The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-11-25

Editors FlorsdiaH A friend in Indians has
sent ME the Chicago Inter Ocean of October 25T
con tanning I'VE articles marked from the tens OF
TWO eminent cergymen for me 10 read and re-
fleet over. The firs is from the pen of Rev DR.
Hatfield from which ! make the follow ing *
tract
How about The 100000 of colored people
of the South vino robbed of their riafias As
voters? They are not permitted Ia votesat sl
or only allowed to vote IN such manner o. will
perpe uate the rebel influence in the Emitted
States. This solid South has gained thirty}seven
electoral votes by the Acknowledgement af the
colored man. BY driving him from the palas. or
cheating him Out of his vote, two un3Hcpn-
structed rebels in the South have as mucts infiu-
ence IN the election OF President AS fse Re
publlcans IN Maine OF Massachusetts. Tne mo-
mentous question now before the people Isl Are
we TO have Republican Government, in whlch
tne majority rule. or Is the minority TO rule by
force and fraud -
1t seems to me that this is very extSaofdi-
nary declaration for q minister of the gospel to
make ON the eve of Presidential ClectiOns For
over ten years l have been n resident df this
county, where there is large coiured pessua
ton, and / have yet TO a single "ceIured
man driven from the polls or cheated out he his
vote" He goes TO the polls and votes for whom
ne pleases, just Is the white man does Per
haps my observation is not as good as the mans
VINO never witnessed an election in the Suuth
or never was here during political cambaign
From my standpoint cannot see but whit ihr
elections are as fairly and honestly conettrr4ed
here as they are North, and that one man vote
counts just as much another. Every candid
man cannot help but admit that the facts and
figures will not bear the gentleman out ia his
statement. =,
If the condition of the colored voter is ;such
as the gentleman describes or SAWS il is who is
Responsible for ii? Is il not the Republican
party?
The colored editor of the New York btla6e
L. Thomas Fortune, III his book BLACK
and White" page 1876 saws: "Thes Re
publican party has degenerated into isno-
ole scramble inr place and power III has
forgotten the principles for which Sunnher
contended, and tor which Lincoln died. Ia De
trayed the cause for which Douglass Garrison
and others labOred in the blind policy it pursaed
in reconstructing the rebellious States > =
For these things l do not deem il binding anon
colored men further 10 suppsrt Inc Republican
party when other more advantageous affiliations
can be formed" He further saws a cs,loreC man
~can De an independent progressive Dhmo-
crat." BY becoming such he has some extent
been the means OF making the South Democratic.
The 2d article is from the pen of Rev Sam
uel Ives Curtis. He says: The solid Southg1p-
day, that denies the negro the use of the ballot
is no, Republican" Then he goes ON and gives
the poor Southerners bark from the tombs he.
cause they are going tn exercise their rights rs
voters and help elect Cleveland He tells at,Out
the war, &c Well the war cannot now nj least
be helped, and hat is the use OF abusing tksspse
who espoused the Southern cause Ii does no
goOd THE shareholders and secessiouisss
as he calls them, exs; no. onger The czisses
that led the war have long ceased to exist md
the people nf the South as earnestly desire gssoi
government and wise and wholesome laws ms
the people of the North We are one peetlle
again, living IN peace and harmony and the ~
Confederate soldier and the ex-Cniun soltSe-
march together arm-n-arm a. brOihers Ner
minister of the Gospel 10 strive to stir ND in
feelings between them. it seems to me at essst
that he is deserving the holy cause and espo,,sinr
that of the devil.
Montesquleu says the priest takes thetnsn
from the cradle and accompanies him ~ the
Tomb his mission, SO to speak, is q spifihlal
one and not political. He should teach mhu To
love his fellow man and not hate him. HaifisIa
and Ives have not done SD and, therefore. they
are unworthy ministers and should not be CADET
Reverend" IT
Another "saintly soul" in the same par,ar
closes his articles by saying mark the urrxair.
ton, nat Of the Democratic-idiutic wind kind
hut a prediction that will be fulfilled: Inrasss
G. Blaine is the next President of these INT
ted States. He will carry every State nusfh
of Mason and Dixou's line by mnjorities which
will astolish his most ardent admirers and p,ssre
a break in the solid South. How do knovp
1t is in the air; there is an understandable sounA-
thing which seems TO be the foreTunner 0f everts
which men feel, but for which they cannot Il,
count" This /" white tie individual should h
called the Whangdoodie False Prophet" I! 4
III C. RTpprsy4