Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-10-17

n azking Hands Across the Blood
ohasznr-1lse Greeley fazty OF
| the Record -Ofieiai etatqzneE
| oftwo Democratic Senators an.
SIX Democratic Members of th'
The ultimate purpose of the "nev
land All-powerful (?l party" made ul
"out of the ruins Of the existing organi
zations," is frankly stated by Senator
Frank P Blair and T. F. Bayard, ant
Their Democratic associates, Hon. 8. 8
Cox, Hon. Jas. B. Beck, Hon. P. VaI
Trump, Hon. A. NJ. WaddelI, Hon. ]
| C. Robinson, and Hon: J. NJ. Hanks
lover their own signatures, in their mi
nority report, as members of the Ku.
KIux Committee, at the close OF. the
fast session of Congress. On page five
hundred and twenty-seven, (527, in
presenting <THz VIEWS OF THE MINOR
Iity," they use the following words,
copied verbatim, viz: ,s..,s sg..,s5s...
n
.Bus while the negroes of the South
have position and power in the admin
IistraIion of public aahifs now, who can
Esay. who can look into the future SC
clearly as TO enable him to say, how
Hong this unnatural stateot things win
last. Noone is 80 prescient rs to- be able
Ito fix the period of.its duration; but
that it must end somehow, and at some
: a a. 4l< <l;ofo =, q f..ts, - No rt1fi-
losephic thinker willdoubt. It is alto
Igether too abnormal, too much opposed
Ito the instructive feeling, some viii say
prejudices, Of the white race, to endure
beyond the peculiar condition OF pOpu-
lar opinion, brought ahoEst ny a war
prosecuted in the end fDrs ffeetlonl, II
not the enfranehiseinent OF the negro.
IGradl1allv, ih time. and under q change
of circumstances, this exceptional state
Iof the popular mind will wear out and
pass away, and public opinion win vi
brate back to is oldseoDditioa, as 1t ex-
listed pcior to the disturbing infuences
|of the war. This will be brought about
by one of two things; either by rup-
|tnre Of the Government itseif, tor the
|spriuging up of some new and all-pDw.
|erfui party out of the ruins OF the exist
ing political organizations. When
either of these two things shall occur,
and God grantit msy not be the first,
1t will be. the political death 0fgthe
Negro on this continent. 80 far as It
relates his zso.iift III as 8 rsccs, rsccs
comu1ingled with the whites within the
Union, he viii bein q worse condition
than he was ina state OF ofslsyery; for the
inevitable tendency will be, to segre-
gate him from the white race, and IL
not transported to some othcr country,
he will slowly but surely pass away
like tfeaborigines, and his place ameHg
us, like that : Of the. EI1dian,s will be
known neLmors fcrever.,asfi1 ~ a s,sls (.
Z {Sisned,1 sssssu 81 Frank 2. Blair,
q Si5e sBisi3s. 1aUi5ss!T. r. Bayard, -
3, Jfyl1ggA 81 bsBh.S. g. Eox;sY ssii
3sitssif ijslt Siss - 9J6meS B. Beck,
acsq .gos1es! ~ 4Ji4lP.Wau Trump, !.
i b sp6iailsz III sa9aaA.lM. Waddell,s
b l9egssE ,i8 blaode sJsG.j Robinson
s9iilH2sT es3nnao oaiJ. NJ Hanks. nj t
& There is mo ambiguity fng this Ian.
gusge. They say ,....the hegroes Of the
South have position and power IN the
Ut public Affairs goag, :
e = but that It must end somehow, ,and
at some some time aet th The diistdsat f,sssars, no
phiIoscphic thinker viii doubt y = Y YSes,
itImust' end somehow, ,athey say, and
that the sime Is. NOT in the distant fu-
ture.s Il e. Hence, In their opinion, 1t must
hennear at hand. They, then slate
frankay how IL viii bes breught about.