The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-03
a REVEREND sLANDERER.

New Orleans 10 afflicted with minister Of
tho Gospel of Peace whose special mission
| seems to be to SOW dissensions among the
two races In Louisiana. and to vtliify tho
| white people OF the State whenever the slight
| est opportunity or preteSt offers
| This Individual is no less person than tho
| Rev Hartzell, tho editor Of the Southern
| Christinm Advocate, paper which seems to
be very appropriately named, Judging from
| tho very untruthful and unohrBtIan state
ments which are found In It's columns on the
subject or the exodus movement In the South
The Rev. Hartzel. be II known Ia not merely
| q Christian. he is something more he 10 a
Radical, not mere ordinary, tame and In
offensive Radical. but the hlueat OF the blue.
Ut the regular hard shell. dlad-in- the-wooI
kind, who can never sufficiently deplore the
departure Of carpat-bag power, and who
still entertain the hope OF seeing
the return Of those golden lays whom coll
ored man was better than white man, and
when Southern white man had no rights
that colorod men or even the Rev. Hartzall
deigned to consider. Our religious reading
does not include the pious sheet presided over
by tho reverend parsonage alluded TO. and
hence we did not read In Its columns tho ar
| tclo on tho exodus, but found m extract from
IL In an editorial In Hdrpcrs Weekly. which.
as usual. II filed with false statements con
corning the people Of this State and section
| The following excerpt from tho reverend
| politicians article will serve to show its UNI
truthfllness and Injustice:
The causes Of tho negro exodus may 10
| grouped under engle head. namely, the con
ditiona Of financial. political and Hocial dstreas
In which tho negroes In tho South find them
selves nftor ffteen yaRrs Of freedom: md tho
conviction that their former owners who with
their Rllioa now control every southern State.
hsve In tho past oppoead their Advancement,
and do not now give efficient evidence OF good
deaira inwRtd them to insure their present and
future welfare,
He declares also that tho spirit which die
tated tho Ilack Codes has prevailed almost
universally In the South since tho war. The
last avermcnt Ia 80 palpahly false, 80 noto-
rlously untrue, aa to excite not only amaze
ment but indignation that man wearing tho
garb Ut u minister of the Gospel, and living
In Now Orleans, should have tho unbushing
truth What opinion must decent people
hereafter entertain OF this man. who for po-
litcal purposes, stoops to such shameless
Islander and defamation OF the South The
statement II not only untrue but was written
with a full knowledge of its untruth. for the
Rev. Hartzell. living as he does In Now Or
leans, must have known of the provisions OF
the new constitution, which carefully guard
the rights Of the colored people and grant
them equal privileges with the whites In every
respect. He knows. too. that since tho accea-
sion To power Of the Democracy the eoored
race has been treated with kindness In Louia-
ana and throughout the South. and that In
this State their every right has been protected
and tho laws administered with rigid Impair
TALLY.
He has witnessed the Increased production
of our chief staples by oolored labor, and hills
talk about the poverty OF the lRhorers after
fifteen years OF toll Ia sheer nonsense. Arc
the factory operatives and tho lower orders Of
laborers In the North any richer to-day than
they were fifteen or fifty years ngo2 Are
they not wretChod and poverty stricken,
starved on insufficient wages. marched to the
polls like cattle, denied tho privilege OF voting
for whom they choose and made TO do their
masters bidding2 The exodus movement,
no one better than tho Rev. HartBell knows
was the result, not OF unkind treatment. or
insufficient pay, or tho denial OF OWL and
political rights, but OF ono Of those peculiar
freaks which not unfrequently seize people Of
every race. but to which the impressionabIe
and nomadie eoored race arc especially |
liable. II grew out OF n desire for change
tho colored people had heard wonderful
stories OF tho rich and beautiful lands In
Kansas. lying Radicals and railroad ennis
saries had pictured TO them itB surprising
lovoliness and told them that there they
would be equal with the whites and scarcely
have u labor at oil for an existence.
These stories iniiamed them with desire to
leave country where labor was an essential
requisite to existence and with characteris
tic folly they concluded to go. The infection,
like oil such Infections. spread rapidly. and
assumed large proportions II was eagerly
seized upon by the Radical politicians OF the
Hartzell stripe. and used for party capital.
According to Thorn the negroes wero flying
from oppression and cruel treatment, flying
to country where they could enjoy true
freedom. The negroes found In Kansas cold
weather and colder friends. They starved
and died by hundreds, while hundreds have
returned to tell the doleful story Of their
trials and sufferings In that land whore the
people do not want them, do not understand
them and treat them with harshneas and
cruelty they never knew upon the old planta
ton.
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