St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-07-24
THE NORTH AND THE NEGRO.

bypocrite who now sits III the
Presidents seat ascertained that he
was defeated, he piously raised his
ewes towards Heaven and declared
he cared nothing for his defeat, but
he ''pitieu the poor negro of the
South" In this he simply repeated
the stock in trade of the Republican
party. For many years such biath-
erskites as Hayes have tried to con-
vince themselves and the country
that the great mission of tine Repub-
lican party was to protect tue blacks
from the heathenish fury of the
Southern people, who were all their
sworn enemies. At every election
their press and forum have held up
the outrages ON the blacks of the
South as reasons why the Repub-
lican party should continue to pos
sess the patronage and Offices of the
government. This is the situation
now, aud the Chicago Inter- Ocean
one of the ablest of the stalwart
organs, announces that if Hancock
is elected the North will have two
millions of blacks to provide for
intending to convey the idea that
two millions of homeless, penniless
negroes, will leave the South for the
North in case Hancock is elected.
The exodus OF the negro from the
South to the Western States has
been thoroughly tried, and it has
ended, because it WAS a failure
The coIored emigrant failed to find
the expected sympathy and aid in
the way of rations that he hoped
for from his Northern political al
lies, who need his vote only when
he is in the South. The Repub-
licans defeated Grant ut Chicago,
and he was the only link that in
any way bound the Southern negro
to the Republican party, anil to-day
that party is powerless to aid or
control the Southern blacks in any
political or legal way, The truth !
is that their lives. property, liberty !
a. Education are entirely and ex-
c1usi1eiy the haadsyfftttho South,
ern Democrats, rebels" bull !
dozers, or whatever the Northern |
Republicans may choose to call |
them, and nothing short of actual
revolution cal change either the |
laws OF the situation on this sub
Iect. The laws of the country give
the negro the right to vote, and he
is on a political level with the white
man. He is out of Office and always
will be, because these rights will
hereafter be exercised by the black
man and the white man alike, when
they both occupy the same social
relations and position. In the iron
mines of Michigan, the miners who
work for wages, live in the houses
OF their employers, and who own
no property, are in many localities
largely i'll the majority, but they do
not assume to elect local officers of
their own class, to levy and collect
taxes from their employers, etc. If
they did it would require the army
of the United States to maintain
them in power, as it did in the
South, when the cane field negro
was elevated to the offices of the
State, and which must be the case
again If the same element gets into
political power, no matter by what +,
To maintain either white
men who own no property and work
for wages. or cocoa-nut headed
negroes of the same class in Office
against the wishes and interests of ,
their employers. and in opposition I
to the social and moral forces of an {
Intelligent minority, requires the .
bayonets of the Federal govern 5
ment. In the South these barbaric i
Instruments are M lonoer ov.;,ohl.. 4