New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-02

since tho revocation Of the edict of Nantes
founded the mechanical industries of
England upon the expelled industries Of
France.
Spain, or France, or England, would
offer the highest inducements in land and
guarantees. The whole of Central Amer
lea, and even of Mexico, is open to the
trained laborers and soldiers of the COL
ored race. England would welcome upon
her territories, with premium, the stall
wart army which has. always fed her
looms and her spindles.
What! when the slave trade has been
suppressed on the western coast Of Africa,
could there be voice raised against the
emigration of American citizens to any
country they might choose? Can there
be any question that the trained, Chris
tanned and civilized laborer would be
preferred to the savage and idolatrous
Bozal? Could the place of the colored
laborers and domestics be supplied here,
as in California, by Cinnamon and coolies?
These are considerations which raise the
| politics Of the South above the partisan
and render them subject Of grave con-
sideration for the statesman and the Chris
tan philanthropist.
What effect even preliminary and con-
ditional negotiation entered upon by the
leaders OF the colored people for q guar
antee of safety, recognition Of right and
an allotment Of land might have upon the
value Of Louisiana property, we shall
not pretend to anticipate.
If the ensuing presidential election shall
result in the success Of Democratic can
di date, and be carried in Louisiana by
the practical denial of rights guaranteed
to the colored citizen, there will, in our
pinion, exist no Alternative for them, save
political and personal bondage, or such
negotiation as that to which we have
alluded. It is very certain that with
terror brandishing its bloody scourge
behind them, with kindness and safety
waving their invitation, and even with
some motive Of retribution in abandoning
these who have repaid respect and service
with persecution, such an exodus will not
be impossible. What will the colored
people leave behind? They are but labor
pilgrims:
No foot Ct land do p,seess.
No cottage in this v lldel ness.
The promised line Of steamships to
Brazil and line of emigrant transports
would run full for some years to come,
and the labor which now animates the
fields of the Mississippi might find homes
on the Amazon. We deprecate the posi-
bility of such calamity. Wewould pre-
vent it. We shall deem it important to
this object that the Republicans will make
State and parish ticket unobjectionable
on account of any personal unworthiness
in the candidates. Men must be put up
who can carry the party, not men who
may require the most strenuous effort Of
the party to carry them under fire of
obloquy directed against the candidate of
the party without word spoken against
the principles of the party. We reiterate
the assertion that nomination is not an
election; we repeat, that the purchasing
power Of patronage is exhausted in the
choice of a man mean enough to be
bought or sold by it.
The Republicans must present these
issues: l. A ticket personally unexcep-
tionable. 2 The consequences of labor
disorganized or destroyed, which must
follow an election of force.
We favor firm and final struggle for
the rights guaranteed by the amended
constitution. Beyond that we can claim no
influence over those whose lives and
rights may be involved in result ad-
verse to the success Of the Republican
majority in the State Of Louisiana.
We commend these views and POSSIBLE
ties to the landholders, factors and others
interested in the continued cultivation of
Louisiana. Few of those men need Office
or would indeed hold it. Will they not
be interested in protecting ''the down.
trodden and detected blacks" as they are
called by Mr.. Pinchback, from death or
desperation "They must be protected,
says their representative, or ''tbey must
leave" Will the conservatism Of property
stand Indifferent and permit the triumph
of arms over order, of rapacity over right ?
Such are the ominous issues Of the cam
paign.