The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-09-24
COlOred Democrats.

COlOred Democrats.
Any one who was confined to Democratic
politics and declarations in Cecil would
if he believed thcm-conclude that color
ed voter who would dare to intimate that
he intended voting a Democratic ticket,
would be set upon and mobbed by that
party. This only proves, however, that
they having carefully canvasscd the chan
ces for votes from that quarter, have come
to the conclusion that they are exceedingly
slim. In Baltimore, however, the Demo-
racy are striving with might and main to
secure share of the colored vote. The
Sun, few days since, made the following
report Of a Democratic mass meeting:
ga mass meeting of colorcd Democrats
was held last night, under the auspices Of
the Colored Democratic Association, of
which Jonathan Waters is President in
Zion Church, corner of Hanover and Mont
gomery streets, which was comfortably
filled, about ome-haJ Of those present, hocecer,
being tohite persons. An organization was
effected by the election of the following
officers: President, Jonathan Waters; Vice
Presidents, Isaac Steward and Thomas
Sorreil; Secretaries, N. Rowland and VIM.
Waters
President Waters made the leading
speech of the occasion, in which he edited
this assembly of "'alf and 'alf' Demo-
Gratis, with colored Democratic eloquence,
of which the following extract will serve as
a specimen:
Maryland was always going Democratic
all the time 1t did, however, 90 Rcpubli-
cnn once, when Swami was elected Gov
ernor, but that was done only to show how
things could change, [laughter;] and if
Swami would change back the Republicans
would all vote for him. He had been
brought up Democrat, and he never
knew a Democrat to promise him anything
that he did not fulfil. Not so with the Re-
publicans-they would deviate SO much
The Republicans would give their labor to
the white man, because they were afraid
to give it to the colored man, for fear it
would make an equality with him. They
did not want the colored man on an equality
with them; and if any one there did not
believe that, he asked them to 60 to Wash
ington and ask Ben Butler about it, and he
would pay his fare. [Some one at this
juncture called "spoons,' which provoked
considerable laughter
"The Republicans say the colored men
don't know enough yet to hold positions;
The Democrats don't say that. If they
have any work to be done they give it to
you at once. If he had not been accepted
in the Democratic party he would not vote
at all.
This is the kind of bosh the Demo-
cratic politicians of Baltimore applaud in
their effors to catch colored votes.
We do not object to the Democracy Or
ganizing colored meetings and clubs, and
applauding their hired colored orators
This is free country, and, as Fred
Douglas puts it, in the National Era,
s'if any colored man doesn't desire to
be Republican, it is his privilege to
be Democrat rowdy." But we want
the scary Republicans Of this county,
whom the Cecil Democrat has been beating
Chinese gongs for the purpose of frighten-
ing, to know that the Democratic party
are doing their "lcvel best " to get colored
votes all the time they are trying to scare
you by ringing the change on the charge
that the " Radical y party is pretty much
all made up of, and controlled by, "nig-
gers" Let no Republican be deceived by
this abuse of the negroes by the Cecil DEM
ocrat. The whole object is to brighten you.
The object is to get your votes because
they think they can't get the colored votes.
If they were sure of any considerable num-
Der, you would hear nothing of the
"White Mans Ticket" and such clap
trap, but fawning on the colored men, as
in Baltimore, for their votes. The Demo-
cratic ecH is good for all the colored votes
in the county, but the aoay is not so clear