National Republican., 1883-11-30

Ihero seem to be no doubt tnat Mr hahuail
will also get four votes from Alabama, and
that the capture of numerous other southern
votes is inevitable. THE REPUBLICAN,, being
tho organ Of Mr. Randall, makes this an
nouncemcnt with pleasure.
The Negro MS Man and rs mn Animal.
Whonovor negro complains Of tho short
comings of the republican party in its deal
ings with his race tho democratic press at
once assumes that negro to be a democrat in
embryo. This is stupid mistake. Because
tho negro sometimes ropnos at the neglect Of
his friends IL does not follow that he is about
to embrace his onomic5. Our morning con-
temporary alludes to recent criticisms Of the
republican party by tho colored sumner in
dependents" of Boston, os proof that "the
northern heart" is callous to tho recent mas
sacro and other atrocities in Virginia and
elsewhere. 1t takes courage from this aud do
clarcs that "the republican leaders can no
longer hope to iutimidatc them (tho colored
peoplo) with cock -and-bull stories of demo-
cratic oppression or coax them with lying
promises or herd them like cattlo at tho
polls" 1t also remarks that "tho intel
ligent colorod citizen has as correct au under
standing of the occasional raco collisions in
the south MS any other intelligent citizen"
These profound observations move us to the
following reply.
The democratic party has been called the
organized crimo and ignorance of tho coun-
try, but 1t is also the organized despotism of
the country. 1t believes this to be an exclu-
sively white mans government, but in its
vocabulary the phrase White man means demo-
crat only, and the term "nggcr" includes all
whhe men who do not train in its ranks.
Tho chief cornerstone of its creed is that
IL is the white race and that as such
IL has divine right TO rule, whether in
the bludgeon, and the dagger us u remedy OF
last resort to maintain political mastery 1t
believed slavery was right, and it hates the
nation for having abolished it. 1t believes
negroes to be less than human, and hates the
nation for having recognized their rights. 1t
knows its own ferocity toward the negro as %
citizen, and therefore counts on no voluntary
negro votes. 1t grovels at tho feet of the
southern bourbon and loads his shotgun on
aIpptinn do hut 10 rnol,y IN tln Il
after that he had none.
The republican party has no price to pay,
no promises to make, and no stories to tell to
any negro in this country in order to dis
suade him from aflilating with the demo-
cratic party, or from aiding it by Indirect
means The percentage of colored men who
can be bought with money or driven from
what they know to be right because its ad-
vocacy does not yield them Office is no larger
is substantially solid against the party of
negro hate.
But, says our neighbor "the occa-
sional race collisions" are understood by
the colored people. OF course they
are. Every negro in America knows all
about it, Ho knows that tho democrats of
the south swear that. he shall neither bc o
man nor n citizen. He knows that they do
not hate him for himself rs the beast of bur-
trary, glad to receive him on the same terms
of familiarity they accord to their horses
and their dogs. lie can be with them .fdrOr-
tic animal, but he cannot, By their consent, be a
man. The United States cast out the devil of
slavery from every black man, but could not
cast it out from among tho main
body of the whites. Tho freedom
which every black man received
when slavery went out of him represents the
pose to shoot the United States part of the Rcgrt
out Of him, for that is the part that assert!
political power. They propose to degrade
him and leave him illiteratc, squalid, and
helpless. They do not intend that he shall
have the light Of intelligence to spur his am
bition. They will gush and slobber over him
as u cherished object of affection il
he will but be dog in thei
kennel or o pig in their straw. If against
these beastly conditions he rebels, and at
tempts to exercise the sovereign rights guar
anteed to him by the constitution of hi
country he must face uparmcd the shotgu
and pistol of his and the nations incorrgibl
and implacablo foe. All! woll enough h
understands "tho occasional raco collisions il
the SOUTH" Tho people of the north do no
generally understand them. They are SO i'm
mersed in business that they hear its hun
only. But business can only thrive whil
order is assured, and the state of anarch,
which now exists in tho south is q monaco t
tho nations peace.
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