West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-09-24
HE DlSCRIMINATES.

rho Colored Man Knows when He Il,
Justly Treated aud when lie u Being
Used as - Tool-Anothsr Proposed "Ex-
odus."
Leader, Of the Republican partymev
~ forget the negro. wherever his vote
Is To be- had. The individual choice of
the colored voter passes for nothing If
he does not vote the Republican ticket.
In Southern States hc Is either Re
publican voter or hc i nothing. II he
chooses To vote the other ticket he gets
mo- credit. II. in the South. he feels
That hc can best serve his local govern
ment by voting the Democratic ticket,
ne does II, wakes lat. aud enjoys the
profit of his right to- labor and earn.
The negro with his decentralization has
the right of all Americans To say lust
what he will do politically for his own
benefit
But Mr.. Blame, in his spccchc, i'm
Maine. whcr" a negro j. rarely seen.
declares that the colorcd man shall not
only vote the Republican ticket by Writ
ne of his inheritance of freedom. but
that he shall vote it under any and all
circumstances - local considerations
ANA influences to the contrary notwith-
standing. Aud if he does not choose TO
do that he must bc colonizcd into other
TERRITORY
The plan OF the Republican Congress
sional Committee, a. announced, i too
absurd to be authentic, but il it be true
that negroes are TO be sent at the com
mittec's expense, To populate certain
territories IN the hope that their votes
will be- felt in Presidential and Con-
gressional elections TO follow, ii reflects
but little credit upon the men who
have projected the scheme. We have
had one negro exodus from the South.
IT invaded Kansas few years AGO.
Every cOlOrcd man believed that he
was lo get forty acres. He came with
his family and landed at the railway
depot without a cent. He seemed to
care nothing about how he was to fare.
Ills idea was that Kansas, acting
through its Plumbs and its other patri-
OTIS. was TO give him farm For five
years or more those negro eNodusterS
have fought fate. Kansas cities have
more walters. bootblacks, calcimnerS.
BARRIERS, shoe repaircrs and clothes
busters than any State i'm the Union.
and their votes have only gone to swell
Il majority already large
The home of the Southern negro is
in the South. There he was born and
reared; there are the local traditions
and family instincts that root him TO
the soil. The Northern politician of
the Blaine stamp who seeks his vote
may talk OF colonization and all that.
but the SOUTHERN colored man knows
where he lives. He knows he is no
longer slave; he knows that the Sec
ond generation. of which both he and
his employer are types. have long ago
forgotten asperties. The man and his
employer work together i'm the field
and at the pOlls-they work for a com
mon interest If that interest does not
quite meet the views of Mr. Blaine and
his friends. it is not the fault of the col
orcd man. Mr.. Blaine and his friends
can gain nothing by colonizine ne
groes anywhere. sooner or later the
coloniZationists absorb the political
ideas and views of their SURROUNDINGS:
and it Is the highest proof OF the col
orcd man intelligence that he can and
does discriminate. When he finds he
Is being used for political purposes
without corresponding benefit or credit
to himself, he quickly draws the line. .
Chtc0gO Hcr0id.