The daily gazette., 1880-07-28
THIRD EDITION
Republican Missionaries.

A FLORIDA DEMOCRAT ASKS THAT
THEY COME SOUTH AND SAVE
THE STATE FROM UNMEhlrED
sLANDER.
To THE EDITOR OF THE n. 7.
HERALD Your editorial in the
Herald of July q, relative to send
ING republican political missionaries
south during the present Presi-
Dental campaign, is the ablest aru- -
Gle on that question that mas ye5
been printed. / am a democrat, ana
was a rebel. l reside and DO pusl-
ness in jacksonville, Fla, the re-
publican stronghold Of the State-a
douhtful State, so-called. L would
be delighted to see true, manly,
honorable, representative men OF
the republican party in the Northern
StatesFmen who would report cor
rectly and truthfully, without par
tiality, all the facts-come among us
for the purpose of political discus
sion indicated in your editorial. L
can safely say the same for very
large majority of the democrats In
our county and State. Yes, SIR,
send them by all mears, and publish
their observations and honest re-
ports fully. We ask no more than
that the simple truth be told TO the
country, just as it exists to-day mas
existed for years gone by and will
exist throughout this campaign:
Your people are grossly imposed
,,,,on in reTard TO the state of affairs
in the South. n,,
Ninety.fiye per cent. of all the White
League. Kuklux bulldozing business
in the South is purely the fruit OF
imagination. The other tive per cent.
possibly has foundation caused by
drunken, irresponsible persons. such
characters are to be found in your
best regulated communities IN any
Northern State yet the citizens oi
that entire community are not branded
indiscriminately with the ignomlny OF
these wretches. But even Generals
Garfield and Arthur thus brand the
South and certainly believe what tney
saw. Were they truly informed, as
none but truthful Northern Republl-
cans, as you suggest, can do, they
would not express themselves SO uh-
Justly about people whose suherlhgs
and humiliations should have amply
atoned for their sins against loyalty.
coLoRED MEN ENJOYING THEIR RIGHTS
Such Northern Republican mission
aries, sir, can learn 10 their surprise
that our citizens enjoy their rights,
both politically and civilly and social
equality to far greater degree thah
white people in any Northern State
who labor and are poor, on The same
level with our poor ignorant cololed
people and they will find, also, that
these social equality privileges are ex-
tended to them to far greater degree
by Southern Democrats than by any
other class of our people. True, slr,
they will find us trying to persuade
these simple children Of nature TO cas'
their political lot with ours, and thai
our efforts are meeting with some sue
cess, and that this success is due ever
more to Republican bad faith witt
these colored voters than to our per
suasion. They also will find tina
thousands of Northern men all owe
the State who have emigrated ther
bllCe Uuo Wal uhtOlh plhlSlhS A'S
publicans, with their faces set an
resolutions fixed tc do their all 70
their party, are now in the Democrats
ranks, and more are constantly com
ing over, driven there, sir, by the un
principled wirepullers and unscrupu
lous conduct in divers Ways of til,
controlling spirits of their own party
and to-day they are more bitter agains
Republican rule than any NATIVE
Democrats.
Do not take my word for 1t. Call foi
their names and antecedeuts and you
can have them more and faster than you
would have space to publish. Northern
Republicans cannot understand this
The simple reason is, sir, that few men
in Florida believe that the public offices
and the management OF the party in the
Slate are their natural heritage, and they
so manipulate that men of spotless char
acter stand no show and virtually have
no vote in their party. This condition
of affairs does not exist for want IT good
men in the Republican party III FLORIDA
to put up for candidates, nut because the
manipulators do not want them 10 have
part nor lot III the offices, and always
succeed in excluding them. Had the
Republicans headed their state uCket
with the name Of J. q. Greedy, Of the
Florida Savings Bank and selected other
names that would have commanded pro-
portisnate respect for the minor offices,
the State might be really doubtful
would say, IN conclusion, that NOrth-
ern Republican missionaries Will ind
the colored Republicans holding then
meetings and PROFESSIONS unmolested
and more frequently than any such dem
onstrations are made by Democrats, and
that all the Republican tickets put In u {
ballot box in November will be counted
and canvassed for that party. Send the
missionaries down, and save us from fur
ther unmerited SANDER.
A FLORIDA DEMOCRAT,