Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-06
SHAKE HEARTILY, BOYS D

ultra Democratic organ, the Atlanta
 Constitution, and has carved a cartoon
 rom the spirit of one of its edItorials
 It IS entitled "One of the First Fruits of
 the Victory" and shows Cleveland
 s'anolng on tine cApi ol steps saying to
 negro and a typical Southerrer.
 Shake heartily, boys" But by a re-
 msrkable instance of unconscious obe-
 dlenee to truth. Mr. Mast has shown in
 the attitude and demearor of the peero
 htsi!ancy, dis:rust that Is far from A
 desire to heartily grasp the hopd too
 confidently stuck out.
 The picture and it's quotations make
 up moral interrcgatory, with gooI
 many subordinate questions What has
 MT. Cleveland eve: done to insure the regard O; the black .can? Wha: act of ms, eilher as a private individual or A pubic officer. has given the Southern negro the assurance that he is friendly to them and their interests? Why should they put faith in Linn? And
 what guaranty have they that the clasp of the banl to which he recommends them will no; prove a pa: a' ' zing grip?
 The quoted para graph from the Con stltulJn has number of senten .es that need explanation and require better corroboration than M,. Nast's pencil and knife. "The negro will find that his best friend is the Southern Demo crat." When did thls reconstructed sentiment come into play? When was this virtue born, and how did the shot, gun and the tissue ballot bear such holy fruit? President Cleveland is his friend" In what has 1t appeared that this friendship can be so positively pro- claimed? Every right that they have as freemen and citizens will be iealously protected by the white men of the South." With jealousy trulyl But in the South, even when aided by the Re publican rule, what rights have the ne groes had as freemen and citizens that they dared assert? In what way have they been protected by the Southern white man?
 "In their schools, at the ballot-bo1es, everywhere they have their full rights" | Then what became of the negro vote in | the last election? Where are the thou sands of ballots they had right to cast, and which, if cast by virtue of that right, would have shivered the Solid | South in twain? Where are these negro | schools in the South that are so beauti- | fully protected, when even as far north | as Nashville, Tn B community wher | Northern sentiment has tempered South | ern asperity, the Fisk University was regarded as a curse to the soil and a | poison to society? By what right does Georgia, that gloats and Ievels in a Democratic supremacy, and feels too secure in its strength to turn its lazy brawn to violence, preach the gospel of tolerance in the face of Virginia fraud, Louisiana rsPine, and Mississippi slaughter?
 Mir. Cleveland IS right; "Shake heart | lily, boys," is the admoniiion Of the | hour, but it is not hands will shake, but | hearts. The negro Of the South has good | reason to be afraid. He has ample cause | to tremble. Experience has taught him to quake before the outstrecbed hand of | the Southern white man, and no voice from the far-away reace of the North will calm his fears and allsy his appre- hension. The honey of words Is no longer sweet to hIm, and hIs faith Tn promises has been beaten and burned | and shot from him. He may be free man and citizen If he will not strive to build himself up. He may have pro- tection if he will prostrate his neck to the heel of his Southern friend. He may cast his ballot boldly, in the full light of day, unquestioned, undisturbed, if he will write across its face the word Democracy. Indeed, we say with this Cleveland of Mir. Mast, "'Shske heartily, boys the old South is upon you Inter-OcesD.