The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-28
An AfricanIzed Republic.


The colored brother is rapidly gain
ing ground on this continent as against
the blue-eyed Saxon. The negro is in
creasing and multiplying more rapidly
than the American; and while this
country daaws immigration from every
Nation and people and tribe on earth,
the negro in the United States is as
numerous as all the foreign born peo-
pie combined. There is no country on
earth however small that does not con-
tribute by emigration from its borders
to our population, but the negro, estab-
lished on the soil not wholly with his
own consent, equals them all in num-
bers and exceeds them all in in
crease. The foreign-bor population
in the United States is shown By the
recent census to be 6,677, $50. The col
ored population ofthe country is $751;
Isl. Our Republican brethren are
accustomed to assume that the foreign
born voter is ignorant; but all the
foreign-born voters combined do not
equal in number the negro voters.
Another interesting fact to the stu
dent of our future is that the increase
of the negro population in this country
is in excess of our foreign immigration.
Another interesting fact, we repeat, is
that the increase in the negro popula-
ton is far greater than that OF the
white population of the country. In
fact, the percentage of growth of the
negro in the United States is shown by
the census of 1880 to be greater than
that of the white native population and
OF foreign immigration combined. II
this percentage of increase should be
maintained for long series of years,
the negro would possess the land, own
the Government, engineerthe Republic.
To-day the negro in the North holds
the Republic in his right hand. The
Republican party maintains ascendency
only by the Northern negro vote. A
few years ago Government in the South
was Africanized; to-day the Govern
ment of the Republic is Africanized. 1t
was the negro in the North that gave
this Presidency TO the Republican party.
Let us look at the negro population Of
some of the Northern States. The col
ored population OF Connecticut is
1900; of Illinois, $4,000; of Indiana,
SO, 900; of Ohio, $4,000; of Pennsylva-
MIA, $500; of Massachusetts,, Is, 200; of
Michigan, $1,000; of New Jersey.
$4,000; of New York, $4,000. 1t is not
necessary to say that some OF these
States areclose political States. Neither
is it necessary to say that the negro is
an industrious voter. Still less is it
necessary to say that the negro in the
North is versatile, movable voter In
these estimates, however, we shall not
include the migratory tendencies of the
negro.
There are nearly 1900 colored voters
in Connecticut; the majority for Gar
field in that State last November was
2,568. There are about $4,000 negro
voters in Illinois, and the majority for
Garfield in that State was but 1900.
But the important fact is found in In
diana. This was regarded as the bat
tle-ground of the Presidential election.
Negroes had been colonized in that
State with partisan industry. They had
meandered across the Ohio TO Indiana
for the old flag and little appropria-
| ton. But without this colored immi-
grafton there were in Indiana, as the
census shows, nearly ten thousand col
4
| field in Indiana was but 6.642. If Indi-
ana decided the Presidential election,
who shall say that the Republic is moi
already Africanized?
With nearly ten thousand negro
votes in New jersey the Democrats
were still able to carry the State. With
10000 colorcd votes in New York not
including the Repub.
lican majority was still but twenty
thousand. There are twenty thousand
colored votes in Pennsylvania, and
Garfield's majority in that State last
November was 1926. What of oul
own StateP There are not far from
twenty thousand colored voters in this
State when there is no election pend
ing. There are thousands more thar
that number in Ohio on election day
This is great Republican State, and
Garfield's majority in the State last
| November was 25, 1855, number not
more than equal. probably not equal
to the number of negro votes honestly
and dishonesty cast in bis favor.
The Republican policy is to how
against the German and the Irishman
and to forbid privileges to naturalizec
citizens, and at the same time to turr
loose the negro on the Republic. Ma
hone and the negro have similar ant
dissimilar relations to the Republican
party. Malone and he whom he USED
to call the "nigger" stand shoulder tt
shoulder; but the Republican party
owns the negro and Malone owns The
Republican party. Malone the Rebel
the Traitor, the Repudiator, the Slave
master who formerly only owned tn,
negro, has now added the United State,
Senate to his possessions. But this i
aside. The important fact which stare
the country in the face, as the remorse
less figures which we have given show
is not that the Republic. if the presen
ratio of growth of population shall TO
many years increase, will be African
lied, but that the Republic is African
lied already. 1t is already negro Re
public, made such. not by the voice o