The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-01-24

and the intelligence in all these
States will continue to stand to-
gether for self-preservation.
Suggestions have frequently
been made that the day would
soon come when the whites of the
South would divide and cater for
the black vote. Southern men
who look beyond the limited hori-
zon of political tricksters and ira
ders shudder at the prospect
which such a course opens to view.
1t would bring into the politics of
the South that fostering eorrup-
tion, only more intensified, which
prevails in such States as Ohio,
where two great parties in cater
ing for "foreign" votes throw to
the winds all considerations of
conscience, morality and public
virtue. Virginia, which, unlike
the States of this locality, has a
large white majority, sickened un.
der its brief experience in this di-
rection, and abandoned forever, it
is to be hoped, such demoralizing
experiments. The negro, where
he develops into a politician, is
not surpassed in shrewdness by
any of his white brethren. If his
vote is given to those whom he
regards as his natural political
enemy, he will demand an equiva-
lent which cannot with safety be
given. The late State canvass in
Florida was marked by combina-
ton between independent demo.
Gratis, so-called, and the cOlored
republicans, in which the latter
were well taken care of. The
alarm begotton of this movement
solidified the whites so as to call
out an unprecedented vote, and
the Independents found them
selyes alone with their black allies.
1t is a most significant fact that,
with exceptions so few as not to
deserve mention, the most radical
republicans from the North who
come to the South to invest their
money or embark in legitimate
business pursuits, In an incredibly
short period are found actively
supporting local democratic nom.
nations, while at the same time
voting the national ticket of their
own party. They do this, as they
explain, because they deem it es-
sential for the security of their
own interests. The intense con-
cern manifested as to local self.
government is seen in the greatly
larger majorities frequently given
for local candidates than for demo.
cratic national candidates. Cleve.
lands majority in Louisiana was
10000 less than that given for the
democratic State ticket only a few
months before. Leading colored
men all regard the political situa-
ton exactly In the same light as
do the whites. Said one of them
to-day, who has a wide national
reputation and is one of the most
prominent Of his race: "The solid
South will not break up; the col.
ored republicans have no show of
securing control unless the whites
divide, and such a contingency is
improbable He said, further,
but requested that his name should
not be mentioned, that he thought
the day would come when the col.
0red people, whose numbers are
rapidly increasing, would form so
large portion of the population
of the South that they would de.
mand the political power in their
local governments that they con.
sidered their numbers entitled
them to. 1t could not be expect.
ed, he said, that the white people
would consent to black RUE, and
then the national government
would be compelled to grapple
with the subject. He saw no way
out of the difficulty except to col.
onize his race. This same person
went on to say that while he chat.
ed under what he considered to
be political inequality, he had not
one word of complaint to make on
any other snbject, and he did not
think any could be made with jus.
tice. He was treated just as well
In New Orleans and Charleston
as he had ever been in New York.
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