The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-02
a Northern View Of the Souti.er},
Question.

The Springfield Repud1ican, one Of
tho iaircst of Northern journals, and
this is not saying much for it about
this timc, has long article on the
political status OF the black man IN the
South. After dcprccating the failure
OF the Radical National Committee to
institute thorough canvass in the
Southern States, from The very begin
ming, 1t intimates that tho efforts now
making will accomplish nothing. We
give long extract rs wc deem it
worthy Of pcrusal. 1t says:
Tho national committee should re-
cognize now that they arc entering
into the field, that they not only have
to tNcc the disrcputablc record of car
pct-Dng governments, with all their
souandcliny rccklcssncss and serious
scandals, but also changed attitude in
large part Of the colorcd vote, which
they have been accustomed to lump
into the Republican column, as entire
ly their own, if unintimidatcd. Prcsi-
dent Hayes Southern policy, noble as
II was III its inception and beneficial in
its operation, has been one Of the un-
recoghiZcd influences which have
weakened the hold Of the party upon
the Southern negro and prepared him
to vote tho Democratic ticket in in
creasing numbers. The colorcd BROTH
or was coddlcd and pcttcd until he
acquired an exaggerated idea Of the
Importance Of his uncducated man
hood and dared to go to all lengths, in
South Carolina especially, in draining
if
ing III his case, utmcrely taking an un-
paid balance accumulated by The lone
bondage OF slavery. The Solid North
hardly realizes the INDIGNATION which
this era Of public plumber and negro
domination aroused among Southern
whites. 1t burned itself into their
hearts with n fiery heat which swept
the negro out Of power in every
Southern State, and largely out Of this
intense passion spralg the white
Lacquer and kuklux klan. But though
overthroWn, tho negro still retained
his confidence in the ability Of the Re
publican party to rcinstatc him in pow
CT, in spite Of the bullloziny and bnl .
lot-box frauds by which his majoritics
were suppressed. The negro takes
naturally to the patcrnai idea, and his
confidence was shattered and his hope
blasted when the Hayes administration
developed its policy Of leaving the
Southern States to govern themselves
without the aid of Federal bayoncts.
The name Republican had been made
q by-Word and reproach throughout
the South, and rather than face the
work Of his own hands alone, the
black man almost went out of politics
altogether. His gradual rc-appcar-
ance flnds him more disposed to yield
~ the Inducements of one sort and
another rendered by tho whites to
whom nc was formerly accustomed, as
slave, to look for direction. advice
and help. The old planter is less
brutal now that the negroes own weak
ness and white bulldozn" have awnd
him into sense Of his in.rrior;.v in
dealing with educated brain u.d rani-
tai, and the Republican, party has ssj'r-
thing more to do DIAN e. srr,iv -. -
ter salt and call It's -Ir.p 10 gather
them back into the Old tuiN. The So,
OOO of them who voted III inc rccrll
Georgia election were divided between
Regular and Independent Democrats,
and they arc finding that their old
masters are not such awful political
monsters as the stulwarts delight tn
picture. TO be sure il is the Rcprh!j-
can party and not President iiuvcs
who has deserted them, but they arc
not accustomed to fine distinctions
and do not recognize the difference.
In the words Of [. ID. Shadd, q leading
colorcd man in Mississippi, and form
crly speaker Of tho House Of Repre-