The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-08-08
THE WHITE MANS PARTY IN
ALABAMA.

1
ALABAMA.
The Democratic and Conserya-
tive press throughout the State Of
Alabama is rapidly advancing to
place itself in order of battle upon
4 this line. The Eufaula Times says
"IIaving exhausted every other
milder means of self defence, having
employed persuasive words, and
| flung harmless grass, the white man
finds it necessary now to aim some
more substantial missiles that i'll
prove his earnestness in the deter
mination to mako the rude negro
hasten down to the level where he
belongs, and cease gobbling up the
fruits of civilization which he neith-
er helps to strengthen nor advance.
| OF such effective missiles, when he
shall choose to use them, the white
man has his full supply, and plenty
Of hands there be to throw them" !
The Eutaw Wing declares that
'there is no half way ground, we
must meet the issue fairly and
squarely, and we must go either with
the white mans party or the negro
mans party"
This view is heartily endorsed by
the Birmingham Ncsos, which paper
denies that the unfitness Of the ne
gro for self-government is attributs>
Bile, as asserted by the Radicals, to
the influences Of slavery, and de-
clares that emancipation having
thrown the whites and blacks on
their own resources, each race must
for the future depend upon its own
inherent strength.
The Montgomery Advertiser in a
leading editorial, says:
"This issue is made and will be
maintained triumphantly, because it
is certain that the negroes aspire to
rule, and it is absolutely necessary
for the good and safety of society of
the whole and of the negroes them
selves that they should not do so. 1t
is not designed in any hostility to
the negro, but for his real benefit.
It is not designed to deprive the
blacks of a single legal right or pc.
litical privilege but reason and ex-
perience both demand tor the good
Of all that the Government of the
State shall be not in the hands of ne
groes or class Of negro subsidized
whites--.faithJal neither to sohites nor
aegToeS--but, since the African is
VIGOROUSLY incapable of self govern
ment, that the administration Of Pub,
lie Affairs shall be in the keeping of
men carefully selected by the grea.
white constituency Of Alabama l.
Our impression is that the great
battle next year will be fought and
won on the issue of a white mans
government, and By the Democratic
and Conservative Partyi"
The Eufaula Times closes an earn
est article on the subject with the
following:
"The great party of the South
will soon be the white mans party.
The demands OF intelligence and
progress, the prudence of social
intercourse, the need for statesman.
ship and official integrity and the
unconquerable disgust which the
world feels for the re,rogade moves
ments of unaspiring Incidence and
contented degradation, will force the |
formation of such a party ; and the
aid Of the negro in its high purposes
will neither DO asked for nor desired.
This party will be built upon the
basis of truth, and supported by the
instincts of nature, 1t will be ani>
mated by no spirit of hostility to the
negro, though it may be imbued With
sense of his incapacity, and con-
tempt for his assistance. But it will
save him in saving the white man.
L will look up bravely and philo>
to the highest interests of
he country, and in fostering them it
will perform the most valuable act OF
for the negro; doing for
him what will secure his liberty his
and the prolonged enjoys
ment of those blessings which belong
10 him in his newly acquired estate
of suffrage, equality and personal
independence"