The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-21
the LOST NEGRO.

II has struck many thoughtful people,
no doubt foroibly, that since the oleo-
tlonand tho subsequent returning board
exoitements, no single case Of negro
oppression, murder or persecution has
been reported even In the bltterest and
most unreasoning Of the republican
papers, Even the Inter- Ocem has lost
the poor negro in IL later interest In
poor Lot Nowhere in the south Is the
fierce mustaehed, bigfpurred, broad
brlmmed ku.klux who's delighted the
sprightly Mast with his bloody, black
instincts for negro gore, filling the land
with the shrieks Of his struggling Eliza
Pinkston's and innocent Hamburg
victims. As 10 Cainboy why they
would absolutely faint at even the bare
mention of such q thing If northern
people will reflect, they will now arrive
at ~ correct solution Of tho problem
~ the southern people did when the
tactics were first adopted, There Is n
changed situation, and our opinion IL,
that Eliza Pinkston has won her last re
publican victory Hereafter no more
state or national elections will be car
riod by such pitiful means, and Wen.
doll Phillips and Bishop Haven must
find something else with which 10 stir
the masses Of northern ianaticism, and
send them shrleling TO the polls to kill
the governments Of the people in this
section. A few years more and the
negro will be left by the government
and the republican party to take care
Of himself, and the negro will be the
gamer, decidedly in the changed con.
dition. .. ...... H.
The negro is lost indeed from poll
ties now, and will 30 remain until
there is chance in some future com>
plication that he will have the balance
of power in his hands, when fanatlcisn
will find him again, but will find him
under changed circumstances will
End him u free man. indeed, exercising
the functions OF freeman at the polls
and elsewhere He will have four years
more in which to study the political
problems which affect his interests and
can better understand how to act in
order TO serve them best. lie will have
had time to contrast the condition OF
his race under republican rule in the
states, with their condition in the same
states under democratic rule. This
comparison will make him lost negro,
indeed to the republican party. Fred
Douglas understood that, in becoming
marshal of the District OF Columbia
ho also became, as his predecessors had,
master of ceremonies at the White
House, Fred has learned, at the cost
of some wounded feelings, that the
color line is pretty well defined in
the executive mansion, and an old
precedent was found to justify the sub
stitution of another officer for the per-
Torrance OF such delicate duty as Fred
aspired to. Hayes il the embodiment
of vital republcanism, aad so it works.
| win republican state governors dc
better in the south, than republican
president in Washington. The lost
negro is not fool enough to believe it,
with such facts rs these before him.
The negro vote of South Carolina
elected Wade Hampton. The negro
vote of Louisiana elected Tilden and
Nichols, and by the time another four
years has rolled around, and Eliza the
sainted and well-nigh martyred Pink
ston will have been forgotten entirely
or laughed out of court, and no chance
will be afforded for the employment
of the peculiar talents of j.. Madison
Wells and the other returning board
lights which had presented such Il
Pandora's box, both to Hayes and the
} government, The negro vote of the
South is safe in the future for the
: democratic and conservative interests
No power ON earth can ever again
wrest it from us. Then, indeed, will
it be "solid south" and then it will
have to fight the hardest battle of its
history to preserve for tho freedman
his newly found right of franchise
which republioanism gave, and which
} republicansm would iain take away
and blessed DO the name of republi.
canism.
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