New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-17

class. Il thus remains that Southern
Democrats deliberately corrupted the ne
groes. co.operated with the needy adven-
ture', deprecated the character and credit
of their State and imposed upon their tel.
low citizens desolated by war excessive
and dishonest taxes as source of income
for themselves We can imagine an ad-
venturer saying: These Southern people
have so terrified the negroes by labor
laws and slaughter that they must look
out for other advisers. We will avail our
selves OF the opportunity and pluck the
last pin feather Of the forlorn pelican.
But could we realize that Southern gen.
tlemen. Democrats and State rights pa
triots should strike hands with these ad.
venturers and say: These are our country
men. They are poor, preiudiced and dis
tracted. Their property is of little value:
their resources are barely sufficient 10
support existence. Their lands are under
water and their credit is destroyed. Come,
let US unite. We will pay you five thou
sand dollars head, and you will sell the
miserable remains of property which our
fellow-citlzens, neighbors and constit.
uents possess 20 make US and our heirs
opulent forever. The Adventures are
callous to contempt; they have disap.
peared. The Ignorant negroes" have
shown thoyOuo1vaa ~
perpetrated in their name by the
reforms which the have made. The
Southern State rights Democrats still re.
joice and revei in their levee tax, their
canal tolls, their butchers meat and mar
ket monopoly. They patronize yachts
and the drama, and run political clubs on
the fruits Of lottery monopoly. For these
men there is no other censure than the
generic and general denunciation copied
above. Their connection with Democracy
is as intimate as it ever was, and their
patronage as freely received and far more
freely bestowed than it ever was. It is
the salt extracted from the tears of the
wisdom and from the sweat
Of Confederate toll What cares the
Democracy where it comes from,
out OF what bitter material il may have
been eliminated through the chemistry of
fraud? It is employed in the se,vics Of
Democracy, which thus fattens on the
substance aud sorrows Of its own people. !
We make this article not that our circu.
ation goes 20 the Shreveport readers, not
that it will be treated with decency by the |
Shreveport Times, but to furnish Repub.
leans with an answer 70 the vituperation
II that paper. We wish to vindicate Re-
publicans to themselves.
The war whoop has, however, been
sounded in Feliciana, Caddo and Bossier.
t bodies no good to white OF black who do
,ot give q pledge to vote the Democratic /
ticket. II is . notice to all white
'ettlers with Republican opinions to
ave their scalps by flight. The White
League cavalry will be feorganized.
The disbanded details who have been
on swamp beef and al occa-
ional German pedlar, will soon be needed
gaia for service whenever there may ap.
Dear An unlawful assemblage Of negro
'oters. The game may be to carry the
lection by terror, or compel the Gov
rnor to call for federal aid: either would
ttain the object Of matchmaking" the
roes Of Louisiana, and making them an
ssue in the election Of 1876. While,
|oveves, this may be the plot of the
shreveport Times, We may anticipate that
be planters and business men have lost
DO much by turning their interests over
0 the politicians to continue the game.