National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-07
THE COLOR ISSUE NORTH AND SOUTH.

The Philadelphia Tines Comparatively
respectable Gush organ declares that "the
negro has ceased 10 be an lssue every.
where except IN the South" How will
this declaration sound In the ears OF iispub
licans who remembe the pledges OF their
party 10 secure 10 the blacks the exercise
Of oil the rights and privileges OF citizen
shipT Have those pledges been redeemed
uhiil they are, and until every principle
asserted In the war amendments 10 the
Constitution and the reconstruction acts, IL
acknowledged without question ~ iBylula'
bleiaw, the,HegFe will certainly continue 10
DO an ISSUE No honest man, unless blinded
by prejudice, will attempt 10 maihlaiA that
this condition OF affairs Il now existent, u
10 true that the Southern sehemeH who
seek the eKAltalleR Of the Democratic party
have grossly misrepFesented their designs,
as well as the actual condition of affairs
but with all their attempts at eeneealment,
the truth becomes apparent whenever the
eXigenoles of political campaign are thrust
upon them, Then the cleaning rottenness
OF their covert treason shines through the
thin DISCUSSES they have assumed, and
betrays their real intention. The truth Of
this could not be more forcibly illustrated
than 1t was during the recent Convention
campaign in North Carolina, when the
burden of the song of the Democratic press
was "nigger," "negro party" and "white
mans country" Every Democratic
paper in the State took up this
strain and repeated 1t until Its echoes re-
verberated from the mountains to the sea-
board. At the same time the Democracy
assailed the Supreme Court of the State for
Its decision that the charter of the city of
Wilmington, enacted by o Democratic
Legislature for the express purpose of de-
priying the colored voters of that city of
the right of suffrage, was unconstitutional.
The arguments accompanying these as.
saults were simply appeals that the consti-
tuition should be amended 30 as to provide
for the removal of the court and the substi-
tuition Of one pledged to the support Of the
white mans government Not only this,
but the leading organs of the party kept
standing in their editorial columns during
the campaign the most incendiary appeals
to their readers to vote for the convention
as the only remedy against negro equality,
the rape of white women by negroes and
the preservation of (white men's) individual
rights. In short, the campaign was wsged
by theDemocracy on the negro issue alone,
and for the purpose of reaching condition
of affairs in which that issue would con-
clusively be abolished by depriving the
blacks of citizens rights.
These facts were also true of the
campaigns In Alabama and Texas, and
they are true of the one now pending in
Mississippi. In the latter State the Hon.
L. Q. c. Lamar. the leading CASHIER Of
the Southern wing of the Democracy, is
candidate for reelection to Congress. He
has succeeded thus far in so thoroughly
hoodvinkIng certain class of Northern
susceptibles as to induce them to compli.
ment him for the broad minded patriotism
he has displayed, while they forget to say
q word of encouragement in behalf of his
Republican opponent. He has had the sd-
vantage of the aid of the Memphis agent of
the Associated Press in accomplishing this
success, and, as usual in the South. the
dispatches sent by that worthy have been
expressly prepared with the intent to de-
ceive. For example, he telegraphed the
following resolution q few days ago as
having been adopted ct Mr.. Lamar's sug-