Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-28
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The "negro problem forcibly illus
traies the truth Of the saying. lie
that laughs last laughs best" Meta
pborically speaking, the Republican
party after it gave the negro the bal
lot INDUCED in q political csn-can.
which continued for years. Its merri-
meDt was fast, furious, and extrayagant,
and its eorruption-battened sides shook
differentiation. Itbelieved that through
the negro it had secured perpetual
power, and it INDUCED in one continu-
Gus guffaw. However, the end has
about come; one by one the lights
have gone out. The negro problem
comes. like the ghost Of vanished revel-
ry, to plague Rcpublicanism, and the
time for the Democratic South to laugh
has arrived. The boomerang that the Re-
publican leaders in their vindictiveness
and hatred hurled at the South is re-
turning upon them with more force than
that with which it was driven. Hardly
a day passes now that we do not pick
up some Republican paper that gives
evidence OF this. The more radical of
our contemporaries still discuss the
negro problem and advance theories as to
how the negro is to be managed 10 future
elections, but from all these discussions
wells up the implication that the Re-
publican party has lost its grip upon
the negro. Hardly day passes that
we do not see in some northern paper
some such confession as that we recent
ly quoted from the Brockton (Mass.)
Eagle, the substance Of which is that
negro suffrage is failure. In the
southern papers, however, there is but
one reply to this. In respect of
southern sentiment and southern
ideas in regard to the negro problem
the Charlotte IN. CO. Observer makes
some especially good points. Comment
ing upon what it terms the marked
change Of sentiment in the North on the !
subject Of negro suffrage and the mani
fest disappointment Of the originators
Of the negro Suffrage scheme, the o.
serer says: at NEGRO suffragel
is for them 1.-THE Republicans, how
ever. fixed fact and the
of the negro is as
well established now as is his
emancipation. 1t will remain an I'M
pleasant Renaissance to those who
originally cried aloud for it, but il is no
longer q terror to the South, for the
negro Of the future, having lost interest
N the Republican party, will be found
roting with the white people Of the
SOUTH" Our Charlotte contemporary
llso declares that negro suffrage, in
stead of being means Of Gripping and
holding the South in subsection, has
become in the end means Of strength
ming her power, and in conclusion
ays;
- There is Of brains enough among the
rh;te l. eople Of the South to manage
hat que, ton, with even less trouble
han they I'D in the past, when they
,ansged il sn, 'cessfully, notwithstand-
* they had arr. we'd against them not
My the Republican party Of the South,
ut tie Federal Govef. 'ment' which Tor
time did not refuse the aid OF Its bay
nets to help to keep the "epuoilcan
.rty in the ascendancy, D. " the IN
iligence and brain-power Of the south
n white men prevailed over Gun ''ng
ID force, and what seemed TO be @ a
ne threatened evil became rather
essing in disguise. The negro voter y
mere 10 stay"
And the Observer knows whereof ii ,
eaks. In no State in the South have =
e facts it sets forth been more clearly
monstrated than they have been in I
orth Carolina. The white people Of I
orth Carolina have, by educating the
groes, by taking an interest in their :
ritual welfare, and by encouraging /
em in habits Of industry, made them @
power against republicanism. 1t is J
II necessary to 20 further than the
st general election in that State in
der TO prove this. The change
r the better that has taken place !
North Carolina politics within /,
.e last few years amounts to revolu- ,
on, and what is true Of that State is
ne OF most Of the other southern ]
tstes. Yes, the negro voter is here to !
lay, and, owing in no small degree to
nat fact, the South will continue to
lugh best for some time to come. In !
hort. II may be said that, as far as the !
outh is concerned, the negro problem
q its relation TO politics is approaching
olution with . rspidity that is highly
satisfactory.
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