Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-24
journals. One Of them says, speaking
TO the colored citizens:

| On the other hand. should you imagine that
the teaching Of your former rulers IL correct, and
! you elect to attempt-for 1t will only be an AT
| tempt--to continue their rule, then yon must
| take the consequences. For we tell You now. 8Gd
let II be distinctly remembered that you have fair
| warning, that we intend to carry the State Of
| Louisiana in November next, or she will be NIL
| tary territory.
Another says:
| There has been some red-handed WORK done in
| this parish that was necessary but il was evi.
| IDENTITY done by cool, determined and just men,
| who knew just how far to go: and we doubt not
| If the same kind of work is necessary it will be
| done.
| We say again that we fully cordially approve
what the white men of Grant and Rapides did at
| Colfax; the white man who does not il a creature
| so base that he shames the worst class of his
| species. We say again we are going 10 carry the
| elections in this State next fall.
Another says:
The people have determined that the Kellogg
Government has to be gotten rid of, and they VIII
not scruple about the means, as they have done in
/ the past.
These are but illustrations of the tone
of the white mans party, and its teach
ings are closely followed. Attacks upon
the negroes are everywhere reported,
and wherever they are minority the
old system of terror is revived. Private
ly as well as publicly we are appraised of
the unhappy situation. Meanwhile the
| Democratic Conventions in the Northern
States, true to their ancient hatred of
equal rights, and to the time when their
platforms were the bulwarks of human
slavery, vehemently denounce and mis-
represent the Civil-Rights bill, and so
sustain the spirit from which springs the
fatal project of white mans party.
And the meanest and most contemplate
servility to this spirit is shown in the
Northern Democratic representations of
the collisions between the white and
colored people as the result of Rcpubi-
can plots to incite negro riots. Such
representations are naturally made by
those who described the massacre in
New Orleans in 1866 as negro and radical
| riots,
For this lamentable and threatening
| condition of affairs the colored citizens
| arc not responsible. Not only have they
not raised the standard of race, but in
| Alabama, where the Democrats have de-
clared for white ascendency, the Repub-
Leans, among whom are the mass of the
colored citizens, have distinctly dis
claimed any desire or purpose except
equal advantages. They do not ask for
mixed rights nor special privileges en-
forced by law. They stand upon the
| simple, conservative ground of justice
and fair play, where every honorable
| American stands with them. Had the
| former wEite leaders in the Southern
| States taken this obvious and necessary
| position at the end of the war they
would have done what was most desira-
Bile; they would have divided tie new
vote and so have avoided the race issue
| But they could not see it.. Dr. Winkler,
| IF hoe
article to show that the negro is natural
| ly incapable of civilization and hopeless
| ~ idle and depraved. The conclusion of
his logic is inevitable--the colored citi-
zen must be removed or deprived of
political and civil rights. The doctor
undertakes to supply the philosophy and
statistics for the white mans party
conventions and platforms as De Bolo's
| Regieto used to supply them for the old
slave Democracy; and he states what is
undoubtedly the real conviction of the
Democratic party to-day.
Surely this simple statement of familiar
facts in the political situation should eX-
| plain the cohesion of the old parties. We
constantly hear that they cumber the
| earth, and we constantly see that they
| remain. On all sides we are told that
there is no reason for them, that they are
disintegrated and crumbling and re-
| Taxed, yet every effort to form u new
party fails as lamentably as the Cincin-
| natl movement of 1872. In the autumn
| of 1871 distinguished Liberal Senator
| laughed at the suggestion that the Dem
| ocratic party was not extinct But in
| the autumn of 1874 every vote that is
cast will be for Democratic or Republican
ascendcncy in the Government. Does it
never occur TO those who loudly call upon
| good men TO come out of the old parties
| that the fact of their continued and Wig
orous organization, and the possibility
| forming "a new one shows that the reason
! of the parties still exists? We are still
| Republicans and Democrats because the
| question upon which those parties were
| gathered into form is still unsettled,
| because the conscience and intelli-
| gence of the country are not satisfied
| to intrust the Government to those who
| cherish sincere and bitter hostility to
| the actual equality before the law of IN
citizens of the United States This is "A
| fundamental issue, and therefore each
party may hold the most inconsistent
| financial opinions and commercial views,
and yet cohere. The Maine Democrats
may denounce paper money rs curse,
| and the Indiana and Tennessee Demo
Gratis may worship Il as an amulet of
financial safety The Vermont Republic
cans may be financially sound, and the
! Michigan brethren unsounl. But the
Republican and Democratic parties re-
main, Notwithstanding, because the
Maine and Indiana Democrats unite
! with those of Louisiana in a policy OF
radical injustice, while the Republicans
| of Vermont and Michigan join those of