The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-25

amount of bigotry impregnated in his
mind Now, with ignorance, supersti-
ton and bigotry combined, and that
/ coupled with an entire lack of confidence
in the respectable and intelligent white
man, how can We expect or even hope to
| make a change for the better, under such
circumstances Therefore, it is a fore
gone conclusion, that no change can be
effected upon the negro by the plan that
has been put in practice for the last eight
or nine years. We certainly have had
sufficient opportunity to develope what
| was inaugurated at that time, 1t has
| been a signal failure-a complete abor-
| ton. Why, then, as intelligent white
men, continue in the same old beaten
| path, when observation, experience, and
| common sense, tell US, in thunder-tOnes,
that nothing has been accomplished, and
+, that to-day, politically we have no GER
tainty or stability? Intelligence cannot
| be satisfied with such state of affairs as
this. Now the suspicious opportunity
| has presented itself to US, and all we have
to do IS to accept, and all will be we'll
| Why do we say the time has come? Look
J out on our political horizon, and see what
your rulers are trying to inaugurate in
your social relations-yes, inaugurate a
principle in our body polite, that the ne
| CRY is not only our equal politically, but
| socially, and that we must clasp him to
our bosoms in schools, churches, railroad
cars, and every place of public amuse-
| ment, and must intrude him on US in our
cemeteries. Is anything more natural
than for the white men (all of those of
any respectability) to unite themselves
together politically, to ward off such a
political heresy and thereby prove to the
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can give to the negro equal political
rights, without having any Of the social.
| No harm can result to either race, when
such policy is inaugurated. Treat the
| negro kindly, and you will have no war of
races. In order to do that, let him alone
in his politics, and he will soon change
| them, when he finds the respectable and
| intelligent white man has cut loose from
| him. You will soon see him reaching out
to get in the white mans party. He is
/ initiative by nature, and cannot reconcile
| himself to be thrown off from the white
| man. He cannot survive alone long and
have no white respectable leader political
| ly. For whenever you form this white
party, our word for it you will have but
few, if any white Radicals, especially
those that make any pretensions to man
hood and responsibility, and should any
white man attempt to lead the negro
| politically, he should not be recognized,
as white man socially, but treated as
negro. By adopting this plan, you will
have no Independents, nor Radical can
didates, TO keep up political strife and
| contention between the races. When any
candidate addresses himself to the negro
| for votes, let the white mans party refuse
to vote for him, and make that one of its
cardinal principles If a negro, voluntari-
| ly wishes to vote the white ticket of course
no one will object. Do you think such a
policy pursued would bring the Federal
bayonets to Tennessee?
| All of our troubles and chickering's arise
| generally soon after an election. There
| seems to be a restlessness created among
the white and black races, on or about
| elections, and we have come to the con-
| clusiOn in our own mind that it is pro-
duced, kindled and nourished by the two
| opposite political parties, in attempting
| to carry and influence the negro vote. If
| we are correct in this certainly when
| this white party is formed, we will have
| no more trouble from that quarter. 1t
has been recognised and so regarded, up
| to this time, by the contending political
| parties as legitimate and no stigma at
| tached TO persons using their best Efforts
| to secure the negro vote. If then this white
| party is formed, which it will and must
| be, any white man, irrespective of his
| former political creed, has an indubitable
| right to attach himself. If he will not it
| is his misfortune, and he has no one to
| censure but himself and ought to pre-
| pare to receive, the oft repeated insults
| that will be hurled at him, by an IN
| dignant community of his own race-hay-
| ing proven recreant to the trust that his
fathers had bequeathed to him, to-Wlt, a
white mans government. This govern
ment was established by white men, tor
white men, and surely white men should
govern. 1t is an inheritance lett them
6v white men, and we Should not let the
/ legacy. with all its advantages, pecuniari-
| ", politically and religiously, slip
through our fingers, without making an
| effort, and that great One-eyen to death,
to save it, from being converted, to the
| wicked use of ignorant and ltiterGte
negroes, our interiors by nature and
| education. Hear what a distinguished
| Republican of our State says The
white man who votes with the negro, be-
comes in the eyes of the pOpulace ne
gro, and is assigned a negro position IN
social life. 1t may be wrong or unwIse
or absurd, but such is the fact, and states
men must recognize facts"
Let us then, initiate a new order OF
things in Maury County, yea, even over
the whole State of Tennessee, by chang
ing our party tactics, and tall into line
with our sister counties Davidson and
Shelbyville They seem to have suddenly
awoke from their slumberings and put on
a new white political robe, adorned with
all of the paraphernalia of success and
| victory emblazoned on its tolds-and
has established the fact that the white
man party is the only sure and certain
| road to success. No disturbance between
the races follow. Everything quiet and
peaceable-not rifle seems to disturb
| the political horizon, and certainly this is
encouraging and should stimulate US the
more to act promptly and fear no evil.
| The honest feelings Of the people accord
| tremendously NTH the ADORE sentiment,
| ard why retain without communicating or
making public, when every symptom Is
encouraging for us to go forward, IN the
| great work of political reformation at the
| ballot box? Had Henry, Washington, and
their compeers never proclaimed the idea
of Independence and liberty publicly,
would this country ever have been the
| land of the free and the home of the
| brave? Surely not! Why then, attempt
| secretly to iRaugurate principle, that all
agree is necessary, for the perpetuity of
| our political institutions? Is that the
plan the benefactors of man inaugurated
| when they first promulgated the great
theories government which has rebound
ed to mankind with so much peace,
prosperity and happiness? No, fellow-citi-
| zens, we should face it with the boldness
of a Henry and the frmness of "a Jackson,
FIVE desire to succeed we should pro-
claim it from the hOuse-tOp, upon hill and
in dale, until all the people hear, and
such a shaking among the demagogues
will be produced, that has never been
seen por felt before, in the history of our
country. Tbs people must ia Ike the
matter in their own hands. and cease
listening to our willy politicians, or our
aspirants for official honors and emolu-
ments Make them bend the knee submls-
sion to our will and wish, that this, our
political Savior, will reinstate our former
peace and prosperity, and then we can go
on our way rejoicing, with full truition
of our white mans party. FAM
The Address Of the Democratic State Com
mittee.
We have received this address, and