The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-08-19
"UNDER WHICH KING. 90

The northern and southern Democracy do
not seem TO harmonize in their modes OF ope.
ration and in their methods Of carrying on
the campaign. In the north no words are ut
tered by the unterrihed with more emphasis
than these: "this Is white mans govern.
mcnt." There is all through the north among
the Democracy an intense bitterness against
the negro.
Frank Blair, their candidate for Vice PresI
dent, speaks OF the freedmen in terms not over
polite or hattering We quoted some OF these
choice expressions the other day, in which he
speaks OF these people as semi-barbarous
blacks, ""Idle yasabonds !" degraded beings, y
and an "aiicn race OF semi.baTbarous men, y
&c.
Leaving thCsc northern agltators and negro
haters and turning our attention south what
do we hndl We observe that such newspaper
as the Richmond Enquirer, Charleston Nsrs
Macon Telegraph, Charleston Mercury, Mobile
Adreriissr, and others. are filed with sppealI
to the coiored people to rally to the support
OF the Democratic party, and this too on the
ground that the Democratic party 10 their best
friend.
In Alabama, in Mississippi, in Georgia and
In South Carolina, as In other States, large
meetings are being held, and eolored orators
are haranguing the people In company and
on the same platform with the white speakers,
and the audiences, composed Of black and
white, are applaudlng those speakers and
"Sambo's" talk elicits as much applause from
these gathered multitudcs as that Of Howell
Cobb, Robert Toombs, Wade Hampton or d.
II. Hill
Now, no Republican will dispute the right
OF the colored man to vote as he pleases, and
If they choose to organize Democratic clubs,
n thoy 70 lOInV In m nj Stata dnkV
South, we cannot deny their right to do SO
Still, there are one or two things in this con.
nection which we propose to state, the obvious
tendency and purport OF which must be seer
and acknowledged by all. In the first place
II this is and must continue to be a"whits
mans Government" as all white Northern
Democrats assert, then these colored voter
down South are bound to be cheated; for wheI
they shall have placed In power these white
Democrats OF the Hampton school their politi
cal rightS will be at once revoked. They will
be subordinatcd as an Inferior race, and PLACED
forever under the ban. The white chivalry
will lord 1t over them with dcspotism and a
terrorism not one whit inferior TO that which
existed in the days Of slavery.
There is another fact which must be patent
TO every observer, and this is 1t: that in Texas,
Louisiana, and other portions OF the South
colored men are being shot down daily, and
the process of starvation Is there going onj
that lie, all colored people who refuse to vote
the Democratic ticket hold their lives by an
exceedingly frsil tenure. Every colored man
Is told to vote with the Democracy, or he will
be starved or shot This is the uhimatum Of
the Democratic programme; vote the Demo
cratic ticket and live, vote the Republican
ticket and perish.
What an inconsistent, what an Infamous
front does this selEstyled Democratic partI
present TO the country. In the North II Is sur
charged to the very brim with malignant lat,
OF the negro, and its perpetual boast Is thai
this is a "white mans government" In the
South 1t shoots and starves and mains thss,
people, except in those instances In which Il
can wheedle them into the support OF the Dem
ocratic nominees. 1t is the party OF plumber
of robbery and wrong. 1t would blot out tn,
reconstruction laws Of Congress. It woult
trample upon the Constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery. 1t would re.enslave the
colored race, and place itself In power upon
the ruins OF the republic, and the overthrow
OF the dearest rights OF humanity.
While we must respect thousands OF people
who may be found in the Democratic party,
we cannot, with the facts In the case which
everywhere stare US In the face, disabuss our
minds Of the belief that the leaders OF this Or
gaaiIAtion will scruple at no means, however
corrupt, 10 place themselves In power, even
should 1t lead to the overthrow of the Gov
eminent and Of civil liberty itself