The Russellville Democrat., 1877-01-04

while theg will vote with lfs, bat they are sure 1t last io @ with. their employers and mastsfs. There is no power whiyh can make those States Republican for l fifteen years
 The prophecy is realized in. two-:hirds Of the time. A period of ten year,<has sutliced to con vert the last of the negro States from the Republican to the Dem ocsatic party.
 This is due to the enormous and unforeseen political crimes. which have hastcned the down fall of Republican power and prestige in every part of the country. When the great belt of controlling States, which lie he tween Narragansett Bay and the 
 Mississippi, turn against the Re pubiicans, we must expect to see such a change everywhere else. But in tue South and among tine negro voters, we must expect to see it consumna.ed more power 1 fully ana more radically than elsewhere; and the ia t has out run the expectation.
 There are peculiar and over wheIming reasons why the great mass of negro citizens should now be Democrats. Tteir em- 1 ployers, the white men who own- | ed them before the rebellion, and who hire them now, are Demo crats: and there is no class of laborers who are influenced by the employers for whom they work so much as regro laborers. Knowing nothing of politics for themselves, their natural impulse 1 is to vote as the better educated and more experienced men vote, ny whom they are employed and paid; and when these are men to whom they have been attache from their childhood, this inn pulse is almost irresistible. Since the war they have been prevented from following it by peculiar causes, such as the distrust which grew up during the rebellion and the influence of secret societIes formed among the blacks after the war ended; but those causes have now ceased to operate, and the normal tendencies of the ne- gro mind have reasserted them selves.
 The failuree Of the Freedman's Savings Bank has probably done more than any other single event to cut the negroes loose from their ties to the Republican cause, and to send the majority cf them Ill a mass over to the camp of the opposite party. That hank was one of tbe most shameful swim dies of the decade, and the Re pubiicans alone were responsible for its disastrous downfall. In that failure, millions of money belonging to the negroes of all the Southern States were stolen f om them by Re ublican lead. Is, acting under the direct patronas se of Grants administration; and never were the poor and helpless plundeied by the great and pow erful with more revolting con tempt for every principle of hon esty and every rule oi decent bus mess conduct. If such fraud had not turned the blacks against it's authors, they would indeed have proved themselves idiots, unwor- ! thy of any part of the political power which had been bestowed upon them. In taking vengeance on the robbers at the ballot box, as they have now done, they have simply justified those who gave them the power, by showing that on occasion they know how to use it to protect the public inter ests and their own.
 Moreover, the negro is natural. ly a conservative, and among the blacks we find considerable number of thrifty, shrewd men who have talent for acquiring property. Such men are seen in every Southern community, and there are many instances of nc groes who since the war have gained considerable possessions, ann who have thus become most | 1 ;n il nnntinl n,,,nncr h,.i,. n,.n ,... 1.o