The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-09-19
The Expulsion I'm Georgia.

FROM the 81 LOUIS Republican.
The question whether or not colored people
shall have tine same political privileges as white
citizens, and whether or not Congress is empow-
cred by the Federal Constitution to designate
tho qualifications of voters in the various states.
is one Of the principal issues of the present cam
paign. The Democratic party makes the quail
fcation of negroes to vote and hold office entire.
ly and absolutely dependent upon the will of the
various states in which they are to exercise the
franchise or occupy public offices. Wherever
the Democratic party is in power, il acts accord
ing to these principles, and if it succeed in the
present campaign, it will make this policy the
rule of the Federal Government
The Democrats of Georgia. precisely as the
Radicals OF Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and of al
most all the Western and Northern States, are
not inclined to admit the negroes of their state
to the franchise or to office, and when in the
Legislative Assembly at Atlanta, the question
was put, whether or not the twenty-five colored
members were entitled to their seats, the Demo-
crats.voted no, and they were seconded in their
views by tcenty-t,o0 of the nhte Radical mem
bers of the House. By that vote the seats of the
twenty-five colored members of the Georgia
Legislature were vacated. That the Democrats
voted III such manner is not in the least aston
ishing. Their love of the negroes in this respect
il on the same level as that of the great majority
Of the Radicals, and wherever they may happen
to be in power they very probably will do the
same thing They do not believe that the negro,
who has Just emerged from slavery, should have
the same political rights as the white native,
and more than the foreign white Immigrant
They unanimously regard slavery as abolished
by the war and by the subsequent amendment of
the Constitution, but, further than to grant the
negroes civil liberty, the free disposition of their
property and the protection Of the courts in their
civil rights, they not inclined to extend their
privileges for the time being. What has hap
pened in Georgia, so far as the Democratic men,
bers of the Legislature are concerned, therefore,
is very natural. They are not hypocrites but
they have acted as they promised they would,
wherever they might be in power.
1t is altogether different with the Radical
members of the Georgia Legislature who helped
to e1pel the negroes. That the Radical masses
North are not inclined to grant suffrage and the
right of holding Office to the colored race is a
known fact. But in the south they were bound
by the Chicago platform to adopt different pol
icy. In the South they were ordered to force on
the whites negro suffrage, and the privileges of
coored people to hold office, and, to the amaze
ment of the Northern managers, twenty-five, of
the forty-ive white Radical members of the At
lanta Legislature refused to become parties to
the outrage. Of this change of mind of the
white Radical members in the Legislature at At
lanta the Democrats evidently are innocent 1t
is change that overcame the whole nation a.
the very moment it was discovered that the ne
gro policy il the Radical party WAS only means
to attain Radical partisan ends, and to insure
the permanent oppression of the South. So
much homer and delIcacy were vet left in the
hearts of twenty-five white Radical members of
the Georgia Legislature that they helped in car
rying out the great national thought in regard
to suffrage and the eligibility of the negroes
, Every day in or another of the states of
the North and West, new instance is added to
the snwillingness of the Radicals themselves to
make the negroes their equals in every respect
Only few days ago three colored Tanner COM
panies offered to join the puerile organization Of
the white Tanners at Chicago They promised
10 equip themselves at their own expense, and
modsstly added, that they would always march
in the rear OF the Tanner companies of the
whites Andyet they were fatty refused " the
white Tanners of one of tie formerly model
Radical cities. in one Of the most ultra Radical
states. Is Il 20 wonder that TWENTY-FIVE Radical
members OF the Georgia Legislature should re-
fuse the negroes the privilege of being members
of the supreme law-making assembly of their
state, when in Chicago, where their partisan
friends have held sway for many years, their ne
gro pats were not even permitted to march
through the streets at the tail Of their election
eering companies:
Such fact. are the infallIbe indications OF
change in the minds OF the people. The poor
Radical partisan papers do all they can to hide
these facts from their readers; and when, an in
the case of Georgia. they are bound to speak Of
them, they load the whole responsibility upon
the Democrats. In tho Senate of the Georgia
Assembly the white Radicals have GEAR major
ity, and late vote indicates that from this body
also the negroes will be expelled The Radicals
have created two antagonistic factions Of their
own party in every state of the South. They
may be designated the carpct-bag Radicals and
the Radical negroes They hate each other so
cordially that they would at any moment exter-
inmate each other; and we are certain that the
expelled negroes have infinitely more spite
against the white carpet-baggers, who helped in
vacatng their seats, than against the Democrats
with whom they have all other interests, except
political Advancement, in common.
The Radicals may very appropriately call this
campaign the campaign of receptions At every
step they take nearer the coveted prize they dis
cover new heresy among their own friends !;
and well may they say, with Falstaff, 81 would
it We're bedtime, Hail. and all we'll !"
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