New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-01
MUTUAL UTILITY.
RECIPROCAL PROJECTION IN THE SOUTH
The Sole Guarantees Of the Amity Of
the Races, Fraternity Of Sections,
81 and Perpetuity Of the Union.

Under this unusual heading, Gays thu
philadelphia Press, weprint q paper which
however lengthy, viii we'll repay carefu
perusal. The title explains itself, but tn.
writer 10 not as we'll known to the readers
As he lie to the editor Of the Press. William
exhaustive letter to Hon. William ID
Kelley, Republican Representative for the
fourth congre ssionsl district, was, twenty
Ave years ago, oneiof the ablest OF the pro
slavery esssyists Of the South.
While the editor of The Press was s
Democratic writer Ia the more conservative
columns of the Washington Union, the
scholar who signs this altogether remark
eble paper was . contributor to the ultra
tional capital, TIE States. Our relations
with Mr.. Bnrweu were always kindly, for
he was gentle, conscientious and feaIls ss
thinker. He believed in his ideas, - we
believed IN ours Belonging, as he did, to
the ultra school, neither of us looked tor
ward to the day when we should be brought
together in political sentiment. Our per
sonal relations were always close; for we
have never known the hour in twenty FIVE
years when party sentiment has been
the sword to divide personal friendsti p.
But we never anticipated the time when
the philosophic Mr.. William n. Burwell
would be ct once . Republican and pro-
tectiOnist. His thoughtful letter to Judge
Kelley now proves that be is both; and al
though We may not agree in ell OF his
views, it is enough to know that his gen
eral judgment. joins ours in the expression
that. the triumph Of the Republican party
in 1876 is the very best thing that could
happen to the: Southern people. The whole
law and the prophets consist in the one
eimple proposition, that if they would oon-
serve their best interests they must manu-
facture their cotton goods on the soil
On which Their cotton grows; There are
sentation- questions Of race, climate, emi-
grafton, politics and .ptilqsophy-spch as
might be expected from his calm and cor
templariv6 Smind On al these he speaks
for himself For u.s. the lesson is foundin
the fact that the fabiest and most thou GIT
fai Of the Old.time free traders and States.
rights Democrats of the South, is now
Republican principles, and especially to
recognition OF the protection of American
industry as the best, if rot the only, means
of the redemption and supremacy of the
Southern States. We hope what he has
written will not only be carefully read, but
conscieDtionsIy remembered by the people
Of all parties in the North: -.
-gf- NEW ORLEANS. June 1876
Hon. w. D. Kelley: -...@,
DEAR SIR-There are many people in tie
Southern States who are DESTROYS to protect
and preserve the cclored race, If for no
higher motive than Tor the common inter-
ests OF Southern society.
The reasons are snccinctly these:
kirst-That the industry OF the colored
people is indispensable to staple culture
Sec0nd-Socisty' is safer and more pros.
porous when all the people are content with
the political rights and Industrial cCmpen-
eafion accorded them
Upon the fret proposition no other com
nent is needed than that African negroes
were found necessary by the EuiJlteat gov
ernments TO develop their Jul horn Amer
lean colonies, that The migration of this
labor has always gone On from the more
7OFthern to the more southern territory Of
the Union; never, even SINCE emancipation,
mas this course Of migration been reversed.
The New Orleans REPUBLICAN,, nnder the
aesd, An lndisl ens~D.e E.oIaent, " has the
following; sG4g
S'We saw few days since a we'll dressed
white man walking arm ia arm with a
public thoroughfare of 81. Louis street,
and as the eouple approached, We wondered
at the reckless violation Of the White
League code. Perhaps it was a candidate
seeking the colore6 vote; possibly it might |
have been done to settle wager that no
Wnito man cCuld 20 Walk IN such quarter
without being mobbed or murdered. As |
the couple approached the puzzle was |
solved. The white gentleman vas blindr' |
1t is this indispensable ability to reuder |
aid in all the industrial and social enter
prises of our country that conpels the |
white race TO ackno Wedge the utility of the
,olcred people
Speaking Of the violence with which
ness people have been aseailed On account
4 their political associations, it 10 added
hat they are protected to great extent by
he interest of their employers Thus:
Those who live by the employment of this
abOf plead for their crops unplowed and
ngathered. The intimidation of picking
If the political leaders, of field.pieces fred
d. to terrify without iniuring the the sim
lie -lninded women and children. shows q
'rbeaFance to cay outright where both
le tf0vOcati0n and justification are al.
ged. 1t proves that the colored people
Ve their safety chiefly to the indispensa.
Q Aeeesgity Of having plowmen, draymen.
lld1s Of sugar and pickers of cotton.
'usehold servants. sick and other nurses. 1
d even cheap and excellent bricklayers t
d cArpenters." - f'.'' II
Tho labor agency Of tho colored race is b
N essential 70 the main tenance Of South p
! iodustry, II may DO assumed that Az. ] {
tys u safer where ~ lie members are q
tuUus and oontented! Whatever, then, q
yrtend TO depress tho 'sociAl standard
ct inCroaSe the Vi16, 1dl6n0o6 and dsst- 81
ion that has cost society. its revoluti0ns, Il