The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-09-23

The Colored Man Knows When He Il
Justly Treated and When He Il Being
Used q Tool-Another Proposed TEX
odus."
Leaders of the Republican party nev-
er 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 he is either Re-
publican voter or he is nothing. If he
chooses to vote the other ticket he gets
no credit. If, in the South, he feels
that he can best serve his local govern
ment by voting the Democratic ticket,
he does it, wakes fat, and enjoys the
profit of his right to labor and earn.
The negro with his local habitation has
the right of all Americans to say just
what he will do politically for his own
benefit.
But Mr.. Blame, in his speeches in
Maine, where a negro is rarely seen,
declares that the colored man shall not
only vote the Republican ticket by Writ
ue of his Inheritance of freedom, but
that he shall vote it under any and all
circumstances - local considerations
and Influences to the contrary notwith-
standing. And if he does not choose to
| do that he must be colonized into other
territory.
The plan of the Republican Congress
sional Committee, as announced, is too
absurd to be authentic, but if it be true
that negroes are to be sent, at the COM
mittee's expense, to populate certain
territories in the hope that their votes
will be felt in Presidential and Con-
gressional elections to follow, it reflects
but little credit upon the men who
have projected the scheme. We have
had one negro exodus from the South.
1t invaded Kansas a few years ago.
Every colored man believed that he
was to get forty acres. He came with
his family and landed at the railway
depot without cent. He seemed to
care nothing about how he was to fare.
| His 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 exodusters
have fought fate. Kansas cities have
more walters, bootblacks, calcimners,
BARRIERS, shoe repairers and clothes
busters than, any State in the Union,
and their votes have only gone to swell
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 o1
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 nc
longer slave; he knows that the sec
ond generation, of which both he anG
his employer are types, have long age
forgotten asperities. The man and hi,
employer work together in the fielc
and at the polls-they work for com
mon interest. If that interest does no
quite meet the views of Mr.. Blaine and
his friends, it is not the fault of the col
ored man. Mr.. Blaine and his friends
can gain nothing by colonizing ne
groes anywhere. Sooner or later th'
colonizationists absorb the politica
ideas and views of their surroundings
and it is the highest proof of the col
ored mans intelligence that he can ant
does discriminate. When he finds b,
is being used for political purpose
without corresponding benefit or credi
to himself, he quickly draws the line
Chicago Herald.