New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-02

OJlRAGES BY BLAthS UPON DLAIhH
BOILING A DANGEROUS AMUSEMENT FOR NEGROES
THE BLACK VOTE HELD FIRM By SOLEMN oATIIs
THEIR FEAR OF BEING DEMANDED TO SLAVERY
POLITICAL INTOLERANCE BEATING DEMO
CRATIC NEGROES IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
RESPECTABLE WHITES AT ALL INFRINGEMENT
OF THE LAWS.
IRON THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE.l
NOZZLE. Ala. Oct. 26.-All that the New-Orlcans
correspondent of TIE TRIBUNE sad. in letter
printed few days ago. about the difficulty and even
the danger that attends any attempt of or of
a body Of them to act OF vote with the Democratic
party is as true in Alabama it is in Louisiana
That it should he SO is not think, to be wondered
at The more ignorant people are the more big
oted they are and the intOleTant Of independ-
ence Of opinion in Others. The carpetbaggers of the
South have taken advantage of the fears and preju-
dices of the negroes to keep their vote always solid
for the Radical ticket. They tell them that the Re-
publican party set them free and that their liberty
is safe only under Radical rule.
The negroes trust the white people. their old
masters and those with whom they have lived al
their lives in everything but politics. The majority
of them especially in the country, pay no rent for
the cabins in which they live, even when they are
not at work for or hiring land of The owner and it
is rare to find cOlored family that does not receive
almost daily alu OF some KIM ION n WING neigh
Dor. If this was not so, thousands of them would
staIve every year. Nne-tentbs of the blacks are
very imprOvident; they do not care to own land,
even if it were given to them, because that would
prevent them from removing to a new place every
year. and 1t is the opportunity to do this, without
asking permission of any one, from which they
chiefly realize that they are free. They generally
spend the greater part of their money before they
earn it, and live largely by the charity of the white
people from the time the crop is housed until they
resume work in the Spring. and then they begin to
get advances from the owner of the land they cult
vate.
COMPLETE POLITICAL sUDJECTION OF TIE NEGRO.
One thing the negroes fear above everything else,
and that is that they may be put back into Slavery.
By the oath which they take on joining the Union
League or the Constitutional Guards, to one of
which organizations every black voter belongs, re-
quires them to support the Government under all
circumstances and as the colored people are unable
to distinguish between the Government and the Ad-
ministraton. they suppose themselves bound by
that obligation always to vote with the Radicals.
Having been sworn. as they think, in the most
solemn manner never to desert the Republican
party and having been taught that if they do and
the oppositiOn gets into power they Will be returned
10 state of slavery 1T is not strange that very few
of the negroes have the hardihOOd to over to the
Democrats aDd that when one does he should be the
object of persecution by his fellows
have seen. since came to Alabama, many Illus
trations of the power which the Radical leaders
exert over the negroes by exciting their fears While
was sitting in The Advertiser office in Montgomery.
one evening, not long ago, very intelligent look
ing negro came in with notice of meeting OF the
Colored Democratic Club of that city. and. from
motives of curiosity, engaged him IN conversation.
learned that bis inclinatiOns bad been to vote
with the white people, ever since Reconstruction.
In 1872 he spent part of the Summer and Fail
in making speeches to the negroes in favor OF
the election of Mr.. Greeley and. to use his own
language, " was beaten and 'bused mos power
full / got ragged an hungry. an L had
no shoes, but / stuck by 'em, sab, TILL
dey toe me dat if vote dat ticket I'd sell my wife
an chiI)en back into Slavery An when deY tole