The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-02
THE FUTURE OF THE. NEGRO.

l.. From the Richmond <va.> Enquirer.
Tho Northern people keep a
great noise about negro suffrage
in the South-at a long distance
from their door. ~ .1a'.te<.}" f.
The great aversion of the Yam
kee to the negro is best exhibited
by the reluctance with which the
negro is admitted to suffrage in
the Northern States. They have
been anti-negro-slavery all the
time. This has "a been occa-
stoned by no love of the negro.
They have been for negro suffrage
in the South-for short time.
This has been cccasioned by no
love OF the negro. > s:-
The XVIII Amendment has
been long in suspense. 1t has
taken a long time for the advo-
cate of the negro to worry the
Northern States into it. The
negro, at q long distance, looked
pretty enough fastened to the
hated white men of the South.
The negro, as he approached the
Northern white man for q greet
ing at his own home, looked rath-
er ugly to the Northern eye.
OF the eight hundred and fifty
thousand colored voters in the
United States, seven hundred and
ninety thousand live in the late
slaveholding States, sixty thou
sand live in all the Northern
States. The Free States, where
the negro has too many friends,
seem to have heretofore attracted
very few negroes. The Yankee
does seem rather to repel the ne
gro. Not one-twelfth part of all
the negro voters, in all our land,
have been allowed, or at least in
duced. to live in all the Free
States of America. ..ts
In the great New England
country, where love for the negro
is most talked about, seven thou
sand five hundred negro voters
are allowed to breathe. In the
great Central States of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Indiana there are forty-One
thousand negro voters. HI the
remaining ten Western States
there are eight thousand five. hun
dred negro voters. The great
State of New York: may have
some twelve: thousand negro vo-
ters.. The State of Pennsylvania
has about thirteen thousand of
the same sort. Tho State of Ohio
has something more than eight
Thousand. .--,
We believe that each of these
three great States of New York,
Pennsy lvania and Ohio voted
down the proposition of negro
suffrage by majorities ranging
from fifty to one hundred thou
sand. The Lynchburg News sums
these facts:
Do not the colored voters in
the Southern States see that suf-
frage is not given to them be-
cause their suffrage is desired or
approved in the States that have
enforced it? Their only true
friends, if any they are to have,
must be found in the Southern
States. In these States, their
physical condition has, heretofore,
been better than anywhere in the
world. In these States, they have.
more Of sympathy and Kindness
than has yet been shown to them
anywhere in the world by the
other races. In these States, by
preserving their proper relations
to the white people, they stand
their only chance for safety and
preservation. ..-.-.
BY reversing their relations to
the white people, by acting in op-
position to the we'll known wish
of the great majority of the white
people, by throwing themselves
in opposition to the ruling senti-
.ment of the white race, they bring
on the same state Of feeling which
excludes them from the North.
The only chance for these people
is to preserve, in their new sta
ton, something of the kind feel
ing which has heretofore made
them moro favored and more
comfortable than their race has
been anywhere in the world.
They are used here to injure
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