The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-07
GRATITUDE, THE CARPET.BAGGERS,
PLEA.
Mr.. Editor of Bulletin:

PLEA.
Mr.. Editor of Bulletin:
Mr.. Frye's dialogue with the colored witness
Hail. not only exhibits his unitness to be mem
per OF committee OF investigation, pre-eminen
" requiring judicial fairness, but it establishes
the fact OF his qualifications for a i,st-clast
carpet Dagger This conversation, if properly
considered, exhibits the almost insurmountable
dlfnculhes that stand in the way of cordial
| union OF both races for the common benefit OF
all. 1t contains in condensed form the appeals
that are m ade to the negro by the unprIncipled
men who come here from abroad.
Gratitude for past favors, under this system OF
P9n.lcal ethlcs, Is 70 supersede every other con-
slderatlon IN the adoption of political views and
IN the determination of political conduct. I'm
der this system Northern man. who represents
himself to be Republicsn in politics, although
not iaen!lned with the State, or having the
| slightest interest in its prosperty-an unpri CT
pied adventurer characterless vagabond des-
tltute OF every quality that constitutes moral or
intellectual excellence, who obtains Office for no
purpose but personal aggrancizement and for
his own ends imposes exhorbitant taxes, crush
Ing out every semblarce Of prosperity. and bring
ing the whole population, without distinction OF
color, to poverty, yet claims tie continued SUD-
port OF the negro, and obtains it too by the self
same arguments used by MIR. Frye, in his CONVEX
SAT- IN with Hall.
That political views when carried into practice
are intended to subserve the public interests. or
| that officials to execute the laws and carry the
policy into practice should be honest and capa
Die, Is not for one moment to be considered bv
the Degro; but the carpet-bagger must be voted
for because he voted and fought for the emanci-
patton OF the negro; whilst the old citizen. how
ever excellent his character, however much he
may be interested in faithful administration of
public affairs, however sound his views upon
questions of public policy, has no claims upOn
the suffrages of the negro.
L gratitude for services-fancied or reals to
SrIYt Ixa 10Th i
ton OF our candidates, or tbs adoption of our
poI1cy-Sratitude, not fer services rendered IN
advocating questions of present interest, but
rendered in behalf of cause that is settled for
ever then 1t carries with it as coro'lary, that
If one man is to be loved and exalted for this
reason. his opponent must be hated and de.
pressed.
There is no doubt that this has been the sole
cause OF the antagonism Of the blacks to the
whites, and has kept the colored people from
uniting with the whites in selecting honest and
capable men for office. The total depression of
every interest by msgovernment, the ia ct that
planters, through exec. sive taxation, have been
compelled to abandon planting altogt Their. or
curtal the number of their hands and greatly re- |
duce wages, have, in some districts, Weakened |
the negro to the TACT that he is also interested in
honest government, and if he pays no taxes d. |
rectly to the tax-gaherer, he has to paw indirect
ly IN loss OF employment and decreased wages
But Mr.. Frye, apparently not so far advanced |
as the negro as politician. advocates the con.
tinuance of folly which the negro is preparing
to abandon, not only as disastrous to his pecunia-
ry interests, but as placing him in antagoni, e;
and sometimes in hostility, to the whites-an un-
mitigated evil.
If gratitude s title to the suffrages of the
negro (Which Mr.. Frye with such bad taste i'm
phes) the claim Oft for the Republican party is
not well founded. Did this party make war on
the South for the emancipation of the negro, or
was it not a mere incident and consequence of
The war? 1t is well known that the Federal
Government would have abandoned emancpa-
lion up to within months of the close of the war.
had the South agreed to abandon secession. and
come quietly in o the Union. Mr.. Stewards Utica
speech establishes the fact beyond all doubt.
Then what pretensions have the Republicans to
me gratitude OF the negro, any more than the
;ecesslonlsts, who can truly cay: ''if we had not
seeded there would have been no war, and with. ,
'ut war the negroes would have yet been in !
'ondsge." Gratitude is only due for intentional ;
md disinterested acts of kindness. The negro
vas not held in bondage by the Southern man
because he was hated. Nor was he emancipated ,
because he was loved by the Northern man. So :
leither love gratitude is due to one, nor hatred
o the other. Gratitude is miserable plea but
UGH as it is the Republicans cannot of right !,
make it. !
The following is the dialogue alluded to :
Mr.. Frye-You did not want to be slave, did !
ou?
A.-We)l, it didn't make much difference to +
le. the way was treated. !
Q.-You didn's think your colored friends want !
d to remain iu slavery? =
A.-Oh! no, sir! 1t was good thing to set =
nem free.
Q.-And yet you have no respect for that party h
hich made your colored friends free and then n
ecured them the right to vote and all the RICH E
citizenship. You do not care anything about :.
nat?
A.-That was all right. :
Q.-You have no gratitude to them (the Repub- =
cans) for doing this, but you turn around and v
0te for men every one of whom voted against +
very one of those propositions, fought against !,
he proposition to make you free, and then voted .
yainst the proposition to make you citizen, to "
AXE you man, and then against the PROPOSE Il
on to give you the right to vote. u
A.-Well, 80 far as voting, it is something do :,
ot care much about. A. NJ. e
Messrs. M. L. Byrne & Co., 1853 Canal stree, q
q closing out their stock of winter goods at "
'eatly reduced prices. Call and see. f.
Pay visit to Messrs. Pierson & Hews Is and y,
Camp street, and examine their busirle IS VI
its. ~
Tickets for the Concert by the Old Folks at St. 81
tricks Hall, on Monday evening next, can be m
tained at A. B. Griswold & Co.'S, Tyler's and tt
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