The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-24
NEGRO MARTYRS WANTED.

The programme of the Radicals in Mssi
' sippi is we'll understood by the white citizen
We have it from good authority that the pla
of the Radical usurpers was formed som
months ago. In June last q circuit judge an
I his friend, both prominent politicians, wei
heard in conversation at Grenada, Mississippi
in the course of which it was admitted
both that nothing could secure Radical sue
cess at the November election without the in
tervention of Federal troops. The two Rad
cal magnates then and there contrived an,
discussed the ways and means of producing
! collisions, riots and disturbances, such a
) military Intervention.
The gentleman, who was an incidental, blu
not willing listener to this interview, is a
present in Europe, but his report of it is dis
tinctly remembered by gentlemen to VIII On
it was related here. This is only one report
of manywhich must be construed in connection
with the recent deplorable occurrences in
that State, all growing out Of an excited n
dition Of the minds of the negroes, caused by
Radical managers for political effect.
The most revolving feature of these bloody
and wicked conspiracies is the small value
set by the conspirators upon human life, and
especially upon the lives of negroes. On one
occasion Ames is reported to have declared in
the presence of number of his fellow conspi-
rators, "that the blood of twenty-five or
thirty negroes would benefit the Re-
publican party" Political villainy has
descended far toward total depravity
when it is thus accepted as maxim that the
blood of the negroes is the seed of the party.
Here in Louisiana we have had many occa-
sions to note the small regard which is paid
by the Radical chiefs for the welfare of the
colored race as a mass. These chiefs are
white men in about four-fifths of cases, and
in the remainder shrewd and enterprising
mulattoes, half or freedom colored
men, with here and there q smart NJ gro who
has African blood entire and who had been q
slave until Lincoln's decree and the
failure of the Confseeracy set him Free
Taking these leaders as body they do not
sympathize with the laboring masses of the
freedmen, whose true element of prosperity
is an atmosphere of profound repose. The
leaders want agitation, turmoil, strife and ex-
element, while the rank and file need
rest, low taxes, quietude, an undisturbed
state of society, and that normal condition in
which the products of the farm will bring
most for the common benefit of the owner
and the tiller. The leaders are impudent,
the party is made up of humble colored men,
who wish to be left in quiet, peace and safety. |
The leaders are guilty of the continued and |
incessant crime of teaching false doctrine to |
the masses, of Turing them with futile hopes,
and Of diverting them from their true sphere.
White, parti- colored and black Radical poll
ticians are guilty Of serious crime in their
always varied and always re-
newed efforts to prove to the negroes that they
can live without work, and that they have a
right to all the property which they occupy
md cultivate.
Negroes, ignorant as they are, and incapa-
Die as they are of compromising complex
lotions, must at length discover the gross de-
,eption which has been practiced upon them
They have learned already that their black
nd white managers secure all the desirable
fices, and handle all the public money.
they have learned likewise that tax upon
he land is a tax upon the labor of the farmer,
,hether the laborer owns the land or not.
hey have learned that they are worse off
fter every broil and disturbance, and that
hose who cause troubles are either their {
arty leaders or very low set of white men.
hey are getting tired Of forming the pedestal
n which adventures are to plant themselves,
rrayed in the glories of Office, and feastipg i
pom the fat of the land. They are getting
specially tired of playing the role of martyrs 6
, the cause of carpet-bag ascendency, and of
ielding up their lives at the bidding of
amps, spoilshunters and vsgabond poll 9
clans. q
The endowment Of negroes with the privi- '
ge Of the ballot has brought into place, +
rominence and power in the South an army
audacious and INSCRIPTIONS scamps who r
q as fertile in resources as they are deficient b
principles. For years they have been the t
ride and boast of the.negroes, and accepted b
? them in full confidence as their counsel
s. their champions, their legislative guar Ii
ans and their political guides. But the .
'groes have been very often most grossly
I'd egregiously deceived; and now, after
ears of endurance, of arrogance and con-
macy, they are learning that their faith is =,
1t well founded, and that their old friends ?
9 far more to be depended on in all emer-
'ncies.
They are making up their minds that in
Q cabin, in the corn-crib, in the smoke
'use, in the poultry yard and in the school q
,use there is no good to be seen coming out Il
war with their old friends, the natve-born
nites. From Georgia, from Virginia, from
entucky, from Tennessee and from Texas, d