The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-06-10
THE GREAT EVIL.

One that with other causes will prove
too much foi American rcpublicanism,
is upon US, and we must deal with it as
VIC should deal with the unavoidable.
The Richmond Dispatch approaches the
subject in the following article:
We have often dcplored the division
Of the voters of Virginia upon line of
color. 1t is fatal to that mutual trust
and reliance without which there is no
peace, no wcll-ordered industry.
The presence in the bosom of the
community Of so large a body of recent
ly cnfranchiscd persons voting as one
man is full of social irritation, and Diet
rimental to the State. This body is not
educated not discriminating and capa-
bic in selections of mcn-and prone to
side with the designing and demagogi-
cal who fatter their vanity and profess
the most and do tho least for their ad
vancemcnt and happiness. In this way
they are used by unworthy white pco-
pie to get the possession of the govern
ment which they administer alike for the
injury of white and black.
Take this city with its $500 Ito use
round numbers) and 5000 black regis
tered voters. Three hundred white men
going over to the blacks will tie the
white vote, and any larger number o:
white dcscrions will put the govern
ment in the hands Of the G,200 blacks
and the handful of whites, dcpriving the
real talent and worth of the country Of
all participation in public affairs, to the
injury of public interests.
There are always a number of inca
pable and unworthy men who had far
rather submit their claims, or rather de
merits, to the black man, than that they
should pass the ordeal Of an intelligent
public Judgment. And as long as the
blacks arc banding and voting as a race,
the danger is that there will be enough
of this unworthy class of whites to take
possession of the Offices through black
votes, Just as we have it in this city now.
The Transforming of about 800 white
votes to the colored party has given that
party a majority of $50 or Whereabouts.
A community liable by this process
to be submitted to the rule of men who
cannot be the proper sort Of men to adj
minister public affairs, is ever exposed
to injury. So that this evil in the body
polite is very grave one. The pub
lie well being cannot be more effectually
served than by the disruption of this
banded organization of race and the
freedom of It's members to mix up with
society and vote as other people.
The use made of TIE blacks by the
dcmagogues is an outrage upon them, as
it is upon society. 1t is monstrous that
few whites should climb into public
places on the backs of six thousand col
ored voters, hcctoring over their own
race, and fomenting the hate of the blacks
towards the whites.
There will be a remedy for this in time,
as all monstrous phases of society have
their remedies. 1t is alike important to
white and black that this remedy should
come, and that soon. Hpot there will be
steady increase of hoAFIity between the
races. One NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in
vites another, and unless change takes
place in the relatioa4 of blacks and
whites, we may well @ppose that con-
dition of affairs may bone about that
will bc very injurious.'t both classes,
but necessarily most so to the weakest.
This subject deserves earnest consid-
+ Grafton just now.