The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-08-14
FOR GoyERNoR'
n. =. ADAMS. OF Dallas County
ThelailuAe
ID. NcCALED, Editor.
THE WHITE MAs'spARTY AND TIiE
RrACK MANS PATTY.

With philosophical pen lhe hIch-
mond Examiner very clearly points
out the mistake of the blacks, in as-
suming the political posture which
they did, upon being invested with the
innnunitlcs Of citizenship; "When
the negroes, In virtue of their citizen
ship, were Invested with the right Of
suffrage, II would have been better Tor
them, and for the white man, too, II
they had followed Tho example OF
those with whom they were then made
politically equal, and associated them
selves with one party orthe other on
other grounds than that of an antago-
nism of thoir race to our race 1t
would have been IN evidence Of their
appreciation OF tho new franchise That
had been extended to them, and OF n
capacity to exercise 1t with an under
standing Of the good purposes TO which
1t should be applied
ave should then have had and
should now have, no party lines
drawn with reference to color If the
black man, instead Of ignorantly and
obstinately opposing the white man,
had shaped his politics from n eonsid-
Grafton Of other questions, affecting
the general public Interests -four whole
people. But il was not 80. Assoon ms
thenegro became II voter he separated
politically from the great body of those
who were not of his race went OF to
himself, set up n standard of his own,
and assumed an attitude OF opposition
to men of Intelligence and patriotism
among whom he had been raised, with
whom his destiny was east, and to
whom he might have looked, ind may
still look, with confidence for u protoc-
ton Of his interests aud maintenance
of his rights. Az he opposed the
white man, II became necessary for the
white man to oppose him. And in this
way, in the South, II has been brought
about that there are two parties, the
one Of one race, and the other Of the
other. In this way It has come to pass
that there Isl black mans party and u
white mans party. In this way it has
heon necessltated that The superior
race, to avoid subordination to the in
ferlor race, must bring all its strength
to the polls in November aud vote for
the conservative candidates, because,
while they are in favor Of all fairness
and full justice to the blacl, man, they
have an inilcSihlc conviction that the
white man ought to control in the
government Of the State,
wherever the Radical party is in
the ascendancy in the South, whether
the men who hold the offices are black
Or not black, It is the negro power that
has given them their positions, and
the negro power controls thcm.---
Wherever the Radical party IL in the
ascendancy in the South, industries
are languid, trade Is slow, taxation is
onerous, education is neglected, and
immigration is repealed. Wherever
the Radical party IL IN the ascendancy
In the South, the masses of both races
are less prosperous than they are in
Virginia under Conservative control.
ut ii Radicallsm that arrays race
against race II Is Radicaism that
teaches the negro to aspire toan equal
ity In everything with the white man.
1t Is Radicalism tllath separated the
voters Of Virginia into the black mans
party and the white mans pary.n