Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
People of the Capital Anxious to
Vote-The Impediment, the Fear
Of Negro Majority.
An Experimental Voluntary Election to
be Had in November-A Simple
ard Secure Ballot Box.
The Senegambians Sing Low When
Congress Sits The War Reve-
nues in Times of Peace.
spocIal cOrrespOndence OF the easette.

| Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-The people
of the capital grow FESTIVE under this
autocracy of the triumvirate and yet
they know not what to do. They
would gladly vote, but the number of
negroes in Washington grows daily.
1.-THE triumvirate be deposed and the
people suffered to select their rulers,
Ham will outvote Shem and Japhet,
and the terrible black who defies even
now the decree of the triumvirs and
flaunts his Blaine and Logan
banner, suspended across Pennsylva-
mia avenue, in the faces of the despots,
will be the city's supreme master.
Decency and civilization shudder,
and the venerable Clapp starts back
appalled,. He is property holder in
Washington. When congress is not
in session these Republican leaders do
pirate Justify about the wrong done the
blacks and poor whites. 1t is a con-
gressional crime. But when congress
sits Clapp and his white Republican
coadjutOrs are silent. If the negroes
and vagrant mob and cranks of the
city seek an audience through the
local Republican prees or through
the committees on the
District of Columbia they
are rebuffed, denied access to the
mighty law-givers or sent away I'M
needed. But they are never told that
Father Clapp and the Republican
whites and press of Washington alb
hor the proposition TO subject the capt.
tai to the sway of the negro multitude.
THE INTOLERABLE DESPOTIsAf.
And if the negro dominion in Wash
ingtOn is not to be borne, will some
one tell why it should be tolerated in
Louisiana or Texas? The negroes of
the capital, moreover, are the choicest
OF the negro race in America. They
are not tobacco, rice, sugar and cotton
field blacks. They are of the class
strangers encounter along railways, in
hotels ana barber shops of the South,
and If such as these must not
vote in Washington, why should
the original plantation darby
lie suffered to make Southern elections
in many wide districts, worse than
farcical. Justice and right and
equality are national, not local. II
the congress and Father Clapp may
, guard the people of the District Of
NOAnblpio akaAISb Nht evil
, of negro suffrage, why may not Whar-
ton and Harrison counties, the Sene-
gambia of Texas, in like manner be
guarded against ruin2 Then why rob
the whole community OF the right to
vote in order to exclude the blacks?
s What cowardice is this impelling law
: givers to rob whites of the highest
I privileges of citizenship simply be-
i cause blacks are unworthy and inca
8 pable of their proper exercise?
e But let no Northern gentleman be-
come greatly exasperated if, at any
time, Southern individuals do
incapable blacks of the South
IS what is and has been done for them
d here by Father Clapp aud series OF
). Republican administrators.
\. A PRIVATE OPINION.
h My private opinion is that the law
l. of self.defence, as 1t affects mans
life, home and property, applies in this
case. it is question of life or death.
Negro mastery Is death, and congress
and Father Clapp are only cowardly
:, and knavish in methods of protecting
~ themselves to which they resort. In
70 order to paralyze the negro, the white
man should not be robbed of his liber.
:, ties and these white people should
~ rebel rather than remain the disfran.
10 chised slaves and serfs of these presi.
dent-lppolnted despots. Their very
existence and presence are insults tC
men born free.
BUT 1T is GOOD HAMILTON DOCTRINE?
" But then the Republican the
Or ory of American governme nj
is is that evolved from the philosophy Of
is Hamilton and the common people
N must be governed. They are unworthy
r, and incapable of self government
le This falsely called Republican narty
goes even further. Not only are the
people, in their eyes, unworthy and
incapable of self government, but, tC
prove 1t and make "a despotism neces
sary, the negro was sought to be set
n over the white race. Ben Butler
e Thad Stevens, Conklipg and Blaine
IL knew that such condition of society
a. and government would result in thu
er revolt of Southern white men an 1 In
10 the necessary intervention of federal
p armies, and thus in the obliteration O.
E states. And this would be the much
hoped for final establishment
of the empire. But The
negroes, evan where mos hume Qua,
are bought or misled or brlbed and the
1t whites properly. and even neces sarily
lie are the governing force. They hav,
Is the same right to Re free from African
Or dominion in Texas and the same righI
lie to do peaceful wrongs to achieve thu
ts purpose as Father Clapp and the con
ID gress.
10 SENEGAMBIAN SUPREMACY.
SO But further than this do these Re
se publican Hamiltonian philosopher
le go. They not only disfranchise ne
d groes by law and make an awful out
cry if wedo 1t by money or cumming
or by. counting, but Hoar and Ed
munds, in their places in the senate
congratulate New England that it is
r free from the presence of these negroes
Of They tell the blacks, we want your
ID Votes but not your presence, while We
+ Of the South, as good as they, must no
II only tolerate the pegroesf presence
st but their mastery. Every New Eng