The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-05

wire workers attempted throughout louis
| lana to organize g greenback party, They
expected the fiat-monsy, and Reputation
! fanatcism TO create Juror in Louisiana
and draw largely from the ranks OF the
| Democracy q. They raised the standard Of
| the laboring classes against the capitalists,
merchants and property holders, believing
that they could arouse the communistic
spirit amongst our working people end Or
ganize that class into party opposed to the
Democracy. 8. They finally and, as their
grand movement. invoked the fierce narrow
and bitter prejudice OF race. and organized
the Native American party, with it's dark and
sinister hierarchy, the Red Warriors. against
the Democracy.
| In each and all OF these factions we find
that the predominant element Is composed OF
the Radicals. Many good men have been as
1t was designed they should be, led astray,
ami induced to become partisans Of these
several organizations, and all these have
been SO many voters led off from the Demo-
| cratic party TO be In the end combined by the
| Custom House officials and Administration
henchmen, into one powerful party against
the Democracy for the purpose Of vindicat-
ing the Returning Board; ratifying Hayes
title and disgracing the name and fame of
Louisiana
Only q few days ago the DEMOCRAT fully
exposed the character of the National party,
the chief faction organized In this State by the
National Republican Committee in Washing
ton. We showed that the leaders In it were
two attorneys of the Returning Board, candl-
dates for Congress In the First and Second
| VN:.
Radicals, white and black, in the
State We showed by the minutes
Of the proceedings of the secret meetings
of the order that the rank and file Of
it was composed OF Radicals and Native
Americans, and that the controlling principle
of the organization Is prescription Of oil
foreign born residents Of the State By those
minutes, 1.-THE publication Of which was the
most startling revelation made in Louisiana
politics In ten years, we find that the negro
chiefs Of the Radical party and the leaders
of the Native American party have joined
together to degrade the foreign-born cti-
zen--the Irishnan, the German, the
Frenchman, the Italian, the Spaniard-
every man, In short, however honest, intellI-
gent and respectable. below the negro rabble
who were born here.
| This u.s. perhaps, the most obnoxious and
dangerous phase that this race partyism
has ever yet assumed In 1854, when the
Red Warriors rode rough-shod over the
foreign-born citizens of New Orleans and
drove the Democrats from the polls Or muir
tered them, there was no proposition to
confer upon the negroes the elective fran
chise which was violently wrestod from our
forelgn-born citizens But Native American
| ism has advanced its standard; 1t has kept
up with the progressive ideas Of tho age. It
still proscribes the foreign-born citizen.
however honest, Intelligent and useful
he may be- In this respect It has made no
| change: Ii stands here where it stood in 1854
when it terrorized the city. But 1t has grown
more catholic in It's spirit towards the natives.
| Now 1t embraces tho native-born negro and
admits him to the aristocracy of nativeism and
comedies him The sacred privilege Of the fran
chse. The Irishman and the German, the
Frenchman and the Spaniafd, all sprang from
the vile dust of q foreign land. and they must
be excluded from public office and even from
the right Of voting for public offices. But the
negro born on our sacred soil, brutal. Ignorant,
corrupt thriftess, though he be, Is n citizen OF
Louisiana who may vote and hold office with
the best of us. In short. the native-born
negro Is q better man and citizen and more fit
to hold office than any man born on foreign
soil. This IS N ATIoNALIsM. This Is the doc
trine and creed of the largest and most pow
erful faction which coDfronts the Democratic
partv to-day This Is the creed and doctrine
Of the faction with which the Greenbackers
the Citizens the Radicals and all other fac
tions have been planning and trading for days
past for o common alliance against the Dem
ocratic party.
The race sentiment to which it appeals Is n
very powerful one; but it Is sentiment
which should be rebuked: the party was Or
ganized for the purpose of vindicating fraud
and whitewasbing all that has been most in
famous in the political history Of Louisiana
for eight years. and 1t should be whipped,
horse. foot and dragons.
Those of our native-born citizens who de-
sire peace and prosperity; who wish to see
all the elements of our mixed population llv-
ing together In harmony and peace and work.
ing for the general good, should vote solidly
against the proscriptive principles OF the
National or Red Warrior party. Every nat
uralized citizen who values his rights rs an
American citizen, and who desires to preserve
those rig hts, should walk up to the polls and
vote straight ticket against the National or
Native American ticket, and against the tick
cts of all factions or parties which have pro-
posed to unite with 1t for the purpose OF de-
feating the Democratic party. The Demo-
cratic party is the party Of the constitution
and the laws; 1t is the party Of the State; 1t
Is the party of the people; it Is the party
which protects al classes, all interests and
all nationalities on our soil
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