The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1885-10-03
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It has always been understood by |
everybody of ordinary intelligence that
love of the Republican party for ne
groes was purely hypocritical. Its love
for the Southron negro was merely one
form of hatred for the Southron whites.
It was hypocricy in pretending an
affection for q race that 1t detested ana
for a people against whom it entertain
ed social prejudices far more exclusive
than those which existed among South
erners. 1t was hypocricy in the pre-
tense of maintaining an appearance OF
self-goyernment in the Southern
States when the reality was to be alien
government, dictated by the Repubii-
can party and executed by means OF an
irresponsible, but perfectly reliable
vote. The Southern negro wasa hsppy
accident in helping on the sham of
magnanimity and political sincerity.
We have been patiently but conf
dentIy awaiting the time when the
mask should be thrown off and the in
born Puritan instinct fully revealed.
Whenever the negro race shall ma IL
self disfrauchised or pei maps deported
to Africa, it will probably see its quon.
dam Republican sponsor at the head
of the movement. This propensity
has at last commenced TO develope It's
self Enthusiastically. New York sets the
Republican fashion, and here is what
it says in the platform of that party
just held at Saratoga:
"5. That while we cordially endorse
the dying sentiment of the great sol
dier and citizen, Ulysses S. Grant, IN
favor of harmony and good feeling
between the North and South we in
sist that an end shall be put to:criminai
evasion of equal civil and political
rights promised by the Constitution TO
every freeman. The right of suffrage
must be maintained free and untram-
meled, if that right is unlawfully de-
MED to any part of the people OF any
state, its representation in Congress anu
the Electoral College should be reduced.
The South can we'll afford to smile at
this little additional piece Of malice.
Here is conclave of sore-heaGed poll
| ticans pretending to endorse the dying
sentiments of one whose influence they
dare not as yet defy, and in the same
breath ignoring, their true Significance
aud annulling all their practical valuee
It is the first gun in a new crusad-
against the South for daring to be soil
div Democratic. Cancel negro suffrage
and the South has just SO much less O
!. tatf1 representatff11- in Congress ana o
weight in the election 81 Fresloe'l. ).
: This is in no wise a bitter remnant
=, war prejudice; it is simply mean a
: sire orsectional preponderance ana q
sanctimonious robbery for which IN
T. would furnish an opportunity
80 AS we say, the South may sml
I'd placidly at such impotent wrath ~
Southern States are satisfied that se'
ionalism and prejudice are rapidly d
,g appearing at the North that feelings
al mutual respect and amity are gaina
az az the ascendent among the better class
n. of both sections that it is principa
n disappointed politicians and Gus,
Office. holder who manage to keep
Err something of the clamor.
The South has nothing to fear IN
Ar worldly point of view. ProsPerltysa
all wealth always rate high in the bot
NE NE of social and political standing. A
mt mate that makes one acre here eq
to two of the same quality In N
'hc York, a soil of universal fertility,
. ter-ways every where, unexpected
sTT almost incredible mineral wealth.
veloping on every.hand and crops
control the finances OF the worid-ti
are natural advantages that will I'M;
bring down in contrition and aduia'
r., before the mighty presence of South
lin prosperity all such as they who
5. pout and bully and threaten IN
ms Saratoga Republican platform.