New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-13
Republican Aid TO Democratic
Hate.

1t seems to be the unalterable determlna-
ton of the Democratic party to restore
slavery in some form. To that party every
evidence. given by negroes, OF their capa-
bility and adaptability for progress, is regarded
as an obstacle in the way of the accomplish
ment of its purpose. Hence the Democratic
party seeks, by resort to the destruction Of
school-houses and the mobbing of teachers
to frighten the negro from books, and as at
West Point, after he has surmounted the
diabolical Vaccinations Of the foes OF his
freedom, he is deliberately cheated out OF his
Just reward. In the furtherance Of his object
the Democratic party, and its sympathizers
in hatred Of the negro, band themselves to-
gether for the purpose of outraging him.
The Ku-Klux organizations of the South must
acknowledge allies in the cowardly cadets of
West Point, who were united in the one
purpose of outraging and. if possible, OF
driving the negro cadet from the Military
Academy. All that element in the Repub-
lican party which is holding up South Caro-
lima as an evidence of the incapacity of the
negro Is an ally in spirit with those who
would establish slavery in some form again
in the United States. The New York Times,
though professedly Republican and in SYM
patty with the reconstruction measures OF
the Republican party, regards negro suffrage
as on trial in a different sense from white
suffrage under similar circumstances. Cor
ruption in South Carolina is no different from
corruption in New York. Notwithstanding
that corruption is corruption, and no more
reprehensible in one person than in another,
such papers as the New York Times gives
aid and comfort to the enemies of freedom by
attempting to attach peculiar significance to
the fact that colored voters are in the ma
jority in South Carolina and that there is
corruption there. The opposition to the
civil rights bill by protested Republican
journals of the New York Times stripe is aid
and comfort to the spirit that would reduce
the negro to serfdom. Every falsehood,
printed by the New York Times, against the
colored people Of the South is eagerly clutched
by the Conservative Ku-KluX element as an
argument from the friends of the negro.
Just why the Times cannot be as just to the
colored voter in South Carolina or Louisiana
as to the white voter in New York can only
be explained by the narrow prejudice based
on race, color and previous condition which
it is evident the editor of the Times is suffer
ing from. The manifest meanness and utter
falsity of the charge Of the Times of last Sat
urtlay, in an editorial on Louisiana, THAT
the mass of the negroes robbed and tyran-
nized because they were ignorant and de-
graded" can but be apparent to all but
downright negro-haters. The mass OF the
negroes do not rob and tyrannize. The
charge is a falsehood and in direct opposition
to the reports of the industrious habits OF
the negroes made by the Cotton Dealers IN
New Orleans, and OF the prospects OF fine
crop of cotton, sugar and tobacco. Such
fine prospects could not be il the mass OF the
364, 900 negroes in the State of Louisiana
were thieves and tyrants. No, the negroes
of Louisiana are not mass of thieves. The
condition of the cotton and sugar crop Of that
State is sufficient response to the venom OF
the Nmes.
The Times, in the article to which we refer
above, is anti-negro throughout. In the
ewes of the editor of the Times the negro
seems but a marauding, thieving scoundrel,
the cause of all the woes of the South. It
calls upon the white man, as the sinned