The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-05-14
Che Uribune.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
THE NEGRO VOTER.

All Copperdom has been worrying It
self for long time past in regard to
''nigger suffrage, !" niger equality, |"
etc, etc. They have said that when the
blacks were permitted to vote they would
override all forms of law and become a
terror to the community wherein they
resided. It was said that in localities
where they predominated blacks would
be elected to Congress, that all the taxes
would be levied on the white people, and
many other things which are bad. Well
the blacks have voted; the terrible or
deal has been passed the battle fought
and the smoke has cleared away, now for
the result Have any blacks been sent
to Congress? ''Not SO far as heard
FROM" though one very well educated
man of color-a man possessing first
class abilities-was offered the position
and refused it, saying he did not wish to
go where there was so strong prejudice
against him. Show US a white man pos
sessing nicer discrimination of what is
due to his feelings as mani Well did
they commit any objectionable offense :?
Not at all; they walked miles through
the storm, they waded swamps and swan
rivers. in order to exercise free man S
privilege. Well do they feel any more
white mans equal than before? Not that
any one has charged as yet. They voted
because they believed their rights would
be respected hereafter, merely for the
sake of their votes if for no other reason,
and they we're right about that. You take
the most ignorant class of any community
here at the North and their rights are
respected invariably, because they hold
power in their hands on election day, and
though they may be weak themselves
there are strong men willing to espouse
their cause for the sake of making
friends of them.
The Democrats have said a great deal,
too, about those men who were to be
elected by ''nigger votes and have call
ed them ''nigger representatives, car
pet baggers' ''ofice seeking yankees, !"
and other appellatives too numerous to
mention. Well it so happens that some
districts in the South did not 60 Repub-
lican, disticts having four blacks to one
white at that; and democrats ere cleo
ted. But of course these democrats will
not serve-they were elected by black
constituents and it would never do for the
cllivalry to accept office from such hands;
no never! But they do, though, and
what is more they used every means be-
fore election, in their power to secure
such result. Where coaxing would
avail they coaxed: where it wouldn'
they threatened, and where both failed
the man who depended on his daily labor
for existence was turned out of emr.loy-
ment and told to starve. So these demo-
Gratis who thought 1t an awful thing for a
black man to vote are the first to seek his
help IN obtaining once.
And where is the ''war of races" which
was so confidently predicted if the negro
should vote? Nothing of the kind has
taken place; on the contrary in Savan
nah short time ago some democratic
negroes were presented with a splendid
set of colors and they were addressed az
''our fellow citizens by the snobs of thai
delectable city, which but a few year:
ago kept Sherman's men many days il
the swamps which surround it, anxious
to plant that selfsame flag in that self
same city, at any minute. No there il
no war of races and we always said there
would be none. There will be huge
effort made to induce the blacks to vote
the democratic ticket, and this can never
be accomplished unless they treat then
well, and If the democrats give the black:
what they ask they viii have to give then
free schools, and under such an arrange
ment republicanism has nothing to fear
Give the black man a chance to gain al
education and there need be no appre
| tensions but what he will take good car
of himself, and he will vote for that ma,
or party of men who will give him th,
fairest show in the race of liffe. If it i
said
The colored troops fought nohly ~
we acknowledge it, and reply