New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16
He SITUATION.
IN OF THE COLORED PEOPLE
ppeal to the People of the
Nation.

nlleQ 10 LDe Cuhlrs Anu L. LhAuhhioHof
a bpoiL ted secretary. The following
len was read and adopted:
People Of the United Slater:
% ew OF the extraordinary condition of
ID II affairs in this State at the present
4, and the still more extraordinary
= Is for their solution which have been
ted by some of the public men in the
5 Jean party in the North, the under
T, colored men, deem it proper to give
lion to their views upon the subject.
so expression we believe that we have
!, recurrence of ninety mine one hun
Of the coiored people of the State of
ma and especially of the II 900 voters
W according to Democratic authority,
Or the Republican national and State
- ct the last election.
assume that there is no question
the Republicans of the United States
II. Hayes was rightfully as well as
M accorded the electoral vote of
u ma, and that the tribunal having the
In charge acted in strict conformity
w and justice in rejecting the votes
et srtain polls in the neighbOrhOOd of
violence and murder had been re-
lSH to in order to prevent cOlored men
# it voting the Republican ticket. We
ing BOW what crimes have been commit
~ pom people of our race for political
es, affirm it to have been q most
. bus and just decision. While the ma
81 Republican ticket was accorded
b in this State, Governor s. B. Pack
: peived over 600 more votes than the
Ibwest Republican elector. Mr.. Pack
+, Bile, therefore, to the office of execu-
Louisiana is removed beyond all
-n, at least from Republican sources.
n rAl Nichols, the defeated Democratic
0 ate for Governor, has, however, an
0 Ied military force, composed of the
7 League, which overthrow the State
~ ment in September, 1874, and has
sll iOrcible possession of the Supreme
building and police stations in New
'Ss 3, and has assumed to exercise the
Of the Office for which he was a can
. 1t is now proposed by certain men
. = ofess to have influence in the Repub-
. arty, to allow the defeated Demo
gubernAtOrial candidate to take pos
Of the State government of Louisi-
refusing the legal Governor the
80 aid which it is his constitutional
q n demand of the national executive
article 4, section 4, of the constitu-
resi- the country.
or,, spublicans, it is difficult for us to be-
'Tlsa bat such injustice to the colored peO-
~ louisiana could be conceived in the
loan party. 1t is in no boastful spirit
lskA say that to the colOred voters, the
le lean party is indebted fer the cleo
held its candidate for President. We
req Re that there were no equal number of
Isps IN the United States who better I'M
nOts ID what they were doing than did
Ienty odd thousand colored men who
'ren' Or Governor Packard last November
election of the Governor of their
'idenl or who had more at stake than they.
been chosen as the representative
Republican party because he had
on. Fled, and had proved faithful
ndsE the faithless;" because he was a
I sa5 sterling integrity, against whose
3, calumny has never breathed 9
.t this and because he was eminently
8 y his executive ability and personal
smal for the honorable and responsible
Of Governor of Louisiana.
ard proposition that General Nichols
ny = minded man, and that the interests
- ~, ulOred people can be safely intrusted
Auci Ne, WI reply that our opinion was
cY. ID upon that subject at the last
Without denying or affirming
neral Nichols is a fair-minded man,
nj aware Of the fact that under oath
row, tated it as his belief that one edu-
20 an should count as ten uneducated
gOvernment--a principle which, il
70 out, would work greatly to the
ie ~. y Of our race; further, that his ad-
/. eaa 70 mainly the most bitter partisans
+. White Mans Party" in this State
!. IN General Nichols we should expect
b. ssSs i measure of justice to our race
d has been melted out by Governor
.s9S Texas, Governor Smith in Georgia
u r Stone in Mississippi, and the
amoeratic Governors in Republican
4 the South, and we know how
. hat Justice is.
the administration of Republican
I1-2a yernments in the South in the past
hsen all that could be desired we
!. deny, but we do affirm that Their
:. Cd ave been grossly exaggerated by
.+. aoal enemies. These governments
Aae it possible for the poor man tt
-sIl greater measure of justice than HI
zpect previous to the war, an6
u have they afforded educationa
. Il to our children, so that there arr
:. lsast in the State of Louisiana, very
nd children who can not read and
,orrea
. lAneial policy of Governor Kellogg
Pres EatiOn was eminently successful
e debt actual and contingent beinl
HOLM turing his term from $4,000, 600 t,
If orr 0a0, and the taxes from twenty-on,
!. - fourteen and half mills on the dol
cent
elsl Tie State government having beer
~ y ~ " weak, it is not because Repub
! SO q not believe in their government
enOt willing to defend it, but be
the majority of those who places
.rrv slnmelit in power we're colored men
i organization Of cOlored militil
W. heraldsd as the Inauguration
.Eazt' - Of races, it has been deemed
"a, Als, a. less likely to produce blood
on depend upon the national govern