New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-01

Qnestion-well, you believe that, do you
mott just state it.
Answer-If you press me on my oath, I
I will only trouble the House with one
more specimen equally characteristic but
altogether different in character.
Extracts from Shreveport Times, Ooto-
Der Ia:
"Ihe law and the duty Of self-protec'
ton" Under this head the Times says, ed
itorially: "Without delay, every man IN
Shreveport, whatever his business may be,
should give every negro voter in his en-
ploy to understand that it he votes the
Il .dical ticket he will be instantly dis
charged. The planters should pursue
like policy. They should warn the negroes
on their plantations that IT they vote the
Radical ticket. after the expiration of their
present contracts, they must leave their
plantations"
This advice from the Times soon bore its
legitimate frnit. On the seventeenth OF
October the Times contained the following:
"Be it resolved by the White Peoples
party Of ward NJ. 2, Caddo parish, That
| we pledge ourselves and our sacred honor
| that we will, under no circumstances what
ever employ as laborers, rent to or IN any
other manner give employment to any man,
white or black, who votes the Radical
| ticket at the coming election"
I'VE hereby pledge ourselves to discoun-
| tenance any man who refuses to sign or
who tails to comply with this agreement
| by refusing to associate Will MIN IN any
manner whatever"
| In the issue of the Times. Of the four
teenth Of October. Is found the following
I'VE. tho undersigned, merchants Of the
| cisy of Shreveport, in obedience to re,
quest Of the Shreveport Campaign Club,
agree to use every endeavor t4 get our EN-
| ployes to vote the Peoples ticket at 'he
| coming election and, in the event of their
refusing SO to do or in case they vote the
Radical ticket, to refuse to employ them at
! the expiration ct their present contracts"
This card has attached to it as many rs
seventy five names.
In the same issue is the following:
I'VE, the undersigned, merchants OF the
city Of Shreveport, alive to The importance
the State, do agree and pledge ourselves not
to advance any supplies or money to any
planter the coming year who will give en-
ployment to or rent land to laborers who
vote the Radical ticket at the coming cleo
This is also signed By sizty-dye or seven
ty names.
lutions of the Whlte League Cluo VI lno
twelfth ward
"Resolred, That We, the white men
! whose names are hereto subscribed, pledge
| ourselves, as gentlemen and men Oh hOnor,
| to employ no person for the coming year,
in any capacity whatever, either as neid
hand or as house servant. or tor any laoof
for which servants are usually employeu
| nor will We rent lands TO or farm on shares
with any person who shall in the coming
| election vote the Radical ticket"
In another editorial comment the Shreve
port Times assures its readers, as follows:
"You are not alone; the whole community
supports you. Lists are now clrcuiatlng
throughout the city pleding the sisners to
| | the same line Of action you agreed on. Ont
hundred additional names have been signed
and every man in Shreveport will shar'
your re sponsibility. The planters OF Sum
, mer Grove, Spring Ridge, Greenwood anC
, | Mocripgspost neighborhoods have unahl
mous!y singed similar pledges. Even tn
+ | ladies' of our city are signing cards tina
will make them as guilty as you are:
The signers OF the ooiigatlon VII, e.ea
> | one of them stand squarely up to what the.
, have done. Indeed, 50 far from scarln
, ANYBODY into backing down, the citizen
!, | are now more absolutely than ever. detern
ined to stand firm, and yesterday lSV' add
| tional names were signed to the pledge
| representing nearly every business hous
= in this city. The same obligation has bee
neighborhoois throughout the parish, wlll
large NUM- Der of ladies signed an obllg;
to hire no servants whose husbands atilllat
, with the Radical party
An attempt was about to be made to a
;. rest some Of the persons engaged IN Uni
u Wholesale scheme Of intimidation and to r
q mind them that they were violating the Law
T. and to show how this attempt to entore
even the United States laws was receive
z and tire ated, We make the following quo
: tion from the editorial columns Of Il
Times:
20 1.-THE temper of the people ia spends
:. ! and their resolution IS 20 test this iuestlI
- and learn whether they are tree men or II
q mipions of brutal despotisn.
:. The people of this city ara much excite
q over the outrage which General Merrill an
!, United States Commissioner Levisee ha'
!; | threatened to perpetrare upon them IN
E. morning, and unless caution is observed (
"a the deputy marshal in executing the wa
!, rants Of these worthless some desperate q
- NAV be perpetrated. We doubt if an
dsputy marshars lie will De safe it he a
a. tempts alone to arrest citizens here npt
y these scandalnus processeA. we admoni'
y any civil officer, therefore. IN perpetratii
~ the outrages. to BIS accompanied by FEEDER
ID troops.
Re "If apy white man accepts Radio
is negro nomination, place upon him the bi
n Of public scorn and contempt; and II al
man attempts to divide orr strength by {
n tempting the independent dodge. treat nj
n | as public enemy" -,
=. The Franklin Enterprise publishes Il
following: ,...
1--WE regard it the social and polite
"a | duty of every member OF this ciuo
~ | discountenance and socially prescribe
70 white men who unite themselves with
- Radical party, and to supplant every !
- litical opponent in all his yocations."
The toreg going extracts afford fair samp
40 | of the means resorled to by the Democra
- of Louisiana to control and carry the ell
!" ton by neutralizing Republican majoriti
~. These are only instances among thousan
- that could be cited. The colored voters
A.. systematically and universally threaten
- with dismissal from employment, soc
'' ostracism and even starvation Tor the
-. selves and families II they vote the Kept
~ Ucan ticket Ii they have the bravery
W vote it anyhow, they will deposit their vo
under the threatening fr0wns OF an arm
hodv of Leaguers stationed at the poll
On | intimidate and Overawe them. And at II
10 there is no certainty that the votes actua
~ cast will determine the result, for the cou
~. ~ ing Of the votes still has TO be made, q
~ that done by White Leaguers never fails
- show good Democratic majority
~ Is it won dertul that, under the ylgort
" | threats contained in the foregoing extrac
- 1000 colored registered voters IN the par
~. | of Caddo atone should have refused 10
@eo to the polls at all at the election OF Is
-. Such threats might make the bravest NJ
~ tate. Though the coiored people are
~ lacking in mere physical bravery, they
va Va. poor, and dependent on the whites ior ~
'se plovment. and are therefore timid. II
know thew are ignorant, and feel their
Ely | .1Ioo+u,! ;pfor;or;tv 70 The whites, 2