The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-01
Phillips approves can not be false pol.
Icy for the Southern blacks as a class y
The most singular portion Of Redpaths
letter il mariana the fnllnwinr n,t.nni.


The most singular portion Of Redpaths
letter is perhaps the following extract:
"It | could lead the blacks, should
say to them still further-pay less atten.
tiOn TO politics and seek power through
business. Become the Jews Of America,
There are two great policies, both for men
and races-Force and Cancellation. The
Anglo.SaXon race fights; the Jewish race
cOnciliates. Both have become great
powers by policies entirely opposite, The
black race cannot fight; il would be
exterminated il It tried that policy.
II must win power by tho arts OF peace
Let the blackA adopt lagos advice: "Put
money ih thy purse" Work. Buy landl
Own your homesteads and patch Of gar.
den! Go TO school! Get fichA II one
county persecutes you, go to another; II
State refuses yon protection, leave it
and seek home elsewhere. Above all,
ask for schools for your children, and
leave the State il they are not built and
kept up for you. Cease 10 array your.
selves against the whites in politics, but
at the same time quietly and everywhere
and always insist on the right Of securing
an education for your children. Securing
that right, your children will secure all
others by and by"
Considering the we'll known constitu.
tional improvldence Of the negro this
last advice Of Redpath pounda like satire.
The idea Of making Rothschild out OF
sambO borders slightly on the ludlcrous.
Oi all people under the canopy he is the
last to become 4 financial power in the
land. Nevertheless, it il quite possible
Tor the cOlOrri race in the South 10 bene.
tit iheidseHc, immeEaely by'giving due
weigh. 10 Rglpaths suggestions. True,
his suggestions afe given in petulant
and retalialoFy spirit, but all people
who DO NOT belong to the az
grinders u the Republican party,
that is to those who see in the
negro mainly a political factor, can read,
lily perceive that the negro must for h is
own good, saying nothing Oi the good OF
the whole South and ot the whole coun.
try, cease 10 be a color line political ele.
ment. There is no occasion 10 leel bad
because the dissipation and annihilation
OF this color line will naturally give the
Democracy Il good many recruits. For
OurSelVEl We prefer to see liberal divide
in the co!ore'i vote, jnst rs the foreign
vote OF the great West IL divided between
the two political parties Of the country.
The success Of the Presidents policy
meaHs reorganization Of parties in the
South. II means the abolition of the
color line, most unfortunate and dan.
gerous line, and the substitution in lien
thereof OF mixed following on local and
national questions in each State OF the
South. There are 10 be new issues in
the South, and throughout the country,
al All early day, and we nee indications Of
them alEeady in the shape OF the internal
Improvement schemes put forward. Upon
these question the white people OF the
South will divide, as they did genera.
ton ago upon The issues in dispute be-
tween the Wing and Democratic parties
and the negro will divide along with the
whites according as his immediate inter.