The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-05-03
VII.

VOUeB Tor Jne DbmOCTdJb (dnu lnoIouy bo-
cures safety and justice for himself and
family in other ways), or whether he
persists in stolidly voting for the dema-
gogues who use him las Hayes has done),
as mere ladder to political power-to be
kicked aside as soon as he is used. III
the black man does vote for the Repub-
licans, his vote will not be counted, and
he will gain the i'll will of his white
Southern neighbors without aiding his
friends in the Northern States.
VIII.
If there are colored men who cannot
vote for Democratic candidates let them
refuse TO vote at all.
TX,
It A wickedness to try to keep up a
Republican party in the South excepting
on The basis of q large native white vote.
1t will end only in still further troubles
to the poor and misled and too grateful
blacks. The best thing that every black
man can do in the South, is to consult his
own personal interest without regard to
party platform (as President" Hayes
has done), in making up his mind for
whom he shall vote at all future cleo
tions.
The allies of the administration will
urge your people to repudiate my advice
and appeal to them to be "loyal" to the
Republican organization. Let them turn
deaf ear to these deluding demagogues
or ask them at least, before listening
to them, whether they hold an office OF
are seeking one2 1t would be a great tri-
umph to the administration party IT the
black could continue faithful to the Pres,
ident' who has betrayed them, But let
the Colored people seriously ask them.
selves whether it will be a good thing for
their race? and let them act as they shall
honestly answer this question. | care
nothing for political parties, but | do
most profoundly sympathize with de-
fenseless classes; and, familiar as am
with the history of the last campaign in
South Carolina and Louisiana, | should
refuse to believe that God governs this
world if the distardly treachery of this
administration to the blacks is not visit
ed with the destruction of the party that
shall sustain it. The Republican party,
if it submits to the leadership of Hayes,
will not be fit to live, because it will
thereby abandon both its principles and
its saviors; the principle of the govern
ment of the people, for the people, and
by the people, which Lincoln announc-
ed; and the negroes of South Carolina
and Louisiana who, when the roads were
picketed with armed men, crawled, at
the peril of their lives, through the thick
woods, morasses and swamps to reach
the county seats, where the presence of
the boys in blue made it safe or even
possible for them to vote. 1t was this 81.
lent heroism, this sublime devotion OF
the blacks to the party Of their liberatoTs
that elected Hayes President Of the Uni
ted States-that gave him the chance to
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VI vhe IleeuinTn ~ oo'iet .naS raey
now owe ho aligsIaIloe ~ Vii3 i:HpuoiiG@n
party aSAeu NelGelI @ IN nlIIiPS i9 tI9
otuer "eeh, al'el saving Vna' ! enoulu
auylse ny coloteu lilthoS tho ~ oiH 'he
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woIlo P,IIno plaG Ino ior IedusiE 70 remd,n
m IN Ine hePuonca99 a..,9 parry anu Joinins 'ne
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WHY naI A. ueseio1u a; LII yH6 hi,, ott Iottor i
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thorI,SaIyo9 Tiom .1T 9"'''"''' W '0'A 00' -0i
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doI, rSU p%i,I;ma ] Onroues oonnot @ | ho foIso I
uoi; uoi;oI % for tbo Sdutborn bIonIS os o oIass
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XIII.
But if I could lead the blacks should
saw to them still flrtber-pav less atten.
t;3n to noiitics and seek hover through
business Become the Jews of America
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