American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-02-07
THE COLORED RACE.

aud important changes in the poiii-
ical horoscope, ami none ave more
significant than those which are
coming over the dream ot Ike color
ell peoi le of the So;t;i. They are
fast waking up from their driusi'e
slurber, ami arc btGin"ing SO real
ize their frae relation to ti,e South
ern whites. The cioven foot of
R..dicalism is showing Itself with
marked diStinctneSS, and the more
inteiligent of the race are rou>ing
themselves to their true interests.
They are beginning to see hat the
Radical emm Ssaries of Grant care
nothing for them apart from their
votes, and which, at every election,
are thrown upon the ma, ket to be
huckstered aud intrigued for 10y
corrupt and designing political
trick sters. There is not ii cOiOred
man in the South TO day who is
capa BILE OF calm and intelligent in
vestigation of the objects aud ten
denotes Of Radica! interference with
the right of suffrage, who does not
know that the efforts employed to
secure their votes are designed sole
ly to sustain and build up the most
God forsaken sparty that ever dis
graced a free nation, aud which, If
persisted in, must prove fatal to
their true Interests. The less the
negro has to do with these vile sc
ducers and hypocritical rretenders,
the better it will be for them and
their pOsterity. They are as insin
cere in their professions as they are
treacherous in their designs, and
the day will surely dawn when these
words, idle as they may now seem,
will be remembered as containing
somewhat of tue spirit of prophecy.
The contemplate tools of IA COZ
rupt and venal Administration who
are labOring to array the whites and
blacks III partisan controversies that
must, sooner or later, bring about
antagonisms Which will lead to IA
war of races, have always been enc
mics to the coiOrcd people, and even
now would be willing TO see them
swept from the face of the earth,
rather than have them exercise Il
right that would not rebound to
to their own selfish and ignObie
aims. We have said before, and
now repeat, that these Radical ems
misSarieS who are proving ab"u
the country in the interest of th, il
master, have no feeling in common
with the negroes Of tiir South the,
cannot sympathiZc with their pecu-
lar instincts aid dispositions, con
sequen .ly, eau have no personal re-
gard for them. All the professe,i
friendship which they exte ,d TO thr
black man is the result Of Il mean
and deblsing seltishness. To secure
the influence of the colored Face.
there is no depth of falsehood AM.
infamy to which they would not de
sceud aud in paudering to the pas
siOns and prejudices OF an ignorant
people, they have but one object in
view, aud that Is to control their
votes and money, even at the ex-
pense Of truth, honor and true man
illness. When these are secured.
they have no farther use for the
negro. If the fate of the black man
was Suspended upon the cast of ii
Radical vote, and, exercising the
right Of freemen, that vote should
be given against the party, these
blatant negro sympatlizers would
stand idly by and lei the fiat g"
forth that would cousign them to
oblivion.
Let the negroes of the South ion
ger confde their destiny to Radical
keeping, and continue to obey its
party behes;s, and they will be led
on from one crime to another, until
they succeed in bringing down upon
themselves the righteous indigna-
ton of an outraged public senti-
ment that will spring issues which
will eventually doom their race to
be driven, like the Indians, f, ON the
homes of their fathers and the
graves of their ancestors. to the
remOtest confines of the West " here
another wave OF civilization shall
check their progress, and dash then,
back upon the biilow they vii; vain
~ attempt to escape, until the buf-
feted wreck of a once happy Peep
will be swallowed up forever. Il"
avert such a calamity. the Southern
whites have invited their co-opera
ton, and ale ready to interpOse ali
their power before the desoliting
torrent tn at is increasing its fearful
volume to sweep them from the face
of the earth. Their only true poll /
cy is to stand by their Southern
friends, and assist in fostering the