New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-20
EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION TO GER
MAN IMMIGRANTS.

preston that Louisiana is not healthy
location for immigrants. They 90 not
fear the climatic effects, but have adopted
the idea that the bonhommie Of our French
population toward the invaders Of France
is not very cordial, and tina: the Red river
rovers are not as particular in shooting
the men they aim at as an average lmml-
grant would desire.
The Shreveport Times, in order to con-
vince all Germany that the Red river Set
Elements are among the most respectful
and respectable communities, and that
there is no such social violence prevailing
as the German press seems to apprehend,
publishes the following amiable and
neighborly notice, Here is the kindly
manner in which it notices The leading
Republican papers in Louisiana
The story of the outrage in this case was
nrinted first in the DentSche Lc'tanJ, and
subsequently translated into the New Or
leans REPUBLICAN,, paper when mas de-
voted all the years Ut lts evil bic to c!rcu-
-
the whites Of Louisiana. Tho purpose Of
the REPUBLICAN has been to create abroad
the impression that We are a race OF blood
thirsty wretches whose object 10 to WIN
POLITICAL control of the State by AN organ
lied system of intimidation end murder.
Only men whose .miiis!s are warped by
pre- iudce. and whose hearts are gangrened
with sectional hate. can give d moment 8
credence to such a theory: and 1t is % be
! "a Ia no in,
New Orleans is an honest and decent jour
nal. DESTROYS of serving it's people. that it
became party, to any extent, IN the RE
PCBLICANS infamous enterprise.
The offense in this case seems to consist
in our having given the Red river organ
the opportunity to know and disprove re-
ports which were injuring the character
of the State. Our offense seems to be
that We republished, the statement Of the
poor immigrant. Did the Times, then,
desire that it should have been concealed?
The statement in the German Gazette was
made on the assertion Of the unfortunate
immigrant. Assuming that our republi-
cation was intended to ipjure the fair
name of the Regulators Of Feliciana, it is
intimated that the German gazette is q
party by publication to the infamous en-
terprise Of the REPUBLICAN.
Does it tend to reconcile the humble
aud honest German to come to louisiana,
when an organ of their protection is de-
nounced for having published a state
ment Of violence done TO a German immi-
grant? We see not q word Of censure for
the lawless men who maitreated this poor
German family. The whole vengeance of
the Red river organ is leyeled against
the German paper which published the
and the REPUBLICAN,, which
copied the it. We are denounced because
We did not conceal this matter OF inter-
national notoriety.
There is further specimen Of Red
river literature, which we reproduce. l.
is intended to show that Fed river is an
attractive location for foreign capital and
people. First, as &c tie State govern
nent:
The troubles r Louisiana are traceabe to
an obvious and rational cause. and It IS
simply folly to attempt 10 explain them
upon the absurd hypG hesis that our white
people are villains ana murderers. The
State is IN the hands of Z ring 0! scoEn6rels.
who have not the shadow of right 20 office;
cowards. imbecilas and thieves. they are
l o. even capable of f!j-caar.ing with de-
-l,.,i. ,f to
army and navy of tn republic has been
used to bes.ow upon them. So despised
and weak i, the Kellogg usurp alton, so
[ enormously bad are its officers everywhere,
that the law affords no protection u life or
property. and the WLO,e power of what is
ca led the State government could not re
dress a street fight or arrest hog thief.
So much for the alleged chances Of pro-
lection from the State government. Next
as to the sound condition Of Red river and
Fel;ciana
For several years past, in some Of the
lower parishes. including West Feliciana,
where the judges, sheritts. justices of the
peace and nearly all other parish ntfcers
hare been ignorant negroes or unprinctp'ed
uhite Radicals, the negroes hare been Fob
bing the cotton .telds md gin houses Of cotton
IN tie seed stealing hogs, cattle and poulhy,
and IN the hours 81 the night carrying them
to country stores and surreptitlouslv selling
them to the shop keepers, who were well
aware that they we're buying stolen goods
many of them indeed being regular accom-
plces of the thieves. The planters who
were the victims Of this Eefarious business,
which recently became so extensive that it
involved large portion Of the cotton crop,
could obtain no redress at law, because all
the Ulcers of the law were in iuli eympa-
thy with the criminal parties.
The planters organized measures to PIT
a stop to this state Of things:
They began by giving the storekeepers
en- gagged in the midnight trade with the
cotton and cattle thieves, warning to desist.
Whereve this warning was acted upon, no
violence was done. In number of in
stances. the shopkeepers, embroidered and
defiant by years Of security in
their villainOus business with tho negro
thieves, refused to obey the warnings and
persisted in their rogue's work. The stores
OF these were burned up, and every right
man must justify the proceeding.
The general denunciation is thus de-
scribed:
This traffic with the negroes in stolen
cotton, cattle, hogs, and other commodities,
was not conducted by men all Of ore ma
There were Americans French
men, Jews and Germans engag ed in ii; and
the Americans, Frenchmen, Jews and
Germans who were engaged in it
al! suffered alike. The brotherin- law
Of the German referred to by the
Deutsche Zeitung IVES engaged in this
dirty business. We are informed, on tho
best authority, that for several years past
be had been able, through his illicit traffic
with the negroes, to ship more cotton, each
season, than the largest planters in the
He was twice warned to
4uit his lawless' midnight dealings with cot
ton thieves; he refused to do so. ard party
Of citizens went to his store and burned it
down. His relatives, who bad recently