New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-08
The Real Design Of ihc Greeley
Party.

Within the last six months the Democratic
party. through its leaders in Congress, has
officially declared, in report made by Sena-
tor Frank Blair, of Missouri, the man who
nominated Horace Greeley at Cincinnati and
Baltimore, Senator +. +. Bayard, of Della
ware, and Representatives ). ). Cox, of New
York, Jas. Is. Beck, of Kentucky, u. Van
Trump, of Ohio, \. NJ. Waddell, of North
Carolina, J. c. Robinson, Of Illinois, and j.
NJ. Hanks, of Arkansas, that whenever the
Democratic party shall come into power the
right of suffrage and the right to hold office
will be taken away from the colOred people,
and the work of reconstruction in the South
be undone. These representative Democrat
ic Congressman, on the 10Th day of February,
1872, made report on the condition of the
South, which report is published by Congress,
entitled on its back " Ku-Klux Conspiracy :"
and it is, therefore, an indisputable public
document, like the other Congressional re-
ports. In that report, pages SIG and 5lT, is
the following passage relating to negro suf-
frage in North Carolina, to which we call the
attention of Mr.. Sumner, and all who claim
safe in the hands of man elected President
by this same Democratic party:
Goods law is higher than mans law.
Mans puny statutes cannot repeal or nullify
the immutablc ordinances of the Almighty.
| Those whom God hath separated let no man
join together. There can be no permanent
partition OF power, nor any pcaceable joint
exercise of power, among such discOrdant
| l. &c 81, Al
| One or the other must have all or none.
Such state of things
may last so long as the party shall last which
had the power and audacity to inaug,lrate it,
and no longer. But whenever that party
| shall 90 down, and 90 down it will at some
time not long in the future, that will be the
end of the political power of the negro among
white men on this continent"
And then to the following further extract
| from the same remarkably frank avOwal that
negro suffrage is a wrong, a fraud, and a fail
ure at the South, and that this mixed condi-
ton of affairs should not and cannot be
permitted to exist
"Will any one doubt who has personally
witnessed its practical working, that negro
suffrage andnegro government in South Caro-
lima is q hopeless and total failure: Its in
| StltutlOn was not only political CRIME, but
worse than that; it was most unequivOcal
and egregous political blunder. Pseudo
philanthrOpists may talk never 80 loud and
eloguently about an equality before the law
where equality is not found in the great
natural law OF race ordained by the Creator.
That cannot be changed by statute which has
i been irrcvocably fixed by the fiat of the AL
mighty. There can be no peace or harmony
in such condition of political organization,
especially when the natural repulsion is in
tensfed by the teachings of recreant portions
of the opposite race. But while the negroes
of the South have position and power in the
administration of public affairs now, who can
say, who can look into the future so clearly
as to enable him to say, how long this UNI
natural state of things will last? No one is
so president as to be able to fix the period of
its duration, but that it must end somehow,
and at some time not in the distant future,
, no phlosophic thinker will doubt. 1t is al
together too abnormal, too much opposed to
the instructive feeling, some will say preiu-
dices, of the white race to endure beyond the
peculiar condition of popular opinion, brought
about by war prosecuted in the end for the
freedom, if not the acknowledgements, of the
negro. Gradually. in time, and under
change of circumstances, this exceptional
state of the popular mind will wear out and
pass away, and public opinion will vibrate
, back to its old condition, rs it existed prior
E to the disturbing influences of the war. This
will be brought about by one of two things !;
, either by rupture of the Government itself,
or the springing up of some new and all
powerful party out of the ruins of the exist
ing political organizations"