New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-26

NEW ORLEANS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1875 .,>.


= =. The Brashear Fizsle. -.
Three days after the labor strike at Bra
shear City. and alter the town had been re-
; ported al quiet, the Times despatched q
REPRESENTATIVE to the scene, !" and We learn
that
The Affairs on closet acquaintance pre.
sect deep .uudercurrent. having for it's
DRIFT general strike throughout the coun-
try in the Brashear section. From INQUIRY
1t appears that the Hon. c. B. Darrall and
j. Hale Sypher, with an eye to kusib@ss in
the coming campaign. have, figurativelv
speaking, taken the stump in party oppo-
sitiOn. p.
Darrall & Co. have organized associations
in the several towns along the Teche. for
plantations and dividing the land among
the members pro rata, but in reality, &C.
cording to popnlar opinion, forming gipau-
tic iaborers' Unien. whose strength is in
tended to be applied. for political purposes.
Of course it was closer and not a
"closet" acquaintance which discovered this
deep undercurr.nt through the aid of q
local light with political aspirations. The
paragraph lie noticed only becauee it ap-
pears to upjustly, and in manner not war
rsnted by facts, connect Mr.. Darran and
General SyPher with the strike of six coal
beavers in the employ Of Morgan's man,
Mscready. The correspondent goes long
way to make the connection-very many
miles up the Teche. to the Sypher planta-
ton, where the General has sufficient. en-
ployment in attending to his own business
| and he draws upon the imsginasion to con-
jure up q political campaign that should
bring Congressman Darrall 20 the stump,
when he has been recently elected and re-
ceived certificates of election from all reeu-
lar and eo-called Governors in the State. :
If q strike had been meditated. by .any
/ pefsOn or organized body, it was certainly
very badly managed, and the strikers a.
lowed the employers to commences the
fight. 1t appears Jim Harrison and five
other men on .Morgan's, wharf expressed,
dissatisfaction at the wages they had been
receiving, and the foreman told them. to
leave. Az these men were on Morgan's
premises, the Morgan policeman naturally
concluded he had right to put them off.
asd II ia ufd he ,fid 1Uby using his plitol.
Now. so far - the strike was cohcsrned, it
was an original venture and grumble with
the six men who did not want to work auy
longer at the price. No other men in Nor
gans employ stopped work out of the usual
hours Of rest, even during the greatest ex-
citement in TOWNS The six coal beavers
who struck could not expect,to cripple Mr.
Morgan's bdsiness. They simply grum-
bled, were kicked out, and made a
noise about it, which patuxally gathered a
crowd. Under great ment al excitement the |
mayor telegraphed to New Orleans for
guns. saying trou BE was expected. After
few arrests of thJse likely to create dis.
turbance things quieted down. Mr.. parrall !
stood bond for the 1aborers arrested, and !
prominent citizens of the town stood re- !
sponsible for the appearance of Morgan's
men. This was the riot of Brasbear, the
terrible uprising of blacks, its beginning /
and end. The anonymous telegraphic dis
patch which found its way into the city
papers proved to be full OF misstatements
and exsggerations, made up for a special
In it's recoil it has hurt the town
OF Brashear more than it has helped the
Democratic party in the parish of St. Mary.
During the excitement in the town there
was developed much enmity against MIR.
Rene Macready, Mr.. Charles Morgan's re- !
sponslble agent at Brashear. This can only
be explained by the nature of the com.
plants Of the poor people in his employ.
They complain that their wages are paid to
Them inthe store Of Mr.. Ernhann. The Times
Investigator does not get at this phase of
he incidental disturbances. The amounts
1ue Mr.. Ermann by laborers were business
transactions between man and man, and !
'hould not have interested Mr.. Macready. !
instead Of keeping up the dignity of his
position, and paying wages at his Office, or
N the spot where work was done, it has
'een the custom to pay Morgan's men at q
store in the town, and as this was ]
lone at the request of the storekeeper it ]
Dust be inferred that the keeper of the i
orner grocery made something in the way g
+ trade BY the operation.
We have reason for belle wing that Mr..
dacready has been instructed to make his
isbursements upon his own premises in =
1ture, and hope to hear no further com
laint in that direction.
1t is not strange that the smallest dis 4
lrbance OF laborers, for any cause, where
olored men in the South are concerned, is 8
'agnified immediately into an uprising of D
,e blacks, with political significance. 1t =
the custom Of the country. The late +
eorgia "insurrection" is an example. Ifa Fl
'lored man makes complaint bee ouse he is J.
't paid, or rs not paid enough, he is liable
be shot. If his friends interfere there is
ynal for general row, and the Asso- :,
ated Press is happy. Colored laborers v
Q much like white laborers doing the !,
me kind OF work. only q little more pa y,
mt, temperate and humble. They do the a.
ugh hard work of this country, and they ~
it peacefully and we'll when reasonably 4;
Ill treated. ~
The Brashear story has side different m
I'M that told by the first telegram. and it se
q not be nationalized to Democratic ad- ne
ntage. The casualties of the riot are one or
two small wounds, and one man appear. co
with one ear missing. None were an
led, and all colored meh are attending to
,ir business RI
Sermons By Rev. d. NJ. Palmer.