Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-04-26
the FELlelANA SENTINEL.
THE MEANING OF THE NEGRO EX-
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The Republican party, says the
Memphis Appeal, secured power
neneteen yeare ago, and have re-
tanned it, BY the everlasting negro
question. Having rode this hobby
so long and SO successfully, they
are trying to utilize i: to perpetuate
their power. The exodus Of the
colored people to the northern
States has much political signi6>
canoe. The south is solid for the
Democratic party. The elections
for the past four years show that
the colored vote in the south is in-
furious to the Republican party be
cause it cannot give single south"
ern State to the Republicans, while,
at the same time. it increases the
Democratic representation in con-
gress. The Republicans propose
to counterfeit this loss by inducing
or by removing enough colored
voter into the doubtful Democratic
States, SO as to carry them for the
Republican party, and, at the same
tins, increase their representation
in congress while reducing the rep
resentation Of the south. Two or
three thousand colored votes trans
fcrred from Kentucky or Tennessee
to Indiana would give that State to
the Republicans. One thousand
colored voters from Virginia and
South Carolina would decide the
political complexion of State as
closely contested as that Of Ohio.
Alabama, Mississippi and Luuis-
lana could furnish votes enough to
change the vote Of New York, Del
aware and New Jersey. The de-
tails of this effect to COLOMBO the
colored people in the doubtful
States will be found in the pro-
nunciamento of the National emf
grafton society, and the scheme is
thus alluded to by Washington
correspondent to the Chicago Herr
sld:
ssThere is a man in Washington with {
scheme to elect Republican Presiden
IN 1880 by importing from the soutl
enough negroes to carry tho three State
Of New York. Ohio and Indiana. Hi
name is "Co onel" Hooker, of New York
and he Is 4 brother-in-law OF the lat
James Fisk. He intends to lay his plal
before the leading Republicans in COZ
Ness and hopes to have it adopted. II
saws a million dollars can be raised j
New York in single day for the purpos
He would go into the south and bold
advertise his scheme and get as many
cruits ~ possible, and then ship the
north, to be distributed by agents amor
the farmers of the States in which the
are needed. One hundred thousand
New York, fifty thousand to Ohio al
Seve nty-five thousand to Indiana Will
sufficient, Colonel Hooker thinks, to tn
the scale and give these three Stat
over to the Republican party. He 81
this plan is legitimate and feasible.
cannot be censured as piece Of disho
est party practice, for it will be acco
plishcd openly and by fair means. L
amount of money required will be II
than would, in any event, be spent
campaign purposes, and the result wor
he a solid gain of such proportions that
could not be overcome by tactics OF
sort whatever. This brilliant sche
was suggested by the rapidity WI
which the colored people of the sou
have followed the suggestion contain
in the bill advocated at the last sess
ofcongress by Senator Window. Colo
Hooker says if there were time he wo'
not have the slightest doubt OF The
feet success of this plan, but all OF
machinery will have to be perfected
put in operation so as to have the lm'
grants at their place of future reside
Ivy next fall, so that they will have b.
residents of their respective States y
before the election in 1880. Ifhe recei
the cooperation of leading Republic
he proposes to go to work immediate
lie thinks the negroes who once emlS
ed to the nort!: will never 60 back
their old homes.'
This scheme shows the desper
stroits to which the Republl
party is reduced, and the devices
which it is ready to resort to ms
tain its hold upon power. l
expedicnt, If carried out. will