The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-08
REPUBLICAN, CRUELTY.

No difficulty will be found by the Teller
Committee, now In this city, in procuring all
the testimony necessary to prove anything
they deem necessary to blacken the civiliza-
tion of Louisiana and stir up the sectional
passions and hatred OF the blind and bigoted
masses OF the North. The business OF training
witnesses to swear away the results Of the
elections In this State and prove that our
educated and property-holding classes are
worse than tribe OF savages has been 30
thoroughly and systematically worked up
that the approach OF a Senate or House COM
mittee has only to be announced when all the
chicken thieves, Clubhouse burners, seed cot
ton rogues and Radical ruffians swarm into
view, ready to prove that Mad. Wells and
Tom Anderson are honest men and that Eliza
Pinkston is holy saint.
If the class OF witnesses whom Mr.. Teller
had before him yesterday, and to whom. for
some days yet, he and his distinguished asso-
ciates will listen are creditable and their oaths
are sufficient to invalidate or cast suspicion
upon general election In this State, then the
yellow fever commission should no longer
waste their time in interrogating doctors and
sanitarans who obstinately refuse to swear
what yellow fever Is, but call before them o
few OF the murderers and negro thieves who
are to testify before the Teller committee,
and they can then obtain all the evidence ON
yellow fever Of the most positive character
that they may need.
These rascals are ready to swear to
anything; to one lie to-day and to con-
Trajectory lie tomorrow. A little per diem,
q few promises from the Custom-H House, even
a little eonspicuousness for half hour be-
fore the committee, will produce any sort Of
evidence required. Indeed, when the commit
tee get through, it will be quite easy for an
other committee, with little public money to
squander, to gather up the same witnesses
Teller murdered his own grandmother and
that Mr.. Cameron was hung ten years ago
for horse stealing.
The long and short Of it Is, these sort of COM
mittees have not only become an unbearable
nuisance, but also positive evil to the coun-
try and brutal cruelty to the negroes Of
Louisiana. They keep the country In con-
slant state of turmoil and bitterness, and they
iniure our trade and industries by creating the
impression that we are turbulent commune
ty Of ruffians. But the negroes are the great
est sufferers. To thesep poor, ignorant creatures
such committees as the one Mr.. Teller heads
are merciessly cruel, and we are beginning to
believe that the Republican leaders know 1t,
and that for miserable partisan purposes they
perpetrate this cruelty upon deliberate and
cold-blooded system.
Let us explain. The negroes OF Louisiana
have not the intelligence, or moral sense, or
personal integrity, or force OF character to
conduct political canvass, or In any other
way to compete as a race against the white
race. But when their evil passions are not
aroused, nor their race prejudices stimulated
into activity, they are docile, peaceable and
and, to us, they are invaluable
laborers. Hence, If the Republican politicians
Of the North, If the Federal administration
and congressional committees would agree to
leave the State Of Louisiana alone to the adj
Of her own laws, the different
races which occupy her borders would soon
assume their proper peaceful relations to-
wards each other, and we would hear no more
Of bulldozing, numbering and whipping ne
groes, and all the other horrors which are
conjured up in this State.
The white people OF the State would in
time divide into parties and the negroes fol-
lowing the lead Of their employers, would fol-
low them into one party or the other. It Is
true the employers OF negro labor would con-
troll the larger portion Of the negro vote; but
certainly the employers OF labor would not be
likely to vote the negroes against the ma
terial interests OF the commonwealth.
But the Blaines and the Conklings, and the
Teller committees, will not permit this peace
full and happy adjustment OF the relations OF
the races here. On the approach OF every
election they and their presses begin the
same old howl over murdered negroes; their
INSCRIPTIONS henchmen In the Custom House
and throughout the State ''get the word" In
negro parlance, and midnight meetings Of
the deluded colored people are held in the par
ishes; incendiary speeches are made to them |;
their passions are infiamed; the native bar
barism Of their nature asserts itself; they be-
gin to talk Of numbering the whites. OF arson,
rape and plumber; they grow insolent and de-
faint; whole communities are thrown into ter
ror and CONSERVATION, and the end Is that q
collision takes place and number OF these
unfortunate wretches are wounded and
killed.
The whites, alarmed at the threatening at
titude Of the blacks, organize patrols and
keep up vigilant organization to protect their
families from outrage and their property from
the torch. Would Mr.. Teller and his asso-
ciates do less? Would Hayes, Conkling or
Cameron do less? Well, necessarily, the cleo
ton goes Democratic. and then comes the
charges, falsehoods and bitter foundations
followed by these investigating committees
which accomplish nothing, save to defame
the people OF Louisiana, people of their own
race, civilization and Christianity, by circu-
lating under the authority Of the Senate or
House, and with the sanction Of great names,
the wild and utterly absurd and false stories
of q class of witnesses on whose testimony it
would be cruelty to condemn horse thief,
much less whole civilized community.
And SO the trouble goes on from year to
wear We can have no ueaee orr trade is in