The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-28
PACKARD,y ADDRESS.

L GGH6IuHf Il1UIAlBE duAe tSShtRA0 1R
peared before the country In his true
character. His address, printed in the
Republican, Times and Picavnne, very
boldly outlines the theory OF the party
he represents, and the purpose OF Its
leaders. We trust that the President
and the American people generally will
read Mr.. Paokard's extraordinary ad-
dress and note It's meaning and tenden-
cies. II they do so, they will think 1t
we'll that there Is something OF a pro-
tective organization among our people
and the White League, considered In
the light of this address, may seem TO
! rigbt-tbinking and dispassionate men
in the North, something higher and bet
fer than an armed band of ruff1ans and
bulldozers.
We do not propose to follow Packard
throughout his address, which Is a tissue
of seurrility. insolence and falsehood.
We shall only notice his bold and inso-
lent threat to ineite in this State SER
vile instruction and array the colered
working men against the planters In
the parishes and the merchants and
property holders In the city. whom he
derisively styles the "aristoeracy OF
New Orleans" After venting his spleen
upon the White League and the white
citizens of the State generally, Packard
says:
The so-called Nichols government rests Its
claims largely on the support II receives ire % %
q attt, Irtsts t.NaF n
In u threatened oligarehy OF wealth and men
acc TO the middle and poorer classes, VINO form
the majority wh?se right to rule this minority
would deny. A government established on
such basis would tend to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer.
If force instead of law Ia to determine the
rightfulness of the government the great body
of producers who voted for no can hardly pc
shoqa sey ptoNSe and baa
don their legitimate pursuits TO defend the gov
eminent of their choice. If they leave the plow
at my call there will be no harvest for either Cot
ton Exchange or cotton picker"
Here, In the first paragraph OF the
above quotation, we have the old but
ever potent appeal to the prejudices OF
the poor against the rich, and in the
second, a threat to precipitate o war be-
tween these classes. and to thus destroy
utterly the vast agricultural and CON-
mereial interests of this great State.
Civil wars are always cruel and disas-
trous: but q civil war. Influenced and
embittered by the prejudices of race
and the jealousy of the poorer classes
against the rich-such a war as Mr..
Packard threatens to involve us In II
his Ubiquitous pretensions are not re-
cognized-would be more fierce, san
culinary and destructive than can be
well imagined.
Those not acquainted with the negro
character may regard this threat Of
Paclard's as mere bombast. This
would be o great mistake. The negro
is either child or a savage. Under
kind treatment and honest counsel he is
mild and inoffensive, even servile.
Arouse his brutal instincts, his race
prejudiees, his native insolence and
bullyism, and he becomes an unreason..
ing and furious brute. Time and again,
Packard, Kellogg and the carpet
baggers and scallawags gener-
ally have taken advantage of this
characteristic of the negroes, and
melted them to threats and attempts at
arson, rape and general slaughter.
.ni,~ L.-.--w-~s ss-.-s ss..~.v- -s-..saE=ttav
last five years furnishes number OF
dark and terrible conflicts brought
about by the carpet-baggers instigating
the negroes to attack and outrage the
whites. The hands of Packard and
Kellogg are red with the blood of these
riots, and their hearts black with the
murder of their negro dupes.
In this connection 1t is important to
observe the fact that these furious and
savage uprisings Of the negroes have
never occurred in those localities in
by the two races, and where, If
the blacks might be sup
posed, on the Radical theory that the
chief business Of the whites is whipping
and shooting negroes, to be subjected to
to rise against the whites.
They have occurred, in every instance,
In those parishes, or portions Of par
ishes occupied exclusively or almost
exclusively by the negroes; where
white men are seldom seen and their
influence is never exercised where the
negroes enjoy freedom, liberty and
license after their own fashions and
ideas. It is into these sort OF neighbor-
hoods that the villainous emissaries Of
Packard and Kellogg have always gone
to influence the negroes and excite them
against the whites. There has not been
an exception to the rule. The sim
pie negroes congregated In large COM
are easily made to believe that
they can conquer the whole State; they
have little more reasoning faculties
than a wild animal, and when their
lust. their insolence, their cupidity and
race prejudioes are aroused by the vii
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