The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
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DELUDED NEGROES.
Reference has been made to the fact
that the colored people have been made
to believe the success of democracy in
the late federal election means evil
results for them, that such success is
to lead to their reinstatement. OF
course there are great many negroes
who know that this is entirely untrue,
and yet some of the most intelligent
are credited with leading the more
ignorant to believe what is utterly
false. Not only have the more ignor-
ant and suspicious been deceived
by the more intelligent neg
roes, but what is believed
has been steadily injected into
the minds of many negroes for many
years-ever since the war, in fact-by
a white element that has been the
curse Of the south as well as the bad
counselor of the negro. Ignorant
negroes have so long been misadvlsed
and misled that they are incapable of
emancipating themselves from a men,
tai bondage, that has degraded in
stead of elevated them. They have
been taught to believe in re-enslave-
ment by the same elements that He'd
them, after the war, to believe every
negro was to have forty acres
and a mule and the old master
and members of his family as serv-
ants. These deluded people are to be
pittied, and should be treated with the
greatest forbearance. They should be
taught, if it be possible to induce
them to believe their best friends,
that they have been deceived. The
election of Mr.. Cleveland is of no
more significance to one race than to
the other. 10 both it indicates honest
and economical government, and that
ought to be desired as much by the
negro as by the white man. To no
extent will the rights of any
man, woman or child of the
negro race be effected by a
change in federal administration.
The negroes Of Texas have seen how
the democratic state government, for
eleven years, has protected their rights
as citizens; how they have, in the
distribution of public money, given
them as much as the whites, while
taxation has mainly obtained it from
the whites; how the negro children
have enjoyed the same rights in pub
lie education; how their property
has been protected even more carefully
than that OF the whites, who have
known best how to protect them
selves. In the entire south the two
races have everything at stake
equally, as far as citizenship goes, and
their relations ought to be full of
mutual COZ fidence. There are recip-
rocal obligations and ties and duties
which are never to be obscured for
any length of time. In a few days
the election excitement will pass
away, when everything will move on
as smoothly and serenely as before.
All parties should be of good cheer.
Cleveland is an honest man, and has
been elected by a great outburst of
patriotism and he will not make a
partisan or sectional, but an upright
administration, of which the whole
country may be proud.
INDICATIONS regarding the COM
plexion of the next congress grow bet
ter. 1t now looks as though the house
of representatives will consist of 189
democrats and 1876 republicans, thus
giving the democrats a majority of SO
in that body. The senate of the forty
ninth congress will stand 30 democrats
to Al republicans, the republicans
gaining one in California and one in
Oregon, and losing one in Illinois.
The republicans will lose Malone IN
1887, and perhaps other senators. There
is is no doubt that the democrats will
get full control of the government in
1887.
THE democratic party has great luck
with its bachelors. The Commercial
Advertiser says: eff Mr.. Cleveland
shall prove to be elected, it will be one
of the curiosities of presidential his
tory that the democrats went out of
power with the first bachelor ever
elected president, and come back to
power with the second. In the quar-
ter of century that lies between they
have but once come near to success,
and that was with a bachelor-Mr
Tilden-for their candidate"
THE Philadelphia Times, of Nov
ember IL, uttered itself assuringly as
/ follows:
honest count and return in New York
can rest assured that dishonest
count, however desperately attempted,
will not succeed. There are two very
forcible reasons why it won't succeed
first, because it can't be made; and
second, because men dare not make it
if they could. Therefore, stay at
home; attend to your business; be pa
tient and keep cool.
81 BELIEVED have been elected pres
ident, and nothing but the grossest
fraud can keep me out of it, and that
we viii not permit. "-Grover Cleve-
land. Had Tilden talked this way in
1876 he would have been made presi-
dent.
The best sm oking tobacco is-LittIe
Joker"