The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-04-26

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The problem presented by the presence
Of different races of men in this country,
is ono not very easy Of solution. Tho In
dian, the African and the Asiatic, are all
sources Of perpetual annoyance, but the
African appears to give more trouble than
all the others combined, simply because he
has been made a factor il politics. Du-
ring the long years Of agitation upon the
slavery question, before the late inferno
cine war, we were told, over and over again,
that the liberation Of the slaves would
settle the matter and eliminate the sub
ject from party politics forever Slavery
has been abolished now over sixteen years,
and yet the negro fills as large space in
American politics as he did before the
war. The reconstruction acts which sue
ceedsd the war, were passed for his espe-
cial benefit, and gave him specialprivileges
not accorded to white men. The egis Of
the law was thrown around the blacks in
peculiar manner, and they became the
wards Of the nation. They were enfran-
chised, and voted en- mdsse with the ad-
ministration, and sent many northern ad-
venturers to Congress. Having liberated
and cniranchised the negro and enjoyed
the benefits Of his political favors, they
were satisfied with the result and felicitat-
ed themselves upon its accomplishment.
But, alack, negro enfranchisement added
about thirty additional members Of Con
gress TO the South. This was all right, as
long as carpetbaggers could control the
negro vote, but they at length voted with
their former masters aud sent to Congress
nearly solid representation Of Democratic
aCoufederate Brigadiers." Then Radical
ingenuity set to work to break up tLis
order Of things. 1t was giving the South
too much strength in Congress. They sent
emissaries into the South to tell the me-
groes of promised Ian" in Kansas and
other Western States. The object is to
break up the labor system Of that section
aud reduce its numerical strength and in
fuenee in Congress- But il viii fail. A
few negroes may be induced to quit their
native soil, and il they should all do so,
their places would be filed by Chinese,
who would be naturalized in due time and
take the places Of the negroes not only as
laborers but as voters The negroes will
ultimately be the sufferers from this wild
scheme of emigration. They will encoun-
ter a more rigorous climate and system
Of life aud labor to which they are unused.
They will find even less consideration and
less sympathy in their new home than
they did in the South, and their lot viii
be rendered harder still through this pre-
tended philanthropy Of their false and de-
signing friends. The South will probably
experience some temporary interruption Of
its labor supply and diminution Of its
peculiar products, rice, sugar and cotton;
but the North win not escape the eonse-
quenccs Of its base malignity. Already
the prices Of cotton, sugar and rice have |
advanced in view of limited supply, while
Northern manufacturers Of brogans and
coarse fabrics for clothing, have had large
orders couniermanded because the negroes
have left for the West. For downright
diabolism, this emigration scheme is not
exeeled by anything which has transpired
10 the history Of Northern fanaticism in
its dealings with the negro race in this
country. That it is attempted undsr the
plea Of beaevolence towards an ignorant
race, "a only additional evidence of its uu-
parallelcd wickedness. Northern fanati-
cism assumed, from the beginning, to be its
s'brothers keeper" his conscience keeper,
at leasi, and this pestilent intermeddling
with the business Of others has been the |
fruitful source Of the larger proportion of
al the sectional troubles which have af
aicisd this country since the first agitation
on account of the negro race. And the
end is not set.