The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-07-08
VOL. IT..
The Negro in the Presidential
Campaign.
New York Srn

New York Srn
As a factor in the coming contest
for the Presidency, the blacks, as a
race, will not play the part they have
hitherto done for the Republicans. AT.
ter being used and abused since the
close of the civil war, and while re-
leased from one form of slavery re.
handed to other evils, they at last
have had their eyes opened, and will
no longer obey the orders Of their
late political masters.
The thievery of the carpet aggers,
who stole from white aud black
promiscuously, and the plumber of the
frecdman's Bank by Grants Wash.
ington Ring and their pious confede-
rates; nayo alitnated this confihing
people from their accustomed lead
ers, and brought them to a sense of
the frauds and viIainy of which they
have so long been the victims. They
hare come to see that tie policy of
Republicans in exciting prejudice
Against their old masters, and inspir-
ing them with d;strust of their best
friends, was only part Of the sys.
TEN for capturing their votes while
stealing their earnings and labor.
Consequently there has been a great
reaction all over the South, and at no
time since the rebellion closed lave
the relations between the two races
been as good as they now are.
The day that the army was with
drawn from the South as q ruling ele-
ment by the loud demand of North
e,n opinion, the carpet-baggers, seal.
awags, and adventures, who held
their power by the support Of the
military alone, were crushed out be-
yond any hope OF recovery. So long
as they could call for troops from
Washington, and hold them subject
to the orders Of partisan marshals
and managers, the negroes supposed
naturally enough that they represent
ed the Government, as they were
backed by it. When that symbol of
authority was removed, the whole
fabric Of knavery aud violence fell
to pieces. The blacks are timid, gre
garious, and superstitious, aud it re-
quired nothing more than this sud
den change circumstances to eman-
cipate them from their political bon
lage, and to open up to their limited
horizon new and better prospects for
the future.
This is the true explanation of the
remarkable revolution in parties in
Mississippi and other Southern States.
The colored people rushed over to
tbe Democracit side by tens Of thous-
ands when they saw that Ames and
his crew were no longer able to con
troll tho army, and had really lost
ther grin at Washington. Pinchback
tofore welded large influence
among the negroes, and especially
while the Administration courted
them, are now seeking to accommo-
date themselves to the new departure
and make no secret Of their hostility
to Grant, Casey, Packard, Kellogg,
aud others Of that stamp. Pinchback's
speech at Cincinnati served notice on
them that their former connections
we're severed, and that hereafter his
face meant to look after its own in
forests.
The South is lost irrctrievably to
the Republican party, and even South
Carolina cannot be counted with any
certainty, for the causes which swept
Mississippi away from the clutches of
fogues and public plunderers are now
operating vigorously in South Caro-.
lima. The frauds, broken promises,
receptions, cheating and rascalities
sfthe Republican leaders in Congress,
md their emissaries in the South,
/ together with the treachery Of the
ADMINISTRATION, have disgusted the
laee and forced it to seek fellowship
Elsewhere.
The old ties between the whites
md blacks will before long, be strong
q than ever. Reciprocal and per-
manent interests must he felt in h
!tng run, and the landowner and the
lab0rcr will come together by a natu-
III law, which makes them mutually
apendent. In a few years the South
1 VII be more prosperous than at any
1bemer time III its history, and this
prosperity will be one Of its CHIEF
B Ndmeuts of strength and unity
While the war was apparently the
Greatest calamity that ever befell the
south, it is destined to be it's greatest
Neasing, materially and morally
4versity has made labor honorable
e4png what was once the governing
-. Emancipation has raised thu
1sgro to a higher plane. Between
81 ~ two the salvation Of the South i
tsadered sure. Already manufac
ltes have sprung up in variou
Mates, and when the present finan
# al strain has passed away. they vii
81 = multiplied by abundant capital
lAgst to embark In these proftabl
81 eoeerprises.
The following are the outgoing Sen
81 MRS for whose seats q new e!ectio