New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-07
4 NOTE OF WARNING
DOWN WITH THE NEGRO
The Only Terms OF Democratic
Loyalty in Louisiana.
EMPHATIC VIEWS OF A TILOEN ElsCTOR

the pen of late Tilden elector in this State,
has been generally inquired for of late, and
is reproduced to satisfy the demand
ST. MARTINsvILLE, November 30, 1868.
Fellow Democrats of Louisiana;
To most of you am a stranger, and l re-
greet it. Were known to you, cOuld hope
to command your attention, for you would
be convinced that / am no political pre-
tender, and that, as have lived, am de-
termined to die without being under obliga-
tons to the people or to the State. Though
a stranger to you, have q title to your
friendly regard it is the unbendin0 fidelity
of my Interchangeable heart to the interests,
the rights, the cause of our race.
In 1865 we surrendered to the officer com.
manding the armies of the United States.
We did 80 on the conditions fixed by and
specified in q series of resolutions discussed,
approved and promulgated by Congress.
We surrendered in good faith. We &C.
knowledged every result of our defeat. We
rendered our allegiance TO the representa-
tives of the United States-and how were
we NETT We were told: "Your States are
not now in the Uuion." In vain did we re-
ply: During more than four years we at
tempted to take them out of it, and to get
out of it ourselves. Wherever we attempt
ed to pass we found your fOrtresses, your
Runboats, your batteries, and there we were
informed, at the point of the Federal bayo.
net, that we could not and should not go
out. To impress that fact on our stubborn
desolated our States, fired upon us, broke
our bones and spilled our blood" This we
said, and we were laughed at.
We had hardly parted with our mus.
kets when we heard the harsh voice of pol
trOons and spectators, who had kept hid
den during the war, and that voice pro-
claimed, in harsh tones, that we were out
~ he and that MA amid IL
but on their own terms, and what are theyY
That we should renounce tine rights apper-
tanning to our race, and forever submit to
the domination of liberated Slaves; thst we
should consent not only to be degraded but
to degrade ourselves. On those conditions
We care not for their citizenship.
We are, in Louisiana alone, not less than
100, 900 persons of all ages and nationalities,
who will not exchange our honor and our
pride for q title, once respectable and re-
spected, new disgraced and defiled by those
who have conferred it on herd of brntes aud
barba7idns. Had the acceptance, on our
part, of negro suffrage and negro supre-
macy been announced as a condition to the
acceptance of our surrender, General Grant
can not doubt it, he would have been
deserted by the elite of his soldiers, and, as
to US, we would have fallen and been buried
in the Confederate uniform.
What have we not suffered since the ter
most vindictive hostility have been sown
in the hearts of the black race. They have
been taught TO disregard the rights of
property, to violate their contracts with US.
They have been told that we intend to re-
duoe them back to slavery, and instructed
to procure and keep powder and lead to
slaughter US. What we're, in this locality,
the counsels impaired by their leaders4 II
| you are not rich enough to buy gun or q
/ knife, you are rich enough to buy box of
matches, and with those matches you can
| destroy in o few minutes what the whites
have labOred forty years to win. What
were the instructions every where given,
and to be followed by the freedmen, in case
a difficulty should occur between them and
/ the whitesl Your wives will remain at
your employers house and kill the women
and children. As to you, do not forget it,
the order from the government is that you
shall commence with the men and stop at
| the cradle. Will this be denied3 If it be-,
| we can prove it by hundreds OF witnesses,
and by the highest evidence known to a
Radical authOrity-the evidence of negroes
| What have we not suffered For nearly.
four years we have had to silently submit
| to affrOnts, humiliations and Outrsges
which would have driven to despair and
to rebellion the slaves of any age or any
| latitude.
/ We have witnessed the revolving specta-
Gle of excited negroes riding through our
streets and on the public roads with guns
on their shoulders, revOlvers and dirks
hanging at their sides, matches in their
hands, yelling, cursing and threatening to
| shoot down and cut the throats of the
| whites, to destroy their property. In st.
Landry and st. Bernard they were the
first to provoke, assail, burn and kill-but
what of it, Are they not the wards, the
favOrites of the government Is there a
Radical authority thai would dare to repIi-
mRnd or Teproach the deeds they have
themselves encouraged, and to the commits
sion Of which they have pledged their COM
plicity and their apppOrtf
There is not in the South State, and in
the Southern States there is not q locality
in which the negroes have not perpetrated
depredatiOns, rObberies, arson, rape and
murder, and in every instance they have
been protected by the villains who have re.
presented us ae being ready to resist the
law and the authority of the land. If we
have the audacity to defend our flesh
against q dirk or gun or defend our prop
erty against 9 firebrsnd-When the dirk
the gun and the frebrand are held by q
black hand, the oft-rehearsed cry: "RebelG
are again in open resistance against the
government" is thrown to the four winds Of
| heaven. The cry awakens every echo oil
the American capital and alarms the tender
and magnanim0ue heart of every loyalist.
| Do you imagine, liars and villains of al
grades, that your misrepresentation and
your threats win disturb and terrify the
naughty sons of Louisiana. or their proud
associates, the descendants of those who
have created States and empires, governed
the universe, and torn from the brOws OF
pOtentates the crowns and diadems which
had been Conseerated by the successors
and mandatory Of Christi You have thr0t
tied in our States prosperity, peace, justicS
and liberty. Their cold and lifeless car
cassee bear the impress Of the heels of the
Radical boot, and as long as they are moi
made pale, stiff and mute under the touot
of death, our defiant unsubdued and in
domitsble lips will expose denounce and
curse your treason, your tel0nies, you
populations, your frauds, your iniquities
your corruption, your eflrOntery.
What have we not suffered The List o.
crimes committed against us would Rppal
monster BY birth and by education. W.
are ruined; every branch Of industry Il
cramped and paralyzed; anxiety, trouble
scarcity, humiliahOns are at the threshold
of every Southern home, and tax-an in
tolerable, q spOliating tax-threatens 3,
despoil us Of the remnants of our property
and Of the seant fruits Of q discouraged
and dying industry. Il bears heavily Of
the mansion Of the once wealthy, and still
more heavily on the dwelling of the poor
IL spares not the humble cabin of the freed
man; it bears on the cradle, the brida
crown, the coffin Of the departed-on all
and thus, to crafty the extravaganee 0
corrupt adventurers, insane negroes, anl
unsurpassed felons, we, and the generation
/ to come after us, are condemned TO tn
m0st absolute and most ablect vassalage
and for ct least . century. Il il REASONABLE
10 expect that we viii tamely submit 70 thi
PUN der, this aponetion, and that we VII