Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-29
"KErRIBUTHvE JUSTICE.

KErRIBUTHvE JUSTICE.
Negro suffrage is rapidly working
out the most disastrous results to the
party which inaugurated it. The
leaders loudly pretended that their ac-
ton was governed by u sense of justice
and a desire 70 enable the negroes to
protect themselves against injustice
and oppression, but the real, prime
motive was to strengthen their party
by reinforcing it with millions OF col
Ored voters. Carpet-bag scoundrcls
went South to organize them and con-
troll their votes: the whites were dis
francisco and party supremacy thus
for a time secured. The scheme an
swered their purpose for the time be.
ing, enabled them to hold on to power
and afforded an opportunity for sys-
teinatic plumber of both blacks and
whites. but in this, too, the power be-
slowed for partisan purposes returns
TO plague them. Disguised by the n.y.
pocrisy, deception and fraud practiced
upon them, the negroes have turned
away from the thieves who controlled
them and united with the intelligent
citizens whose interests are identical
with their own, until the negro vote is
to contribute largely to the overthrow
Of the system OF political abuses which
~ Vvo g it,fntNlod ~ porotr,tn or Na.al1
as establish. Already its effect is so
keenly felt in South Carolina that Gov
ernor Chamberlain, to prolony his
career OF official infamy and crime,
has been obliged to call upon the Gen.
eral Government for the further as
sistance of troops to Brighten the re-
calcitrant colored voters into the Re-
publican traces under the pretense of
protecting them against the outrages
Of the white people of that State. The
same state of affairs exists in Louisi.
siana and Mississippi. AS the colored
voters become more enlightened and
their eyes are opened to the abuses
practiced upon them as we'll as the
whites, in the same proportion do they
renounce their former political asso-
ciates and act with those whose inter
ests are identified with their own. The
majority of the negro voters of the
South are as sure to act in time with
the intelligent, educated people Of that
section as water is to find its natural
level, and when the Republican party
Is once out of power negro suffrage
will prove to be one of the most pow
erful and enduring obstacles in the
way Of its return.
The overwhelming Democratic ma
jority in West Virginia insuring the
election of two Democratic United
States Senators to confront the Repub-
lican majority in that body, at a time
when their party supremacy there is
trembling In the balance, is also but
retributive justice for Republican vio-
lation of constitutional obligations in
organizing and admitting that State for
party purposes. Thsd. Stevens said
when it was admitted that he would
not stultify himself enough to claim
that it was constitutional, but as usual
with him and his associates, party
necessity knew no law. There was an
opening for adding two Republican
Senators and three Republican Repre-
sentstives. and that was enough. They
vainly imagined that power once OBJ
tanned, however unlawfully, could be
retained indefinitely, but the result in
this case, ~ in others, shows how
greatly they were mistaken. Verify
'time at last sets all things sven."