New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-12-04
Civil Rights.

The dominant party of the nation upon the
eve of a national election made TO the colored
people n solemn pledge to secure to them,
as far as it might be in its power, the full
enjoyment of their civil and public rights.
This pledge was acknowledged 10 be binding
upon the Executive of the United States in
his inalnural address, and, rs Il proof of the
sincerity of the President, he has again en-
bodied the Recommendation Of appropriate
legislation to the end of our complete eniran-
chisemept by the Forty-Third Congress.
All this is precisely what We had a right
to expect. The Republican party has done
too much for our race to pause even for a
moment until we are placed upon an exact
level of civil equality with every member of
that political organization which has for thir-
teen years been the exponent Of the highest
ideas of political justice in this country.
There may be in the party some doubling
Thomases who cannot understand that the
spirit of impartial freedom has secured glo-
rious resurrection through the late life and
death struggle Of the nation there may be
others who, though realizing the fact, are
seill fearful about continued party success in
case these principles arc applied, az they
should be, TO the humhlest members of the
weakest races among us. Still we regard it
as undoubtedly true that there is good faith
enough in the Republican party to redeem its
solemn pledges, made in a stern crisis, to
confdng people who honestly assumed and
nobly fulfilled their part ofthe sacred contract
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the party which had heretofore shown itself
strong enough to protect them ia their lives,
their property, and their citizenship, and
whose browning glory for the future could
alone be secured by saving its colorcd men,
bers from the effects of the hatred aud pro-
scripton of their ancient enemies, tie Demo-
cratic party. Nothing can ossibly be made,
but a great deal may be lost by further
pOstponemcnt of our complete enfranchise-
ment. In the South, where four millions of
cOlored people ARE bound TO the soil by their
poverty, no less than by their love of home
tho question OF their relations 10 party is an
argent and absorbing one. Gratitude to the
Republican ATTY for past fivors is even fresh
and always commanding in the bosom of the
negro. The desire for the continued success
Of the party is both deep and fiir-rcarhny :;
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