The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-18
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Evidence is multiplying that the col
ored people in many parts of the South
are gravftating toward the Democratic
party. The belief, once firmly held,
that the colored people of the South
would always remember, and be true
to, the party of emancipation is grad
ually fading away. And not a few of
those who once looked upon the soli-
darity of the ex-slaves as the hope of the
Union, now regard their dispersal as a
necessity of politics.
In very large part of the South they
are incapable of asserting themselves.
Though they are the majority, they are
easily overcome. Thus their number
adds nothing to the local or National
strength of the Republican party. So
long as they remain unit the color line
will be drawn before them, and the ex-
perience of years teaches that where
that line is drawn in the South there is
brute force in it stronger than numer-
ical majorities.
Against it the Republican party has
been unable to prevail The color line,
reinforced by fraud and violence, has
been too strong for it.
Thousands of white voters in the
South have for years been restive under
Democratic rule, and they have been
eager to break away from it, but they
have been unequal to the courage Of
defying their white neighbors, and this
question, twill you uhavenegroesruleu usp''
has been sufficient, backed by threats of
social ostracism, to compel them into
support of a party which they heartily
detest. The Macon (Ga-) Telegraph
and Messenger, Democratic, admits, in
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colored majorities and office-holding by
colored men, has been 1.-THE one great,
grand motive for Democratic unity in
the South" And this paper in a recent
issue declares that s'The one grand mo-
tive for Democratic unity in the South
is being dissolved, and it is too true that
the party would go to pieces at once
| if the Republican party would eliminate
the negro from its policy.
The reason for the dissolution of this
Democratic motive is not withheld by
the Messenger. 1t says: " The Demo.
cratic party has been ready to take any
| side of any question, or both, in differ.
ent localities, as the chances for sue
cess, in the Judgment of its leaders, In
dicated;" and it adds: ga considerable
| per centage of the Democratic party in
| the South are ready to strike hands with
the negro, upon his terms, for the con-
troll of local affairs"
This disposition on the part of Dem
cratic leaders, to accept and use the
colored vote, and in some cases to re-
ward it with minor offices to colored
men, has done more to obliterate the
color line and the excuse for draw
ing it than all things else COM
bined. This obliteration is going stead
lily forward. And as Democrats, for
selfish purposes, to control local affairs,
call the colored vote to their aid, they
lose the power of controlling the white
vote, which hitherto they have marched
to the polls as poor-house managers
have marched the paupers under their
control.
The Macon Messenger, In voice of
admonition, tells its Democratic readers
that "The truth is dawning upon many
of the best men of the South that the
Republican party has sound domestic
and industrial policy, while the Dem
ocrats have no settled convictions on
internal policy" "The party which
develops policy worthy of support viii
control the vote"
Again the Messenger saws:
eff forced to choose between Repub-
icanism, that comprehends, protects
and fosters the business interests of the
country, and supercilious Democracy,
there can be no doubt as to results in
the election next year, or four, eight,
twelve, sixteen or twenty years after
ward.
cit is better to stop and consider the
ground we shall have to fight over than
rush to the conclusion that success is
certain. If the Democracy succeeds in
electing a President next year, the
country must be convinced that its in
terests can be intrusted to its hands,
The Macon Messenger is not the soli-
tary Southern witness against the
Democratic party.
Others of its ablest journals are sound
ing the same notes of warning. They
are Democratic as against colered rule.
They are against the Democratic party
in everything else. And now that the
Democratic partyi is shaking hands with
the colored vote, the bonds which bound
the tongues of these intelligent journals
are loosened, and they speak the truth
boldly. This sentiment is not confined
to Georgia. In North Carolina, Mary
land and Delaware there is great deal
of it, daily growing stronger in feeling
and openness.
That it win be strong enough to de-
feat the Democratic party in Georgia we
do not believe, though it is by no means
impossible. But that it will be strong
enough to secure Republican victories
in Delaware and North Carolina we do
believe. Democratic greed to control
local affairs is strangling colorophobia,
and when that is dead the power of the
Democratic party in the South is for
ever broken.-Detroi Post and Tribune.
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