The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-14

any difference that may exist between tie
two races. You commenced the unjust
and cruel war, by declaring you would fix
the maximum price of wages to be. paid to
them, by declaring you would not give en-
ployment to them unless they came with
permission from their former employer to
leave him; by declaring they should not
vote by opposing free schools by deny
ing them equal, civil and political rights
and in short, by bitterly arraying your
selves against every attempt to elevate them
and improve their condition. Many of
these things you do now. You deny them
the jury box you never let them vote, if
it is possible, by raising technical objec-
tons to prevent it; your courts con-
denim them to the lash you
fill the penitentiaries of the South with the
poor and ignorant of them you brutally
and cowardly murder and outrage the in
nocent and helpless of them by your Ku-
klux organization; you drive them from
your railroads and steamboats,, or confine
them, like animals, to inferior accommoda-
tions; you employ desperate men to intim
idate them during elections while in con-
trast with your conduct we, the Republic
cans of the South, cheerfully unite in any
effort to elevate and enlighten them. And
yet you ask these same people to vote with
your party. As well had you sing psalms
to dead-horse as to ask these people to
sympathise with you. We believe the pa
tience of the colored man has been
worn out by your combined assaults
upon him, and that you have driven him so
far away from you, as, that FOR generations
to come he will not consent TO return to
you. But, should we be mistaken, you
can never succeed in winning any considera-
Bile portion Of them by abuse of "carpet-
baggers" and =" sealawags )" but you MAY
DO SO by an honest acceptance of the pro-
| visions of the Constitution made for their
| benefit, and an honest administration of the
State government under its present Constr
tuition. Tear down and burn your damna-
BILE whipping posts made red by the drip
ping blood of your victims-open your pub
licconveyances to them-put the Free School
System in full and active operation and, in
short, prove yourselves friends as you
SHOULD BE, and not enemies AS YOU ARE,
of every thing tending to the advancement
of the race. So jealous of his rights, so
fearful is the colored man of ad encroach-
ment upon them, as that we, often incur
their displeasure by even seeming antago-
nism to the most unimportant of them.
WHAT HAS YOUR PARTY EVER DONE
FOR THE CoLoRED MAN? Pa. Dare you an
swer?
Go ask your Judges-Cox,. Wharton,
and others. Are you in favor Of one SIN
GLE provision of law looking to their adj
vancement? and are you not rather fixed
in the opinion that they are incapable OF
elevation, while you are even opposed to
trying the experiment to deny your theory
When you shall have done some Of these
things, you may hope to win votes for your
party; but until you do, the devil (whom
they fear) may sooner expect them to vote
for him, than for the Conservative party Of
the South.
You have made 'scalawags" of some Of
the best people of the South, because they
will not be enemies of the people who
served them so faithfully for years, and tc
whom they are so indebted for the care and
preservation of their families during the
war, and we are glad to know this same
"scalawag" family is so increasing ii
numbers and responsibility as that witt
the aid of "carpet-baggers" and the colored
people of the South, they are enabled tc
combat successfully, and counteract YOU
purpose of expressing the black man, whom
we are determined shall have fair chance
in the race of human progress, in spite o
all the Ku-Klux of the land.