The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-14
POLITICAL INTOLERANCE.

POLITICAL INTOLERANCE.
Rev. j. Dunjee, of Richmond Vir-
ginia, having signifed lis intention OF
voting for Tilden, and canvassing for the
Democratic ticket, finds himself all at
snce in a very unsatisfactory, If not ac-
mally dangerous position. lie is SIAN
dered, prosecuted and threatened with
bodily harm by the negro population OF
the late Confederate Capital. A few days
400 crowd threatened to mob his house,
and hayingrepeatedy threatenedto to burn
it. an insurance company, upon the eX-
piration of his insurance policy, has no
tifed him that they cannot relnsure H.
And Rev. Mr.. Dunjee is not the only
prominent colored man who, espouslng
tbe cause of NE Democracy, is threat
sned by his former party associates with
evil. The Republicans continually prate
about liberation. But they do not pos
Seas much of it themselves. If the Rev.
Mr.. Duniee would continue to act with
the Republican party, and the finger OF
A white man were crooked at him, it
would be tortured into threat of lntlm-
idation, and the call for troops would at
once issue from the direction Of his home
fTom a thousand Republican mouths
Chandler would see the necessity OF SEN
ding down some bluecoats for his spec
ial protection. As it is, the vigilance OF
the police at Richmond has to be eXer-
cis, d to protect him from the personal vio-
lenee OF his once deluded race. 1t is
well that Virginia is under Democratic
rule. and the authorities there are com
petent and able to protect all citizens III
their rights, without calling upon the
National Government for aid. Ihous-
ands of coIored men will be forced into
voting the Republican ticket this year
again through fear Of personal injury
Thousands who will vote the Democratic
ticket will do So secretly, for fear of call
ing down upon themselves the enmlty OF
their own race.
hev. Mr.. Dunjee has only asserted his
manhood nd independence in proclaim
ing his intention to free himself from a
political bondage in many respects SINH
lar tothe slavery which the Colored race
endured for so many years. Rev. Silas
Curtis, of Concord, N. H., has written a
letter to Rev. Mr. Dunjee, informing him
that his course "would bring a wound
and reproach upon his (Dunjee'sj mis-
sion among the freedmen, and ruin your
DunieesJ own usefulness as minister
of Christ" TO this rather bIasphemous
letter Mr.. Dunjee replies at length, and
in most dignilied manner, reviews the
history of the Republican party in the
South, and inform ed his friend that he
believed the white people of the South
are true in the professions they are now
making" and were as loyal as their
Northern brethren. Referring to the
carpet. baggers the writer says:
"You have no idea ofthe amount oftrou-
bic these men have given US. Men who
were the worst characters in the North,
who were from the lowest haunts of New
York and Boston, men as bad as crime
eould make them, who were negro haters
at the North, have come South and ta-
ken advantage of the ignorance of the
eolored race, and have beer eleyated to
places of high trust in our State govern
ments, for the sole purpose on their part
to plunder the public. This same class
of men have arrayed the colored people
against the whites for political purpOs s,
and, when the trouble comes, desc rt
them. All the mobs which we have had
in the South have been gotten up by bad
men. l know we have some lawless
white men here, but the good people OF
the South must not be blamed for their
actl. You have them at the North with
you"
Rev. Mr.. Duniee says there is no nat
ural antagOnism between the two races
and the late trouble at Hamburg, South
Carolina, and other troubles that haG
disturbed the peace of the Sontherr
States, had not been the result of any i'll
feeling on the part Of the white people
toward the LlaCks, but were caused by
the POLITICAL adventurers, who deludeC
the negroes by constantly misrepresent
ing the true position of the whites to
ward them. Rev. Mr.. Dunjee also al
ludes to the way the Republicans had de
frauded the poor negro by means of the
Freemen's Bank, and the money stoler
from the poor coored soldiers and sail
ors' widows and orphans by some of the
maguates of the party, He tells Rev
MIR. Curtis that he is in good position
having spent lifetime in the South, t
estimate the true condition of the South
ern people. The writer concludes his let
ter by saying he had given the matte
eleven years thought, and knew thu
whites desired to live in peace with thu
oolored people. The vote of the coloreC
people would have been divided between
tn, two p ltical parties years ago, bu
for the terror of the Radical party anC
its Loyal Leagues. l have known o
some colored men to be whipped. somt
turned out of church, and all forms of in
tolerant abuse heaped upon those color
ed men who dared vote the Democrati
ticket" says Rev. Mr. Dunjee. He is il
q position to know the true state of AT
fairs, and we have no doubt his lette
will be extensively read, and will have
good effect upon the people among whom
he has abored as minister for the bes
years of his life.