New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-16

to this advocate of white immigration
who will profit by it? Mr.. Thomas A
Hendricks, of Indiana, who, we lear1
on newspaper authority, voted agains
the last constitutional amendments ma,
triumph in the failure of emancipation
He and others who live beyond the in
fluence Of the act may with IMMUNITY re
joice in the refutation of abolition. Blu
if the social condition of the South bt
as We have quoted, what is to become O.
the people here? Your valuable sugar
estate-we might say to some Of the Con
necticut Creoles on the Teche-is moi
worth its taxes. Mr.. bennett reports
that you can not rear stock, and that il
will not be fitting vicinage in which to
rear a respectable family near such q
| horde of ''barbarians" as surround your
| estate.
With all your fertility you can not Sc
cure crop. With all your pasturage you
send to New York for your butter, or to
England for your condensed milk. Sup
pose the Connecticut Creole replies: l
always thought abolition mistake, even
when I bought out the impoverished
STAKEHOLDER at ten cents on the dollar. I
rejoice, says the White Lacquer, with re-
volver at his hip, to have refuted the
theories Of Charles Sumner, even at the
cost of ruin to my fellow-citizens. Really,
Mr.. bennett seems the sickest land
agent we have ever known sent into
the foreign market. Suppose, however,
we agree to the tendencies to which Mr..
bennett refers? 1t would then become
the interest of society to educate-to in
struct-to employ the negroes. If they
decline in morality and industry, if they
become vagabonds and thieves, who will
suffer? Our own people, and especially
those who own lands.
We would remind Mr.. bennett that the
millennium of which he speaks is by no
means at hand. His work shows that the
colored population exceeded in 1870 that
of the whites. The census of 1875 claims
that this excess has been increased to
twenty thousand. The importation of
negro labor, without having to pay for
the laborer, is natural. Louisiana offers
more inducement to the colored laborer
than any other Southern State, and there
will always be the same tendency to this
immigration until the free trade Democ-
racy repeal protection in sugar and rice
The immediate extinction of the negro
race by natural decline can not be ex-
pected The federal census of 1870 shows
a diminished rate of reproduction, but
positive increase of nearly half million.
The increased cotton crops produced
show an undiminished capacity for labor.
With these facts, at what date does Mr.
bennett expect this substitution of white
for colored labor will take place in Louisi-
ana? That is question in which no man
living can possibly take personal inter-
est. 1t could only be precipitated by the
massacre or deportation of the colored
laborers. We may imagine that when
either means shall be preferred by the
Democracy it will be met as was the de-
cree for the deportation of the Moors by
he Spanish landholders and manufac-
urers-with circumstances.
With these views We should recommend
% those who really value the future of
Louisiana to commence at once such |
social treatment Of the negroes as will keep |
hem intelligent and respectable. Do not |
Il anger abandon them to bad advisers or
worse examples. Do not permit them
f your moral intervention can effect |
become the curse of Egypt |
0 you, but since emancipation exists, and
5 made inevitable by our demand for |
olored labor, strive to make these people
God Christians, good citizens, good in
II the industrial arts, good soldiers in
eed, and good representatives of the
ublic interests whenever called into the
ublic service. If this be not done, then
may have been a failure,
ut Louisiana will have become'a Jungle
bandoned by civilization and inhabited
lone by bands of rowing ''barbarians.