Wilmington journal., 1874-07-17

actually cast, cannot show as many as
1900 white men in its ranks.
And when white men begin to bid
| against each other for negro votes,
| civil rights and social equality Will
follow as surely as night follows day.
Have we not proof of this right here
| in the District? Did not the Con-
cressional Convention of the negro
party in this District refuse to pass
resolution condemning mixed schools,
and did it not pass one advocating the
education of all classes without regard
to race or color? Did it not nominate
Mr.. Neil Mckay, the no parlor and no
kitchen man, as its candidate Did
not it's delegates, both white and
black, take their meals just as they
said they desired children OF all classes
to take their education, without regard
to race or color? Twelve thousand
negroes and one thousand white men
welded together cannot make anything
else than a negro party. 1t will not
even be a mulatto party. We have
seen this in North Carolina. How is
elsewhere?
The South Carolina correspondent
Of the New York Times, q Radical pa
per, speaking Of the white element OF
the negro party iii South Carolina,
writes as follows:
! IN ~ a
have, by THEN many acts OF indecent
vulgarity, become q by-word IN Co.
| lumbia and Charleston, and have done
much to iniure the social standing OF
! Northern settlers of education and fine
feeling. Their Intercourse with the
colored population IS particularly OF
feusivc to all the respect Ole
classes. Most Of them are office
holders, and they will go to all length
to secure the negro vote. Not only do
/ they .'hob-rob' with black men IN
public bar-r0ons, but they invite that
class Of coIored men called by his Ex-
calIt.rcy Gov. Noses good political
wives and daughters do everything
pCss;bl1 to sccrIrc for them the intln-
rnce OF Air. Senator Bombo
GHmbciLS. or the favor of such
ignorant braggart5 as Mr.. Justice
.tSain'' Dickinson. 1t is not I'M
common iJtst before election to see the
far daughter of would-be Sheriff or
! Congressman slipping champagne tothe
| health OF some influential black man
who before the war was a field hand
on q sea island plantation. While this
/ is trlle OF some OF the Northern peo-
ple, ii cannot be denied that many
| Southr,n Republicans go further III
/ their efforts to secure the cOlored vote.
! 1t is Il well known fact that at least
/ two politicians Of Charleston lave
married colorcd wives, and it is noto-
r:Olls that one OF the most distinguish
cd native white State Senators lives
people. With such examples before
wondered at that respectable negroes
are beginning to feel themselves su
| pcror in some respects to the whites,
: or that the families OF former slave
owners refuse to admit the wives Of
| Republicans to their homes.
Is there 10 white Radical III this
section with n negro wife, and whose
marriage was sanctioned and lcgahzod
| ly 4 formal ordinance Of the Radical
convention of 1SCS r.? There is such q
one. His name is Thornton, and he
lives in Fayetteville. Here then VIC
have it. Marriage without regard tC
race or color education without re
gard to race or color, and eating with
out regard to race or color. Bed and
board and schooling all without re
gard to race or color, and by the Radi
cal party! What moro can there be
If tree is to be judged by it
fruits, is not the so-called Radica
party social equality party-in {
word, negro party ? What more
do we want ? Bed and board ant
schooling all without regard to race o.
color by the Radical party