New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-07

main was purchased by the leaders of po-
litical parties in the names of 1000 or 1900
persons, q trifing tax was levied on the
brigade of proprietors, and by that means
they were made and remained voters.
Would the politicians Of 1868 hesitate to do
as their predecessors have dOnef 1t may
be objected that we might fix as o qualifca-
ton such tax rs to our knowledge is not
and could not be paid by the freedmen. If
we do we will dIsfranchise not only our in
feriors, but many of our equals, who, re-
jected by us, might swell the ranks of the
opposition.
This is not ali. If we grant to the ne
groes the qualified or unqualified suffrage,
we renounce and sbdicate our political
rank; we desert the bold and pncOnguerable
Democrats of the North, who, after our fault
and deeertion, would vainly seek to distin-
guish between us and the Southern Radical.
The distinction would have been obliter-
ated, and, with the assistance of dema-
gogues, the negroes would demand and OBJ
tain every equality.
We conceive that, in the interest of the
colored class, as in the interest of all others,
we, and we alone, should govern the Amer
loan States, and in Louisiana we are not
less than 100000 persons of different ages
and nationslities who entertain the iDfex-
ible opinion that the tUhite race must and
shall Tule from the banks of the Rio Grande
to those of the St. Lawrence. The title of
american citizen" is ours, and zoe toiH not
cOndescend to share it, and the privileges
attached to it, with our interiors. We want
it pure, entire, naughty as it was, or not at
| all. The criminal absurdity of extending
it to negroes was devised as q cOwardly ex-
pedient to persecute and humiliate our
| States.
You will ask: For these wrongs, what
remedy do you suggestH Do you counsel
armed resistancel do not. Do you cOun-
sci to seek redress before the courts of the
State7 l do not. Those courts are the
creatures of usurpers, and the most honest
| of those who preside over them cen net be
expected to deny the legitimacy and CON-
stitutionality of their parentage. On whom
and on what should we rely2 GA ourselves;
on our united efforts, We are, in our
States, s, 000, 900 of whites against less than
| 100000 of negroes and adventurers, and
il we do not rule, to the exclusion of the
latter, it will be for the reason that we lack
the nerve and the courage to attempt it.
Try this course. Let the noble and pdtyi-
| otto ladies of louisiana or Nep York pre-
| pare banner, and embroider on IL in gilt
teri,lg letters: "The tCJaite race must and tcilL
i7Ile from The banks of the Rio Gra1de 10
those of the 81. Laurence" Take that ban
ner with bold and determined hand; raise
it in every State, every city, every village,
/ every hamlet; place it on the steeples of
| your churches, on your public monuments,
| your balconies; raise it on the approach of
| the electoral contests; raise it high, and
i hundreds of thousands of partisans will
flock around it from the South, the East,
the West and the North. Struggle until
victory perches upon it; struggle O-day, to
morrow, the next week, the next month,
the next year; struggle against deluded
friends who ought to understand that social
and political equality are twin and INSOFAR.
able sisters; struggle against the cOntempti-
BILE imbeciles who have deserted the cause
of their race; struggle with an unbroken,
indefatigable, fearless spirit, and predict
| it, you will defeat the spectators in in ne
gro auffrage, qualified or unqualified. II
you protest against that suffrage as your
pride should impel you to protest, there is
no power that will dare to impose it upon
you, for there is no power in this world that
can bend. conquer and enslave the resisting
will of 5000, 600 of resolute hearts.
To General Grant, as q soldier, and to
the Federal soldiers who have not dis
graced their epaulets by hsrassing and in
sulting the vanquished, We cay: The whis-
Ting of the hostile lead is husned, and the
first we extend to you the purest and most
loyal hands of our States, the hands which
have been mutilated by your bullets. We
alone here are attached to the laws and
constitution of the country, and through
you to the country we tender q proud, 6
sincere, manly, priceless allegiance. Al
an evidence that we can and ought to be
trusted, recollect that we have not desert
ed our flag, and that we have surrendered
but on the ruins and ashes of our destroyed
homes, on the graves of our companion
and of q departed cause. If the rendered
allegiance be accepted. we shall be ready
from the date of Its acceptance, to give fo
the defense and grandeur of the United
States, ours and our children's blood II
instead of patriots, you need renegades anC
lackeys to serve and uphold the govern
ment, seek them in the ranks of Southern
Radicals.
To the Northern men from every corne
of the land we say: Come to us-we haY
not and never had any prejudice agains
you. Every denunciation of us by Rad
cal tongue and Radical press is a Islander
a fabrication, a falsehoOd. Those denuneia
tiOns are intended to keep you from enter
ing our dOWn-trodden States, that you ma,
not witness, denounce and report tn
frauds and effenses which are daily com
mitted against us by kpaves and adven
tnrers. Come to US; our cause is your cause
that of your children, the mothers of Chi
dren, your race, your Preside and the cor
tinent.
We are denounced as revolutionists, a
murderers, as dreaming of another rebel
governments in the South. The impU
dence and falsity of that charge fall
crushed under the weight of its suicida
folly, and though it fell from the lips q
two Governors and the "Christian" pc
which blaekens the columns of the Me-
Orleans AdpocGte, we brand it as q stupid
ridiculous, an extravagant, contempt
BILE, q premeditated and miserable lie.
swear before God, who reads in ever
heart and can not be deceived-l swea
that, more than any Of our slanderers, W
; are loyal to the constitution, to the res
authorities of the republic; but loyal
knaves and deserters, No. Loyal to thos
who have counseled the destruction of on
, homes and our familiesf No. Loyal I
] adventurers, renegades, negroes and trait
Orsl Mol and never viii be. Nevel
neveri
What do we askl That the nest of til
! eagles be not surrendered to q flock
ravens and to the vultures by which the
! are led; that the purity of the white raj
be not adulterated and lost; that te
proud and intelligent States be not col
! verified into ten African provinces. TIL
we ask, not as q favor and on bende
! knees, but as q right. If it be denie,
perish our families, perish our instit
tons, perish our race, perish every Sta
on this continent.
: ALCIBIADE DE BLANC.
H-ovshta g., tt,S Rau,tIv