The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-12
HOW THE MEDICINE Is WORKING.

HOW THE MEDICINE Is WORKING
The so-called "Civil Rights bill I" is tn
solitary return the Republican party ha
made to the colored men for their Underwriting
fidelity to the party whose leaders have 81
long used them to destroy every vestige o
prosperity in the States where they all live
Had the "rebels" been permitted to dea
with the most most momentous problem 9
evolving something like order out of tn
chaos produced by the sudden emancipation
Of their former slaves, the preposterous as
sumption that the huge mass of ignorance in
vested with rights they were totally un6
even to understand were the only inhabitants
Of the Southern States qualified to exercise
the elective franchise would not have been
made a part of the Constitution, and the
magnificent prospect thereby exhibited
to every penniless scoundrel from the North,
and to every contemplate dirt-eater from the
South, who were ready to wallow in the mire
with the ''man and brother that thrift
might follow fawning, would not have
been opened with the lamentable results we
all see around us. The Southern whites,
If left to themselves, would soon have con-
cluded friendly alliance with their late
spite of all the Radical secret leagues, still
trust them and believe in them with the un-
erring instinct which God has given
them, and which the experience of carpet-bag
and scalawag government has made as strong
as Holy Writ in the minds and hearts of the
most intelligent and respectable portion of the
freedmen. They have learnt by dire expert
ence that the men who professed to be their
peculiar and exclusive friends were only
wolves in sleeps skins, and that the very
the government of the land we all live in,
were, after all, their only reliable guides and
teachers. It is truism 10 Louisiana, and we
presume in every other reconstructed
State, that the intelligent and industrious col
ored man has far greater confidence in his So
called "rebel" employers than the smooth
tongued and Shiny "loil" jailbirds, who,
in their self-elected capacity of guardians OF
the "nation's wards have managed to live
luxuriously on the plumber Of their former
masters, and to fill every Office of honor and
profit, leaving to their dupes the crumbs and
bones of the stolen banquet. Like Acteons
dogs, however, the famished hounds whose |
wrath they have justly incensed are just now |
very eager to devour them, and so far as Lou |
isiana is concerned, we have the best reasons |
to believe that the colored voters through |
whose submissiveness and ignorance the whole |
brood of political leeches, both native and i'm |
ported have been able to lord it over their |
betters, and to suck the very life-blood OF the |
whole people, white and black, will soon
be compelled to pack up their carpet-bags, |
and stand no longer on the order of their |
going, but will be invited to depart at once |
and forever by the very men upon whose con-
fding ignorance they have SO long battened
The negro begins to understand that his in
terests are identical with those of the white |
man who is real, bona fde resident of the |
South, and that his future welfare is bound |
mp with that of the people he has known |
from infancy and who understand his def
ciencies and sympathize with his wants with
out making deceitful promises to him, or I'M
to wheedle him into destructive |
or the political slavery repre-
sented by their so-called Union Leagues and
other secret, and, therefore, anti-republican
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