New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-08

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citizens condemned the assassination; tn
massesoould not conceal their expression
Of delight at so foul~A crime. There ap
peared to be a disposition to make thu
secession States too hot for Union hands
The status Of the black man was not de-
fined. Hehad his freedom through North
ern favor; but he had nothing else. LEFT
unaided he would have virtually been re-
duced 70 slavery. His former masters
enacted laws which made the black mar
! a prisoner if found ct q certain season
! OF the year without labor contract.
There was no such law for the white va.
grants. 1t was not argued that the freed
man. who had been deprived of education
and liberty. could vote intelligently at
that time. any more than an unlettered
foreigner. just arrived and freed from the
| yoke of monarchy could vote understand
! ing!y: but it became necessary that he
| should vote. il only for self.protection, SO
she was enfyanchised and voted for men
more than measures. He was SO obtuse
as to vote for men who fought for him
instead Of against him. It was continually
dinned into his ears that Republicans
were ''nigge. worshipers. The right,
OF colored men, which came from the war
have been yielded to them step by step
under the pressure OF laws enacted. Men
here have grown poor fighting the in.
evitable. They pay for their prejudices,
and. perhaps. ought to have them. In.
sane color lines and white leagues were
formed to massacre and kill off the only
means left by which prosperity could be
restored. The South depended upon
negro labor. It was strictly lawful for
white man to sit down and grumble, do
40 work. and tel! how things used to be
tefore the war: bu: it was rather out of !
the line Of his duty to shoot black men,
and our best citizens always condemned
such playfulness. The President said,
"Let US have peace Our people ridi.
culed the idea. Peace was not popular,
because Grant advocated it. Ave have
had several little rebellions since the
great war. mostly got up by men not dis
for bravery. The Democratic |
party has always been q clog before !
The wheels Of progress. This is re-
Ferred to now only to show how
and faithfully Republicans have
abored to bring order out Of chaos. We
nave an undivided union of States,
equal rights to all under the law, and a
southern country on the verge Of pros
oerity heretofore unknown. Laborers are
working WELL and crops Of fabulous rich
less are coming in. Louisiana is in
better condition than ever. The Demo-
rats may succeed in destroying the ma.
hinery Of the city Of New Orleans under
heir control, they may kill it as bust.
less place. sell its furniture. and play lot.
cry with the proceeds. but they can not
ill the State, nor other States.
The picture Of wa. is not pleasant
len ike to write CORY books, but they
hould not be read. We come now to
'eace, and we have the first real peace
ince the late war. It crops out the more
trongly on accoun: Of centennial memo
les Of times when other Americans
ought. but did not fight each other.
here is better feeling all along the
ne. The Semneses. Toombses, Hills
nd other howlers have not gall enough
1T to keep up sectional bitterness. In
S6l a Massachusetts regiment was fired :
n in the streets Of Baltimore, where the
rss Union blood was shed. On the
aventeenth Of las: month the Fifth | 4:
[aryland Regiment is received by a
regimen. in The streets of /
oston. and the two bodies march to.
ether as brothers and American soldiers.
was millennium time. where the North !
i'd South walked down together and Ben
utles led them The General OF the
my spoke to them at the foot of the +
eat monument, and they glosifed him;
son Of the Lees stood there also. and :
'oke feelingly and proudly Of his fathers i
TIERS share in the war Q. the revolution,
ID they worshiped him. There was ns
ought of secession there. II the South
IS erred, has it not suffered: On the
OF June there were not fend- t
! politicians enough in the land to get
} rebellion. Reasonable people were
ming the country on that day. and they
ould continue to do 80.