New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-22
the appointing power, we are inclined to
believe that there will be found more peril
than profit in the use of patronage.
COUNTING COLORED SUPPORT,

than profit in the use of patronage.
COUNTING C0LORED SUPPORT.
The winning ways of the Democratic
organs continually command our admira-
ton. The Picayune, which appears to
have abandoned conservative ideas and
become an organ Of the most ultra De-
mocracy, heads its columns with sensation
notices Of NEGRO MURDERS" ':negro bur
glaries, negro duello," with all, in fact,
which can present these people in Grim
inal or ridiculous light. If it has occa-
sion to notice colored officer, it is with
out the recognition Of ordinary courtesy.
If such one has been maltreated, il is
regarded as o matter Of contemptuous
laughter. Says the Picay,ne:
On Saturday last Wilson, a colored mem
her of the late House from East Baton
Rouge. arrived in the city with the stereO-
typed tale about Regulators. He says he
was informed by "pr0minent Democrat"
that the Regulators projected giving him q
call in relation to affairs of State. Though
the subject Of the visit promised to be an
interesting one. Wilson did not wait to hear
it, He girded up his loins and left for the
river near which he sojourned Thursday
night, and where he was told that the Reg
ulators had called at his home and found
quorum broken by his absence. Wilson
took the earliest boat, and arrived here on
Saturday. He says the Regulators are
burning his cOmpatriots out in Baton Rouge
by the application Of coal oil.
The tone of this notice is conspicuous
for two things. 1t regards the expulsion
of this man from his own home as a SUBJ
ject of jest. It does not believe that the
statement is true. With respect to the
sorry jest about the danger, or even the
fears Of any human being, We have no
comment. That Republican venturing
INTO the community which killed John
Gair for the alleged murder Of a man still
alive, should fear the Regulators, is not
discreditable to the courage of any one.
As for the credence awarded the statement
of Mr.. Wilson, it will be believed through
out the United States in preference to the
affected incredulity of partisan journal.
But We are compelled to ask why should
a journal affecting to be conservative pur-
sue this course toward people so in
offensive, people who are not RESPONSE
BILE for their Deficiencies, for their own
personal freedom or political rights, for a
people who produce almost all the crop
values upon which society is supported,
and render almost all the domestic services
upon which society relies? Why is this?
Does the Democracy delight in placarding
the evidences that emancipation is not q
success? But one reason can be i'm
aglned why a system of such testimony
should not be pursued. 1t is that when
the Democracy obtain power all these in
cidents may be filed in proof that the
African race are incapable of exercising
the ordinary rights Of property or pohti-
cal discretion. The American people
may then consent that the Dem ocracy
shall repeal all these rights, and the
colored population be again degraded
into practical serfdom. We are the
more inclined to this belief because
the Democratic press does not publish
the details OF any deed of violence per
petraied by the whites against the colored
people.
With the most monentary intelligence
from Washington or London, the Plea
ytne has not yet heard OF the latest out
rage in Feliciana. There, a poor little
negro boy seems to have been tied, drag
ged through pond at the horses heels
and shot through the head. This brutal
deed has not yet reached the public
through the columns of the Piccyune.
The whole report of that journal is ad-
verse to the fitness of the colored race for
any thing except mental labor. Its whole
is inimical to their rights, and
We have no hesitation in saying that such
teachings in all cases where the Coushatta
Democrats can read, must be to instigate
them to the commission of violent deeds,
which will either not meet the public eye
or be vindicated as the indignant emo
lions Of a superior race at the insolent
aspirations Of those born but to obey their
Wills.