
productions of the State, wantonly disa-
BILE and drive away an element so essen
tial to the prosperity Q! the property
holder:
To few men political salary is the
supreme good. They disappear after the
election. and ore no more seen in the in
fesTal than bats in the day time. Look.
ing on all men only as voters who are to
be either won OF kept from the polls,
such politicians would as soon shoe. an
opposition voter from between the piow
handles as anywhere else. He calmly
reloads with the remark. lone rubbed
out. The employer Of the man so
Slain is deprived Of his labor. and ss it
nay be followed by a stampede Of others
Who dread the fate Of the plowman. the
proprietor is certainly interested in pro.
ecting himself from demoralized labor,
IS he is from the bad reputation thrown
lpon the neighborhood by such :aw!ess
cts Of violence.
It is beyond doubt that no government |
the world can enforce its laws where
whole people are disposed to resist Q.
wade them. 1t will be impossible for the |
United States TO have camp in every
ED in the South, and if men still resolve
. ku.klux the labor Of the country they
ill be punished, though punishment may
ct prevent repetition of the. offense.
his reign Of terror, however, must have
$ effect, and will drive away masses Of
lbos to other States, even to other coun.
les. Will this labor be replaced: Peo-
lie may pirate OF the capacity Of white
len to make crops in the Delta. Granted.
ut what race could replace the colored
en, Injured to the climate and trained TO
'e crops: Have immigrants arrived in
ouisiana to take place OF the negro?
immigration has come down to less than
has ever been before. The white laborer
ken from the docks or the streets is
ten not worth his board on plantation.
be negro is always ready and able for
ork. We would like 10 know how many
bite hirelings are now making cotton and
gar in the Delta. White men work for
emselves. but there are very few who
ork in gangs for the planter. A core.
ondent writes from Vaudeville that the
'groes and whites live and labor in har- :
ony. He adds this reasonable reoues.
their behalf:
Ali the colored people ask !s ,ha. their
publican leaders make the government ,
fair and pure tina. their white neighbors .
not lind any ground for complaint
ainst it.
The Republican leaders are engaged in r
At very duty. Governor Kellogg. the i.
publican Legislature and the Repub. a
an press have spared none who have b
Ell impeached of malfeasance in Office. "
this they follow the example and policy | II Il
the Republican President. The colored | a
ople may depend upon it that the Re. Sc
blican administration of the laws and Ii
ices will be all that they or their ''white |. y
ighbors" can desire. This pledge hav.
been realized, it will become the duty p
the anti-Republicau property holders =
planters to keep in their young In
Us. Such cooperation may be the i.
ans OF insuring safety 70 the laborer,
SO relieving him Of the apprehensions ~
ich now dispose him to leave the State, -
leave the planter to the same desola- II
A that marked the temporary disor- u,
llzation which succeeded the war. ,
Los ANGELES. :
We receive q letter from friend who Dr.
just arrived from New Orleans in Dr.
thern California. The extract which Fe
publish will show his ecstacies at the II