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| violence, and all that might follow.
t Carter Harrison personally is OF no greater
concern in this contest than Lawler or Mike
Mcdonald; but Carter Harrison, as Mayor o1
the city urging tho ignorant members OF his
party to riot and bloodshed, is a disgrace
to the city Of which he is Mayor, and, because
of his official position, more responsible fol
the crime committed at his official instiga;
ton.
HOW TO SEND THE NEGROES NORTH.
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, on more than one
occasion during the campaign, has warned
the Irish voters that their suffrages for Han
cock and English, should those two candi-
dates be successful, will inevitably tend to
cause an increased negro exodus to the
North, and it once more reiterates its warn
ing, which IrIshmen should heed it they have
any care for their own interests. Just as
sure as the election Of Gen. Garfield will bet
ter the political and social condition OF the
negroes III the South, and Influence them to
remain there, just so sure the election of
Hancock and the ascendency Of the South in
power will be the signal for a fresh outbreak
OF persecution and a renewal Of the exodus
furor, which has already sent 81, 600 negroes
to Kansas and other localities in the North
to escape the same. brutality aud oppression
Which are sending the Irish over the water
to this country. Everything is ripe
In the South for such an exodus,
and no thoughtful 1ristman can blame
them for leaving. Their condition in
the South is almost exactly the same as
that Of the oppressed Irish tenants. They
are both the victims of cruel landlords. They
are both laboring men. Their numbers III
ireland and in the South are about the same.
Their motive in leaving the land Of their
birth is the same. The tenants in Ireland are
lai,dless and all that they produce is
stripped from them by the merciless land
lords. The negroes in the South are equally
landless and all tfat they can raise is taken
from them by the Democratic owners Of the
soil. The Irish tenants are ground down
into the dust with odious and malicious land
laws. The negroes are ground down still
further than the Irish, and consequently the
necessity to leave is even greater than that
which drives thousands of Irish to this coun-
try. They are charged exorbitant rents.
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upon the most trivial pretenses and punished
with the severest penalties of the law. They
are bulldozed and cheated out Of their rights
They are not allowed to vote. Their churches
and their sclool-houses are burned. They
are not permitted to educate their children.
They are prevented from sitting on juries.
They have been reduced III SOME Southern
States to condition which in nearly every
respect is as unjust and cruel as that Of
slavery.
If Hancock should be elected, this perse-
cution would recommence with fresh bitter
ness. These black men know this, and they
are nnly waiting the result Of this election to
decide whether they shall remain in the
South or leave it. AS THE TRIBUNE once
before said: "There Is not a black man or
woman OIL the remotest plantation in the
South but understands, feels, and is con-
WINGED that the election OF Hancock and En- |
gllsh, and the return Of the Democratic !
Confederate party to power, will mean the !
practical reinstatement of the colored race; !
tha: 1t will mean the extinction OF even their |
present nominal political rights, and with |
these will perish also their civil rights, and !
and controlling their labor"
1t is morally certain that il the Democratic J
party is successful on Tuesday, and that if !
the Confcderates return to power through |
the help Of the votes Of 1rishmen, who con- !
stitute the bulk of the Democratic party in !
the North, one to two millions of negroes will |
start for the North In the next four years to
escape the persecution and additional bur-
deus that will be imposed upon them. They |
are aborers, and naturally enough they will !
pour into the large cities, where labor is
more in dem and now than in the country.
They are competent to do all kinds
Of manual labor, such as teaming,
hauling, grain-trinmlng, coalheaving,
digging, hod-carrying, packing, butcher
NJ, and the rough work in building,
md their women are very useful and skill
:ul as servants, cooks, and laundry workers.
They can do all this kind Of labor cheaper
han the Irish, and they will underbil them
md crovtl them out. Nor can the Irish conf
,lain. They have the right to come, and moth
ng can stop them If they persist III coming.
chey have certainly as good right to come
Sor til as the Irish have to come here from
Ireland, because they are native-born citl-
ems, and they will not only come to the
Sorth, but they will come to stay.
II the Irish, therefore, want them to come
nd want Il labor competition that will crowd
hem hard, they can secure this by helping
o elect Hancock and English. II they want
his black labor, on the other hand, to stay
gherc it is. they can effect this by voting for
fairfield and Arthur. If they vote for the
republican ticket, they vote for their own in
erests. II they vote the Democratic ticket,
hey vote against their own interests It
ocs not require high degree OF intelli-
cnce to see it.
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AN UNIDENTIFIED 0FF ClAL.
Carter II. Harrison is Mayor of the City of
,hicugo. He was elected to that position by
he votes of Republicans as well rs Demo-
rats, owing to the circumstances Of the con-