Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-16
AFALsz ALARM.


For the lest twenty years the Republican
politicians have been preaching TO the color
ed folks that II the Democrats came into
power they would force them back into
slavery and deprive them Of their rights
and happiness; and by this false misrepre-
sentation they have always succeeded in
holding the colored vote and soaring them
into supporting continually the Republican
party. This country il free for all and the
colored will find that if Mr.. Cleveland Is
President of the United Slater for the next
four years, and the Govnrnment passes into
the hands of the Democracy, they will en-
JOY the same freedom, liberty and protection
that will be enjoyed by and granted to the
white people Of the oountry.-St Joseph
Gazette.
The Republicans have not been preaching
anything Of the kind. The colored people
have learned something ia the last quarter Of
q century, and they know that the Demo-
cratic party has no power-whatever it's dis
position might be-to re-establish slavery.
The Republican party gave freedom to the
slaves, and embedded it in the constitution,
and there it will remain forever.
In the northern states the colored people
enjoy, and will continue to enjoy, sthe same
freedom, liberty and protection enjoyed by
and granted to the white people Of this
country" But this is not true of the south
ern states; has not been true for ten years
past, and never will be true as long as the
Democratic party has power to deny the
colored people their civil rights.
There has not been fair. free election in
either Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carroll
ma, Georgia, Alabama, or Florida, for more
than ten years past. The man who pretends
That tho colorod vaoonlo ~ Ioco stat n -
allowed ''the same freedom, liberty and pro-
lection enjoyed by and guaranteed to the
white people, is either an ignoramus or q
falsiier; he either does not know what every
intelligent and honest citizen of America
knows, viz: that the negroes of those states
are either not allowed to vote, or their votes
when cast, are not counted: or, knowing
this, he deliberately misrepresents plain pat
ent facts.
The Republican party emancipated and
enfranchised the slaves. II has endeavored
always, and in all places, to protect them in
the enjoyment of their civil and political
rights. The Democratic party opposed their
emancipation, opposed their eufranchise-
ment, and has, wherever it has had the pow
er to do 80, prevented them from exercising
their rights as citizens. These are facts Of
history. They are undeniable. The color
ed people are not afraid that the Democratic
party will restore them TO slavery. But
they know, and every intelligent citizen Of
America knows. that in six or eight states
of the union they are and have
been for fully dozen years past, deprived
of their civil and political rights. The
South was made, and is kept. "solid" by the
most atrocious crimes that ever disgraced
q civilized people-by ku klux klans, by as
sassination and murder and whipping, by
wholesale ballot-box stuffing and false count
ing, and by the utter destruction of the
American system of popular elections. The
man who does not know this is an ignora-
mus; the man who, knowing it, denies it and
attempts to conceal or deride the
facts is worse than an ignoramus-he is q
party to and participation in the great crime
Of the century and the great disgrace Of our
American civilization.