The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-04-01
COLORED REPUBLICANS AND THE
PRESIDENT.
IFrom Mobile Rcgister.i

From Mobile Rcgister.i
\ colored Republican politician feels
that he amounts to nothing unless he
has Il grievance. The sum and sub
stance of his grievance generally
amounts to this-that he has not got Il
position which will enable him to live
comfortably with very little work to
do, and give him time to devote his
powerful intellect to affairs of state.
The colored Republican is extremely
inconsistent. He claims that no dis
tinction should be made between his
race and other citizens of the country,
yet he is always presenting the claims
of his race rs a separate portion of the
body polite. He holds that no in
vidious distinction should be made
against a man because his skin is black,
yet he claims that he should be APP
pointed to Office simply for that reason.
In fact the colored Republican politi-
clan is, generally speaking, an un1niti-
gated nuisance, and bores his friends
more effectually than he Injuries his
opponents
We claim that we are not deficient
in that spirit Of generosity which leads
a man to feel for the sufferings of one
to whom he has been opposed. When
colored Republican delegations waited
on President Garfield at Mentor before
his Inauguration cur heart bled for him,
for we knew what he suffered. HUI
man nature, except that of editors, can
only stand a certain amount of boring,
and then it succumbs. Garfield must
have come very near succumbing at the
period of his political career. But, al
| though inaugurated, his troubles are
not vet over. The villain-that is to
say, the colored Republican, still pur-
sues him. For example, Il convention
of the co,ored Republicans of Maryland
was to have been held in Baltimore,
Thursday, its object being TO secure a
larger share of the Federal patronage
in the State. The chief mover in the
affair is reported 10 have said:
"NIr. Garfield himself is the man
who suggested the Convention we are
now about to hold. While l was at
Chicago last year as an alternate to Mr..
Gary, oneof the delegates from this
State, I met Mr.. Garfield, who was
then advocating the nomination of Sec
rotary Sherman for the Presidency. l
stated our grievances to him then, and
he replied that if Sherman got the
nomination and election he would see
us righted. Cali you have to do said
he, sis to hold a State Convention, give
expression to your grievances and
present them to the President If
such were his views then I don't
SEQ any reason why they should
change, now, that he himself is the
President"
These remarks indicate a good deal
of verttancy on the part of the no doubt
distinguished gentleman who made
them. Gen. Garfield advocating the
nomination of John Sherman, and
| (iorfsniI Iiffnrpnt
people. The President devoted Il large
part Of his inaugural address to the ne
gro what more should he want? He
will still be permitted to vote the Re
publican ticket, and his wrongs will
be dilated on whenever Il campaign
occurs. Why should he he so migrate
full to those who have freed him, etc,
as to wish to deprive any of them of
Office: This is one way to look ut
this question, but the colored Republic
can politician may take q very differ
ent view. lie may take the position
that if his interests and those of his
race arc so dear to the Republican
party, Il batch of fat offices would be
an acceptable evidence of that fact.
In the mean time he will go on cal
| ling conventions and drawing up
petitions. He will likewise hang
around the White House, if he can
raise the funds to take him to Wash
ington, and bore the President on
every occasion that offers, until that
perturbed tunctionary will have seri
Gus doubts whether the members of
the ku-kluN Khan, if all that he has
heard about them is true, were not
real bencftctors of the human race.