The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-10
South will be a. safe as tbs Immigrant

South will be "a safe as ths immigrant
ec.s has s!~eye been in the North.
The Democratic party will have no
temptation to deprive the negroes OF
the right OF suffrage. because 10 will
have NO difficulty IN. controlling the
negro mind when the potent Federal
influence co-operates with local intelli.
ssnos instead Of frustrating aud de.
feating it.
"Even under the great disadvantage
OF having the Federal influence op
posed to them, the Southern Demo.
Gratis have made some Roadway in con.
trolling the negro vote. Iu ths recent
election In Louisiana. quite proper.
ton uf the negro citizens acted with
the Democratic party. As soon as
Democratic ascendnncy is established
in Washington, Democratic negroes
will be as common in the South az
Republican negroes, and the negro
question will then cease t. be an ele.
ment Of disturbance. The true inta-
rests OF the negroes are identical with
the true interests of Southern whites.
The negroes cannot prosper when the
community in which they live is i'm
poverished. They can fnd remune.
rative employment only when the
| wheels OF business are in full acti yity
Ii cnpital yields no profit, labor cannot
expect constant employment or good
wages; and the most important lesson
the Southern negroes have yet to learn
is, that they cannot thrive on the de.
preston aud ruin Of the owners Of
property. Their credulity has been
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deceived. by interloping demagogues,
who have inculcated the idea that they
have u separate interest from their
whito fellow-citizens. This state Of
thugs is likely to continue, 50 long u.
the negro mind is led by the Republl-
can party; but within u year or two
after it is left to local control, a major
ity of the negroes will be steady De
mocratio voters, and the negro pro.
blem will disappear from our politics.
"Ths Democratic politicians, both
OF the North and the South, have
always displayed remarkable capacity
for controlling ignorant voters. There
has always bsen large GLASS Of uned-
ucGted whites in the Southern States,
but there was 10 section of tho country
whose politics, previous To the war.
we:e so completely controlled by It's
intelligent classes. 1t has been in
former times the active party in tx
tending suffrage; it has always been
foremost in defending the political
rights of citizeus of foreign birth; it
has always felt the most undon5tlny
confidence in its ability to array the
most despiaed orders OF the commu-
nifty on its own side in politics aud
make them its faithful allies. The
Democratic party has q geuius for
managing such classes OF voters, aud
it would bella its anteoedenis and ten.
denotes if it should attempt to disfran-
chise the Southern negroes instead of
attempting to manage them. TIA pnst
opposition to negro suffrage id tran.
sient phase Of politics which has been
further prolonged than it would have
been if the Freedmen's Bureau and
the carpet.bag influence had not got
go decided start in the control Of the
negro mind. Had the South been left
to itself after the elective I anchise
was conferred Oh the blacks, the South
ern State governments would have
fallen as completely uuder the infu-
ence OF the old governing classes as
siaJ @aTo VIXEN :hs sans o!asses so
successfully managed the unedncated
whites. Nothing la more certain than
that the mass of the negroes will never
act independently i'll politics. It Is
their destiny to be led. They have
thus far been led by the Republican
party. and arrayed by it against the
enlightened public sentiment of the
Southern communities; bnt from the
moment the Democratic party gains
control of the Federal Government tue
Republicans will have DO advantages
for acting on tho negro mind, which
will then fall under the control of
local opinion. A war Of races can in
no way bo so surely uyerted as by Civ
ing the intelligent classes of the South
an opportunity to exert their natural
ascendency over the negro mind. aud
subordinate it to the ideas aud public
sentiment of their section. 4 war Of
races would be, soouer or later, inevi.
table, if distant outside influence
were kept perpetualIy acting or the
negro mind and moulding it into jea.
lous hostility TO the white population" :"
Usually, election news has opened
we'll for the Democrats, and then