The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-20

NAin6y from CONGRESS-. WneH tlae moitu
1 choly event tranapired 1t became evident thai
unless something was done with the mig
| ger. and done right away, he woule
pass out of politics and with him the power
Of the New England group would disappear
He could not be paraded rs a sufferer II
bondage, for the emancipation proclamation
| had settled that. He could not be presentan
as ward of the nation, for the fifteenth
amendment had ended that. He was IN.
available for masquerade as a victim OF ,, OUT
| Pinkston had undone that There was there,
| fore no alternative but To Stir him up as Q
child Of Israel. Thereupon Window assumed
the rDie ut Moses and made n speech, Whlle
Now 1t appears that WINDOWS Mosaic speech
was according to contract. 1t could be easily
furnished, because talk s one OF the cheat.
est things IN the Radical price lst. nu.
when the advance guard Of the ls'Egnr r. 7
child OF Israel reached St Louis ne a..l nos
To supply; because In this nnmifaculp5us aae
mania costs money, and the hadica, group
are not fond Of seeing money 60 away iroh
them.
Of Exodus opens with @ set 81 resolutions
talegraphed from VI. Louis, appealing 10 the
War Department for rations Ii there is any
one thing more characteristic OF the Niger
than another, 1t Is his fondness Tor
rations. To him the Federal government
at Washington ia an agent of Divine PrOvi-
dence To supply bread In lieu OF q shower OF
Ioaves from the sky. It does not occur to him
that those ratiOns represent the labor Of some
body who has paid taxes to buy them with:
nor does 1t enter into his simple calculation
that the people whose labor Is thus taxed may
have some objection to that method Or en-
forcing the offices OF charity upon them. But.
taking the Radical doctrine at It's literal accep-
tatloI, he imagines that all he has to do is TO
announce that he Is Niger, that he has
arrived at ut. Louis in the course
not and WHITTIER he knows not, and that he is
hungry; he fances that the ratioDs are mex
haustible,. that his right to draw them is I'M
questionable, aud hence he calls for them
with the charming ndiuete, and the beautiful
that eharaeterizes the set of reso-
lutions photographed the other night from vt.
Louis.
Now as a matter OF course the New Eng
land group Of politicians knew exactly how
tho movement they instigated would turn
out Some people credited them with grand
design Of drawing off enough Of the negro
population from the South
PRIOR To THE TAKING OF THE CENSUS, 81
to cut down the representation VI that sec
lion In the lower house Of Congress. Others
believed that the design WAS to colonies
enough negroes In the close or Democratic
States North to turn the scale at the next
election, and thus produces the solid North
that they have been ptatiDg of 50 much But
neither of these two designs Was actually EN-
tartained. The first was impracticabla, be-
cause In order to seriously affect the ratio OF
1t would he necessary to ham
lilo and transfer masses Of population too
arge to be handled, aud at too great expense
10 be transferred. The second was out Of the
question because the labOring masses
+ ,, the and North aro, would TAX take the
los forcbly resist the colonization Of such ali
alien element In their midst, would overwhelm
+ and the party that promoted It at the bolLs.
10 suppose that the New England group did
1ot see these things. is to suppose that they
ire fools. whereas they are "a fact simply
snaves. We are therefore left to adopt the
conclusion that the New England group de-
.igned to effect precisely the result that has
to wit: The resurrection III
he Niger as an object Of public at
at in 1.-The the a9 ranton1 That y AL a
i the programme The next thing will be
Radical resolution In Congress in~tructing
he Secretary OF War to comply with
he demand or rations. Ibis resolution
viii VI course provoke debate. And thus de-
fairfield ct al. the opportunity they crave To
ehearse once more the speech they have been
making for the last twenty-five years on the
Iigger in the abstract. And this, 1t Is fondly |
will fire the Northern heart.
Iere we have the rdtionale of the negro exodus
EUtl DGAlUulUR VI Gtlu. IlB pIttHlStS vi lilo /
Sew England group have been well taken 30
ar as the Niger himself Is concerned. They
rave simply duped him, az they have always
,een duping him. They have played another |
u their tricks upon his unsnspecting nature.
They have induced him to leave the country |
nature aud by training, and they have left
lim resOurceless In u country where ne can
10 nothing but beg, steal or starve They have
ct him to begging. And now they propose
b fire the Northern heart anew with the care
ully arranged story Of his carefully prepared
woes. As | said,
THEY HAvR MADR NO MISTAKE
bout the Niger. Where they have missed
heir calculation is touching the Northern
leart.
The Northern heart will not be fired. The
ny Tor ratioDS falls upon thu ears III taxpay-
ny masses who have too hard work to get
ations for themselves. The people Of the
lpeply interest," d In their own restitution,
heir own poverty and their own woes than in
ne carefully prepared sufferings OF Moses
Niger masqueradiDg at st. Louis
Is child Of Israel.
What the MOI thern people want is not an
Importation of negro labor from the South.
nut d revival Of employment for their own
die hands. They do not want Congress to
waste the public time In debating the pro-
,riety OF issuing rations to vagrant negroes
homes by the speeches of Window and the
Promises Of Rainey, Smalls and Lynch; but
hey demand general measures of relief that
will put them In the way of earning rations
Or themselves. The New England group
will discover these great facts before long.
there may be something like pity for the
egro as d dupe, but it Il more than over
balanced by the indignation that will be
listed upon those who use him as
HE sTooLPIGEoN or THEIR CONFIDENCE
GAME.
Meanwhile, the New England group is lay
ng up wrath against the day Of wrath; piling
)ssa upon Pelion; heaping Etna upon Vesu-
'ius Ia fact, and the crash IL not far off. When
t comes and is over, the country will be better
If. But New England will sing small for
long time after 1t. She will be several years
'uried in the wreck. And there is no telling
What will become of her poor dupe and
yretched stool pigeon, the niger The
hances are, however, that once absolved from
lis unwilling cnpartnership in crime with his
eceivers he will develop into respectable
itizen, though probably not in an exalted
phere. And it is also possible that,
,oor as he may be- the niger
will ultimately be rich enough to
'ity the New England group. when the nat
lral consequences OF crime against hui