The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1875-12-28
TIMELY AND BRAVE COUNSEL.


highly commend the sensible resolves
and the intlomitablc spirit of the editor,
and we presume the people for whom he
speaks. The New Orleans DEMOCRAT
must be allowed to think IL IL true that
the inhabitants who settled Louisiana
originally US It's owners, and the people
who afterwards acquired IL by honor
able and amicable treaty, with their
descendants, are PROFESSIONALLY right
In declining TO submit quietly To the
political domination Of carpet bag politi-
clans who have no interest In the coun-
try except In u disgraceful hunt after
Offices and plumber, and OF negroes
recently made citizens and suddenly
invested by act Of Congress with the
ballot. An idea OF such patient sub
mission cannot be justified by any code
OF Reason or Right, or by any rule Of
social progress or liberality.
In saying this, we do not wish to en-
courage any feelings OF prejudice or
hostility to the newly made citizens OF
African race on American soil, nor do
we advise, far from II, vindictive or VIC
lent means I'm endeavoring to accom-
plish political results. Generally the
worst thing that men can do Is to VIC
late the laws, II at all cndurable, and
certainly Louisianians have been so
long accustomed to bad government
and laws that they have been taught to
live quietly, II with natural ilnpatience,
under them. It is clear, however, that
neither the Constitution OF the United
States nor Of tho State, nor any law re-
quire the Caucasian people In Louisi-
ana, II they can prevent IL by argument,
organization, and the ballot, to allow
the government to remain either in
the hands OF blacks, or OF inferior and
corrupt whites, depending principally
on the blacks for their Offices and pros
tituted power.
There Is certainly not one Northern
or Western State, not even Massachu
sets or Vermont, that would willingly
submit to such inevitable devastation or
degradation. In one solid column, too,
all the Southern States, from Missouri
and Maryland to the Gulf, with the ex-
ceptlon OF miserable South Carolina
and possibly Florida, have stcrnly re-
fused to accept such destiny Of moral
and political inferiority Why should
louisiana, In a situation not more hope
less than that in which many Of the
other States appeared at one time to be
placed, not to wish and try TO throw
on, with one supreme effort, the incubus
which has demonstrated for ten long
and suffering years the incapacity of
the carpet-baggers, supported by Radi-
cal negroes, to do anything more than
to disgrace and ruin the commonwealth.
In making this effort, too, there is no
occasion for exhibiting the least un
kindness OF unnecessary abuse of Afri
can citizens.
No encroachment Is intended, or If
designed could possibly be effectual, ON
the rights guaranteed by the laws, in
the exercise OF which all classes Of citi
zens protect and elevate themselves in
society. Every intelligent negro in Lou
islana has come to understand that his
own freedom and fundamental rights
are secure, and that the real issue is
not between him and the white men,
who exist upon the soil as their natural
and lawful heritage, together with
all those residents here from
other States, who are identified with
them and sympathize with good gov
eminent, but practically between Office
seeking and alien Adventures from all
quarters OF the land, and native scala
wags, more contemplate even than the
carpet-baggers themselves, all more or
less morally and intellectually ire
sponsible, and the white men Of char
acter, education, property interests in
the community, and thoroughly respon-
sible to u public opinion which they
recognize and fully appreciate. Under
precisely such circumstances thousands
OF colored men in other States have
voted with the Democracy, and thous-
ands In Louisiana will, we are sure. il
properly approached, do the same
thing.
At any rate, In reproducing the OK
tract from the Amite City Democrat, we
have deemed it not improper to pre-
face it with these remarks. Our spirited
contemporary says:
IL ever a people have been goadcd to
desperation, ii ever they have had cause
Tor lynch-law and for arms, If ever a
people were justified in plunging land
into the vortex OF war and desolation,
Louisianians are among that number,
and yet they have borne it with forti-
tude characteristic of their iaw-abiding
proclivities. 1t remains for the people
OF Louisiana to work out her destiny in
1876, and II they cannot redeem her, it
were better that they should perish i'm
the struggle to do it, than to live in the
same whirlpool of crime, OF infamy, and {
misery which have beset them so long.
The laws of nature and of God can :
not and will not be set at naught. If
history repeats itself. and there is truth
IN the inspired Word, the same fate |
which overlook the descendants of the q
wicked Canaan, Sodom and Gomorrah, I
anu the amalgamationists Of the ante .
diluvian ages OF the world, will befaIl
those who have been, and still are seek
lng to override the Divine de- Il
csees, and procure negro social |
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