New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-31
BE NOT DECEIVED.

| BE EOT DECEIVED.
We can not admire the chivalry b.
which the Patriot Democrat triumphs II
the power that surrounds it. True cour
age is calm. It is just. It never infame
existing prejudice to make an opportunit!
Of violence. There is no true glory il
awakening party or race hatred to oppres!
the weak. Suppose those who now seel
to revive the slumbering luminosity against
the immigrant and the negro were sud
denly to stand before an audience o.
Northern men. Would they use the
same violent language as at present:
They will think perhaps that they would.
We have seen much Of this violence Of
temper during the last war confronted
with irresistible power. We have known
it to permit the kindly intervention Of
Union men or the plants Of women to
obviate or soften sentence tina. may
have been too severe.
It is not by such temper tina. the affairs
Of a commonwealth are to be governed.
! Citizens should remember that a State
which, like Louisiana. requires capital
| and industry suffers greatly from party
lines which destroy the cooperation of
the whole people. If colored people are
to choose between voting as commanded
and death it can not certainly promote
the interests Of agriculture. When far the
greater part Of the labor is performed by
people ofcolor, there may be an exodus Of
this labor. When white men see citizens
driven from the country because they
differ in politics from those around them,
what motive has an immigrant to plant
his family amid such ostracism and dan
ger? Such state of public intolerance
is no better than that Of the Cherokee
Nation described in the late Dispatcher
The elections have always been more or
lees noted for violence and bloodshed, but
daring the present season the contest for
and sanguinary. Within the past ak |
weeks at least fifty persons have been either !
killed or wounded. the difference Of princl. |
pies between the Ross and Downing parties |
having changed 10 q mere feud between |
families or classes. Some of the white |
citizens of the Cherokee Nation are in great |
fear, and have appealed to the judic;a.
for protection.
This is natural for barbarians, but is
the persecution and murder threatened
by the Feliciaua neighborhood worthy OF
q civilized and just people? If the ma
jority Of the American people have given
to negroes constitutional right, is it for
men who comprehend the form Of gov
under which they live to accept
he protection and citizenship Of the
Union and openly nullify its laws? Were
he same intolerance visited upon the few
nd feeble communities which now mani
est such hostility of race and opinion the
ivilized world would be shocked at the
arbarisnd.
But the male ontents clamor for reform.
he greatest source and era of State and ,
ity corruption in Louisiana occurred .
urirg the administration Of the Den.oc- d,
acy in 1866, and of the Republicans
'om 1868 to 1872. The greater part of
lese corruptions Injured to the benefit Of ,
,e Democracy in the permanent mnnop- :
lies which still subsist. The Repub- .
cans arrested these corruptions, even at O
le cost of schism which threatened the 9
Iistence of the party. The Democracy 1
ok up the author Of these abuses
I'd made common cause with him in a ;,
i'd on the offices Of tie State. Every =
form in the State government since !;
~ has been made by the Republican .
Irty. Why, then, assume that the Dem =
ratio party.is pure, and that the Repub- !.
ans should be massacred? Prudent :,
en-, who have really some interest in the
ate, would unite with the Republicans
their efforts at reform, as evident in
cir fearless exposure Of all wrong IL
ne in the name Of the Republi- Il
n party. Reform, economy and s.
cial paciication is inevitable, pro- Il
led the prosecution of offenders is fe
nducted with prudence and resolution. e;
however, the sole object Of neighbor- 81
cd politicians is to shoot laborers, expel II
'publicans and courageously run off to N
e swamps when the force of the law is tt
piled to their apprehension, there may CT
more serious consequences than can be II
'eseen by those who perpetrate or per- p
t such acts. There are among US at NJ
ssent some respectable men who come "
m foreign countries to see the condi- m
n Of Louisiana. We set our house in ar
Ter, we even VIII tewash the palings for IN
I'm. Ours is the most fertile soil, our oil
ople the most hospitable, our city the ~
ATHEIST. Foreigners are welcomed, and Ii
rested capital is safe and labor compen- pa
ed. Suppose these visitors look lit 10
closer into the back premises. Let N,
m read the proclamation of death or an
lie 10 all who will not come to the CEN s.
parish club for policy of insurance tn
life or living. Will these visitors feel ~ ~
to venture life Or capital here, do
to advise others to venture? pa
The violent politicians who represent mi
lie except prejudice and famine Of a.,
ce, should not deceive themselves. ",
Il less should those who have some pr,
ng at stake be deceived. The federal MI
may pass into hands which eel
| permit the negroes to be slarch- | sui
al and white men driven off for ~.