New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-28
FREETOWN AND FELICIANA.

the result of the higher law doctrine
taught by violent politicians to people
who are responsible for the advantages o
ordinary education in labor and morality
1t is lidiculed by the Democratic pres.
as an april hoax"
The Christmas riot in Freetown sprung
from the political antagonism of race
sedulously instilled into the mind of the
whites on the one hand, with the lawless
propensities of people whose instruction
is not cared for. The report of such violen
proceedings, mixed with savage deeds O
murder and robbery, so prejudice the
alien mind as to have checked the mi
| grafton Of white people to Louisiana. Il
can not be doubted that every rival com
munity which has lands or business tc
offer, inculates upon those who may have
! capital OF enterprise to invest. the ex,
treme danger to either to be incurred by
Louisiana. In war among the China.
men Of Virginia City, one of the chiefs
is thus reported.
Sam Sing was business man, he said
and wanted to make money out of his store.
VIXEN fighting was going on down in CHINA
town white people would nor come down
and buy pork; therefore he wanted no hghs
ing,
Here is an attrac tive schedule outlined
in the heading of a contemporary: Free
towns Bloody Field" Desperate Fight
Between Whites and Blacks" Christmas
Riots"
This conflict OF races should not be-
and we presume is not subject of jest or
of triumph among any considerate citi-
zens. There are some philosophers who
will say aha such we always told you
would be the result of emancipation. !"
If emancipation shall be followed by the
persistent prescription and persecution of
the colored millions, who shall determine
whether any concomitant Generalization
shall have been caused By emancipation
or by prescription?
Suppose the philosopher shall triumph
in the addition of the colored race in the
United States to the demoralized popula-
ton of st. Domingo and Jamaica? Sup
pose that within the next quarter of a
century the land is filled with an idle and
prodlgate population? Who will suffer?
The seedy old political philosopher, who
may have watched the experiment. will
naturally prefer the success of his pre-
dictions-albeit not from the causes upon
which his theory was based-to the pros
perity of the country, will be gratifed.
The owner of property, the head of a
grown family; the men of enterprise, who
rely upon the productive prosperity OF the
country, will suffer from tie ignorance,
violence and restitution which surround
them.
1t is duty to call the attention of
property owners and men of business
who intend to remain in this country to
this great danger. The Democracy is
avowedly hostile to the political rights of
the negro. They are opposed to his edu-
cation, and they have driven him from
employment because he refused to sur
render the right of free suffrage and vote
upon dlctation. The Democracy has held
also that the negro should not be en-
ployed in anything white man can do.
We have had the clergy making the same
distinction of races, and we have seen the
Protestant clergy of this city doing
nothing to aid in the Sunday or other
schools the moral instruction of the
negro children. Thousands of dollars
may be collected for foreign missions,
yet heathenisn may grow up in our
midst
We treat this subject as measure of
social economy. If all classes and colors
are taught industry and morality, they are
more easily governed, and the common
prosperity is greater. If those responsible
for the moral and industrial culture of
either Feliciana or Freetown neglect or
dsspise their duties, the consequence will
fall on those who are too permanently
established here to get away. The man
of enterprise may close out his business
and seek some better location; the capital
ist may withdraw his investment here and
place it elsewhere; even the most recent
carpet-bagger may take up his wallet and
walk; but the oldest and the best, the
most embittered and intolerant and ILL.,
tempered enemy of republican principles
and emancipation will be doomed to watch
his gin house in Feliciana, and remove
from the borders of Freetown. Educa-
ton, morality and employment are but
vaccination and disinfection against the
immoral malaria, whose germs find their
original centre in such representative
points az we have named, and will without
resistance overspread the whole State. D..
THE PRER0GATIvEs OF A STATE AUDITOR,
A communication, Nar, Vo.l-