The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-02
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THE NEGRO VOTE.

THE NEGRO VOTE.
1t is stated by the Augusta Chronicle that
over twenty thousand negroes voted the
democratic ticket IN Georgia 1t Is de-
veloped by the election returns that large
numbers of negroes voted against the re-
publican party in Louisiana, Arkansas and,
p,rbaps. in other states, while in the Charles |
ton, South Carolina, district each party |
supported colored man for member of
Congress. The casting of this negro vote
is viewed by some OF our republican cotem-
porares with alarm, as torcshadowing the
loss of the political control of the south
and, hence, the downfall of the party. We
must confess we do not SO read the omens
and, If we did, we should be willing to see
the old party go down, if so be it. it could
be only sustained by the votes of ignorant
freedmen led captive by the decetful
promises of corrupt and designing politi-
clans, or by the fostering of class preju-
dices. If the republican party, by its
principles and practices, prove itself worthy
of the confidence of the people, il it shall
throw over the "dead weights with tie
sins which do so easily beset them, If it
shall 50 purify itself that its prominent.
representative men may be able to resist
the temptation without and the OPP
portunities for corrrNtion within, if
it shall legislate with an eye sim
gls to the good of the whole
country and not for portion thereof
or for the benefit "f the party, then all the
powers that can bc combined shall not he
able to prevail against it. But if it is to
continue to support such men as Williams
for chief justice, ",'oss' Shepherd, Butler,
Jayne, Cameron, Slnborn, Chandler, Sim
mons, ct id Omne genus, then the sooner it
becomes part of the history OF the past,
the better it will be for the country and the
honest men of the party. So we may say
of it, if it can only perpetuate itself by
maintaining caste distinctions at the south.
AS result of the rebellion, the whites and
blacks arc placed on a'polltcal equality,
and the sooner this fact is recognized the
better for all concerned. The material and
political interests of the black man and the
white man are one and the same. In one
te,cstcd in the education and in the moral
development of the black man than the
black man is himself. In the present low
condition of the blacks, there is a certain
degraded, sensuous personal enjoyment,
but it, at the same time, makes them the
tools of designing men. Moreover. it i'm
those who can labor will work only sutfl-
cient to ''keep body and soul together. y
In this the ignorant black is not so much
the sufferer as is the intelligent white man
the state and the nation.
1t may, perhaps, seem strange to some
of us, that the freedmen, remembering the
thralldom from which they have been SC
recently released, could vote with or fol
their former masters. But it is no more
strange than it was for the whole voting
population of South Carolina district 10
cast their ballots for former slaves. In the
progress of time, in a very few years-if
the democratic and republican parties shall
continue to exist, which is, TO say the least
problematical-we may expect to see the
whites and blacks voting side by side, 9
portion in one party and portion in the
other-the white man forgetting that undel
republican administration the 'cause'
was lost and his slaves made freemen ant
his equals. and the black man remembering
servitude only as a dim memory of tn,
past and feeling that education and homes
toll has made him the peer of any American
citizen. The same result will harper
whatever may be the state or name o.
political parties. 1t is a very necessity o.
education and independence. Men, es
pecially thinking men, no matter what may
be their color, cannot any more believe
alike in politics than they can in religion
1t seems to lis no more strange that til,
freedman should vote the democratic ticket
The late slave holder the republican ticket
than it was for our revolutionary
fathers, after Washington's administra
ton, to abandon the political principles in
culcated by Washington, Hamilton ant
Adams, and sustain those of jefferson ant
Madison. We hail this negro vote for tn
democratic ticket, if it was knowingly AM
intelligently cast, not because we do no
utterly and profoundly condemn the pas
record of the democratic party, for we d
80 condemn it, SO far as they have mad
any, or because we hope anything iron
them, as such, in the future, for we do not
but because VIC see in it the first indica
tons of the breaking up of class distinC
tons, and the small beginning of a heart
union o. interests, material and political
between the whites and blacks OF tn
south. We hail it for the same reason tina
we do the action of the white men in tn
south in voting for such men of their lat
slaves as have eyinced intelligence and ca
pacity for public position. We had muc
rather see the freedmen voting for such
white democrat as Lamar, of Mississippi
than for such a black republican as Moses
of South Carolina. The former, in on
judgment, would make n much more sui
able "Moses" to lead the black children q
israel to the promised political land tina
the latter. Let the past be forgotten b
both races, let the black man he educate
up to his responsibilities, and caste WI
come to an end, and it will cease to be ma
ter OF interest or inquiry how, or for whs
party, few thousand black or white me
PATENTS.