The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-07
THE TABLES ARE TURNED,

John Sherman and Blaine have been exer
cising themselves to an unusual extent lately
over the wrongs of the negro in the South
| The first contented himself as Is his habit By
simply telling a lie, which he did do when h.
made the broad assertion that there were
million cOlored voters in the South who were
not permitted to exercise their right Of SUI
frage.
Blaine Is more explicit and specious He goes
on to show that there are 100000 negro
voters in the South. Representing 25,OO0.0 900
population, who are accorded d representa-
ton In Congress and the Electoral College OF
thilty-fve votes. This Is exactly the repre-
sentaton to which the great State Of New
York Is entitled. Thus, says Mr.. Blaine, the
negro population Of the South has "say So
| in this country which Offsets the vote of the
| largest and wealthest State in the Union
| This is all right, thinks Mr.. Blaine. so
long as this representation is of advan~
age to the Republican party. The Re-
publican party is the Republic-it is Richie
lieu and RichcIieu is France. He talks as
II the negro. with a vote, were chattel, as In
the old days when he was a slave. to which
the Republican party has an hereditary
title, somewhat like those held under the
English law of primogeniture, which can
never be Invested.
But the negro has shown q disposition
to vote The Democratic ticket. Mr.. Blaine
does not like this. and he concludes that
the thirty-tive votes accorded the negro
population of the South, by Northern
agencies and under Republican evangel. are
very dangerous-ln fact they go to swell
the power Of the "solid South, and this Is oil
wrong. Because the negroes happen to vote
with the Democrats, who have always dealt
fairly by them, and from whom they derive
their living, Mr.. Blaihe concludes that, as q
people, as an element of sovereignty, the
negroes actually have no representation In
Congress OF the Electoral College of the
United States.
by reason Of the negro population of the
South says Mr.. Blaine. "the political
strength Of the great State Of New York Is Off
set by the colored population of that section -
This is every word true; but who is RESPONSE |
BILE for it? II the party to which Mr.. Blaine
owes everything he has achieved in life did
not put up the job, in the name Of all the gods
together who did? Weare very sure the South |
violently opposed the whole scheme and
fought it to the very edge Of open war But |
the Republican party had brought on the war,
had fought it through and it claimed the
right to reconstruct and, incidentally to plum
der the South, and the instrument it used In
the accomplishment Of It's purpose was the
franchise in the hands of the negro The
.ool served its purpose and served it we'll
There was not one design that it did not serve
o executo-not one base lust it did not pander
jo-not one nfamy to which it was not sue
'eBsfully applied, from the plumber of the
State, on one side, to Towards Savings Bank
'obbery Of the negroes on the other.
The martial spirit of the North was satis-
led at Appomattox, and, finding there the
supreme trophy of its valor, turned with O.
are generosity to the foe, whose courage had
the admiration Of the world and
endered them the terms which Sherman
granted johnson, only to have them rcpudi-
tied by the political soldiers in the DEPART
nents at Washington, among which civic
odiery there was none more rcsolute than
Ar. Blaine.
Then the subtler spirit Of the North
anne forward to glut It's vengeance, which
vas naught else than brutal greed Like
be Apache squaws, they came on after the
'attle to mutilate and glut the ferocity of their
ncaner natures 1t was in the hands of Just
uch creatures that the better sentiment of
he North found the Southern States, when it
anne to their rescue In 1874 and gave such
nen as Blaine rebuke such as the American
'eople never gave before to any of it's popu-
ar leaders The patriots of the North, her
,1J lufa I,ft no H,l1
ght was over, but they came back again, as
hose who sought on the field for the body of
Harold, the last Of the Saxon kings. and they
ound the South, as Harold was found, in the
ands of the robbers of the dead; and, as the
'ord England" was found punctured above
is heart, SO there was revealed above the
cart of the South the pledge and sign
{ her eternal and deathless love of
uman freedom and constitutional liberty.
hat sentiment at the North rescued us
I'd 1t has found in us its champion. The /
over which has been given us, by the gift of :
'anchise to the negro, has served the purpose i
the spoiler but henceforward it will serve
ne cause Of truth and justice-both North
nd South.
But Mr.. Blaine says that the great political
DiSuS Ill aSSlsutu w Ille coutIt, because OIL It's
egro population, Is most dangerous, and
lese 100000 of people are excluded from y
otual representation and will probably this L
ear be unable to elect a single representa-
We in Congress" .
Will Mr. Blaine tell Gen. Chalmers.
ON the ''shoestring" district in Mis-
ssippi, that he does not represent his
Will he tell Col. Young, or r
en-. King, from the Fifth Louisiana District,
lat they are frauds and charlatans? Can
: dispute the right of single a
emocrat from the South to his seat in Con-
ress, or his representative character, be-
use the majority of his constituents are
egroes? If he does he will but be laughed at =,
+ his pains. =
The truth Of it all is, Mr.. Blaine and his :.
lends knew not what they were doing when
ey gave the franchise to the negro They did
It know that when the negro and the