The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-20
The Same Instrument, but Different
Tunes,

uatHtdiHs AAS present POatGloH.
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The Same Instrument, but Different
Tunes.
During the past six months Demo
cratic editors have been weeping
Jeremiahs over the sad misfortunes
of the white men Of the Southern
States. Their papers have been filed
with mournful accounts Of the HUI
Mutations and notifications endured
by the chivalry in being compelled to
witness theTyoting, Of negroes and the
holding of Office by the same The
white race is made subservient to the
black; the Caucasian is compelled to
succumb to the African intelli-
gence is displaced by igporapce,
has been the dolorcus refrain for
months.
To these assertions It has been re-
peatedly replied that there was no
necessity for such condition Of affairs,
because, with one or two exceptions,
the white voters outnumbefed the
blacks in every Southern State. But.
still they refuse to be comforted. The
rebel papers continue to harp aboat
the Commonwealth of the South
being turned over to mass of igno-
rant negroes, swayed by gangs of i'm
ported adventures, whose only bust
ness down South is to speculate in
the political sufferings of the people.
plumber their substance and steal
their public Offices of profit and pow
er. White men to the front, = fran
tically appeals the Mobile Register.
Rally to defeat the internal cohsti-
tuition of the Montgomery Menage-
RE" But while our feelings
are thus enlisted in behalf Of
these down-trodden and oppressed
sons of Japheth, and our Indignation
aroused against the depressing Af-
ricans and their imported advisers,
our ears, all at once, are saluted with
an entirely different tune, from the
same instruments. In commenting
on the Radical nominees for State
offices in Alabama. the Mobile Even
ing Ne0s prints the ticket and adj
dresses the colored population as fol-
lows:
We ask the colored man to look
at il and see how many of them are
on it. Not one. Nary niger -
when the plumber is to be divided
1t was stated in that SINE menagerie
that nineteen tt0oatiethS of their con-
stituents were b'Gck men. Bat when
they come to parcel out the power
and the offices. not a single black
draws prize. The niggers are only
good to vote in the Alabama Radical
party. But it is only the white
trash that is to be voted for And
this, cOlored menl is all these scamps
want with you. It is for this they are
putting you forward in an attitude of
hostility to your own white people,
,endangering your means of subsist-
ence, and in the end putting your
very existence in peril.
Deary, deary mel Then it isn't the
white men, after all, that are down.
tredden and oppressed, but the poor
Africans who are swindled. Taey fur
nish all the votes aud get none of the
offices. The Caucasian element still
predominates in the Office dep9rtment
of the State Government, and all the
salt brine shed over the woes. Of the
whites has been so much waste of.the
raw material. Not only is this the
case in Alabama, but in Georgia, also,
the whites predominate to- ssach- an
extent as to-arouse the Indignation of
the organs who have beea crank-
ing out such melancholy strains, here
tofore, relative to the overbearlng dis
positions of the former slaves and
the ,humiliat;ng condition of their