New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-01
DEnooRAT1c CUNNING.

> DEMooRAT10 CUNNING.
The policy of the White League is COM
posed Of force and#rick. At the North
they are mild as 80 many muttons. They
adore the Union and admit that major
ity of the people may be Republicans
without thereby FORGETTING social respect.
In Congress they manifest the same DO
cility, suppressing all violence which
would expose their true sentiments, and
according to Yankee born Speaker and
to Northern chairmen the direction OF the
most important committees Of approprl-
alton, manufactures, banking and cur
rency. At the South this pretended mild
ness changes. The Republican party is
denounced as unworthy of social recog-
milton. Where this intolerance fails OF
effect, intimidation and armed violence is
resorted to, and those who can not be re-
PEELED from the polls by terror are IN
volved in deadly personal alterations, OF
exposed to the fate of Pierson, GAR, OF
Twitchell. The Southern policy OF the
Democracy is to make it personal, social
or political death to recognize the prin-
ciples established by the American people
and admitted ostensibly by every political
party.
The Picamne, which claims to be inde'
pendent, pursues the most persistent
course of defamation toward the Repub'
lican party. The whites who maintain
the principles to which all have at least
nominally submitted are stigmatized as
unworthy social trust. The colored peo-
pie, to whose labor the Picayune and the
White Leaguers are indebted for their
daily bread, are treated as murderous
tends, stupid beasts, OF bowling savages.
The Picayune has suffered somewhat from
intrusting its edi torials to the reporter. 1t
now offers the following abusive heading
to the notice of the Republican conven-
ton: s.It opens amid tumult, and closes
in the orthodox Republican manner. "a
colored Senator" elected temporary chair
man. ''The usual scene of bowling and
confusion. The proceedings are charac-
terized as successive scenes of confusion.
A ssly move" on the part Of Pinchback,
and ridiculous description Of "Ladd. "
aMore excitem emit" followed
The cir was thick with points Of order,
cries Of question" and the hoacse shouts
of struggling orators.
We may add that no one of these mem
bers is deemed worthy of civil prefix to
his name, the impression being left upon
the mind of any distant reader that the
convention Of the Republican party is un-
worthy of just description or Of decent
language
It is true one of the latest Democratic
club meetings in our city presented a
ssscene of confusion" much more deplor-
able than that attributed improperly to
the Republican convention. A member
of Democratic club stood up and pro-
claimed that another member was Re-
publican and had sold his vote. This
charge was Indignantly denied. What
will the distant reader suppose was the
retort of the member making the charge?
An investigation, perhaps, into the cor
rectness of the charge? The member
making the charge drew his pistol and in
open meeting shot the member denying
the charge through the head! The only
investigation possible will be that of the
coroner. Will the distant reader believe
that the murderer was unknown, and that
beyond the report that he wore black
mustache and side whiskers, be has re-
NAMED thus far beyond arrest and iden-
tifcation? Like the disguised stranger of
Coushatta, who reduced by assassination
the Republican majority in the Senate,
the murderer of a man in an open Demo-
cratic assembly was neither identified nor
arrested in the assembly or since.
We would respectfully ask in what does
this defamation of the Republican party
prove an acceptance Of the acts of emanci-
patton, or tho colored right Of suffrage?
Suppose it admitted that the colored peo-
pie had not the education or experience
at the date of emancipation to compare
with the race that held monopoly of
both, should they not be rather COM
mended for the advance made than de-
nounced as incapable of exercising the
duties conferred upon them? The world
will not believe the White Leaguers sin
cere in their acceptance Of emancipation
or equality. The world will not believe
that the White Leaguers would not deny
the negro the right of equal suffrage, If
the former shall ever seek to nullify that
right. If the Picdyune, for instance, were
a sincere friend to universal suffrage, If it
were willing that the negroes should pass
into the whole constituency, it would
treat their uneducated errors with decent
indulgence. 1t would endeavor to acquire
their confidence and aid in their instruc-
ton by kind words and judicious admoni-
tions. The White Leaguers would, how
ever, demonstrate the failure Of the civil
rights enactment.
1t would triumph in refuting the hopes
of humanity that the colored race should
be Christianized, utilized, and made
component part of the American people
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