The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-06-20
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the Republican Party.

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AS the question: How will the South
ern negroes vote, now that they are eufran-
chised ?"-is one of deep and general
interest, we would call special attention to
the following answer, given in the address
OF the recent State convention Of the Blacks
Of Alabama:
''All over the State Of Aabama--al over
the South, indeed-the coloced people have,
with singular unanimity, arrayed them
selves under the Republican banner upon
the Republican platform and it is confident
/ ly predicted that nine tenths Of them will
vote the Republican ticket Do you ask,
| why is this? We answer because |. The
Republican party opposed and prohibited
the extension of slavery. 2. 1t repealed the
Fugitive Slave Law. 3 1t abolished Slavery
Ia the District Of Columbia. f. 1t abolished
slavery in the rebellious States. 1t abol
lshed slavery throughout the rest of the
Union. 6. 1t put down the rebellion against
the Union. 7. 1t passed the Freedmens Bu
reau Bill and the Civil Rights Bill s. Item
franchised the coIored people OF the District
OF Columbia. g. 1t enfranchised the colored
people Of the nine Territories. 8. 1t entran
chised the colored people of the ten rebel
States IL. 1t provided for the formation of
new Constitutions and State Governments III
those ten States. IL 1t passed new lom e.
stead laws, enabling the poor to obtain land.
Ia short, it has gone CD, step by STEP doing
first one thing for US and then another,
and it now proposes to enfranchise our PEG
pie all over the Union 1t is the only party
which has ever attempted to extend our
privileges, and as it has in the past always
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we should trust il for the future. 1t is |
som etimes alleged that the Republicans Of
the North have not been actuated by love
for US in what they have done, and there
fore that we should not join them. We
answer that if even that were true, they
certainty never professed to hate us, and the
opposition party has always been denoun-
cling the id niger and Abolitionists with
equal fervor When we had no votes to
give, the opposition placed Us and the Re
publicaus in the same boat and now We
reckon we'll stay in it. Another fact should
be borne in mind. While few conserva
tives are making guarded promises the mas t
ses OF that party are cursug us, and doing {
all they car to make the ID niggers stay
in their place If we were, therefore, TO v
join that party, it would be simply as ser
wants aud not as equals Some leaders who :
needed our votes might treat us deceDtiy, d
but the great majority would expect us to {
stay at home until election day, aud then
vote as our employers directed This We
decline doing. 1t seems to us
safest to have as little as possible to do with
those members of the community who de- {
light to abuse US. They are nearly or quite
nj to be found in the ranks Of tue opposi-
ion party But although we have planted r
ourselves immovably upon the Republican l
1latforn,. it is our earnest desire to remain
lpon sss9d terms with our political oppo-
lents@ It is our intention to use the power r
we may obtain for the benefit of the entIe
give Justice to others as
we'll as to enact it for ourselves. We know
Of DO reason why those vino differ with us
and vote for different men should insist up
IN warning against us for acting according 7
20 the dictates of our own Judgments and Y
we are certain that there wifi be 10 diff y
Guilty in the community unless our oppo- n
lents begin it. To live peaceaoly with all !
men is our earnest desire, aud we pledge
ourselves 30 use no improper means to car
y our points. Will the opposition meet us
n the same spirit ?"