The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
A FEW BAD MEN.
CIVIL RIGHTS.

ixed upon Monday, March /, as day {
fasting and prayer, and issued an address t
the American people pleading for the enjoy
ncnt of every civil and political right, an
that they should be permitted TO lead quie
and peaceful lives in all goodness an
honesty, with ample protection for thei
brethren in the South from the few bad mel
that prosecute them.
To the prayer Of this dispatch we, in th'
name of all the decent men Of the Southern
States, respond with most hearty amen
Those 'few bad men" have done, are doing
and will do all the mischief. From then
good Lord deliver US +, Some Of them came
with the Federal army as suffers, quarter
masters, suttlers clerks, captains and lieuten-
ants of quartermasters, agents Of transporta-
ton, clerks of agents, friends Of clerks OF
agents. male and female attaches of quarter
masters, suffers agents and clerks, ana the
great body of the non-combatant members of
the great Union army. From all these our
people could have said ''good Lord deliver
u.s."
But after the war they came back, these
pompous generals, these sleek, moustached
colonies, these jewel-bearing quartermasters,
these genteel captains these superclious
clerks, these army messengers, these buyers
and sellers, thinkers, barterers and traders,
these war spectators, these distant smelers
of gunpowder, these keen-scented snappers
up of unconsidered tritles. The first inva-
sion was solemn, impressive, grand earnest
the invasion of soldiers an act in the always
terrible drama Of war. The second invasion
was that Of spectators, vagabonds, camp
followers, vile tricksters, gamblers, cabin
haunting spies, mock preachers, miserable
scoundreis who brought nothing and who
carried away all that they could steal nasty
wretches some of them, but all eager for
Office, all working to cnkindle the anger of
the blacks against the whites, all whispering
into the ears of colored citizens nflamm atory
lies, all bent on mischief, disorganization and
plumber.
OF honest advice to those lately emanci-
pated they have given none Mt all OF honest
help they have given nothing. They have
lived here on the fat of the land. They have
Jared sumptuously every day. When they
full of bonds. They flourished here like the
green bay tree planted by the rivers of water.
They travel i'll Europe. Their daughters
marry Eastern millonaires. Many of them
are as near to being gentlemen as combined
BARRIERS, cordwainers, hatters, tailors. jewellers
and seam stresses can make them.
They 90 to the Globe Theater and every
where else except into gentcel society They
own stocks in many institutions, for sons Of
which they have actually paid, in cash stolen |
cash, it is true, but still cash. Their inhu-
ence is felt in many institutions not except |
ing the press Every officer has his disciples;
each of these have retainers of another |
grade; these lesser retaners have their re-
taincrs, and so the clrpet-bag power descends
from Grant through Casey and Kellogg to an
army Of negro field hands, who form tie vot-
ing Radical party of Louisiana.
But the :" few bad men are the white vaga-
bonds, the infamous white scoundrels, the
cunning and unconscionable white scamps
who cajole, deceive, inilame and cheat the
colored men. Next Monday all the coored
bishops, all the colored preachers, all the col
Ored brethren all tho colored sisters of the
colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and TO
the colored Southern Baptist Church, ought
to join in and pray with might and main
strength that their brethren in the South may
be delivered from these !" few bad men.
These . bad men are the worst enemies they
have on earth. But for them peace would
now prevail MI over the Southern States as it
does in Arliansls IS, Georgia and Texas. Take
away these " few bad men, and the soldiers
whom they have brought here, and we should
have i dead calm of serene and perfect
peace.
Our colored friends cannot dead quiet and
peaceful lives 50 long rs their quietude aud
peace are disturbed by carpet baggcrs and
rs to "godness" and .honesty" they cannot
expect to attain to them until they have put
far away from them the most ungodly. the
most dishonest, the meanest. the most impu-
dent, the toulest and the most despicaele race
Of tempters and false counse!ors that the
world ever knew.
For the coming occasion, March LIST, form
Of prayer will readily suggest itself, beginning l
''Good Lord deliver us from the few bad men
that prosecute us T. etc. But rather than bor-
row from forms held in reverence we present t
A sketch from life which truly shows what the a
average colorcd man really thinks and how he c
really feels. Our sketch is from the New !
York Independent and sets forth: '
UNCLE BrLLN's oRIEC TONS 70 CIVIL RIGHTS.
l"interviewed Uncle Billy, good, old I
colored friend of mine, the other day, on the t
question of civil rights. +
Don't want muffin mo-, said Uncle Billy !,
. Got too much already fur dis niggah.
How is that, Uncle Billy? Is it not
good thing to be equal before the law Z"
Now, MarSe Boss, grunted Billy plain ;
lively +" dar iist whar de misery comes in
We're ekal boto' de law, an dar yer hit our !
weak pint. Beto' de waw, ef niggah stole !