The daily gazette., 1877-06-13
June 13, 1877.


Republican paper in this county, and yeI
it is opposed to Mr.. Hayes Southern
peace policy. 1t denounces all efforts to
conciliate the South by putting Demo
Gratis in Office. Even in South Carolina
where it takes the word of negro speaker
that there are but fifteen hundred white
Republicans in the whole State and a hun.
dred and twenty-five thousand black Re
publicans, it despises Mr.. Hayes policy,
when he yields to the wishes of one hun.
dred and thirty thousand white conserva
tives instead Of fifteen hundred radicals
The policy Of Grant drove all the whites
in South Carolina away from his party,
except, perhaps, the fifteen hundred
spoken of,) and many of the negroes,too
and if Mr.: Hayes had pursued the same
course it is likely that another year would
have witnessed the very change that is
now taking place, 1. e. the negroes all or
nearly all voting cheertully for the white
Democrats. Why should they not ?
They had been badly deceived and rob-
bed by the carpet-baggers. And the Hon.
X. Il. Cain, negro, says if the negro will
vote the Democratic ticket he can get all
he '',odnts-houses, schools, Uork and
plenty to eat" Well, considering the
way things have been conducted for the
last ten years, the negro could not do a
better or more sensible thing than to vote
the Democratic ticket.
We published the negro Gains speech,
because we found it published in the
editorial columns of the Republican with
approving comments by the editor. We
copied it in part for fear the Republican
would hereafter say it was net true, when
we pointed the negro of Delaware to the
fact that the Democrats South are prepar-
ed, if npower,to give negro all he ,oantS
-"houses, schools and plenty to eat
That is the way the Democrats treat the
negroes in South Carolina. But how did
the Republicans treat them Why, some
taxed them to death and stole and run
away with the money, and others ran the
State into bonded debt and ran away
with the bonds or what they got for them
The change must certainly be delightful
to the South Carolina negroes. Wehope
the Republican will pardon us, but really
we do believe the editor of that paper
would be tempted to vote the white
mans ticket if he were in South Carroll
ma. Why, what more could be desired
But how differently the negroes arr
treated in Delaware. Here, where th,
negroes have stood by the Republican
party like a ''sto1e-wall" brigade, they
have even been kicked out as "nigh
scavengers" by Republican politicians o
Wilmington-by the very party that the,
have kept in power in this city for tn
last ten years. And yet this paper per
sists in its denunciation of Southern
white people. 1t will not read the news
and will not understand what it doe
read; in fact seems so utterly oblivious t
the logic of even the small amount tina
it publishes in its own columns, that W
fear to trust it a month, so sure is it t
back out from its positions. Let the nj
groes of Delaware dare only to vote tt
Democratic ticket and the Republico
will very soon be found advocating
change in our election laws. A few yea
ago it denied the right OF a Catholic
vote because of his birth and religion
and it is not likely it would be mo
faithful to the negro if qualified su
frage party were to spring up: