The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-09-16

SOS man, who argues that the colored
people should vote for the Republican
candidate for town constable because
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves,
don't amount to much nowadays. And
yet these are the very kind of igno-
ramuses who possess the confidence of
and receive favors at the hands of
white Republicans as the represent
atives" of the colored race. To quote
an instance "A few years since the
first colored men to serve upon panel
of United States jurors in this State
were to be drawn. The writer was
asked to submit to the proper author
tiles, the names of a halt dozen
available, capable men. He submit
ted the names of six citizens of long
residence in the State, each possessed
ofproperty, intelligence and influence.
Each was rejected and two men were
selected Zone of whom could neither
read nor write) on the recommends
ton of county official. One, because
he had known him twenty years be-
fore as an honest hostler, and the other,
because he had heard him preach a
sermon some years before, in which
he stated, as pure religious doctrine,
that any culled person who voted
against Mr.. Hewitt, would surely go
to hell"
Now these are not the kind of Great
ures through whom the colored voter
of to day can be controlled.
The natural place of the black voter
is in the. ranks of the Republican
party. All other things being equal,
ninety nine out of every hundred
honest ones among them would rather
remain there than seek new party
affiliations. The platform of the party
and its record of public measures dur
ing the past twenty years are all right.
Treat bim half way fairly and the
black voter, wherever he is worth
having, will be and remain Repub-
lican.
And now. now is that to be done I?
BY treating him the same as the
balance of the party are treated.
Some black men sell their votes.
That is bad and it is wicked to buy
them but, if you do, consider that so
far as that individual dusky rascal is
concerned, that forfeits all claim he
may ever have had upon the party
but don't hold the race responsible for
him. Some honest black men are very
ignorant, and yet they want office
commiserate their misfortune, but let
them wait until they learn something
before they get the office. Give the
young men, who know something
and amount to something, chance {;
and the old ones who are in the same
category, your confidence. Let the
old fashioned colored leader take a
back seat and to black men who have
grit" and influence, and intelli-
gence, and executive ability, give the
same encouragement that you do to
other men that possess the same quail
tiles.
In short, let the Republican leaders
treat colored Republicans as an inte-
grail part of the party, instead of as an
inferior adjunct, and all cause of COM
plaint will be removed. The colored
Republican voters as a body will
have no grievance, but will fall into
line under the standard of the party of
Lincoln, and Sumner, and Grant, and
Douglass no longer a dissatisfied tail
to the party kite, but as part and
parcel of the organization-as Repub-
licans. -
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Trenton.
JUST RECEIVED large stock of all
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from 81 90 up, at MURPHY THE HAT
TER, SO East State street, under the
First National Bank.
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Browns Iron Bitters.
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Useful in the Family.