New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-01

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emancipation that which had been aolel,
= Il of sl5vory. s--s. -
Tho savage and idolator were brought oy
f.Eu1oreantntetes tosd0yelope Ito coloela
pooseS9aone, You know, IN some Gases, Oveu
against colonial protest. This compuleory
apprenticeship resulted IN tho ctvfffz1tlou
of the savage and the Chrlstisniey OF Us
idolator. T6b apprenticeship eaded, PIN
anthropy accepted this Work % an 90
| accepting this trust it has become responai
| bic to civilization that the stage shall mol
retrogade. The guardianship OF Interest
except so far as it may be continued under
| another aspect, has ceased. LIE oOligat1o0f
have been Cancelled BIZ emancipation with
ont other indemnity than may have been e.
ceived in the settlement Of the account OF
labor on the one side, against csre. instiuc
ton and civilization on the other, with
| doubtedly growing out OF the relations
derived from bondage. These accounts,
scorched with Are and blurred with
blood, are obliterated forever. They may
be alone indicted in the eaWe court Wath oil
other human actions. Philanthropy has
succeeded to these moral obligations,
whether they have been well or badly dis.
| charged in the past. The emancipated
have been delivered over to civilization.
not possess when delivered to the colonista.
They perform all these lsbors to which
reference mas been made, and they are fit,
in the opinion of phlanthropists, to appre-
ciate and perform the highest duties of in
telligent freemen. Philanthropy having
been, Ut its own humane suggestion, subro-
gated and substituted to the agency of in
terest, civilization will require an account
of the talent committed. 1t will require a
prOgress of those whose guardianship had
been asked for and awarded. "a r.
Will philanthropy claim that its mission
has been accomplished BY an Incidental
military emancipation, effected by those
who had pledged themselves against eman
cipation No such plea would be admitted.
No such contamination would be q c0mpli-
ance with the assurance that emancip StiOn
would prove better than bondage. We
have the recent assurance OF eminent men
of color who presided in the Wendell Phil
lips Association, that they vert not received
in terms of respect by society; that colOred
boys could not obtain instruction as sp-
prentices in the new mechanical workshops
It must be obvious that as the emancipated
have been deprived of that moral guardian
ship and industrial instruction which inter-
est regards as an element of value, the nur-
ture of the young and the care OF the infirm
will fall hera. 40 every " here, greatly upon
the taxpayer.e To furnish one sample Of
this suspended care, allow me to give the
testimony Of respectable and responsible
VltnoOo.G Bst415T e. n15sG Il aat SAca 500
"a The statement which foliows is frm 80
published letter Of Mr.. Daniel Dsppett of,
Louisiana. I. is q result OF prolonged and
careful observations" Speaking Of Louisi.
ana hand he sAys: hi Sc se'gTTs5-s gHtyf1se
That white farmers can work these
al negroes, Tiers are abundant proofs. That
white farmers eultiv ate better t6an negroes;
take better care of t. ans, gearing, fsrmiags
utensils and farm, property, and do nOt
steal as negroes do. few will deny. That
good white farmers ususlly make more
sugar and larger erOps to the hand than me-
groes, we have satisfactory proofs. Plant.
who have not had the early plantation
training that the older field hands had, are
unreliable plOwmen and laborers. They
are more inclined to ldleness, to thieving
propensities, and to general thrftlessness
than their fathers are. The young female
negroes are particularly worthless and un
reliable. The young negroes are filing our
penitentiafies. Nearly all of the old race
of plantation and house negroes will, IN less
tuAu Ton years, 10 III thoiE graves. Au0
next generation OF negroes are broken
staff for planters to lean upon"
1t may be mentioned that Mr.. bennett is
not White Lacquer, is q Northern man BY
birth, and takes no active part in pOlitics.
He devOtes his labors to the material resto-
ration and development of the country.
1t this testimony, North aud South, be
true, 1t shows pc ople triendless, and sui
ject to the prosecutions Of pref udice for an
g.. ~ r. ~
The blessing of freedom was actually con
ferred upon the slave as q means of military
mi lry to mis- master and as an avowed sac
lifice to the preservation of the Union.
Much of the destitution and demoraliza-
ton, with many deplOrsb bic collisions be-
tween capital and on the one hand and
labor untaught, unprotected and disor-
ganized on the other. might be miti2ated
by employing colored industry, otherwise
tor the eupply Of domestic
wants. B.. T ,,o.,re+ ri--- - 50.
Let, then. those who appreciate tbisgrest
object devote thems selves to give it pr aclical
effect Let those who can spare the capital
establish some model industries among the
colored people; let them endow thechnolo-
gle al or trade schools and poly technical in.
situations for their instruction. -
Has philanthropy given freedmen capital9
They have received back from the banking
charter with which they were presented
only some ten per cent OF their own money.
Congress Immediately after the war i'm
posed y special tax on cotton and tobacco
We may estimate the amount collected I'M:
der that Law at as many milllons Is may
seem proper. Nor need we answer, the
question here whether the tax was de-
1ucttd from the sale or purchase of this
product. rs-- ..s .a...7sF. D.. se4at .-5s~s
In the first place it would have been the
ONT contributions to the government of
capital and labor. Upon one point there
IAN be no questionable greatest part OF
he product was the result of colored labor. !
Without the productive force of the freed |
men the cotton and tobacco, sugar and rice
Gould not at the time have been grown nor
he tax collected. In the event, then, that |
he laborers, whether white or colored, |
we're instru mental in producing this crop, |
hey aided the governmest in the moment |
# supreme exhaustion. They gave their
id not merely in the tribute of q special
AK, but in the creation of staples nearly
quiyalent to a gold coinage equal to the |
ational debt.
The product Of eugar. molasses and rice
eeps at home an amount OF perhaps fifty
llliOns of specie otherwise exported for
Oreign articles. If this cotton tax operated
s special tax, then was it contribution
f the cOlOred laborers. Did the govern
1ent impose this tax for revenue! Then it
'as an undue contribution Of one agricul
nral interest for the benefit of others. 1t
id not claim to he protective. 1t may in
ne view have been a deduction from wages
nd encouragement Of capital If this
TX was justitiable as a compensation and
,demnity imposed upon those said by the
ictors to have been responsible for the J
lood and burdens of war, if surely was
OF just that the negroes, who had no vote
causing the war and no power to arrest
, should have been required to pay for it's
To say that the nation made
le negroes pay ransom for their emancipa-
on would have placed philanthropy in a |