New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05

ton Of intelligent minds that this rulsinR
did not.mset the question OF O. violalaa
pledge, nor has any occasion arisen since
| to test the purpose or the ability 81 TIE
conservative citizens to maintain those
| pledges.
There have been occasional acts Of Tio-
lence by one and all against each other
and some by white people against their
own race, which while, they have been
| febuked by the State authority show that
this lawless spirit, though, is not extinct,
and that the whole ~moral force q e
State may be required to quell and cons
troll it. Until, therefore, it shall hava tieeAi
determined whether these resolutions ~
an armistice, or apeace, truce or q tlseff.
the Republicans of Louisiana f
be considered as occupying deliC
not dangerous position. Every "a
sideration of principle and of pru 20
would, therefore, dictate that they I'D
regard themselves as corps of obs ga-
ton and guarantee, ready to fall int1
| ranks with any who may stand up il de-
tense ola law which embraces pur pses
indispensable to their political exisi lce
If by any political accident th' DE-
mocracy shall succeed in crushing y its
| conservative influence, it may vir ally
nullify the terms of the compact. nay
| even implant in the law, and in the on
| struction of the law, all that intole Ict
and inequality from which the Repul az
citizens nave suffered so much and as si
which they have so long and 90 su -
fully commended. With this domestil n
ger, the probable prospect Of q ma lnal
administration, diminished in all ii 3s-
partments, renders any hope OF %
against unfriendly State legislation too
remote for estimate. One important 1es-i
| ton then presented for consideratio g,
how may the Republican party of ] u
isiana best maintain the rights acco ed
them by their political opponents? ne
manner in which this may be most oj-
| tually done has been already set for in
this address. We can only add thai in
| all cases in which an anti-Democratin orr
| ganization or candidate appeals to -
publican support, there should be is
| tinct pledge on the part of such apple Is
to maintain the law of April 10, 1877, nd
| the terms of amnesty therein include
| There cannot, perhaps, be more pro-
| per occasion for calling the attention 0t
the people of Louisiana to the extraordin-
airy services which have been rendered to
ali their interests by the colored people Of
this State. 1t will have been observed
thatwhile God hath. in his inscrutable iudg-
ment, chosen to afiict this city, State and
| region with the recurrence of an epidemfa
unprecedented in its extent, if not In its :
| intensity, He hath demonstrated the IN
estimable value of the people of color IN
meeting the calamities which have befalier
us. These people have, during this terri
BILE panic and pestilence, cultivated almost
exclusively the largest crop of sugar, rice
and cotton grown Tor years past. They
have stood at their post in this stricken
city when the Hottest in this land have
gathered their households and fed abroad
for safety, and while every abode has been
filled with fear and suffering, they hare
performed the labors of navigation and
commerce and watched alike for the i've
ing, the sick and the dead. God hath
thus tempered the harsher iniunctions Of
the old dispensation with the needful
spirit of the new, and has vouchsafed in
this conduct a noble example of doing
unto others as ye would that others should
do unto you, and of doing good to those
who despitefully use you.
In all these invaluable services Tia
colored people have proven their integlt
and sympathy for their fellow citizen
and have thus given renewed assufancl
that as a social industrial and polite
element they are entitled to the cor.
fdence and protection of the whole peGpI
of Louisiana. Every practical man IA
the State must see that in the content ail9
cooperation of this body of our feilo4r
citizens, having a common religion ?
common speech and a common interest in
a common welfare, and acclimated by ma
ture to any tropical epidemic, will Consist
the best means of developing the produc-
tive capacity, and restoring the wasting
prosperity of our State. 1t would be mad
ness to discourage or demoralizing this
great influence.
It would be ruinous to our common in
terests to drive them to restitution, or
persecute them into an exodus to other
countries upon this continent, where their
rights and feelings would be better e
spected and their extraordinary capafiJ ~
for staple production brought into con-
petition with our own.
And now having considered these gen
eral principles of policy, we pass to mes $
ures of organization and to questions Il
practical party management
With the memory of the deeds OF VIC.
lence, which we're perpetrated upon Re
publicans during the months preceding
the last election, fresh with the local gov
ernments and machinery of elections o.
tirely in the hands of the opposition i
with the indications that the proscrip e
and violent policy of the Democrats Is
not been abandoned, at least by the / u
managers, we de not believe that Re %
licans can organize or ever vote in ALI
parishes without endangering their lives
Still we urge upon those parishes anil To-
calities where our party is manifest
strong, the duty of making an ealnes3
effort to elect members of Congress, nleles
bers of the General Assembly and local
officers.
In those parishes where the Rep oli4
cans are in the minority, we recommend
that Republicans unite with the Anti
Democratic voters with the view to Sc
curing the best representatives and local
officials.
In our opinion there are two obi 3cts
which we should sacrifice every other con-
sideration to attain; viz: the election OF
Republican members of Congress-, ~ &
the election of Republicans or inde
dent members of the Legislature.
The Republicans in the several senhlos
rial and representative districts Of ihz
State, should be left free to decide ioe
themselves whether it is proper to nomi-
nate candidates, or to give their support
to the most favorable candidates other
wise nominated; it being understood that