New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-02

to the Sumner memorial fund and make it
q power for the overthrow Of race caste.
OF the cheap popular edition Of Mr..
Summers works can only say that there is
an evident demand fur such an edition and
it is likely to be issued.
The enterprise in favor Of the industrial
civilization of the emsncipated race is not
80 Enlightened" as the proposed Sumner
Educational Memorial Fund" movement,
but in many respects it is Of equal import
ance. Many will consider it the more i'm
portant of the two. The object of tLis in
dustrial enterprise in behalf the negro is to
concentrate in some one Southern State all
the agencies and influences best calculated
to develop many y-sided industrial civiliza-
ton in which the IL fuence of the factory,
the farm, the railroad, and the steamship
shall be combined un lsr negro own ership
and management There are three States
at the South in which this work of indus
trial civilization can be favorably inaugu-
rated. These are South Carolina, Florida
and louisiana. In each OF these States is
found the essential conditi ons needed for
the success of the proposed undertaking.
Each State possesses cheap and productive
lands, large colored population, and the
command of q seaport. But it is very
probable that louisa ma will be selected as
the point on which to concentrate means
and effort in this matter. New Orleans al
ready possesses q cultured and wealthy
Afrioo-American society. The leaders of
this society could become at once the
successful managers of the important in
terests which would, in the nature Of
things, need to be intrusted to friendly and
competent hands. The African Creoles of
Louisiana could, for instance, participate
at once as managers in the proposed line of
steam between New Orleans and Brazil,
and kindred enterprises. They could have
q representative also in certain railroads in
which the State or national government
might be interested. They could manage
the trading associations, land companies or
cooperative societies which may be estab-
lished in Louisiana under this industrial
development movement. To these reasons
in favor of making Louisiana the battle
field of this industrial movement in favor
of the negro, may be added the tact that the
State holds within its borders the CONNER
cial metropolis of the Southwest, thus con-
Meeting the new civilization, through q
worldwide commerce with the culture and
wealth Of all nations. Louisiana is also the
geographical key Of the United States on
the Gulf Of Mexico. To build up cul-
tured, wealthy Africo-American society.
and civilization in Louisiana, therefore, is
to strike q fatal blow at race caste in the
United States.
This glance at "outside anti-slavery move
ments" in favor of the negro will serve to
show how utterly futile are all the efforts
of mere political "servers of the times" to
arrest the onward march of the cause of
humanity. Now as in the dark days of
Summers early struggle for the slave, the
cause of right is mighter than parties. The
concessions made to the cause of humanity
by both of the great political parties of the
republic will only serve to stimulate efforts
in behalf Of the education and the social
uplifting of the emancipated race. This
outside anti-slavery movement supplement-
ing both political parties will in time do its
perfect work. Originating in the influence
which Summers name still exerts in Mas.
sachusetts, this movement will again verify
the truth that mankind's benefactors never
die. B,