New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-21

Its FaIthfaI Portrait Drawn By RIr. "
Han. Had 6z.v-E-nv,

Ass HeAtAANA PORTRAIT Drawn by bAEs WILL
liam Lloyd Garrison.
In his letter, read ct the late convention
Of eolored citizens of Rhode Island, Mr.
William Lloyd Garrison says:
This is another dark period in American
history. Fiery portents are in the sky and
thunders are utteriDg their voices. Mas
querading is in the service of loyalty and
liberty par excellence, rampant seditiOn and
bloody 1surpatiOn stalk unwhipped of JUS.
tce at the South, Overthrowing all consti.
tutional safeguards, perpetrating all man
ner OF atrocities upon those whose enfran-
ch1sement was intended as their protecting
shield, making malignant prescription and
murderous ontlawry the methods to hold
absolute dominion, standing with the dead
~ shotgun in hand at the crossroads
to prevent cOlored voters reaching the
polls except at the peril of their lives,
stnthng the ballOt-bOxes to any extent
deemed necessary to Outnumber by actual
count the votes legally cast and defiantly
proclaiming that the administration of pub
lie affairs must be exclusively in the hands
OF the whites. 1t is hooking evasion to
say that these scenes of terrorism are wit.
messed only in certain sections, where the
relative political strength of the whites and
blacks is nearly equal, and that "Order"
prevails wherever the whites are strongly
In the ascendant numerically; for the
vary according to local condition, and es-
sentislly in Virginia, Alabama and Georgia,
as IN South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisi
ana. "Order reigns in Warsaw" but that
means omnipresent and Omnipotent ahso-
lutlsm. And "Freedom shrieked when Kos
clusko fell" Under rational Democratic
administration, at this hour, there would
be no recognition of any other than "a solid
South" of Tilden and Hendricks, and at
that call what jubilant yells would resound
throughout rebeldoml The cOlored people are
justified in regarding the Democratic party
as their relentless enemy, at all times, under
all circumstances, in every Issue, and to the
full extent of its supremacy. Ruled by the
slave power while slavery existed, ever
ready to make any concessions demanded
by 1t, in sympathy with the rebellion from
the time OF the firing upon Fort Sumter
until the surrender of Lee, opposing every
measure necessary to the success OF the
loyal cause, condemning alike the proclama-
ton of emancipation and the constitutional
amendments in furtherance of the rights of
all classes-it still retains its base sub
serviency to the South; and, deaf as an
adder, it will not hear; blind as bat, it
will not see; insensible as a stone, it will
not acknowledge anything of wrong done
to Southern freedmen, but treats with levity
and contempt every statement made by
them concerning the manifold sufferings
they are fated to endure. 1t has not one
drop of Democratic blood coursing in its
veins; but as religious imposture steals the
livery of the court of heaven to serve the
devil in, SO this party, protesting to be
animated by the spirit of genuine De-
mooracy, is as shameless in its reoreaney
as it is hypocritioal in its claim
If the Republican party has not done
all that could be desired to secure fair
treatment for the oolored population of the
South, it certainly has been owing not to Q
lack of intention or disposition so much as
to the formidable difficulties that have
stood in the way, in consequence of the
divided state of popular sentiment. POliti-
Oally speaking it presents incOmpsrably
the best record of any antecedent party in
power. 1t has carried all the great meas
ures to emancipate the enslaved and estab-
lish freedom and equality throughout all
the land; and, except trivial cases of q
seeming lack of backbone among some of
its prOfessed members to the contrary, its
face is still to the foe, and the hope of q
change for the better at the South lies in
its continual administration of the national
government. Happily, nothing is SO bad as
was the old slave system. There ia q bright,
as well as a dark side, to contemplate. God
still reigns, and justice shall yet be done.
BE not respondent, but hopeful to the end.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
The following letter was received from
Mr.. Wendell Phillips:
Boston, January l, 1877.
DEAR FRIEND DowNNG--A sprained
wrist binders my writing at length. Such
meeting as you tell me of must do good.
But the cloud is so dense one knows not
what to advise. 1 like the flag Hayes
holds-the old Republican one-which
means a jusS nation and perfect protec-
ton to all races; so l cling to him and
his side. If his rival succeeds, we must
grid ourselves for another grapple with
caste. II Tilden wins, it is by rum in
New York and revOlvers in the South.
Yours, ETC., WENDELL PHILLIPS.