Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-23
The HypOc ties Unmasked.

In Tennessee, the sincerity of the love
of the Radicals for tine negro has been
put to a crucial test, and the result has
clearly and fully vindIce,ed the truth Of
the charge by the Democrats, that the
sole value of the colored men to the Rad
ical party consists in their votes. They
have neither affection nor use for either
negro who would vote tho Democratic
ticket or negro who would dare to run
for office. They do not treat An ambi-
Eous negro with common courtesy. The
other day, Emerson Etheridge ruuely re-
fused D divide time with w Il. Scott, the
eolOred editor of the Maryville Republi-
can; and not long since, w. f. Yardley,
the negro ca ldidate for Governor of
Tennessee, after having been f'uitlessly
urged to withdraw by Fede.al Colonel
at Knoxville, was asked by that officer:
"Do you think the Republican party will
vote for id Niger? ?" No, with the
Radical party, the negrO's vote is worth
much, but the services of the negro in
office arc not needed. Talents and quail
fications, If possessed by a colored man,
amount to nothing with party who are
determined not to recognize them; and
the Radical monkeys consider the regro
only cat TO draw the Republican chest
nuts from the fire. AS the negro becomes
more enlightened, he sees more plainly
the duplicity of the parry that claims hls
vote, but refuses 20 support him while it
dare not deny his right, under the con-
stitutio1 and laws, to hold any Office in
the gift of the people. Evidences are
very abundant throughout the Southern
States, where the colo ed race is most
numerous, that the negroes are fast re-
pudiatiIg all the formerly supposed allie
glance to the Radical party. Whenever
the negroes get to voting the Democratic
ticket, or putting up candidates of their
own, the carpetbagge.s and Northern adj
ventucers will feel that their occupation
is going, and may soon be gone. When
ever, amongst other rights, the negroes
get the right to vote without Radical
dictation or military influence, many of
their votes VIII be cast in a different di- |
rectiou than ever before, and we shall !
have residents instead of non residents |
occupying the State offices--we shall |
have no more aliens running for Office in |
order to get paid for going home, as is at |
present witnessed in the case of one |
William P. Pierce, of Washington City, |
who is now running for Congress in the |
Third District of Georgia. We are glad |
that Mr.. Yardley has had the courage to |
test the truth of the affectionate profess !
sions of the Tennessee Radicals. He has |
torn the masks from the hypocrites, and |
they stand exposed, not only rs n party |
who have been using the nee, oes as mere |
tools for their own advancement, but a !
horde of as contemplate liars as ever
blackened the political record of State. /
Let the colored men of Tennessee con-
trast the treatment their representatives
have met at the hands of the Radicals on
one hand and at the hands of the Demo-
Gratis on the olher: See Etheridge refuse
to divide time, at Memphis, with Scott,
colored man who had been instrumental
in saving him from mob violeace: SEE
the free, unbought and courtly courtesy
so promptly extended YGrdley by Gov.
Porter at Lebanon on the opening of the
Gubornatorial canvass, and sinca at every
appointment. The fact is, the Demo-
Gratis, without having made any profess
tations of affection or promises of prefer
ment to them, treat the negroes well on
every OCCASION and freely and fully ac-
cord to them all the rights and privileges |
belonging TO them under the Constitution /
and laws; while the Radicals have been !
lying - them at ali times about the in
terest they feel in their welfare, and in /
suit them whenever they attempt, in any /
way, to rise above the dead level of me-
NAL instruments TO effect the glory and
power Of the Radical party. The negroes,
we are glad to see, are not only evincing
a growing determination to assert their
rights and claim the privileges that be-
long to them, but are beginning to resent
The insults and discover and rebuke the
of the arrant demagogues who
have been deceiving them so long aud
nave so long been using them as coEtemP-
ible tools for the furtherance of ignoble
nds.