Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-28

THE sNHGGER'' INTHE w00D PILE
Rather late ia the day, the negroes begin
to appreciate the blind political serfdom in
which they have been held by their Rsdi-
cal masters. Elsewhere we publish the
proceedings of the recent Colored Conyen-
ton at Chillicothe, Ohio, and the evidence
comes in daily that this restlessness is not
at all confined to that State. The Vicks-
burg Herald sffrms that the colored voters
Ia sever. lcounties In Mississippi are kicking
10 TIE Radical harness. The Raymond
Gazette reports similar dissatisfaction in
Kinds county, and even the Brandon Re-
publican, confesses that eshe country
darkics say they are not going to be bound
by any bogus Convention" in which their
right to hold Office is not effectively recog-
nized. The National Republican, enc of
the administration organs at Washington,
finds occasion to denounce in strong terms
formidable negro rebellion In the District
of Columbis, and state that is only Gan
offshoot of similar organization in Penn
sylyania." The Administration organ WAKES
wroth over the impudence of the negroes
in demanding share in the spoils from the
party they have served so long and faithful
Iy. Ths excited editor cenounces
1t as SO fraud ands a crime"
He says at is proposed to make
of Washington sort Of Hayti, where black
men alone shall rule and hold Office. The
whole idea is morally and politically wrong.
It is blot upon our civilization and upon
the century" This excited language from
the Republican organ at the national capital
serves to show that the party managers are
seriously alarmed at the spread and strength
of the new negro move. The Cincinnati
Gazette, commenting on the Chillicothe
Convention, says, with equal earnestness
" Neither the Republican party, nor the
Democratic party, nor both combined, could
by legislation break down the social barrier
that separates the two races. The Repub-
lican party has gone as far in this direction
as it would he worth Wills to CO." When
the blacks bsgin to knock at their own
doors for Office, such is the language OF the
party who have forced negroes on US in every
station from constable and magistrate to
Gov. P nchback, of Louisiana and Senator
Revels OF Mississippi. But this new negro
ism has now first taken organic shape in the
North, and, like other isms born in that
cline, we may expect it to roll Southwark
with sccumulative force. The Washington
Republican affirms that, under the title Of
" The Equal Rights League" its avowed
object is to nominate and support black
men exclusively for Office.
For years psst Democrats have insisted
with the late lamented Lincoln, that there
exists natur al antsgonism between the two
races-races whom the God of nature never
intended should live together. But under
Federal laws dictated by a section which
was comparatively free of negroes, we have
honestly accepted the unnatural task Of en-
deavoring to perpetua:e Anglo-Saxon free
dom among race which has never of itself
risen above despotism at home or slavery in
foreign lands, since the world b'gan. Now,
ii the negro achieves thai degree of political
independence which would enable him in
diligently 10 choose new party ties, the
Radicals threaten to throw him overheard.
The whirligig of time may yet witness that
party arrsyed openly against him, taking a
new lease of lite by flaming the prejudices
OF oil white labor against the poor African,
ss it famed Northern prejudices against the
South. And then, as ever, the old historic
Democracy will be found fighting for the
constitutional rights of all men, and main
tanning for the negro against his quondam
admirers sill those rights which humanity
and christianitJ Claim for him in his place.