New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-29
HoV rHEY AID rHE REPUDIIoAus.

How THEY AID THE REPUDLIcAHs
We have shown how the Last Ditchsrs
have aided the Republican party BY
connected series of massacrea murders
and riots since the close of the war. We
have proved the absurdity of supposing
that the Republicans have effected their
own prescription, expulsion and murder
for tho sake of exciting distant sympathy
| in their behalf Justice requires that We
should acknowledge our party obligations
to the White League press for another
service, which can not certainly be ascribed
to Republican agency. 1t is the con-
slant, wanton and pusillanimous misrep-
resentation of Republican principles, the
defamation of Republican men, and tho
overt of covert counsel to the bulldozer
element to nullify negro suffrage by the
intimidation or humiliation of the negro.
This has operated practically in two
modes.
l. It has so alarmed the colored people
that they have given their support ex-
clusively to the Republican party. The
cases of John Gair and Eliza Pinkston are
q fair example of what might be expected
as a universal custom in the event Of
Democratic ascendency. We do not hest
tate to express the opinion that if the
colored race had been recognized at the
close of the war-had there been no doubt
on their part that their lives, rights and
labor were protected by universal &C.
neutrality-suspicious. colored people would
have divided their vote according to their
comparative personal confidence in indi-
vidual candidates. or their appreciation of
the importance of local legislation. Owing
to the intolerant and oppressive tactics of
the Last Ditchers, no such discretion or
discrimination has been possible, and the
Republican party commands the free will
suffrage of the colored people Of Louisi-
ana with more certain unanimity than at
any other period since the war. We do
not limit our Acknowledgements to the
Last Ditch press for having aroused and
consolidated the whole colored vote upon
the Republican ticket We have found it
of special value in another important re-
spect. Mr.. Patton testified that
Tho REPUBLICAN has largo circulation
North, while our papers have hardly any;
there Il little opportunity Of refutstion.
This corroborates what We have 70.
peatedly proven to the conviction of the
Last Ditch press. ''Our papers" says
Mr.. Patton. shave hardly any circulation
ut the North" OF course not. Who
reads an average White League paper for
news or knowledge? All our Western and
Northern commercial intelligence is de-
rived from Northern sources. Even
events in our own city are transmitted by
correspondents, and appear in the North
ern and Western papers. The rant fus-
tan, the bootlicking Of one party, and
the soandalous islanders of the other, are
by no means attractive to sny people who
have Police and Woodruff Gazettes of
their own. So "our papers" having no
circulation ut the North, as a matter of
course they do not refute worth cent.
On the other hand the REPUBLICAN,,
which is read by the President, the Senate,
and the Republicans of the lower House,
has enjoyed the inalienable advantage
of copying from the Last Ditch orators
and organs here, and from the Journals
of the bulldozer parishes consisting of
shotgun leader and few quack physic
advertisements. Excerpts from this very
peculiar literature have been found as in
structive of our local "politics" to just
and intelligent people, as an authentic
narrative of the Bazouk atrocities in the
villages of Roumsnia. These advantages
of indiscriminate vituperation and vio-
lence upon all Republicans here, with the
exposure of hypocritical prevalence Of
peace however perpetually professed by
Messrs. Lamar, Hill and their confreres
at Washington, have been immense. They
have counteracted the effect of carelessness
or corruption on the part of more or less
Republican officials; they have healed the
Republican discussions, and drawn in the
disaffected Liberals; they have aided to
convince the nation that the decision Of
arms may be reversed by political con-
spiracy, and have settled the public sue
cession in the hands Of the Republican
party.
In thus using the short-winged, Last
Ditch press, which futters and fades at the
dead line of Mason and Dixon, the Re-
PUBLICAN has not, of course, found it
necessary to quote their futile apologies
for the monstrous deeds or opinions
which they convey. These are clipped
of, and the hated enormities
and lawless exhortations presented
to millions of Northern readers, in the
very words of the papers which acknowl-
edge, palliate, or openly defend them.
Thus, the abominable violence commit
ted upon Eliza Pinkston, appears under |
gas meter heading, as s'affidavits estab- |
fishing the infamous character of the |
woman Pinkston."
It is in this manner that the cruelty |
and intolerance of the White League