The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-06
NEGROES In POLITICS.

The St Louis Republican says, in reference
to the future course and influence OF negroes
| in politics:
They may rest assured that whether Re
publican or Democratic President is elected
| next year, their programme will be materially
altered. Heretofore the colored voters of tn,
South have done as they pleased, confrding in
| the Federal Administration to sustain them
Hereafter they will please do right, or take
the consequences. The country is thoroughly
tired of the bolstering process, and deter
mined that the enfranchised African shall
henceforth stand fairly and squarely upon his
own legs, the same as other citizens, or else
step down and out. This sort of wind blows
strongly from the North Just now, and those
most directly interested may take due notice
thereof and govern themselves accordingly.
There is no room to doubt that the great
mass of the co|ored voters of the South will
next year give their votes for the Republican
candidate. It may bs fully calculated upon
that, as the canvass wakes warm, the negroes
will take more and more interest in it and
will be more and more united. We know
their propensity to aggregate in all their
movements, their peculiar tendency to enthu.
siasm, their attachment to the party to which
they impute their emancipation, the solidity
and coherency of their secret organization,
and the zeal Of their leaders, preachers and
lecturers. There will be full supply OF
white agents and emissaries to guide, stimu-
late and assist them. Pretty nearly the full
negro vote will be given, and we may as we'll
make our calculations accordingly.
The prudent and sagacous members of the
Democratic party in the South viii take care
that there shall be no pretext for the rejection
of the electoral votes of any Southern State,
if in their power to prevent it While every
practicable appliance will be used to convince
negro voters that their welfare demands
change Of government, equal pains and care
will be taken to show to them and to the
entire country that their right of suffrage is
just as secure to them throughout the South
as it is in any one of the Northern States.
Those who by word or action interfere with
this true, sound and honest policy will not be
classed as friends of the Democratic party
As separate political power the negro
voters in the South must henceforward wane
in Importance. The opposition which has
lived SO long and abused SO much power
under the pretext of being the champion Of
the negro race, now finds it beginning to be a
load too heavy to carry. In the past as long
as anything could be plausibly demanded for
negroes by the Radicals which Southern
whites were not willing to concede, capital
was made out of it; but when the whole
Union sees that in the Southern States
which are now under Democratic rule, the
negroes enjoy to the full extent every po-
itical and civil right, and are more contented
md prosperous than they are in States where
he blight of intrusive Radicalism still fingers,
he Republican politicians have resolved to
make the black question hereafter subordi-
late to more practical and more. available
ssues.