New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-17

| sHo Noioieu people and ourselves. we
will show
l. That the perfect physical protection
OF the negro is impossible by any military
force whatever. This is obvious from the
character and extent of the country and
Tie success with which lawless bands
nave slain not only colored, but white
men The presence of federal troops ex-
| asperates the vengeance of INSCRIPTIONS
partlsans and the inevitable withdrawal
OF those troops has been, in many in
stances, succeeded by deeds of violence,
almost in wanton insult to the attempt at
protection. History affords instances in
which men obnoxious to fanatics or to
enemies INSCRIPTIONS in their means of
injury, have been assassinated when sur
rounded by guards and armies.
The Republican party has made the at
tempt to deter from or retaliate for these
acts of violence. Under the law to punish
the secret assailants of the negro, num-
bers of ku-Klux were convicted and con-
fined in distant prisons This merely
caused change Of tactics by which the
negroes were kept from the polls, or in
duced to vote the Democratic ticket by
threats of personal injury, SO that while
MIR. Lamar, Of Mississippi, boasts the
protection of every human being without
regard to color or condition, the Repub-
hcan majority in Mississippi has been
overthrown.
The white Republicans stanu pledged
to assure the negroes their political rights,
and have defended those rights at the
cost, in many cases, of social prescription
and even of life itself They will still do
their duty faithfully but this exposition
shows the extreme difficulty which has
been heretofore encountered
1t becomes, then, the duty of all those
who are the friends of the colored people.
or the social welfare of the South, to ex-
anime whether there be not some basis of
permanent harmony between two races
whose reciprocal services are indispensa-
BILE to each other. The co-occupation of
the Southern States, and especially of
Louis ana, by these two races. must last
Tor generations to come. That the color
line drawn by the one or the other race
must restrict the negroes of the South to
their own political resources, is plain.
That the white race, which holds so much
OF the property and position of the coun-
try, and which increases every year by i'm
migration, should offer formidable im,
pediments to the political supremacy of
the colored race, can not be disputed. |
That competition of race numbers can
end but one way was shown several years
ago by Mr.. Dunn, then the honored |
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
The extension of military or numerical |
protection to the colored people, if they
separate or permit themselves to be sepa-
rated by color line is, then, to our mind,
palpably impossible The first and logical
effect OF such separation would be analo-
5ous to that sectional separation which
compelled in the late war the men of each
section to side with their respective sec
ions. The color line drawn would evil
iently compel many white Republicans to
or to side with their race, be-
'ause they could expect no protection or
at the hands of the colored
We deprecate such separation, and
would recommend more peaceful and
PRACTICAL mode Of securing protection.
l. The colored Republicans should vote
or no candidate who does not maintain
he Republican construction of the consti-
ution as amended and enacted.
2. They should vote for no man unless
lis established integrity guarantees an
lonest performance of duty.
8. The colored Republicans should de-
nand of all representatives the enactment
# such laws, and the adoption of such
ocial measures as will promote: l. The
noral 2. The intellectual; 8. The in
l
ustrial improvement and employment of
he colored people, as well as of the white
eople.
The adoption of such action on the
art of the colored people will demon
trate their indispensable value in all the
ervices and industries Of social life. It
I'LL qualify them more and more for the
ischarge of those official and representa-
We duties to which all men have right
aspire. 1t will make the hundreds of
of colored people far more
ontented in the daily performance of
compensated industry, and in the respect
II consideration of whole people de-
endent on them for agencies which can
e furnished nv no other yonulot;o, =;