New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-14
THEIR FRIENDSHIP FOR THE NEGROES


When one class Of the White Leaguer
60 for the colored people, with rifle O.
a revolver, another set procures his ran
som and safe conduct by engaging tina
he will not, if permitted to live, vote tn,
Republican ticket. So the colored maj
votes, metaphorically speaking, with {
shotgun pointed at his head. The col
ored voters have been compelled to rur
in under the guns of federal protection
The elections over, the friends of the
| colored people recommence the same
systematic abuse. This time without an,
protective intervention. They are the
unfa ling subject of ridicule. Does any
so-called Democrat advocate their educa.
ton to usefulness? Is there one Demo.
cratic proposal to afford them employment
in health or care in sickness We
have seen none. Upon theory the
capital of a country is interested in pro-
tecting the labor of the country. In New
Orleans, however, the class of Democratic
politicians have no interest in the crops or
commerce. They SOW abuse to reap salary.
They despise trade, as unworthy the intel
lect which can bargain for vo tes or nego-
tate fusion.
Recently the Democracy seems to have
recovered from its supreme scorn OF negro
association, and entered into extreme
intimacy with that race There is de-
partment of the Picayuae and of the Bul-
letin devoted to announcing what s'Pinch, :"
''Jim Lewis, "Charge Chester" and other
colored gentlemen are doing, and intend
to do. The manner in which this intimate
knowledge is acquired has startled the Re.
publicans. Is it possible the colored peo-
pie can have been so overawed, or even so
cajoled, as to communicate their most Sc
cret intentions to those who revile them?
1t can not be possible. The most probable
explanation is this: The P;cayune details
one Of its end men, who gets up in the
style of the Haverly Minstrels, and so
imposes himself on the unsuspecting in
tegnty of the colored race. We may i'm
agine this representative in spotless shirt
front and vest, black cloth suit wool wig
and scarle lips, accosting some confiding
person of color, flattered perhaps with the
company of the pic-man. A cigar,
drink, and the contiding person of color
discloses the intentions of Senator Pinch
back, the devices of ex-Administrator
Lewis, and the political aspirations
Of the distinguished counselor at law, who
emigrated from England to fill the pro-
fessional vacancy occasioned by the re-
moval Of an eminent advocate from Louis
lana to the courts of her most maternal
majesty OF England. The purpose and
policy of all these prominent Republican
leaders thus become known to the end
man Of the Picayu,x. who has nothing to
do but to divest himself of his wool. lamp
black and lips, and publish to the Won
dering world facts which travel ahead of
truth, as Liverpool telegram arrives here
- oA"A AiO"i0 eAAA0"u "a aCiull tlluc. lOlS
enterprise has struck the Buh-
et'n with dismay, and it may possibly out
10 the end man of the PIC. 1t NAV come
The plantation niger" business on rs.
Discard the more elegant speech Of the
;olored conversationalist Of Haverly, and
appear with SLOUGH hat, patched pants,
great coat, and dialect of the old negro
quarter. We should not be, indeed, aston
shed if the Bulletin should appear with a
'anjo, and brealc do,cn to secure earlier and
more authentic head lines on "Pinch"
md ''Jim.'
But, passing from these trihes, We would |
lsk all reasonable people how this con-
inued abuse Of the colored people can at |
ract their confidence or abate their alarm?
Ne by no means desire to reconcile the |
olored people to our political opponents.
We comment upon this obvious assault |
lpon the labor and usefulness of the colored !
people, because we know that no Demo. !