The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-10-31
THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF NEGROES.

The bowls of pestilent negroes over
the Civil Rights Decision had not died
out before the whines of sentimental
white men have begun. A Georgia
newspaper assures the blacks that they
have lost nothing because the mag
unanimous whites will now voluntarily
concede them every thing they have
heretofore impudently demanded, ana
from the other end of the line comes
the statement that the Governor OF
Texas has required of the railroads
frst-class accommodations for travel
ling negroes. We don't believe a
word of it. Gov. Ireland knows too
we'll that such interference is quite be-
yond the limits of any Governors
power. Had he addressed either ad-
visory or minatory directions of that
tenor to the railroads of Texas, their
managers would simply have told him
to mind his own business.
There is now, as there has been all
along, a set of anticipates in the South
who have magnifed the Importance OF
the negroes and have ever been on the
alert to lug them into public assem-
blies. These are the men who ten
years ago were constantly Fostering
Parish Conventions to send negro
among the delegates "for its effect"
These are the noodles who went about
among the members of State Conven-
tons, button-holing them and urging
the nomination of negro to exhibit
our freedom from prejudice. One OF
the pestiferous gang got on the dele
CATION of two hundred that went to
Washington when Grant was in power,
and took along q negro, not as his
valet, but as co-delegate, and when
the gentleman in whose section the
black was to sleep swore that he
would not submit to the indignity, his
patron had him put aloft above him
self. 1t is the same set that are now
patting Sambo on the head, and bid
ding him be of good cheer for he shall
have all that white man has, and
perhaps little more.
That their presumption and cheek
has not diminished is shown by the
suggestion of one Of the most self-im-
portant mulattoes among them, that
the Republicans (which in this State
is synonymous with negroes) shall
hold a convention at the same time
and place as the Democratic Conven-
ton, in order that they "may meet the
representatives of the white people of
Louisiana before they make their NOM
nations, and may demand from them
justice, schools and representation"
Tho privileges that insolent negroes
demanded and which timid railroad
managers accorded of travelling side
by side with whites, and of equal ad-
mission to public places, will never be
enjoyed by them again, much less
more preposterous claims. They have
forfeited all claim to consideration by
the turbulent aggressiveness with
which they thrust themselves in the
company of whites. They have ex-
hibited a fierce determination to take
all that the most pronounced negropho-
list would giant them, and they must
now be relegated to their proper places.
Whatever rights negro has under
and by the law, protection to life, per-
son, freedom and property-these let
him have. What he calls his "civil
rights" which really are nothing more
than opportunities for annoying and
incommoding white people, are con-
signed to the limbo of the past.
There let them stay!