The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-27
THE RIGHT KIND OF TALK.

In some of the Southern States, where
theIe IS a heavy black population, our Demo-
cratlc friends have committed the blunder of
soliciting the votes of negroes, and it has all
been to no purpose. They now begin to see
their mistake. They now see and realize
tho fact that for future success US II partv.
and TOR the perpetuation of the Fundamental
principles of free government only the votes
OF white men can be relied on. The white
man sparty in the Southern States will become
stronger and stronger until it shall have
achieved political supremacy by boldly con-
tending for white superiority and against
negro domination and negro rule The nc
groes in the South are controlled by trifling
carpet-baggers and fugitive scalawags who
march them to the polls by platoons and
vote them, precisely as the slave-driver used
TO march them to the cotton fields and work
them At the election last fall in Ala.
bama, the Democracy of that State exhaus-
ted their efforts in trying to secure the votes
OF the negroes-and all to no purpose-in-
stead of defying the negro vote and appeal
ing to white men of all parties to rally and as
sert their supremacy, and their determination
not to willingly submit to negro rule The
defeat OF the Democracy of that State last fall,
has taught them lesson from which they
propose to derive profit in the future The
Mobile (Ala.) Register, the leading and most
ably conducted Democratic journal in that
State, takes its position boldly against the
policy of soliciting negro votes, and in favor
of asserting, maintaining and indicating
white supremacy. That paper says:
ut is battle for political life or death,
with no quarter, that confronts us; for con-
stitutional liberty OF unrestrained despotic
force, for white or for mongrel supremacy.
The opponents of the white mans, or demo-
cratic and conservative party, comprehend
this to the letter, and they will throw
away their scabbards and stand on their
chosen ground sword in hand, to oppose us.
| They Will uphold reconstruction and the ne
gro right to govern white men in Alabama,
and to their flag, which truly emblems their
bad cause, every man, black and tan, will
rally.
There are political journals in Alabama that
propose to oppose this stern front of battle
with compromise platform---a platform part
ly white and partly black. They would meet
the shock of the struggle with tufts of grass,
and hide away the stones which are the
knock-down arguments that victory needs to
be hurled from their sings. While the enc
my is in deadly earnest, we on our side are to
make milk and water fight and arrange
our platform so deity and with such deli
cate chicanery that some of the soldiers of
the black and tan army may be induced
either to desert from the enemy or to come
to us. We hold that our past experience
proves that this policy is based upon an ut
terly vain hope. The negroes are joined to
their radical idols, and no honeyed words
will pull the white mongrels away from
their greed of fat offices and their lust of
power over us, the white people of this
land. This policy, ON the contrary, only
serves TO strengthen and indurate the mon
grel party. The negroes see in it white
weakness, and white fright and white testi-
mony to the Righteousness and durability of
the mongrel cause" -Quincy (W) Herald.