Semi Weekly Louisianian

It is becoming a fashion among some Republicans to arraign other Republicans as lacking in devotion to the interests of colored people. These complaints, made mainly by white men, show that those who make them concede the important claims which colored people have upon our party, and yet a comparison as to the number of colored men employed respectively by the State Administration, and by those opposed to it, gives a splendid exhibit in favor of Gov. Warmoth. When it comes to the importance of the positions conferred there is scarcely any room for comparison, inasmuch as the Customhouse, Post-Office and United States Marshal's office all combined do not furnish an instance of but one colored man who reaches the salary of even $150 per month and he though he is a State Senator, is kept in the position of under storekeeper, while white men of less influence are either put over his head or fed with a greater quantity of "pap."

There are many worthy colored men in the Customhouse, men who not only deserve their positions as good Republicans, but who from their social positions, their political influence and official standing deserve better pay and greater recognition than they have received yet at the hands of these watchers over negro advancement.

We are told that the contrast in Gov. Warmoth's favor has been produced by his aspiration for a re-nomination for Governor. Now until we can analyse a man's conscience, we refuse to speculate about his motives. His motives may be good or they may be bad, but as journalists our business is with facts. What has been done, is the question our readers ask, and it is our duty to answer them; and we say this has been done:

1st. Whenever the Governor is in town he consults with colored men both as to what he and they with other advisers may consider the best interests of the State.

2nd. He does not perch himself upon the Rocky Mountains and plume his feathers as the original American eagle, and scream to smaller birds not to approach nearer to him than the valley of the Mississippi. Gov. Warmoth sends for the man he thinks can help him and goes to them if they cannot come.

Whether he understands human nature better than his opponents, whether he has more political sagacity or whether he does the things con amore is no affair of ours. The simple fact is he does them, and we express ourselves better satisfied with these facts, than with a state of things which has not called a colored man to one first class position in any Federal Department. We do not blame the National Administration for this state of things, though were they to know of it, they would doubtless be profited by the knowledge, but we say that in view of this state of things, those who are drawing comparisons against colored men had better remember the aphorism that "comparisons are odious."