Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-12-04
Republican Responsibility for any
Panic Among ColOred Men.

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day, says sit is manifest by dis
patches from the South that the elec
lion of Governor Cleveland has oc
casioned fear among colored people
there of something Indefinitely terri.
BILE to happen to them in consequence,
though we do nodbslieve'that this fear
ls so general or 30 genuine as aome OF
the reports imply. The Southern
journals agree that it prevails to a
large extent among the most Ignorant
part of the colorei ru:al POI ulation,
but say that it is scarcely perceptible
IN the cities, where the ietter edu-
Gated colo-ed men discourage it. To
mcst men in the North the ground.
lessness of the alarm gives it an as
pect of absurdity. But in the South,
we are glad to see, it is recognized as
it should be, as very serious matter
and the leading white citizens IN many
places are taking energetic steps te
dispel it.
Ii the Republican politicians Of the
North have not lost the sense Of pa
triotism in their unscrupulous canvass
for Mr. Blaine, they should make
haste to volunteer help in this useful
work. Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes, for
example, could employ himself at the
present moment with great benefit te
mis- country and advantage to his OWL
reputation if he should go South and
repeat the soothing speeches he made
there in 1877. Mr.. Evarts, who by
this time should be convinced that he
is out of place among the Aldermen
could allege the propriety Of keeping
company with Mr.. Hayes for an ex
cuse to cut loose from playing junicI
counsel to Mr.. George Bliss. Mr.
frederick Douglass has accumulated
enough money in lucrative federal
Offices during the last dozen years to
afford to take vacation tor the
same good purpose of going South
We might prolong the list; but these
illustrations are enough. A dozen
or two of the Republican orators who
devoted months in spouting for Blaine
in hope Of spoils, could quickly dis
sipate whatever panic exists among
the colored people, whom they &c
much profess to lcve, if they only
would disinterestedly devote as many
days to telling them the truth-tha'
the election of Governor Cleveland
threatens them with no peril.
Every Northern Republican kne WE
that all the civil and political rights
Of colored people over which }tht
Federal executive has any duty anc
power Of guardianship will be guard
by Mr.. Cleveland as aL,re lily al
they possibly could be by Mr.. Blaine
Every Northern Republican know
also that any alarm among the colorec
people of the South arises from FALSE
impressions on that subject dissent
mated by the Republican Office hold
ers at the South, in whose hands ex
c.usively the Republican Nationa
Committee lef. Mr., Blaine's canvass
there. II the Republicans reliance
in the South had not been upon th'
ignorance of colored voters; if tht
Republican National Committee hac
made genuine canvass Throughout
the Southern States instead of mere
ly plotting to capture two or three
of them by corruptiou--in that even
a similar canvass would have beer
forced upon the Southern Democrats
and colored people. whether in the
city or in the country, would havs
been go we'll instructed with regarc
to the real condition of politics thai
the present apprehensions among
them must. have become impossible