New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-30
Democracy in East Feliciaua.

shan by quoting from the Patriot Democrat.
published ct Clinton, the plan 10 be pur-
sued in East felieians for reducing the Re-
publican majority. II is the came as that
which occupies the mind of tho color liner
in Mississipps. The negro is offered prctec-
tion if he declares himself TO be with u.s."
that is, . Democratic voter. He is threat
ened with determination if he adheres 70
anf attempts to support :he principles
which made Of him free man and voter.
II is net idle talk, for Messrs. Ray and Gair
are now in this city, refugees from the VIC
lenoe Of people among whom they were
raised. The Patriot Democrat says:
At last the people are waking up in this
parish, as in other parishes, to tue neces-
sity of taking the control Of public matters
in their own hands. Tho disposition to
compromise that has made the parish bank
rupt, and impoverished the landholders, is
giving way to a determination to take tIe
proper position. and govern instead OF be-
irg governed. The black man has proved
his lncapa bility to hold office, and also his
lack of integrity.
All that is required is to resolve that tor
bearance having ceased to be a virtue, we
will obtain control Of parochial affairs, and
permit no one to hold offics who ia not hon-
EST and capable. 1t is a beautiful state OF
affairs when such dispatches are sent to the
Governor aa were cent recently. Now,
throughout the country will 60 the news OF
riot, house burning and murder in Clinton
and East Felciana pari.h.
1t is high time that the white citizens
should be united in thought, word and
action, or before long it will be so that we
will have to either leave the parish or bow
and scrape to the negro whenever we meet
bin: our families subject to insult. our
houses to intrusion, and, with a truth, life
and property not safe.
We are going to take matters in our own
hands and have officers that will under
stand their business, and are honest and
not afraid. Keep the great, allimportant
question before the people. Let the honest,
industrious negro, who is not an office
seeker, know that if he is with us in our
that he will be sharer in the benefit ac-
cruing; but If he supports the Republican
party, as it now exists in Louisiana, we
shall consider him our enemy and an enemy
to the true interests of his country.
The dispatches referred to above are
those in which the sheriff of the parish
telegraphed that he was unable to preserve
the public peace or execute the DEGREES OF
court. The ''leader' in the Patriot Dem
ocrat is headed "The Negroes Obituary."
and reads as follows:
After the approaching election, if our,
people will only be true to themselves,
every office in our parish will be filled by
competent and trustworthy white men.
The negro has been tried long enough, and !
failure. Even the Republican party North |
is beginning to wipe its hands of Sambo, |
and soon will these creatures fully realize !
what they have lost by arraying themselves |
against the Southern white man. The time |
was once when they could have perpetuated |
their chance in the distribution Of the Of |
fees, and, through the ipstrumentality OF |
the white men Of the South, they might |
ultimately have been rendered somewhat |
competent to discharge official duties; but |
that time they have allowed to pass un
embraced. In their ignorance they fancied |
the white people would never be able to
Illustrate their hellish purposes, but that
they would ever enjoy all the fat places of |
power.
Incited by carpet baggers and scallawags,
while they held the cards they played their
hands for all they were worth, and now |
that their own haste. and enthusiasm has !
defeated them, they must quietly retire
from power. while their late white allies |
crawl back into the ranks they SO shame
fully and 1gnominiously deserted.
Following this comes fancy sketch de.
picting the loveliness of minority rule. 1t
is called "a Glorious Day."
A bright and glorious day for East
Henry Smith, Tony Clark, Adam Senseless
and other negro politicians of small calibre
will be known and seen no more in official
stations, apiDg officers in the discharge of
official duties, is near-very near at hand.
God be praised. If any human being was
ever more heartily nauseated at seeing
these worthless in positions for which they
are totally incompetent, it is us; and we
loOk forward to the day when Gair will be
seen and heard running the jack. plane, Ray
holding plow or presiding over the stalls
Of livery stable, Smith again swinging the
sledge hammer, Clark turning burrows in I
The field, and Senseless mounted on mule
wagon.
When this day shall have dawned upon
us, prosperity will once more be known to
our people, and after these worthless ehall
have fully recovered from the shock caused
by their being restored to their proper and :
legitimate places. even they will be ulti-
mately benefited, and may eventually be,
come useful and necessary citizens.
That this is the last chance these fnnc.
tionaries will ever have of aping the official |
s as certain as a certainty can be. A few
short months only and Ray, Clark, Smith, |
Senseless and others will quietly ''step
down and out" and with a full conscious
oess, too, that never more will they occupy I
positions intended for men Of knowledge !
and ability.
Then follows an appeal TO the Clinton
bar, which intimates that the col0red Re
publican should never have the benefit Of
though the Democratic colored
men, OF which there will always be more or
ess living with protection papers about
heir persons, are to have the rights guar.
anteed by law. The appeal to the bar is
in an article entitled "Our Duty
% the Negro" a part of which is as follows:
Dlvested of legal counsel, the bold, ignc-
amt creatures are pOwerless for evil. They
will dread outstepping the bounds of pro-
)riety, and will be far more circumspect in |
he violation of law and order. Ispeak for
he entire people when l say that we expect
lemen of the Clinton bar. While deter.
mined to act in strict conformity 10 law,
while firmly resolved to protect every hon
ct colored citizen in his rights, there is yet
J higher law governing our Hotives-the
aw of self-preservatiOB, the future of our |
wives and children, our homes, our educa-
ional and moral being, all that is dear to
Is in life, appeal to our manhood to pu,
lOwn those enemies of society who have so
attempted to lay waste and
avage our parish.
Gentlemen of the Clinton bar, there is no
'ower on earth which can prevent the
'eople Of this parish from the accomplish.
nent of those good purposes. and We expect !
great deal at your hands.
Similar appeals might be made to the
octors to save the lives of no wounded Re-