New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-30


and lift them up ant help them so by
an By the blask man can meet the
white man on level grOun, South Car
iuy is yer State. Nose, aud right here,
among these pore, iynOrant critters il yer
place an yer work Stand by yer own peo-
pie, Nose. Help 'sm and work for 'em. In
the breast OF every one OF them there is
little seed of ire that you can kIndle an
tan til! it flames out an lights up all The
sou. OF the black man, Don't leave EN-
Tm ve-y old man now, an the blessed
Master might send fur me any time, day or
night, ana take ms unawares. It Hs sends
! when you don't know it, Nose. an you
come in soma day an lind me gone, remsu-
bsr this AZ II it Was the last words yer Old
father 3vsr spoke TO you Stand by yer own
people,
The voice OF the old Methodist preacher
! had sr;l.ed .gro insurrerton ones What
woud 81 # 1: co1li affect the Thoughts AMI
! the purpose OF one sensitive; impress. onaoia
man, and that man the preachers own son !
| Thers was that ii the solemn. quavering
| tones that day which changed Moses life
! Il echoed in his ears by day and Whispered
| in mis- dreams OF the night
At lens 9Th beautitu. VISION OF elevat!ng
| the negro ia America took POSSESSION OF his
eager Young sonl Nose beeau.e an eathusi
asst. He would give MS Lie 10 the work to
which he had been led Oh. H. would give
up all tina ties, toe hopes and the joys of
common men, and only live tor this work
Perhaps din visions and dreams OF Luther.
OF the Maccabeas, OF Sayouac0la. ami great
leaders and heroes OF history helped I'LL and
tire MS thoughts at times. Aye, maynap
the spirit o. tn great American of the cayO-
luton VINO was On9 ot HE white ancestors,
stirred within him and impslled him.
Who knows
Hs no longer refused the compauIonship
OF ths iycDran., differentiated blacks
around him. He went down among them
and TOOK their hands as a man and
brother. and taught them, and s.rove eager
IL to l.!r their bcsotted souls 20 higher
plane. VIA. hs would have done for the
negro had he lived
WAR. though til. come to that. Nose
tried as far az might DE TO put himself 10
the place of these poor souls and to think
vita them AID for them, 80 no might best
know how 20 netp them.
He ioi1ei in taeir SIMPLE pleasures, too
Negro-!Ike, and child-!ike, the poor fellows
wers .on of military parade AMI display,
aad had formed themselves into militia com
pAnies. On rle glorious centennial fourth
chev had their most imposing pa-aGe, ami
Nose marohei with them to please then.
TIE evening before, ;n their armocv, Nose
made lite speech to them. The grand
revolutionary hood stirred and bounded
the commanding :o.m. the flaehing eva and
| ringing voioa OF his white revolutionary
! ancestor that the young man talked TO his
! iowiy brsthran that nj ght HIS face seemed
z.oritied like the sky a. suOset. as De babe
| them be glad on che n5rrow az never before.
for the frat centennial OF American free
dom found the black man free too, With al.
the rights of tne white man.
My friends sald ne, she frat man
Ill ,p- Of
. black man, Crispus Attacks, he led tns
people in the streets Of Boston. March ).
l770, when they opposed the British guard.
and cried, Let us drive them out; .hey
have no business here Cr,spus Attacks
seized muske5 trom q British soldier and
turned it against Captain Preston himself,
and cried out, XIII them they dare not
-ire A. that moment thu British soldiers
fred and one named Montgomery shot
Crispus At1ucxs in the breast and ne fell
dead, crying As he fell, They dars no: fire"
80 the first man slain for American IN
Dependence was negro. Ia ths reyOiu-
s.onary war there were black soldiers liz
the American army from every one Of the
thirteen United States. Side bv sids With
the white patriots these black patriots
fought and suffered, and gained the victory
for the white mans country. Always until
now i: was tae white man county,; Low
a. last il is our country, too.
The future IS bri ght foc ia, my friends.
It il in our hands Peaceful, quiet work
will give US homes Ike the white man g. and
schools will educate back children az well
as white. No people on tie earth ever had
brighter hopes ami harder work before
them than the black race il America. When
you think of the hopes, think Of the work,
too and remember both tomorrow"
Maybe you have read the res. OF my
story in the newspapers.
The black militia paraded OF the centen-
NAL fourth. Two white men N carriage
ordered the black soldiers TO break ranks.
and Ier them drive through There va.
plenty o: room on the side, bu. the two
white man were Southern chIval--, YOU
know. The black soldiers refused to com
ply a. first. and then. to preserve quiet.
opened their ranks. and let tae white meu
drive through The two white men had
tie black soldiers arrested for obst-uct,lg
the highway.
Saturday morning early, the town of
Hamburg began 70 fill with Southern ch;v-
airy from two States. The black soldiers
were IN town, too, unarnei and unsuspec.-
ing. Nose was among them. The town
kept filing with white men until at length
the Southern chivairy was 1900 strong,
opposed TO forty unarned negroes. The
blacks became alarmed, and TOOK refuge
N tneir armory, where their guns were
The noble Southern clIva.-y, 100 strong.
command bv the brave. heroic. ald
magnan.mous eS-ren-: General Butler,
opened their a-t;ller- % the poor little old
niger armocy. Il was gallant deed. which
viii shine splendid as long as the name Of
Southern chivalry survives n ssory Not
a sac. was tired back. Tie negroes jumped
from back window and raa into corn
field. VweEtv-ona OF them were captured
By the Southern chiya.cy, and thar guns
taken from them. 50 they could not Dos.
s:bly hurt any Southern ehivalry. Tnan
the Southern chiva.-y snOt them down. l.
was most valiant deed, Nose was one of
tle nap.ess eventy-one. The Southern
chivalry stabbed ami punched some OF the
negroes II the face with bayo1e:s. after
they were deaf, They bea. one dead body
over the head. and cut its ton que out. That
dead body was the body OF Nose
That's only the beginning CO what we
are going to Go, remarked sne heroic Gan
eral Butter. "fhe end Will come next No.
vemDer."
that Saturday. As the day wore on be De-
came anxious, in spite o: himself. i.ttle
dog-Mose's dog-barksd and whlaed at
intervals, al! the afternoon. Toward even
ing he began barking again.
II wonder what makes the little dog
keep up such t1strs:.on'' said he aax-
iously.
He went to the door and looked out.
Some black men approached, carving |
something between them. They brought II |
in silence AMI ;aii il down in the porch. Il !
was the dead body of Nose Il was beaten !
about the head and the tongue was cut out,
but the faithful blacks had erased the dis |
hgurement Is well as they could, and the |
face OF the dead man was noble IN lnOk |!
upon. Ths features, which had settled |
themselves into still. classic beauty, were |
the features Of the white man.
Old jos saE down anart and cava-ad his