Year: 1873

1t has been often wonder to Us that
people especially jealous Of State rights
should consent to have their political
action made up and directed from abroad.
Yet such is the fact. New York and Wash
ington City have sent their commands to
the leaders of the South, and the State
right pa-tisans lave obeyed the rescript
with the same unreasoning acquiescence
that Russian pays to that of his sover-
e;gn cza: Some of those orders were:
We command to resist OF not to recognize
the reconstruction and negro suffrage
acts; to rapudiate pro tTanto the obllga-
tions of the nation by redeeming them
as ia. as possible in a depre-
ciated currency; to renounce all the
political principles for which they had
fought by supporting candidate for the
presidency whose life had been long
and successful war against these p1in-
ciples, and now we have an indignant re-
buke from the New York World, addressed
to General Beauregard, Mr.. Marks and
all other citizens who. to ameliorate the
social relations Of the two races here, have
recommended the popular acceptance of
the law granting to the colored people
certain rights Of access to places Of public
license.


That monument of brass the New York
World, has the audacity thus to address
the Southern white people who recently
recommended more cordial social inter-
course between the races.


We trust that neither the people OF Louis
lana nor those Of any other American State
have become degenerate enough TO follow
such counsel. 1t shames the manhood of a
community to be quiet under tlagrant op-
preston. Patient submission to tyranny ls
the part of slaves who have lost their faith
in liberty, and have abandoned the hopes
and aspirations, after being stripped of the
rights, of treemen. 1t is not by meek en-
durance that any down-trodden people ever
gained the sympathy and generous encour-
agement of the spectators of their wrongs
The great heart of the world was never
stirred for modern Greece, for Hungary,
nor for any oppressed people, 80 long as
they made no attempts to break their thral-
dom. Had our fOrefathers been quiet,
France and Holland would never have
come to our assistance.


Here is an effort to place these people
once more in antagonism with the govern
ment and the majority of the people OF
the United States. Now. if these white
people of Louisiana are degraded at SUBJ
mitting to the law, why do not the con-
ductors of the World come down and head
their resistance? 1t is very safe to sit in
the sanctum of New York printing Office
and counsel strife to others. but we should
like to know where these yalorous Estate
rights Democrats" Of the World were
when Beauregard was fighting for the
cause that they, the State rights Demo-
Gratis. professed to believe in. These
State rights Democrats Of the North were
protesting everywhere their devotion to
the Union. and accepting with the utmost
alacrity commissions and contracts for its
preservation, and for the subjugation Of
their own political friends at the South.
1t is, we think, really time the Southern
white people were allowed to conduct their
own affairs according to their own sense
Of propriety, without being denounced by
the anonymous and irresponsible scrib-
blers of the New York World. We, who
have been the consistent antagonists of
these men, acquit them Of such charges,
and will nos allow a party which once de-
serted them and its own professed princi-
pies to abuse and denounce those who are
our fellow-citizens. disposed for social and
sectional peace.