New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-17
THE CoIOREp VOTE.

1t has recently been admitted by the
New York Times, theleading Grant organ,
that the vote Of New York, Pennsylvania
and Indiana will decide the presidential
election; andas it is already conceded by
the knowing ones that these States are
certain to go for Greeley, he will accord
ingly be our next President. That there
will be an effort made to elect the Presi-
dent without the vote Of the Southern
States is fervently believed. Il was done
in 1868; and if the great mass Of voters OF
the old free States are led to believe IN
! 1872 that the colored vote of the Southern
| States can be consolidated in favor Of con-
tinuing for -four years more the bayonet
rule Of President Grant against the wishes
of the voters in the Northern, Eastern and
Western States Of the Union, it is quite
possible that the intelligence Of those sec
tons may determine to make their vote
strong enough to elect the President even
if it is possible for every Southern
State to be carried by the colored
vote in favor of Grant. We
do not by any means concede this to be
probable, although by desperate effort
the Grant party claims the first victory on
Southern territory in the presidential
struggle. The election Of a Governor in
North Carolina though very closets
generally believed to have been carried
by consolidated negro vote in favor Of
Grant. This is pronounced a success for
organized ignorance and should the con-
test continue to be waged in this manner
in the Southern States, and bya close vote
between the whites and blacks, few more
of their numbers range themselves against
reform in the civil service and a restOra-
ton Of the government to a purely repub-
lican administration, the white people in
the Northern, Eastern and Western States
will begin to see that the administration
is making the fight one of color rather
than principle, and decide to determine
the presidential election in the old free
States-the States that invariably stood up
for the freedom of the negro after the in
tegrity Of the nation had been assailed
and will now as invariably stand by the
freedom Of the white man. They have
only to be convinced that the Rad
icol party is endeavoring to per-
petuate its rule by consolidating
the negro vote in the Southern
States. The very close contest in North
Carolina has already convinced many that
this is the game of the administration. It
is very possible, from what the New York
Times has said, that President Grant and
the Radical party purpose to make des-
perate effort to carry New York, Pennsyl- |
vania and Indiana. The vote of these |
States added to the vote of the Southern |
States, carried collectively by the negro
vote for Grant, would make him President |
for the next four years. By this kind of |
political warfare President Grant and his |
party propose to make few hundred |
thousand negro voters in the Southern |
States 1.-THE balance Of power" in this free
and enlightened republic. Six millions of |
white voters are thus to be virtually ruled |
by President who has secured this diyi-
sion Of parties on the ground Of color, if
the programme Of President Grant and
.he Radical party can be carried out. But
what sensible man, for one moment, sup
poses that the intelligent voters Of the old
rec States will ever be so blind to this
scheme Of an ambitious President and an
party as to allow them to
,rolQng their power in this nefarious
Ii it were possible that the rule
# GTGntism could be thus continued, it
would be the worst thing that could happen
0 colored voters, for upon their heads
rould fall the censures Of a people who
lean to be free. If the Southern States
ould be united upon Grant by the negro
Ote, and the white vote Of the old free
tates should consolidate in favor of Gree
~, he would certainly be the next Presi-
ent; and Just as sure as it is ascertained
bat the administration has determined to |
lake the negro vote in the South balance
power for the perpetuation of Radical
lle, just so sure will the white voters of
le old free States rally almost to a man
! support of Greeley and good government,
n the contest then would become one
color; would become one of organized
,norance on the one side, and lntelli- 1
ence on the other Conceding, for the
Ike Of argument that the Southern States
m be carried for Grant by a consolidated
egro vote, how truthfully might come
ONE to our colored voters the language
gently uttered by General Hugh J. !
ampbeu before the regular Republican
onyention, lately published in the RE-
UBLIcAN in which he shows the result Of
consolidated negro vote in this State for
rant and.Kellogg. Whereas, if the col +
red vote could be divided, and a part Of
cast for the Liberal party, the coIored
eople could justly claim the right to par +
cipate in the benefits Of Office, no matter
hich party was successful. The policy +
consolidating the negro vote if carried +
at, will prove fatal to the present admin
rotion and to the colored people.
MUTINY IN CAMP PIOAYUNB,