Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-16


jorities in Congress, Success of the party was
| the motive and that success, the country
has seen, was utilized by the carpet-baggers to
Ienrch themselves by the most infamous and
corrupt means.
| Finally, public opinion revoted at their out
| RACES, which were not only Ubiquitous in them
selves, but imposed large burden on the tax
payers. Arkansas was saved from the Presi-
dents's violent attempt to continue the miSrule
| of the plunderers, who had brought the State
to bankruptcy and anarchy. Then followed
the compromise in Louisiana, and the exposure
| of the frauds in Alabama. The reaction which
| followed these events might have been expect
ed, for even in this short experience it has been
proved beyond all controversy that the charges
made by the Administration and its contede-
rates were false and fabricated, and that their
whole policy rested in fraud. In thirty days
after the fall of Clayton, Dorsey, Mcclure and
| their Ring in Arkansas, the Stste was perfect
| ly tranquil, credit was restored, the races har-
monzed, enterprise became active, and labor
was contented--none of which had been known
during ten years of carpet-hag rule.
| The colored people of Arkansas are as well
protected in their rights under Democratic
! Governor as are those of Massachusetts. They
recognize the fact, and admit the deception by
which they have heretofore been estranged
| from the white race among whom their destiny
| is cast. Their children educated and the
door is open to preferment with far more iber-
atty than exists in most of the Northern States.
| Even in Louisiana peace reigns The peo-
pie accepted compromise which cheated them
out of rights fairly acquired at the polls. But
| they had either to take what Republican COM
mittee forced down their Threats, or TO confront
the powerful persecution of Grant, Sheridan,
Kellogg, and Casey, backed by the strength of
the army, navy, and Treasury. They chose
the lesser of the two evils, and this submission
| is likely to be well rewarded
/ Alabama, though but, partially freed from
Pthe yoke of the, carpet-baggerS, is greatly i'm
proved in condition, and since the yllianies of
Spencer and his gang have been exposed by
their former confederateS, the Administration
will hardly dare to repeat the atrocities of last
year, when treasure and troops were scattered
over the State to support an organized band of
public robbers.
The blacks have seen the practical effect of
the changes in these three States, and find that
instead of being injured they are benefited in
proportion rs the power of the carpet-bagger
is diminished or entirely disappears. As u
consequence, they are drawn more closely 10
the native whites and the old confidence is fast
coming back under the new relation between
the races.
In this condition of things it is evident the
negroes cannot be made TO vote as they have
done since reconstruction. Many of them who
are intelligent and upright separated from the
main body before they had an inducement to
act independently Tens of thousands will
now follow this example, and when that step
has been taken, it will be the beginning OF a
new era for the black man. Destroy the color
line, let him exercise suffrage upon some prin-
cipe and share in the sentiments which divide
the rest of the community, then, he will be real
ly emancipated. As the tool and ally of the
carpet-bagger he is not only degraded slave,
but the worst enemy of his own interests.
The utter ruin of the Freedman Bank. from
which nearly three millions ofdollars were sto-
len by the Washington Ring, did much to
awaken the seventy thousand poor and bstray-
ed depoSitors 10 the real character of their
friends who managed that institution for their
own profit. More recently. the appropriation
of Howard University by the Congregational
Church. and the virtual exclusion Of the color
cd people from what they regarded Is their pc
culiar institution, have reused no small degree
of wrath. aud with much reason. Fred Doug
lass and LaugStou have both denounced this
proceeding. and intimated pretty broadly that
they will not stand the usage TO which their
race has been subjected any longer.
Their resentment is natural, but ii Is not
from such personal explosions that We look for
the Improvement which i much needed n
mong the colorej people. The so-ca!led leaders
OF this race have taken pretty good care of
themselves. and are meaSuFably responsible for
the evils which they now affect 10 deplore.-
They sustained the Administration in every
act advocated the Rings, and helped TO wage
bitter war against the people of the South
They saw the money OF their own race hlcl-
ell before their very ewes nj Washington,
without 4 word Of rem0u,trancc. In fact some
Of them aided in that viilany. and sitter the
magnitude of the fraud MAS known, Fred
Douglass himself sought 20 soothc lis victims
by assurances which have proved groundless.
Even now they have not one brave word OF
personal deuunc1atou FOR the rogues who strip
ped the vaults of the Frecdmans Bank and
are fiourishing III the capital. We have little
faith in leaders who are only quick To resent
when the shoe pinches their own corns. The
redemption OF the coiored race from political
bondage is to come in another way, and they
are fortunate in not being dependent upon any
doubtful assistance They will work out the
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