The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-07-24
TOO MUCH NIGGER.

TOO MUCH NlGGER
The leading Radicals are beginning
to get the idea beaten into their heads
that the niger may prove little too
troublesome and expensive an elephant
after all. A Mr.. Charles E. Moss, wri-
ting from Virginia, yentilates his ideas
of the ambitious pretensions of the Mig
ger after the following fashion:
"Speaking of Vice-presidents, certain
distinguished Senators and Representatives
in Congress who have been counting the
negro vote, in the expectation Of getting
that position, will wake up some fine
morning and find themselves wonderfully
mistaken. The African vote will be the
ruling vote in eleven States of this Union.
BY the ruling vote, I mean the vote that
will determine the result of the election.
That fact the intelligent African under
stands, and is laying his plans. He under
stands we'll that. without the negro vote, a
Republican candidate for, President can not
be elected Under that fact, the Africans
begin to declare emphatically that the Re-
publican party shall not use them as mate
rial for carrying elections and then turn
them aside in the disposition of the public
patronage. They say that furnishing votes
must be reciprocated by receiving a just
share Of the Offices. And in that they are
right. 1t it but simple justice to those
men who do the voting to grant them
fair proportion of the official positions.
There are several negroes fitted for the,
position of Vice.president, and that race
claim that the second Office in the gift of
the nation shall be filled by negro. That,
they say, must be accorded to the black
race by the Republican party as proof Of
the honesty of its profession Of attachment
to the principles of equal rights to all men,
regardless of race or color. If that demand
is refused, they will consider the Repub-
lcan party dishonest in its professions and
vote against it in the Presidential election"
Mr.. Horace Greeley, who has author
ity to speak for his party, takes Mr..
Moss to task and deprecates the. run
ming of a niger for office simply be-
cause he is a niger. Mr.. Greeley's
idea is evidently that of the vast ma
jority of his party. The niger vote is
wanted at the South only to help
Northern white men into office. If the
Radicals are willing that he should hold
any Offices at all, they take care that
these Offices should have their locality
in the "rebel States" the olfactory
nerves of jayhawkers, original Union
men and penitent rebels not being
deemed too sensitive to come in con-
tact with the odoriferous exhalations of
the newly enfranchised "man and
brother" As for the delicate sensibil-
tiles of Radical Congressman being
shocked by contact with any such spe-
cimens Of humanity, the thing was
never dreamed fin the reconstruction
programme, although we may reasona-
bly, suppose that Mr.. Hannibal Hamlin,
who is part niger, and Mr.. Charles
Sumner and Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens,
who have hitherto borne very delicate.
relations to certain Of the African fair
sex, are a little more liberal minded
on this subject than the rest Of their
Radical associates.
On this question we are with the
niger, and in favor of his pretensions.
ALI the old party managers in
times past acted on the principle Of
conciliating every formidable element
by dividing the Offices, wherever such
division would secure large accession
of voters. Irishmen have been nomin-
ated in New York to secure the Irish
vote, and Germans in St. Louis to Sc
cure the German vote. Now if the
niger can control the votes of eleven
States as this correspondent says,
what reason can there be for excluding
him from his full share of the Offices 2
He has been put in the political scale
far above the white man, though the
latter may never be SO loyal. A man
born in Ireland cannot vote until he
has resided here five years, and can
never be eligible to the Office of Presi-
dent or Vice President of the United
States. On the other hand the niger
can vote without any probation and is
eligible to every Office from President
down to Constable. We do not think
1t, therefore, preposterous in Cutie to
claim every thing the law allows him,
since he has been taken in charge by a
party which not only claims that much,
but a great deal more than the law
allows. If Mr.. Hamlin, who has mig
ger blood in his veins, was Vice Presi-
dent, why should not Mr.. Pompey
Jones, who has a little more, be hon
ored in the same manner7 59r
We hope the niggers will claim eve
rything at the hands of their Radical
friends, and that they will not rest
,contented until their demands shall
he. complied with. Let them be Vice
Presidents, Cabinet Officers, Members
Of Congress, and everything else they
please which will bring them in the
closest contact with their pretended
friends. Let them go one step further
and demand a recognition Of all social
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