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


day, says lit is manifest BY dis
patches from the South that the cleo
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 nodbelieve.that this fear
ls so general or so genuine as some 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 population,
but say that it is scarcely perceptible
in the cities, where the tetter edu-
Gated colored men discourage it. To
mcet men in the North the ground
Iessness 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 avery serious matter.
and the leading white citissns IN many
places are taking energetic steps to
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 to
his country and advantage to his own
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 junior
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 a 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
spate whatever panic exists among
the colored people, whom they 30
much profess to lcve, if they only
would disinterestedly devote as many
days to telling them the truth-that
the election of Governor Cleveland
threatens them with no peril.
Every Northern Republican kno ows
that all the civil and political rights
Of colored people over which the
Federal executive has any duty and
power of guardianship will be guard
by Mr.. Cleveland as sacre lily as
they possibly could be by Mr.. Blaine.
Every Northern Republican knows
also that any alarm among the colored
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 ez'
c,usively the Republican National
Committee left Mr. Blaine'e canvass
there. II the Republicans reliance
in the South had not been upon the
ignorance of colored voters; if the
Republican National Committee had
made genuine canvass throughout
the Southern States instead of mere
ly plotting to capture two or three
of them by corruption-in that event
a sirnilar canvass would have beer
forced upon the Southern Democrats
and colored people, whether in the
city or in the country, would have
been so we'll instructed with regard
to the zeal condition Of politics thai
the present apprehensions among
them must. have become impossible