National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-09

In short they enjoyed the almost invincible
position Of defending the results ofa policy
founded upon the experience of generations
of experiments in the North, the sue
cess ofwhich is stiIl attested by the superior
wealth and progress of the Northern peo-
pie. The Democrats, on the other hand,
were compelled to rely upon the question
able prejudices aroused in the breasts of
their followers by the strictly partisan OBJ
jections to the existing condition Of affairs
which we have described. Their manner
of doing this is instructive, and will serve
to destroy even the faintest shadow OF
supposition that they are truthful in their
assertions of friendship for the blacks, or
that they are willing to abide by the conse-
quence of their reasonable appeal to arms
At first they were content to preserve a
defensive attitude, and IS the influence of
the Gush fever was upon them their utter
anoes ssyored of true conservatism. They
talked and wrote, as they always do be-
fore the excitement of political strife
overwhelms them, Of the fatherly love
they claim TO entertain for the blacks, and
of the brotherly regard they claim to
cherish for their feIlow-citizens of every
political faith. In short they represented
themselves to be perfect cherubs Of politi-
cal and patriotic amiability. But as the
campaign progressed, their excitement in
creased, and the Republicans pushed them
to the wall for explanations Of their
reasons for revision of the constitution.
They began to reply in angry tones, and
one indiscretion or contradiction Of
their assumption Of submission to the
pledges of reconstruction followed
after another until they finally
dropped their masks, and during the last
two weeks of the contest boldly declared
the ''color line'' to be their strongest
weapon of ofense and defense. Their
journals bristled with paragraphs based
upon this policy, and their speakers made
themselves hoarse shouting 'nigger"
'tnigger p "niggerr' For example, the
last appeal of the Raleigh Sentinel to its
Democratic readers to come out and vote"
embraced the following significant declara-
ton:
"We have confidence in the integrity and
patriotism of the Democrats of Oak City.
They will not, they dare not, deliberately lay
down their necks to the YOKE OF NEGRO
RULE"
And the following:
"Let the white men arouse themselves to a
just appreciation of the solemnity Of the
crisis, 60 to the poles as they did last year,
and, we repeat, all will be well; and WAKE
will march into the convention hall beneath
the triumphant folds of the Democratic ban
Der and take her seat beside all the host of
Democratic counties that are coming from the
mountains and from the sea, to proclaim to
the world that North Carolina is at last re-
deemed and free, and shall have a constitu-
tioI framed by the loving hands of her own
sons-those who have made her what she is,
who have loved her in peace, defended her in
Icdr, and who constitute her glory, her
grandeur and her powerp
And the following from the pen Of no
less leader than Ex-Governor Graham,
man of national repute, and old enough to
be needed as counselor against the rash
ness of the young hot bloods:
"There are provisions in the constitution
Insulting and degrading to tie sovereignty Of the
Stote, and purposely placed there"
And the following improbable declare
tion, which is credited by the Sentinel to
the Hon. W. A. Smith, one of the leading
Republican stump orators:
"Thirty years from now the four-year old
negro children will rule this country"
Also the following from the Wilmington
Journal:
'fIt was doubly memorable day that after
the lapse of three quarters OF . century wit
messed the rejection Of the Constitution lthe
United States constitutional and the adoption
of that OF the Southern Confederacy. 1t was
an accursed day that witnessed the subsection
Of once fires people under the yoke Of the
infamous Candy constitution. But more fate
full, more accursed will this day ever be held
if, when the sun goes down, the phits men of
North Carolina, like cravens and towards,
shall have failed in their duty"
And the following:
"Cannot white men devote one day to the
emancipation of their wives and their little
ones from accursed negro rule? Cannot white
men devote one day to the emancipation of
themselves from the shame and degradation
and dishonor and disgrace of negro rule 2"
And the following:
"rhe contest to-day will be between the
negro and the white man for the mastery. Can
any white man hesitate what to do" ..~~
And the following from the Raleigh
Neus: --.- r e.
"Giye Radicalism its quietus on Thursday.
Let the Federal o1fcehoIders know that their
occupation in North Carolina is gone. And let
the domestic officeholders know that they can
no longer control the ,Oiite people of North
Carolina to shape the ends of q corrupt
party"
And the following from the Wilmington
Journal: --a
"when q native-born Southern white man
seeks office by means of negro votes over
white votes, he is no longer capable of any
feeling Of honor or honesty"
And the following from the Charlotte
Democrat:
"We want the whipping post re established
under the direction Of white officers"
But to cap the climax, after the election
had passed and the result had been de-
clared, and when it might have been ex.
pected that the Democrats would submit
gracefully, if not graciously, we find that
the Greensboro Patriot issued an extra Civ
ing the figures to show the Republican vic
tory in Guilford county, which Is smbel-
lished with caricature of Jim Crow
darkey dancing over the declaration: go
"way white mani How do you like de
"fggersi Got dat 'vention chicken deadP'
We could continue these extracts to show
the animus of the North Carolina Democ-
racy, and from it to show the animus of the
Democracy in all the Southern States, al
most without limit, but we submit that the
foregoing will serve to prove the truth Of
our charge that they are faithless to their
obligations Of citizenship, untrue to their
oatbs of renewed allegiance, and deceitful
In their pleas of brotherly love for the
North. What they mean when they talk
of restoration of mutual regard is hope
that the Democratic party, with the
aid of Southern doughfaces, will attain
power, so that they may be able to crush
out those features of the present situation
the results of the war-which are obnoxious
to them, and enjoy the privileges of ruling
their State or States without regard to the
rights Of their political opponents. These
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