National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-02-27
THE NEW YORK TINES AND THE
COLORED PEOPLE.

The majority Oh the hepupi1ii i
and supporters of the New York Times
have made up their minds TO be surprised
at nothing which appears in the columns oil
that journal. During the last foul or five
months its management has been slgnallzed
by a display of the densest ignorance In
regard to our politics and history, and an
insidious line Of attack upon the leading
members of the party to whom it looks Tor
guidance and direction. 1t has assalled SEN
stor Conkling, the members of the Ne"
York delegation in the House, and even the
National Administration. 1t was only
month ago that it made venomous assaui'
npon the Legislature of its own State max
Ing the malicious and unfounded assertion
That "The taxpayers trembled until lis ao-
Icurnment was announced.
The Times ,,as jest opened Up Inr sX ss.
pf attack UNA Which has made it all that
b is, bearing with its stupidities, its shall
iow1css and ill-disguised hostility to every
party measure where its own selfish In
terests were not affected and directly con-
cerncd. The new line of attack is made
upon the colored man and upon Southern
Republicans. The assault upon the colored
people was recently opened by one of its
Washington correspondents, upon whose
productions a Southern Democratic organ
comments as follows: ''The best sketch of
"the freedman, in his contact with his bet
"ters, his reckless disregard Of decency,
Sand his utter insensibility to improprie-
"ties, we find in Washington letter to
':the New York Times, from Grace Green
"wcOd. She was an abolitionist and negro
"sympathizer, but she has become tirr'' Of
sthe negro, and she now talie"or the honor
"and safety of the n~sIrinunity recurring the
"excIusio- nom the galleries OF the Capitol
Tad from public conveyances of all persons
s'indecently ragged or Extensively dirty"
In the Times editorially another Southern
ex-rebcl organ finds the following consola
ton: ut seems our editorial space can be
chest occupied this morning in extracts
"from Radical journals. Below we submit
ga leading editorial from the New York
Times. If this picture of the outrages
perpctrated on.the Southern States were
"drawn by the liveliest Imagination of one
"of our people standing amid the crumbling
s'ruins and desolation of those States, it
"would not present the enOrmity of the
"crime in more faithfula and fearful colors."
1t is certainly rather late in the day for
The Times 10 turn round and abuse the men
who have made Republicanism possible in
she Southern States. During the late Presi-
Dental campaign, when it was well paid for
the work, when its patriotism and devotion
% Republicanism was touched through its
purse, it was one of their loudest and most
aevoied defenders. To be sure many
things have been done in some of the
Southern States which were better undOne,
but the administration of all of them, as a
general thing, will compare favorably,
under so many adverse circumstances. with
the management of other sections of the
country. No one will ever know or cali
ever tell what the Republican party of the
South has had to contend against; what
a battle it has fought; what obstacles it
ms had to overcome. The dangers of
the marcel -aad the perils Of the battle were
Insignificant in comparison with the politi-
cal warfare which followed, Willie peace NOM
inslly existed and civil strife was ostensibly
at an end. The Times desertion now of the
men who led in it, and of the poor, hunted,
oppressed race who followed the party with
Il heroism and devotion unparalleled in
history. would be unaccountable in a Repub
iican journal if it were not for the we'll
known anti Republican and anti-Ameri-
can influences which surround and con-
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