Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-15
IN the election i'll France, Sunday the
gained 100 seats.
CoLORED MEN IN THE SOUTH.
why They Cannot be Democrats


The day may come when the colored
people of the South can become Demo
Gratis, but as yet that hour has not arrived.
When the Democracy shall say to the
colored voter, You are man and en-
titled to the rights of other men before
the law, then the negro can afford to join
in with them. While it is true that the
colored men of the South fought against
the thought during the war of rising up
against his master by striking down help
less women and children, yet these same
men when they came home and embraced
their beloved turned upon the protectors
of the helpless women and children and
shoot down the wives and murder their
children and outrage the virtue of their
daughters, and say what we may their
name is still Democracy. Within the
last four weeks the outrages committed
right here in Georgia are enough to make
any colored Democrat in Ohio or Indiana
blush, While we believe every man has
a right to vote and act for himself, vet
he has no right to sell into slavery all his
fellow men; no right to help into power
the party that fought against the abolition
of slavery, and after it was secured
fought against the recognition of freedom;
that man that does it is a hireling, and
not worthy of the respect of bis fellow
men,
During the last four weeks the Demo
cracy, according to the Savannah News
and the Atlanta Constitution, have form
ed a vigilance committee in Banks and
other counties and are chasing colored
people all around the different commu-
mites as soon as their crops are laid by,
and making them leave the country, thus
depriving them Of their years labor.
They have visited seve al families and
given them severe floggings.
Just below Harmony Grove a poor col
ored woman was beaten by mob because
her cotton was not laid by, and little
later a colored boy was shot in the cheek
and beaten because he kept ''too much
FUSS" few days afterward a poor s.
year old child was ravished near East
man, and the perpetrator was told to go
free; in the same week Anderson Math-
ews, at Athens, was shot down by the
Chief of Police because he was supposed
to have stolen a COW; the same week
cOlored man at Gainesville was shot
down and buried without inquest: the
next week after a man near East Point
was arrested and carried by the Judge of
the court into the woods and has never
been heard from; this week poor woman
and a little boy were shot down in the
streets of Atlanta and not a thing has
been done. All this was done by Demo
Gratis.
Now we want our readers in Ohio and
other Western States and Northern States
to ask themselves what is their duty
Buckle on your armour, and prepare for
the conflict of "a Cesar is now filling
the Golfers of Rome with the wealth Of
the Carthaginans, and it is the duty of
cOiored men to see that none but good
Republicans or Liberals are selected to
manaye the affairs of state.
There will come a time when we can
divide, but while bourbonism stalks
through the land as it does there can be
no division. Discretion and patriotism
must be the watchword. Men to the
front for good government. Organize
through the land once more for the party
of liberty.-Atlanta (Ga.) T5ndicator.