The daily gazette., 1880-12-22
A Negro Demanded For the Cab
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From the Mem chs Appeal.


eral OF ours, but we do not hesitate 10
say that, according to the teachings of
white Republicans, the demand of the
colored voIers is logical, just and proper.
The German vote in the United States
cast for the Republicans bears no coni-
parison to the strength of the colored
vote, yet Carl Shurx was placed in
Hayas's cabinet to conelliate the German
Republicans. For fifteen years the col
ored people have been made hewers Of
wood aud drawers of wafer for white
Republicans, who send forth swarms uf
unscrupulous adventures 10 organize
the negroes into a political force, 10
march that force in solid phalaux upon
the bAllot,box, and thus TO obtain COLI
troll Of the offices, which are divided out
among the whites. The tactics to which
the Radicals resort in order TO secure the
negro vote are familiar to all. They
| send forth their emissaIies to excite the
blacks and infiatne their minds against
the southern whites. They palm them
selves of upon the negroes as the espe-
cial friends Of the colored man, and rep
resent the southern whites as being his
deadliest enemies; they urge the ne
groes to combine against the whites !;
they exert themselves TO the utmost to
foment disturbances, 10 antagonize the
two races, and 10 bring about collision
in every manner possible. And When
their efforts In this direction have borne
their natural fruit, and violence does en-
sue, they then proceed 10 fire the north
ern heart by q prolonged howl over so
called ontrages Of which they were the
| primal cause. The success of the Radl
| cal party requires that the northern
masses shall be lashed into fierce and
| viHdictiVe mood toward the southern
| whites Hatred OF the south Is with
them an absolute political necessity
| Hatred Of the south must be encouraged
and developed at all times and on all oc-
| casions. II must be instiled aud IN.
fused into the public mind and through
every avenue and every channel. The
| pulpit, the press and the forum cousti-
tute trio OF forces that must be yoked
together In order to traduce, vilify and
| misrepresent the south. And all this
comes not SO much from natural mallg
nIty as from natural cupidity. Denun-
citation of the south is paying business.
1t is the passport by which the aspiring
| politician hopes TO obtain promotion
1t is the means by which multitudes OF
office-hold rs aud Office seekers expect
TO make their livelihood.
Denupciation of the south is reduced
to a science, aud it has become one Of
the applied sciences. 1t is = regular
occupation, handed down from father
to son and generations of northern
dsmagogues yet unborn viii be taught
from their very cradles to lisp ont
anathemas against southern whites as
primary step in the art OF earning
their daily bread. The colored PEOPLE
know all this yet they cling to the
Republican party, and take malicious
delight in hurling themselves against
their white employers, to whom they
flee for advice and aid III the houI OF
| trouble. In various parts of the coun.
: try the colored people demand that one
Of their race be placed in the cabinet
and they have suggested Bruce, o.
Mississippi, or Elliott, of South Caro-
J lima, as the man. The Blade, news
a paper published at Athens, Georgia
o aud edited by colored man of great
ability, says:
1--WE have often alluded to the fac
. that every nationality, save the negro
y that live in America and can vote, i
Is sought and conferred with as to wha
:. the complexion of cabinets should be
- 1t hapens now that the negro has be
gun to reason from cause and eff CT
and it now becomes necessary that h
he be sought. 1t was not the Germa
"a vote in the late contest that was til
, avoirdupois element in the selection G
y President. 1t was the negro. He
ID was that held the scale of our govern
re ment in his hands, and watched tn
al millions who were quivering with fea
for the result. He it was that decide
;! for the Republican party. Now wi
* that party give US Mr.. Elliott or Sen;
le tor Bruce as cabinet ofhcers W
p trust so.
The colored vote saved the Repub
h- can party from defeat, and it Is in pc
ld feet accord with the logical teaching
I'd Of the white Republicans that IL
n, blacks insist upon a recognition
their right to furnish one of their ow
" race as cabinet officer. In the la
an Presidential election the negro vo
nd was lot only an important factor, bl
it literally preserved the Republican
from utter wreck. There is, then, {
ia the part Of the negro, a claim, not o
u" ly for power, but for salvage. SEM
" tor Bruce is quadroou, and, we thin
les an honest and respectable man, as W,
nv as an able one. Elliott is slack mi
- of remarkable talents, but his person
ie- and political reputation is not abo
re- reproaeh. The objection TO Bruce
sry that he is more of white man thar
Is negro. The objection to Elliott
that he has more talent than honest
III We do not see, from the stalwart Ora
lite standpoint, how the moral ohjecti
-, need hold agar nst Elliott. He is not
al bad as some of the cabinet officers
We pointed by Grant. and he had grsa
!, temptation to commit monstrosit
in a community that had been surrend
en- ed by the white Republicans of
-.r north TO every infamy. Elliot is
angel Of glory, In spite of his dark sk
,ver compared with many of the SHIN
lights of the white Republican leads
and VI ne be sparned on ACCOUNT of
not immortality. 1t will be by men nes
ayes moral as himself, and the pretext of I
|. II soual untitness will be q mere sub
| or fuge to cover up the true reason, VIII
!, Is an objection TO the color of his O.
plexion. Let the ooiored pee
'uAe push this matter to Its legitimate con
not sion. 1t will do them no harm and 1
ain. do q world OF good. They know Il