The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-09-18
THE COLORED RACE.
A Sensible Letter From a Sensi-
BILE Man.
Addressing His 1 eOple rs 80 Their
Course.
Evansville Journal

Evansville Journal.
The courier by its Incorporate zeal and
unwarranted persecution of a much abused
race is steadily infaming, with its predjuiced
and proscriptive articles, the reckless hot
heads of its party; who are encouraged to
set at defiance all law and order and begin
a reign of violence that would do much
damage to our city The law-abiding citi-
zens will censure more severely the instiga-
tors than the doors Of any such deeds.
The negro is here. And few days ago
were the jewels of the Democratic patty.
When we wanted to go, your hunters of men
speedily brought us back.
You brought us here. We cleared your
forests; reclaimed your morrasses; kept in
elegant and luxurious idleness one half of
the county. We bring in cotton, Sl50,OOO,-
600 yearly to the wealth of the nation. We
assisted Jackson in fighting your battles ard
we have been no pensioners on your bounty,
| And we owe the Democratic party nothing
except our ignorance and low condition,
and for this that party is responsible. The
| Courier's party has no other tie of utilization
except hospitality to the negro. If he
were eliminated from politics (whicy they
would do if successfully the party would
dissolve into thin air tomorrow.
The Courier claims and so does Sigel,
that the negro has escaped one species of
slavery to become a slave to party. But
il that were so, what is called our present
slavery is heaven to that we once endured
under the Democracy. The colored man
was once Democrat and though it took
several of us to make one man, the Democ-
racy used to count as worthy of being rep
resented in Congress. We admit that the
party has bought us. In dollars and cents
the war cost So, lS9, 929, 90S, and reckoning
1000 900 slaves, men, women and children,
each one cost the Republican party 81, 547.4S.
1t is our duty to pay the debt.
Though the Courier has not always been
of this opinion, it lately has iterated and re-
iterated that it wants the vote of not a sim
gle Negro. And four years ago the Couri-
er's party used to pay Negro men to walk
Democrats are piqued that the poor Negro
withstands their tears Of entreaty and the
temptation of their money?
1t is most unnatural for the colored man
now to vote anything else but the Republi-
can ticket | am one to believe that as good
men on the average are found among Demo-
Gratis as in other parties, though the good
men of the party hide their lights under a
bushel-it is the principles of the party that
are inimical to every interest of the colored
man.
The colored men remember that the
Democratic party owned them as slaves
and they think the party believes that the
principles that Lee and Jackson fought fol-
are still before the country and they were
to extend and perpetuate slavery. Thi:
party resisted his enfranchsement, and re-
fused to aid in clothing the colored man with
civil and political rights, and if in power
, would put the colored man in condition o.
vassalage next door to slavery.
Now, the Courier who does not want the
,,olored vote. Dennis Kesrny like, advises
Lis famliars should try what virtue there il
in "club," because the colored man won
vote the Democratic ticket. The "club
J bingn days are gone by agree with the
Courier that those Kentucky fellows, white
and black, should not vote except they be
long here.
And the Courier knows that its silly raw
ing about colored men being colonized here
is a cry Of "stop thief" to divert attention
from itssown doings. We remember tina
: one of their imported voters-white tool
1 serving term in Jacksonville for illega
, voting. With all the hue and cry no col
ored man has been convicted and we al
know that the Democrats have tried t,
detect one. The colored men who will at
tempt to vote in October and Novembe
D will be bona fde resident citizens ant
, despite the proposed using Of ''clubs" an'
other threatened violence, they will cas-
their ballot for the party of right and jus
: tice.
would say to the colored men, though
it is rumored that all colored voters will b
| driven with club2) from the polls-pe
. instructions of the Courier, let us be no
afraid. Let us be particularly careful tina
!, no overt or aggressive act on our part shal
bring on the conflict the Courier is endeav
oring to incite. Let US bring to justice an,
e man of our race who attempts to modest o
interfere with their professions. And
> we are imposed upon let us seek redres
: from the laws hand. And if we stay on tn
side of law and order, and if they, in spit
, of this, will persist in putting into actor
the implied instructions of the Courier, lie
t the deeds that follow be upon their owl
heads.
: But don't be afraid to vote all the same
q EDWIN +. HORN.