The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-11

amended Is q proposition which, we appre-
bend, no sensible man will attempt TO con-
continentiy wiped out, to be replaced by
something, we know not what, is another
proposition which, we think, every sensible
man will deny, Entertaining these views;
we are opposed to any sudden or radical
changes in our organic laws.
LII the present Legislature will propose such
changes as ought to be made, the people will
adopt them, without the expense and the ex-
element which must attend an election for 9
convention. The provision of the present
constitution which gives the right of suf-
frage IN the parishes to q ten days resident
should be wiped out, and residence OF one
year required. Our judiciary system needs
good deal of doctoring, but the present Legis-
body OF men that we are likely to select at
present.
The feelings and even the preiudices of our
colored fellow-citizens ought to be tenderly
condition under what they call Democratic
government. They have been taught, and
must therefore believe, that under Democratic
rule their civil rights were to be abrogated
They are very impressible, and there are men
In Louisiana, nI,ite men, who are ready to-day
to repeat to them the infamous lesson of 1868,
and who will do it IL we are cursed with an
election for delegates to constitutional CON
vention.. Such teachings will inevitably create
| strife, which may lead to bloodshed II our
politicians can possess themselves In patience
for q year or two, all things will be made
| right, and peace and harmony just beginning
to be felt, will prevail throughout our borders.
In our Judgment the greatest misfortune
that could happen to Louisiana would be to
interrupt the government established last
| March.
Let the changes in our organic law be made
sideration of all the elements, feelings and
| prejudices which make up the body to be
governed by it.
[Carroll Conservative
About five months ago when the live papers
| of Louisiana woke up to the demand for a
State, we looked upon the matter quietly.
| and in our, then way Of thinking only ex-
| claimed, after O perlsal of our exchanges,
give US rest. believing that with Gov
Nichols at the head of affairs we could afford
| to wait for the constitutional RENE
| dies so clearly required: and in this
belief we felt that large majority of
| the people Of Louisiana concurred; that they
| held, in common with us, that peace and qui-
etness within our borders were essentially
necessary for the well being of the people
who had so recently passed through the fear
| full struggle for freedom from the machina-
| tions OF the numerous adventures who had
fastened themselves upon the public offices OF
our State. And this desire for quietude would
undoubtedly have prevailed for year or two
| to come and the question OF q constitutional
convention been for the present ignored but
| for the restless righteousness OF such men as
Pinchback, Astwood and others, who, tingling
with official disappointments, are bent on pro-
ducing disturbance and bad feeling among
| the colored people of Louisiana on the school
question: To this end they gather together,
at one of the Baptist churches in the city OF
New Orleans, all the discontinued and restless
spirits of questionable color, and rail and
rave against the present school authorities in
that city, because said authorities thought
proper to have separate schools for the better
| education OF the children. In this course the
and fully sustained by article 1876 Of the pre-
sent constitution, which says: "All children
Of this State between the ages Of six and
twenty-one, shall be admitted to the public
schools or other institutions of learning sus-
tanned or established by the State in common,
without distinction of race, color, or previous
condition"
The origin of this article, In company
with others of the same kind fastened on the
present constitution of the State, is vel
known, and the motives which actuated the
originators of these disturbing elements have
been fully canvassed, and shown to have beer
nothing more nor less than political plans
and schemes for the perpetuating of theil
perfidious power and keeping prejudice anC
discomfort between the races.
To insure quiet, content and successful
education let the constitution be amended lei
article 1876 and others Of that ilk be changed
so as to meet the real wants Of the people; lei
everything tainted with the prejudice of past
years be expunged from the record, and theil
places be filled with healthful and life-givine
principles that will yield a harvest of good
feeling and happiness alike to all.
We are now in favor of a constitutional con
ventiOn for Louisiana at as early q day as
practicable.
M. L. Byrne & Co.. 1863 Canal street. will Offer
this week an extraordinary large stock of fine