The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-31
THE COLOR LINE,

The st. Louis tilObc-IlcinOcrnl, o
u recent date, has an article show
ing II nst appreciation of the evil
of universal suffrage, ~ applied Il
the ignorant negroes Of the South
but the writer is not Sufficiently
candid to confess, what he knows il
his heart to be true, that the whole
sale invcs,iturc of the negroes of tn,
South with the franchise. by the he
publican party, is th" root Of m"7'
of tho evils that have afflicted the
South since the war. 70 avoid this
he beats the bush, and admits that
grave evils have grown out of the
blind following by the negroes OF
their Radical carpct-bag leaders,
and then proceeds as follows. "li
there is anything mournful in the
spectacle of the whole colored race
at tho South supporting, through
good or evil report, the fortunes OF
the Republican party, it is equally
mournful to observe the unwnver-
ing unanimity with which their
felIow-citizens on the other side of
the color line vote tho Democratic
ticket without regard to fitness or
reason. And if the unity of the ne.
groes is an indication of low de.
gree of political intelligence, and if
their timdity and their vanity and
their prejudice and other unworthy
feelings are played on by dextrous
manipuatiors, have we not every
reason to note and deplore the exist
ence of a perfectly parallel range Of
occurrences on the other side of the
color liner
Let us ask the writer; What al
tentative was left the whites of the
South? Here, in our midst was q
set of rapacious carpet-baggers,
whose sole mission was to grow rich
by robbery, and here was exhibited
the spectacle which the writer so
much deplores, of the whole negro
population, blindly assisting them
in all their nefarious plans. What
other means were there left to the
whites to save the remnant of their
property from the spoilers, than to
band themselves together against
these robbcrs ? 1t was certainly use.
less to appeal to Republican Con-
grcss which had forced negrosufi'rage
upon them, for the very purposes
which were being effected, namely,
the spoiation of the "rebels"
and the perpetuation of Repub
lican rule. 1t was equally fruit
less to appeal to the Federal power
exercised by President who had
overthrown the government of Lou.
isiana, and for years held her peo'
pie down with the bayonct, that
they might be plundered by kel-
logg, Casey and other friends of the
administration and who only six
months ago attempted the over
throw of the legitimate government
of Arkansas, in order that another
set of his scoundrel friends might
plunder another State. In seeing
that all these wrongs and Outrages
eminated from the Radical Re
publican party, and that they owe
whatever escape they have made
from ruin to the persistant opposi-
ton of the Democratic party,
is there any wonder that the
whites of the South should range
themselves upon 1.-THE color line"
and vote the Democratic ticket ?
TO have dono otherwise would have
been as if u ships crew should join
the pirates who had robbed and
captured them, against friends who
were fighting for their rescue.
Every thinking white man of the
South heartily joins with the Globe
Democrat in deprecating the color
line division Of parties, but until
the negroes abandon the leadership
of the scoundrels, who mostly repro
sent the Republican party at the
South, in many parts of the late
Confederate States the only security.
against public and private bank
ruptcy and social anarchy is for
every white man to stand by the
party which is fighting his battles.
With the disruption of the Re-
publican party, which must inevita.
bly, follow its defeat in 1876, and the
passing of the Federal Government
into the hands of q Democratic
president, will pass away the alli-
ance between the negroes as race,
and the Republicans. Negroes
worship power, and when they
discover how grossly they have
been deceived by those who taught
them that the Democrats purpose
was their reinstatement, they will
abandon their carpet-bag lead
ers. Then, and not till then,
will there be the least chance that
the whites and blacks will not as
now, be hopelessly divided by "the
color line"
The attempt of Russia and Prus.
sia TO obtain q mod ifica-ion of the