Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-10-21
A Fla grantiy False PreteRSe.

A FiagrantIy False Pretense.
The only pretense under color of which
Republican party of Charles county en-
deavor to keep the colored voters com
bined AS a race in blind subserviency tC
their personal interests, is that the color
ed voters ought to feel bound 10y debt OF
gratitude to support The Republican par
ty, which they claim, gave the colored vo'
tiers their freedom and the right of fran
chise. This pretense is fagrantly and
outrageously false. Conceding for oul
present purpose THAI the co ored man
ought to feel grateful 20 the Republican
party, by what shadow OF right can these
men IN Charles county claim that grateful
recognition How do they pretend to
identify themselves with the Republican
party, or claim its support! Where were
our Charles county Republicans, when the
Republican party was battling fer the E.
Emancipation and enfrapchisement OF the
colorcd popuiatisn? Dses any of them
ass, TT hat he was in sympathy with these
measures when they were being carried
out? Let US look for moment at the
men whose names are on the Republican
ticket this fall, and see wha' claim any
of themcan bring forth for grateful sup
port of The colored voters. Take them as
they come VIII DR.. Lancaster claim that
lie favored or assisted in giving to the
colored people their freedom and right to
yoe2 We think not Will Nessrs Samuel
G Lancaster, w. Dec Mitchell and 5. L
Mudd make any such claim! Mr.. Mudd
was too young to take any part, but were
not both the Others in the confederate
ranks, battling against the Republican
party in lis war for freedom? Next we
come to Mr.. L. NJ. Switzerland. Does he
make any such calm Does three years
of valiant fighting against the armies of
the Union, during which he Stayed per-
haps hundreds of good Republicans con-
of colored voters? Next we come 10 Mr..
Gee l. Chappelear, one of the sturdiest
veterans of the confederate army, who
fought long and arduously against the
Union forces Does lie make any such
claim? To his credit it must be said he
does not. He frankly tells the managers
IN Al, I, l., l.
with this faction for the sake of Office
The remaining four persons on the ticket
we know not of Some of them also may
have fought the bait cs of the lost cause,
but whether they did or not We will
vouch for the fact thai not one ever thought
of claiming identity with the Republican
parry until they found that the enfran-
chised freedmen could be deceived into
political slavery to any white men in our
county who weuld cal themselves Repnb-
licans Are the colored voters OF Charles
county blind enough to be deceived by
any such mean and fimsy pretense2 Will
they con niue longer 10 oppose their white
employers and only friends, under color
of any such cheay and false deception p
Will they be foolish or obstinate enough
10 blindly and slavishly serve few white
men, who can lay no claim to Republican
ism under pretense of supper ing the Re
publican party3 Assuredly not. Look,
ia her singular that the ticket intelligent
and respectable people OF the county are
going to vote for, there is not a single ex
confederate to be found Colored men vote
that ticke', and thereby gain that good
will and kind feeling of your employers
and those who are able 10 help you, with
out which you can never be either happy
or prosperous. Stand no longer in the
way of your own advancement, but act
from this ime forth like the freemen that
you are and will remain, not like slaces.