Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-03
For Co1ored Voters to Think of.

| From the Hartford Couran- An attempt is being made, in quiet way | to bribe or wheedle colored electors into voting at the approaching election for Thom- as M Waller. If there are those of them, | anywhere in Connecticut, who are base enough to sell their votes, the Democratic party is i'll the market as a purchaser. Col ored citizens not accessible to the pocket book argument are told that they should vote for MT Waller because he ordered the colored soldiers of the State into camp!
 It is not the older colored electors-the men whose recollections of Connecticut poli- tics and politicians go back twenty or thirty or forty years-that are approached. The Democratic workers know that any time spent in endeayoring to coax them into the Democratic camp would be time wasted. Accordingly they are addressing themselves to the younger colored men, born since the war. With these they fancy they may have chance of success.
 Our impression is that they mistaken. We do not think so poorly of the intelligence or of the spirit of these young citizens as to believe that they will, after reflection, pre- sent their ballots to the Democratic party. They may not remember the war days and the days befofe the war, but they have read of them, and have heard their fathers talk about them. They know to which party they owe their citizenship and equality before the law. They know, too-though not as the older men do with the unforgetting knowledge of personal remembranee-what the other party was saying and doing in those years when the destiny of their race ill this country was in process of settlement.
 Thomas NJ Waller is a Democrat. He glories in the name and in the fact. He has been active and prominent in the councils of his party for & long time past. No eolored citizen can vote for him without at the same time voting for the Democratic party. Be- fore doing that the colored citizen had better pause, reflect and remember.
 Twenty-one years ago the Democratic party of Connecticut in State convention said of Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation pro clamation:
 Regardless of the great lessons of the past the national executive is pandering to the in sane fanaticism of the abolition faction, has ventured upon a system of public policy Emancipation which, if successfully inaugu rated, would disgrace our country in the eyes of the civilized world, and carry lust, rapine and murder into every household of the slave-holding States.
 Twenty years ago the Democratic party of Connecticut in State convention said:
 The entire perversion by the abolition Re publican party of the object of the present o total destruction of all State equality is infamous waste of the nations blood and treasure.
 Nineteen. years ago the Democratic party of Connecticut in State convention said
 The recent so-called amendment to the constitution of the United States (the Four teenth amendment) is covert attempt to overthrow and destroy the great Democratic idea of States rights and was in our judS- ment designed as another step to consolida- ted power and as an insuperable obstacle to any peaceable adjustment of the difficulties now existing between the North and the South, and as an eternal barrier to the old Union.
 Eighteen years ago the Democratic party of Connecticut in State convention said:
 Any and all attempts to force upon the people of any State any class as citizens thereof, and as entitled to the right of suf- frage, are violations of the spirit and letter of the constitution and an infringement of the rights of the States.
 Seventeen years ago the Democratic party of Connecticut in State convention accused the Republican party of having "enslaved the white man in order to give the ballot to the negro" It also declared itself Opposed to forcing negro suffrage on other States or to establishing it in our own," and assigned as it's reason that 'Ethe introduction of this inferior element would only lead to demoral- ization." And thirteen years ago this same Connecticut Democracy said of tue Fifteenth amendment: "Its forced and fraudulent adoption at the point of the bayonet will be the deadliest blow ever struck at the sover- eighty of the States and the liberties of the people," And Thomas M. Waller approved all these utterances and supported the candl- dates put in nomination by these conven- tions.
 At present he is supporting Grover Cleve- land and Thomas A. Hendricks. He helped
 
 largely due to him that Mir. Hendricks name is on the ticket Cleveland has no record beyond stated and stolid voting with the Democratic party. But Thomas A. Hendricks, whom MT. Waller made candidate and is trying to make Vice President of the United States, has a record, and we invite colored voters to examine it. They will find that in the Senate he steadily voted against the Re publican legislation in their behalf. They will find that on February 10th, 1864, MT. Hendricks said in that body:
 The Senator (Charles Snmner) says that abolitionism is to do it's work, and one of it's works is to bring about social equality. l presume he means also political equality. I think that we will not consent very readily to that in the State of Indiana. We are not content that equality, social and political, of the black race shall be forced upon
 A few days later Charles Sumner offered an amendment to pending bill-''that in  be no exclusion of any witness on account of color'' MT. Walters candidate for the Vice Presidency was on hand, and here is an ex- tract from his speech:
 You may say here that the negro is the equal of the white man, but you cannot make him such. You may say that he should be trusted as the white man is trusted, but you cannot give him the qualities that inspire confidence among white men toward each other Negroes may be forced upon society in all it's relations as the equals of the white race, but that legislation will not make them equals For one do not believe they are our equals. do not believe they are our equals in the army, in the courts or anywhere else; and for that reason voted against the bill proposing that they should. have the same pay in the army as white men. Their servi- ces are not worth so much
 We reprint in another column the con eluding paragraphs of 8 most timely and able article in the Norwich Bulletin, and we bespeak for them the attentive reading of every colored voter. A vote for Thom- as M. Waller is vote against Henry 5. Harrison-the author of the personal fiber ty bill which put stop to negro hunting on the soil of Connecticut. The casting of such a vote by any Connecticut man with ne7 gro blood in his veins will stamp the voter as' an ingrate.