The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-15
A Word to the Colored People.

There is no good reason why the victory
of the Republican party should cause the
colored people TO rejoice That party has
never shown any love for them. 1t is true
that it was President of that party who
issued the emancipation proclamation, but
the proclamation was a military and
political necessity, and was not dictated by
desire to benefit them.
All the legislation of republican con-
crosses in which the colored people are
directly interested was for the purpose of
perpetuatIng the power of the Republican
party, and not for the purpose of lettering
the condition of the colored people and
lifting them to higher plane. This legis-
lation has undoubtedly afforded them oppor-
TUNES for advancing and improving, but
these opportunities were not the purpose of
1t; they were the necessary incidents of it,
Have the republicans in the northern states
shown any particular appreciation of the
colored peoplel Have they recognized
them to the extent of their voting power
in the distribution of the offices: They
have not, and it is very rare thing in
northern republican state to find colored
men in office. Does not this condition Of
affairs show that the republican party
aims to use, not to help, the colored
peoples
When Mr. Cleveland was elected the col
ored people were somewhat alarmed, but
they bad no reason to be, and they soon
found out they had not. Have they not
enjoyed their rights as completely s'lce Mr..
Cleveland has been President as they did
before he was electedl In fact, has not Mr..
Cleveland appointed more colored men to
good offices than his immediate predecessor?
In the south the colored people in political
matters show an unaC .ountable hostility to
the white people 1t is true that nearly all
of the white people are democrats, but that
is no reason why the colored people should
be opposed to them in politics. They have
kinder feeling for the colored people than
have the northern people, and, besides. they
are the employers and patrons of the col
ored people, and open the wGy for them to
earn their daily bread.
Has it ever occurred to the colored peO-
pie that if the white people were to employ
only white men as draymen, cooks, WATERS,
laborers, etc, and patronize only white
BARRIERS, washerwomen and mechanics, the
colored people would have rather hard
time of it! The southern people, as poo
pie, are not different from what they are as
individuals, and are not disposed to main
tain toward the colOred people, as race,
an attitude different from that which they
maintain toward them as individuals. The
colored people now fill the places for which
they are fitted. They will fill different
places as they become qualified for them.
If they will think of the matter carefully
they will see that the northern republicans
want to use them, not to aid them. The
southern people are willing to aid them.
In fact, the southern people are
aiding them all the time Who pro-
vide the schools for their children
and the hospitals for their sick.
To whom do they turn when in trouble!
In the great Yamacraw fire in this city a
few years ago, for instance, who supported
those of them who were homeless and starry
ing until they provided themselves with
new homes! Not the republicans of the
north certainly.
There are things more important to the
colored people than politics, and they ought
to be able to see that there are Their
future is bound up with that of the white
people of the south, and it is to their interest
to have their good will and to live in peace
with them. All the progress they have
made is due to the white people among
whom they live. and to these same people
they must look for help to better their con-
dition. They will certainly get no help
from the northern people, who have no
liking for them, and whose advice has
brought them only trouble. II they are
wise, they will place their dependence in,
the people of the south, who wish to aid
them, rather than in the people of the north,
who wish to use them.