Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-01
1.-THE COLORED VOTE"
We find the following commuilca-
ton in the Lexington Register OF this

We find the following commuilca-
ton in the Lexington Register of this
week:
HIGGlNsvILLE NO., Oct IS. 1881.
EDITOR REGIsTEK:-In the issue OF the fost'
of this city, of week before last, there a3peare"
an article unier the caption, 1.-The tepuoi''a"
Party and the Negro Vote The article was
signed ''Jr,'' but who the author ID II Is I'M
possible to say, rs he very irgeniouSiy anu
cowardly conceals his identity. and the only IN
formation that the Post gives con crning the au-
thor is that he is prominent
The article has occasioned no little excite
ment, and has embarrassed the republicans
greatly, as it has rendered it necessary for them
to explain to the colored men. who we're most
unjuslly assailed in that article. that the brutal
sentiments expressed are not the sentiments OF
the great mass of republicans.
The article in question was one Of the greatest
out, ages known In the annals Off ,urnalisIn. 1t
was unwise. unrepressntatlve. ialse-absolute-
w. unuualifedIy false 1t does not represent
the feelings OF republicans, and no one should
be held re. ponsIble for 1t but the authorand the
paper IN which it fist appeared. The republic
cans do not 1. ell toward the colorcd Men as that
Article claims. 1t is true that the republicans
did not put u colored man on our ticket, but the
reason is plain to all sensible men of that race.
Republicans are not unwilling TO divide the Of
fees with the colored people, and Ms proof OF
this, ] cite the fact OF how Fred Douglass. John
X. Lynch and many others have been exalted
and pushed forward; hut they see the utter folly
of putin. a coIored man on the ticket IN this
county. Colored men should not forget with what
feelings of contempt and hatred they are Sui
regarded by their old masters, and that the fact
of II colored nan being on the ticket would ex-
cite the most bitter and determined opposition
to the whole ticket. To put it plainly. it Is not
possible ut this time to elect II colOred man IN
this county; indeed it will he hard enough to
elect n white republican. Let the colored men
lie patent till the republicans once get in The as
cendancy, and then they will See that their
claims Will he amply rewarded. When the re-
publicans get In a position where they can help
the color.d men they will do it. Mark that
down! The POSTS CORES pendent sought to
create u quarrel in our ranks. and had he sue
ceeded it would have been very much like dis
putting over chickens not yet h atched.
The thing for US to do now is to clusr up our
ranks like men and poll IL big vote forBlaiue and
Logan and Warner. r. T..
So is it always. Promises, promises,
promises! That is all that the republic
can party gives the negro. Promises
and empty honors, such as it gave to
John r. Lynch. True, there are a few
exceptions, as i'll the case of Douglass
and Bruce, but they are so few i'll com
parison with the great services of the
negroes to the republican party that
they only serve to prove the rule
Without the negro vote there would be
no republican party. Yet they higgle
about giving the least office to a repre-
! sentative of the race, who i'll education
and natural intelligence is superior to
a majority of the convention which re-
pudiated HIM, and to a majority OF the
men whom that convention placed up
on the county ticket. The colored vote
is largely republican. So much so that
the democratic party is under no obi
CATION to it in the country at large. But
wherever it does cooperate with the
democrats, as in many parts of the
+; south, it is recognized and given a
share of the offices. Wade Hampton,
Of South Carolina, was the first MAI III
the United States to advocate the ell
! reimbursement of the negro. Even
| Senator Morton, as true a friend as the
race ever had, doubted the wisdom Of
the measure, when first suggested by
, Hampton. To-day when Hampton
speaks in South Carolina his audience:
are composed much more than half o
colored people, hundreds of colore'
women, even, turning out to his meet
ings to do him honor. He was a forme
master of slaves, the inhcritor of a sys'
TEN put upon the country by 1anket
slave carriers, the principal slave por
of the country being Providence, Rhod'
Island. Neither Wade Hampton, no
any other intelligent southern man
would restore African slavery it ut
could. 1t is dead, and well dead. Thu
responsibilities of it were great to a
conscientious owners of slaves-mor'
]burdensomc than the profits did bene'
fit. And the old master is the negro
best friend. 1t is to him that he apple
for money to bury his dead when lit
is himself in poverty, for the physl
CLANS aid, and, not to speak Of LAM
and labor, in every emergency of hi
life. And this while he goes to the poll
year after year to vote against the ma
terial interests of his white neighbo
and friend. The bowling demagogue
who want his vote, but at the sam
time declare him to be a beggar, an
purchasable, like cattle in the shambles
are only his pretended friends. 1t i
easily demonstrab1e, as Mr.. Bush say
III his letter, that more democrats thai
republicans wore the blue and tough
for the maintenance of the Union. Th
war was not fought to free the slave
neither indeed could it have been S
fought successfully. The freeing Of tn
slave was only incident to the wal
Neither party fought the wal on eithe
side. On the southern side the OIL
wings were as strong sccessionists a
the old democrats. On the norther
side the democrats were as strongly fo
: the Union as were the republicans. !
majority of the rank and file of til
/, Union army were democrats. and two
thirds of the federal major-genera
J were democrats. In L%incoln's secOn
election his platform and the appeal
of his friends we're that there were Il
party lines, and so he received thor
sands of democratic votes. In his fir
, election he only had about one-third
+ the popular vote. Appeals to dca
I prejudices will not always keep the II
gro within the republican party, and
he grows in intelligence and indepeI
: dencc lie will array himself on eth
u side as his judgment upon the que
+ tons of Capitalization and polite
~ economy shall suggest. When he do
half rs much for the democratic par
rs he las done for the republican par
he will be very sure TO get twice
much recognition. The thing to
% now, cOlorcd voter of Lafayette cou
~, is TO show your Independence, "a
&c vote against Warner, for local CO