The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-05

tan heart, and were pinned to the consti
tuition by bayonets in the hands of s
usurping soldiery.
They have been declared revolution
airy, null and void" by our party. and ON
party constitutes majority of the white
voters of our States Union.
Ignore them with the superb scorn and
contempt that you would ignore ukase
| How?
Thus:
When the negro steps up to the box,
ballot in hand, tell him to
STAND BACK
That he is not a qualified voter, and that
his vote can not and will not be counted
| Ii ne persists in putting ballot in the
box, 1t will become your duty to treat
him precisely as you would treat a mi.
nor who would thus dare traverse the law
of the land.
No difference whether the negro is a
Democrat, or Republican, or Green
| hacker, refuse his vote point blank, and
give him TO understand that his sphere
Of usefulness lies in the cotton. patch in
stead of the political arena.
If there is party in the state, county
or town opposed to the Democratic par
ty, let 1t be heard for its cause; let its
candidates be treated with all due re-
spect and consideration; let Its white
members-AND IT'S WHITE MEM.
BEERS ONLY-enjoy the full exercise
of franchise fair and free.
If our first plan is not pursued, this is
our next plan, and it is the only plan
that will work and win.
but" say the more timid conserva-
tives and Democrats, ''if we disfranchise
the negro in this manner it will solidify
the north"
No, it will not.
The northern Democrats know full
well that we are their main dependence
If they hope to control the Federal gov
eminent.
They have never had any use for the
amendments, for those infamous enact
ments keep them in the minority in
Ohio and several other northern states.
. "But it will arouse the Stalwarts ofthe
nation"
Let it arouse.
The Stalwarts of the nation" las you
call the little old Hamburg up at Wash
ington) have been aroused before on this
very question, and vet in the face and
teeth of their Grant and his government
forces, we captured the capital of Miss
issippi in 1875.
How?
By virtually DISTINGUISHING the negro
race
In that year of our Lord, in this proud
old Commonwealth, the intelligent mi
nority put down the ignorant majority,
and have kept them down ever since.
These are facts.
This is history.
"But they will send an investigating
committee here"
Let them send.
And if you are summoned to testify,
tell them that you DID disfranchise the
negroes;
That you will do it again;
That you will keep on doing 1t.
"But they will send an army hither."
Let them send.
Who cares?
Unless our memory cheats us, they
had their trim and gallant soidiery here
in 1875 and 1876, and we carried the
state by storm.
Away, then, felIow-citizens of Yazoo,
Of Mississippi, of the south-away with
bull-doZing and ballot-box stuffing.
Ignore the amendments in the man.
ner we have pointed out.
Or, let the negro vote as he chooses /;
count his vote fairly, and bear the horri-
BILE consequences that will follow, until
the amendments can be repealed, or un-
til our present Yankee state constitution
can be changed, and our legislature can
pass laws that will virtually disfran-
chise the negro race.
''To this complexion has it come at last -