The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-10
The Colored Vote.

The most satisfactory feature of our To-
cal and State election was the turn taken
by the negro vote. Great numbers OF
colored people voted against the Republi-
can or National party many of them in the
city preferripg the Citizens ticket, and
others selecting the Democratic nomina-
tions. In the parishes the result is still
more satisfactory in this regard, as multi
tudes voted for the Democratic candidates
where there were but two tickets in the
field.
The colored population have come to re-
alize that the white people among whom
they were reared are really more friendly
to them than white strangers are or can be.
The interested affection of carpet-bag
philanthropists has finally grown too
transparent, and the colored brother can
see pretty clearly now that the Northern
adventures who loved him go much had
an uncommonly sharp eye on Offices for
themselves all the time. The mule and
forty acres have never come within range,
and the whole air castle of idle magnif-
cence 80 sumptuously furnished for him
by Radical gam mon has vanished. Is it
strange that even an ignorant population
should finally awaken to a realization of
the impudent rascality which had 30 long
played upon it's credulity7
Henceforth we may safely count on the
independence of large percentage of the
colored vote. Social ostracism will be
laughed at by q min ority of such large
proportions, and the lash of the whipper in
will have lost it's sting. Bullying has seen
it's day. Threats of murder that formerly
meant business and repressed all indepen-
deuce under a chilling sense of terror, will
now be regarded as harmless vaporing to
be received with contempt only. The
negro, once free from the irresistible influ-
ences that formerly de him helpless
tool in the hands of master politicians,
will be proud to enlist as full suffragan
under the different party banners of the
white population. Some of his race will be
Democrats, some, following their white
friends, will join that element which must
soon take shape as respectable opposition
party.
That this truth is forcing itself on the
view of Northern politicians is manifest.
Mr.. Blaine, in his late outgiving, referred
in no amable tone to the fact that the
Southern Democracy, instead of being
weakened, as had been intended, was
greatly strengthened in the National
Councils by the colored vote. Radical
cunning has been caught in its own trap.
Radical malevolence hated the South and
conceived the foul, upmanly scheme of
humiliating, dominating, running her
through the agency of her colored popula-
tion. They were to vote, and, under the
leadership of white emissaries, rule these
States. While mortgaging the property of
the hated rebels under a load of crushing
public debt, they would also fill the Ma
tional Congress with the most faithful kind
of Republican members.
+ How CALLING, then, it must be to these
conspirators to find their own artillery
turned against themselves The negro
vote almost doubles Southern repre-
sentation iu Congress, as they intend
ed, but that represen tation, instead of
being the main stay of their party, is it's
destruction. No wonder that Mr.. Blaine
frotbs and RACES! No wonder that he
lyingly accuses Southern whites of over
awing the blacks and destroying their po-
litical rights by violence! No wonder
that he waves the bloody shirt again and
dreams of bayonets, and yet more bsyo-
nets, to regulate Southern elections Two
years will elapse before the era of another
general election, and two years more of
peace and CO cooperation between the races
at the South will so dissipate the remain
ing illusions of Radical hypocrisy that all
the army of the United States quartered in
any one Congressional district could not
get up within it the semblance of Repub-
lican party.