New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-23

would be larger fields for it. Again, thou%1
our sugar and rice require protection, II 4
the Democratic party that proposed to ad
init them duty free. What could you ex
pect from q party that mas always Desn
hostile to labor and every mode OF improve
ment!
If the South ia expected to continue in
contention there is no end but in violence
or force The right Of suffrage has been
bestowed on one class that it might be edu
Gated and employed, because if it is net, in
stead of becoming benefit it will become
a curse and trouble to the people among
whom it lives. Accordingly it is the
interest of all white people to see
that the co!o.ed people are elevated and
improved; th at the sugar and cotton crops,
which cross the ocean and bring back hun.
dreds of millions of gold and silver; which
could pay the debt, should be increased
There are two debts due this South
ern labor-one from the United States and
the other from the people among which it
is reared. And these debts go further.
There is q greater truth. 1t should be
taught the mechanics and manufacturers,
and the women could be so taught that the
pound of cotton raised by the cOlored man,
worth three times as much in the North as
the same here. Every owner through
whose land runs mill stream
should utilize it, employ. protect,
and elevate the labor around him that this
people may not be left to the srrel-house
and crime. A little while since q boat
among other passengers carried away
thirty eight convicts and only three were
white. This is not boast OF suffrage, but
a cause of sorrow. Reduce this crime by
education and instruction in intelligent
labor, or instead of thirty-eight 1t will be
hup1 rod <o fhraa
1t is the duty of every Southern man to
60 among this people, to seek to aid them,
to encourage them to be useful citizens, or
they will prove curse to all. No man
living can expect to see the day that the
number of colored people is not the
largest in the State of Louisiana. If ever
the time comes for the last colored
man in the United States to die, he will die
in Louisiana. He was brought here first;
he comes now because here he finds hot
weather and bread and meat. If ever COM
merce revives here, it is On the colored
men we must depend for our marine.
Our government loses from twenty to
thirty men on every ship she sends here;
the sailors of Norway and Sweden die like
sheep, but the hotter the sun the better the
descendant of the African feels. They do all
the labor; they laid the first and the last
brick on the best of our buildings last year;
they navigate our little echoonere, and if
l we're going on tropical voyage l would
take the schooner every time. There is not
single pursuit they can not follow here.
They can underw6fk every white man, be-
cause the whole colored family works, and
the colored man at 81 day has more at
the end of the week than q white man at
81 50.
Encourage them to all labor, that we may
not have to send North for our bed
steads, plow handles, canned fruits,
vegetables, meats and q thousand ar
ticles that We have made necessaries,
though once thought superficial, and which
New Orleans sent to France for everything,
and the first ship she sent out went to the
coast of Africa for slaves. 1t has been the
policy of the South to produce much and
manufacture little. but if its people can
not make the colored people manufacturers
and mechanics, if they try to drive them to
the forests che cottonwood tree will over
run their plantations. There is one State
that has found this outcVirginia. The,e
it's luxury they don't indulge in-not
a single murder. They have made friends
of the co!ored man. We only vote once IN
two years, but we eat three times day.
Between US is a relationship like that Of
the man who quarreled with his wife,
when she said, whats the use of our
ouarrelag when we are obleeged to make it
up" We must dwell here together. in the
same climate, and having the same inter
ests, and if there is any difference We are
bound to make it up.
There is one thing 1 never understood,
and that is why some men will speak with
the greatest violence against the negro,
and then spend money and blood to get
elected to the Legislature, and sit along.
side of him. l understand this people. for
have lived among them all my life and
know they do not always say what they
mean to do. Why. q young journalist,
witty and ambitious, went to Mississippi to
aid the Democratic party. He found Uncle
when they are likely to be shot at from
behind q bush, and he complained that
he had lost confidence in the Publican
party. So our friend gave him Demo
cratic ticket and some more for his friends,
and on his promise to vote it got him q
piece of work. But Uncle Ben didnn come
to time, and when taxed for his dplicity
said: "Well, Use 'sidered dat matter, and
l couldn't vote dat ticket, but KEEP it TO-
you arter de lection, an here it's"
There is another point. The colored
population is 100000 or 5, 900 ,0GO, and in
Congress or the electoral colleg. is entitled
" tulILJ- -SOtOu tOUC6. xuOy DClUuK " Luo
South and if the vote of the colored man
is lost it is lost to the South; one vote in
every 5000. But the constitution says
that any State that deprives them of their
vote, by any means, by any disturbance,
that State shall lose that representation.
So if we give way to anger and animOsity,
it is we of the South that will lose by it.
1t is the true interest of the South to see
that every man casts his vote without re-
gard to race, color or condition.
l am proud to say that l shall vote for
Hayes. He was soldier who did not talk
about the war, but went to it. never did
believe in blockade runners or bomb proof
soldiers, who were never implacable till all
danger was over. like the spirit of Rich
mond, which answered the threat of bonn
bardment with "Shell, and be damned" of
Charleston, that stood q bombardment of
days; of Atlanta, that was wiped
out of eAistence; but not that kind of peo-
pie in New Orleans who made flags
" whom $1,000 claimed French pro.
lection, and 10000 were soon drawing gov
ernment rations. What could they have
suffered from bombardment9 If they
had chosen, not q ship could have landed
> man. Could they not have sacrificed
their property when hundreds Of thousands
gave up their lives?
l support Hayes because be is West
srn man, and it is from the West we must
ook for commerce. Her trade with South
America must go through us.
l shall vote for Mr.. Packard, because he
8 q man who can carry his own knapsack;
ne needs no one to defend him. On bis
record a. q man there is no spot. He
never stole, nor robbed, nor run away. he
1as an honest record. He has never had
to do with any monopoly, the lot
f G the sH brokers' % IL in them them. He has cot crit in
him, and is going to stand where he is. He
IAN defend himself, and man who can
lot do that can not defend you.