New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-29

telligent, you render it profitable. If this
is true, zoe should educate the mind the
heart, the soul Of the negro, looking at
the question only in IT'S material aspect,
and leaving out Of consideration altogether
should prompt us to do so.
1t is our duty to assist him The negroJ in
qualifying himself for his changed con-
dition. Time alone can show whether that
change has been for his benefit.
From this sensible and judicious let
ter-which it may be remarked CORE
sponded with the views of General R. E.
Lett will be seen that Mr.. Hampton
discusses the best means of making the
freedman an efficient laborer. He af1irms
that the negro is an indispensable element
of industry in the South. ''He is better
fitted to make more efficient laborer than
any other" He has ''shown constant
and marked improvement in industry in
each year since his emancipation. AS
five or six years Of this progressive i'm
provement has been going on since he
wrote, we may assume that these laborers
have come up to or even surpassed the
ante-war standard. This superstition is
rendered reasonable by the restored pro-
duction Of staple crops throughout the
whole South. Yet Mr.. Hampton did not
stop with this proposition. He asserts
that "CAristianity and intelligence make
man even better laborer." He compre-
hended the material and moral programme
in these words: IF this be true" that
virtue and intelligence makes labor "more
profitable
We should educate the mind, the heart,
the soul Of the negro, looking at the ques-
tiOn only in its material aspect, and leaving
out of consideration altogether those higher
and nojlcr mOticeS rhich should prompt as
to do so.
He, however, disconnects the moral
and industrial propositions entirely, and
recognizes the political duty of the South
when he says that the emancipated man
should be elevated ''in the scale of man
hood" that he should be kept up by So
ciety to the standard of Christianity and
civilization. What more could the most
abstract humanitarian desire? If it be
granted that intelligence and integrity
will make man "a more profitable la
borer, who but an enemy of human hap
piness could object that the peace, union
and salvation of man should follow?
Let Us pause moment to tell those
who may have recently moved into the
how far this Mr.. Hampton
was qualified to teach on this subject.
He is the son of perhaps the largest
planter and STAKEHOLDER of his day, a man
quoted in the South as "buying more
negroes, to make more cotton to buy
more negroes with" His son, the author
Of these humane and judicious senti-
nents quoted above, inherited with his
0rother-in-law, John S. Preston (the au-
thor Of the violent class and sectional
orations recently delivered at the Univer-
'ity of Virginia), was, before the war,
among the largest planters in Louisiana,
and South Carolina.
But was this counsel followed in 1870?
On the contrary, the Ku.Klux organiza-
ion overspread the Carolinas and was abb
'orbed and followed by the White League
md bulldozers, who did not limit death |
nd terrorism to negroes, bat assassinated |
White men or drove them from the coun-
ry. Mr.. Hampton was, no doubt,
couted as little better than a submission
st when he wrote that letter of 1S69-7O, |
'et to-day he is brought forward by the |
White Leaguers, and, with Mr.. Nichols, is
placed alongside Of Kemper and Walker,
# Virginia.
This nomination Of Hampton has fol- |
owed directly the acknowledgment of the |
lord resolutions, and is, We may suppose,
concession to the doughface Democracy.
We warn the Republicans, however, that
hough the bulldozers have taken down
heir sign they have by no means dis
ontinued their business of murder and
Intimidation. We have made these quota
ons not to show the sincerity of the
ulldozers in their insincere support of
compulsory and hypocritical nomina-
on, but to prove that the nullifers and
White Leaguers have lost their control
the South. They have been succeeded
nd superseded by men who are willing in
God faith to support the Union and live
nder its laws, and who, in the event of
~ conspiracy to violate the laws or
ullify negro suffrage, will find them
Ives suppressed by the property and in
1stry of the country, whether Conserve
We or Republican.
TILDEN's CASE HOPELESS.
The harmonious and judicious action
the Saratoga convention has pretty