Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-01-15
WHITE RADICALLSM.


Tho editor of the New York World
in alluding TO the shifting tendencies
of the Radicals along the color line,
says =
II looks very much as if we should
see the Republican party before long
marching under banners inscribed,
White men shall rule America -
William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phil.
ips and Company screaming: Would
you like your daughter TO marry q
negro 2" and Colonel Pat Donon, erst-
while ofthe Lexington Mo- Caucasian,
declaring, as editor Of the Tribune,
founded by Horace Greeley, that no
Simeon-souled, sooty- skinned, kink.
curled, blubber-lipped, prehcnsile- heel.
ed Ethiopian gorilla shall pollute the
ballot-box with his leprous vote. Then
we shall have Lincolns reluctance to
abolish slavery and Morton's opposi-
tion TO negro suffrage cited as the only
and original Republican doctrine. AL.
ready we see the fact paraded that
Mrs. Hayes has no intention what
ever of " inviting the quadroon wife Of
colored Senator Bruce TO attend at the
first Presidential reception that ber
husband "has never been invited to
dine at the White House, or elsewhere,
with a party Of Senator's" and that
" General Grant never invited Revels,
Of Mississippi, and when be gave q
dinner to the Santo Domingo Commits
sioners, left out Fred. Douglass" The
Republican Presidents are thus cleared
of the stigma Of associating with the
"nigger," and the Republican Senators
can point with pride to the fact that
they kept Pinchback out of bis seat.
For the niger who has no further
funds to deposit in the Freodmen's
Bank and who votes the Democratic
ticket the Republican party has no use.
The duty, therefore, dcvolves upon the
Democracy, which has always been
the party Of the Constitution and has
everywhere declared its loyal accept.
ance of that instrument and its amend
ments, to see that the colored citizen
in Sonth Carolina is protected in bis
rights as well as the colored citizen in
Massachusetts. The issue was finally
settled by the war; the sovereign States
set their seals to the amended Consti.
tuition, and we shall not allow Mr..
Page, Of California, and the other
white Republicans to cancel or put in
peril these great results. The colored
citizens Of the South shall not be de.
priyed of the citizenship which the
North conferred upon them, and there
is no need for the late Mr.. Greeley's
paper TO say that the thing may, can,
might, could, would, or should be done.
We are surprised-nay, shocked lat
such a proposition coming from party
which for some twenty years made
emancipation and negro suffrage It's
watchwords, and for ton years has
spent It's time and its energies in sur.
veying the work of lis hands and de-
claring that 1t was entirely good. Per
haps we speak with warmth, but let
that be forgiven us. Some time since
the WOrid, editorially, pointed out that
the next step would be the secession
Of New England from the Union and
its inevitable overthrow, occupation
and reconstruction, and in that article
was drawn apicture Of General Butler
laying down martial law to the con.
quercd people Of Boston, issuing oh.
noxious orders to its neither fam.
boyant nor yet blanched and etiolated"
daughters, and toying with tho con.
tents Of plate-chests that came over in
the "Mayhowcr.' The day of the
falfllment of the prediction seems to
be near OF hand.