The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-11-26
MR. 7YLDEN AND TIE NEGRoES
Baltimore Mirror.)

Baltimore Mirror-)
Next to the cODsum nation of the reunion
of the sections and the revival of confidence
and business throughout our suffering
country, probably the most important re
sult of Mr.. Tilden's election will be felt by
the colored portion of the population. To
understand this it is necessary to recall the
condition of the negroes before and since
the emancipation proclamation. In what
ia here said, only the former slaves are con
sidered, and only the majority OF the slaves
The slave e.owner looked upon bis slaves
as portion of his cattle. He sought thelF
bodily welfare, for their health was factor
in his prospects of gain He furnished
them with dwelling, provided for their
bodily wants, AID procured them In elck
nees medical attendance. Regarding ouIy
their temporal welfare, they we're better ON
in bondage than since their liberation. But
Except in the case of slaves owned by
Catholics, who were commanded by the
Church to see to the spiritual neces
cities of the blacks, and in the Case of come
slaves, few in comparison to the whole ondy
of bondsmen, owned by nou-Cathollcs) no
provision worthy the Dame was made tor
their eternal welfare. AS q consequence OF
this neglect, the negroes were stepped 10
ignorance, with no conception, other than a
bizarre and distorted one, of higher life,
of morality, and of the world to come.
Treated like brutes, often worse than
orutes, they were brutal and debased.
With mind and heart and eoul uncultiva'
ted, they bowed their dusky foreheads IN
alteration to fetish, or shouted, jumped,
danced, and raved while listening to the
glowing utterances, if not Christian theol
oRy, OF some descri5er of the happy land OF
Canaan.
Ignorant and brutalized wretches they
were when the day of freedom daWned,
and when fresh from the tobacco patch OF
Ala Sl,a ho1l lot
their dirt begrimed bands. Receiving their
liberation as an upmixed blessing, they
looked up to their emancipators as angels
from heaven, and extended their blind de-
votion to the name of the party with " hlch
their liber8tOrs were connected. In the ra-
tio of their love for these was their hatred
of their quondam masters, and when in the
course of time they ascertained their power
as voters, they set themselves up as
gods, and looked down upon all ''wbite-
trash"
Recollecting only their wrongs, and, De-
cause of their Ignorance, not taking into
consideration that the system of slavery
and the fathers of their atone time owners
were more to blame for these wrongs than
the wrong doers Themselves, their hearts
we're aflame with hatred of their old time
masters. Seeing that the majority Of the
whites were believers in Democratic prin-
ciples, their unreasoniDg hatred extended
to the Democratic party. They were thus
ready tools in the hands of the dishonest
emagogues, who famed their hatred of
the whites and the Democratic party, and
by fawning and hattery fed their self love,
made them promises of obtaining land and
money for them, and used them as cats
paws to secure their own election to office
And to what a depth of degradation and
ruin and suffering these fcalawags have
brought the South is known of all men.
tho nf tha have he6n
opened. They have seen the peculation and
frauds of these carpet-baggers; they have
seen the falsity of their fair professions and
the truth of their cloaked viilainy they
have seen the treasuries depleted, the
taxes doubled and trebled, the stagnation
oftrade they have seen themselves robbed
of their hard earned savings; they have
seen the good men of the Republican party
leave, or forced to leave, its ranks they
have seen that party run by thieves and
knaves; they have seen the ballot-bo1
overturned and the will of the people over
ridden by the bayonets of soldiers; they
| have seen their quoudam masters accept tho
saues of the war, acknowledge the eviie oi
slavery and rejoice at it's termination; they
have seen themselves without work, apt
their children wanting bread-they hav'
seen these things, and some of them hav
had the courage to revolt from their neV
would be masters. They have began t.
turn their backs on their betrayers an
plunderers, and have given their votes 70
Mr.. Ti!deu.
With his Inauguration a new order {
things will begin. The hatred of the race
will disappear; the blacks will see that tn
whites of sthe South are not their enemies
nor desirous of their re- enslavement. Peac
will take the place of disorder, honest ad
mnistratIon, of peculation aud dishonesty
confidence will be restored, business Wi
flourish The negroes will DO able to Civ
TO their children the education they laci
and their physical and moral condition wi
be improved. Disorder will be at an enc
and peace aud prosperity Will gladden. ii
hearts of g nation.
THE CHARGE AGAINST COUNT ARNIM