The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-10-07
To tie Eait2r of the Ohio STATE Journal

To tie Editor Of the Ohio State Journal:
Please favor me with space to answer
the question-When will colored men
cease to vote solid for the Republican
party? l answer When leading Demo
cratic journals and speakers cease cham
! pioning the cause of bad white men OF
the South, who turn out en- masse and
butcher in cold blood unofending color
ed men resident in the south. Colored
voters will decide on the subject of poll
tics as do white men. Every intelligent
colored man knows that it puts him and
his whole race at a disadvantage to be
regarded as certain to vote for some par
ticular party, whatever the merits of that
party or dement's of the party opposing
it. And yet as bad as this is for the col
ored people, and as unsafe as it is for the
country, it is Just what they have been
compelled to do. Colored men are as di-
verse in their political views as are white
men, and would vote precisely as do
white men, some with the Republican
party and some with the Democrat party
if they felt that they could do so with
safety to the liberty of their race. But
what is currency, whether paper or coin;
tariff, whether for protection or revenue,
affording incidental protection; what re-
pudiation, national honor or dishonor,
initiation or contraction, to a people who
cannot peaceably assemble to discuss the
political issues before the country with
out being set upon as were these people
in Mississippi the other day, where num-
bers were killed for no reason under
heaven except that they were colored, or
could not be persuaded to vote to suit
their slayers? Exposed to atrocities so
appalling, it is the colored voters first
i. - g L..
warns into life a viper that will sting
him to death He must not commit the
fearful mistake of so voting as to lift in
to power party whose principles, if car
ried out, will turn his i,tire race over to
the tender mercies OF miscreants in the
South who glory in cutting the throats
of colored persons. And right here, let
me be well understood it is not the in
dividual Democrat colored people fear
The relations between colored pers oas
and Democrats are amicable enough: In
all our intercourse with our fellow men,
in all our business relations, we find
Democrats as just and charitable as Re
publicans. They are as ready to employ
colored persons, pay them as liberal and
use them as well as do the Republicans
1t is the Democratic organization and
the principles of that organization, and
pies as exhibiting themselves in the re-
peated massacres of colored pC ople in
the South, and the tone of the press and
the speeches of Democratic speakers who
are the accredited exponents of the prin-
ciples OF that party, which alright us
and excite our opposition. 1t has been
the rule of the Democratic press and the
Democratic speakers from the beginning
of those outrages on colored people in
the South until the present, to deny
their existence when first reported, and
when denial was no longer decent then
they apologized for the miscreants who
perpetrated them, that they were goad-
ed to them by scalawag and carpet-bag
and negro misrule. Clearly the Demo
cratic party of the North and the Conser-
vative party of the South are one in feel
ing and one in principle on that greatest
of all subjects to the colored people
their civil and political rights Should
the democratic party come into power it
cannot hope to hold it for long time
without the aid of the South The South,
ever watchful and wise to improve her
opportunities, will demand as q condi-
ton of supporting the party, that it shall
adhere to the doctrine of non-in
reference by the General Government
with matters in the States, shall repeal
the statutes of Congress enforcing The
amendments to the Constitution, and
leave the colored and white people of
the South to fight it out by themselves.
In that event, God pity the colored peo-
pie.
A word as to the imitation dodge and l
have done. 1t is doubtless adopted to
catch the simple, and, supposing colored
people no wiser than white ones, some
of them would have been led away by it,
But the butchery at Clinton settles the
matter OF the $4,000 colored voters in
Ohio, quite IA 800 will vote the Republi-
can ticket this fall
Respectfully,
JAMES POINDEXTER