The Jasper weekly courier., 1876-02-18
The Colored Vote.
[From The s.. Louis Tines.l

When the Radicals become finally ex-
cluded from the National councils, they
will be forced 10 confess that that re-
suit is the necessary consequence Of
their own excesses. They have grown
so fat upon fraud, that they have sunk
under their own weight, and their greasy
fingers are no longer able TO retain their
hold upon the "coigns of vantage"
which they have heretofore regarded as
their certain supports. They have
counted absolutely upon the control of
the colored vote. They created it, they
argued, and why should they not al
ways own it? The reason is that they
have made their ownership too ap-
parent. The "poor, down-trodden ne
gro" has discovered that he is poorer
and worse trodden upon under the sys-
TEN adopted by his Radical task-mas-
ters than under that of his old owners.
Slavery was at least regulated by law,
but the rule of the Radical thieves is
nothing less than highway robbery.
The stakeholder gave the negro home
and support, the Radical robber getshis
vote, and turns him loose TO Craze.
The colored voters perceive that they
are "dumb, driven CATTLE" as fully, to
all intents and purposes. as they were
before the war; that the tape-worm
politicians of the North only want their
votes, for which they give nothing in
exchange. 1t may seem all very nice,
at first, TO impoverish their old masters
by exorbitant taxation and corrupt
management; but they soon
discover that the destruction
of the white people only insures
their own starvation, while the pro-
ceeds of the robberies 20 into the pock-
cts of the carpet baggers and scala
wags who control the political machine.
A few negroes may hold Office and fat
ten upon the ruin of their neighbors,
but the mass of the colored people are
doomed TO severer poverty an. deeper
degradation.
The result of such a state of things
has been made evident in Mississippi.
However much Mr.. Morton, for parri-
san and personal purposes, may mis-
represent the recent election in that
State, the fact remains that it was a
revolution in which colored men and
decent Republicans joined with the
Democrats to put an end to role Of
corruption and robbery that could no
longer be borne This is proved by the
results of the three last elections in
that State. Mr.. Alcorn carried Missis-
sippi by 49, 600 majority, on the princi-
pie of opposition TO thieves and plum
derers. Ames, at the succeeding cleo
ton, although his plundering procliyi-
ties had not fully made themselves
manifest, got only 5000 majority. At
the next election his record Of robbery
raised revolution which carried the
State against him by 10000 majority.
The reasons for these changes are made
evident by the quality of the candidates
and the nature Of the canvasses. The
negro is not so stupid as TO be unable
to perceive that it does not pay to sup
port swindlers in power. II he were,
the starvation of his body would soon
force conviction upon his mind.
In South Carolina, State which has
been considered as hopelessly given up
to Radical government, there are signs
that a result similar TO that in Missis-
sippl may yet be reached. The action
Of Governor Chamberlain, in taking a
decided stand against corruption and
robbery. although denounced by the
unblushing Radicals who have intruded
themselves into the State, cannot fail
to be indorsed by the masses of the
people, who are sure to suffer under the
system of swindling that has been es-
tablished. Already the period Of their
suffering is upon them. Destitution is
gnawing at the vitals of South Carolina.
According to late report, there is great
distress in the lower districts Of the
State. Starvation is staring hundreds
of people in the face, and much larger
number will scarcely be able to drag
through the months before the ground
will yield food, even with the most rigid
economy The whites are the greatest
suffers at first, but the suffering speedily
extends to the negroes, who are, in a
measure, dependent upon them. To
suppose that the latter will continue 10
keep in power the scoundrels who have
brought these calamities upon them, is
to suppose them to be irredeemable
idiots.