San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-09
NO HOPE FOR SAMBo.

| average uomOofos III oPoshiuB VI tne
colored citizen and his political rights
is simply appalling. There does not
seem to be In the democratic mind con.
oeption or conscience Of political right
to which the colored citizen Is entitled,
or a sense of obligation under which .
democrat is bound by the constitutional
amendments. There does not seem to
enter into his conception Of the case
any consideration of the fact, that when
the south was rehabilitated with the
rights and powers Of a citizenship and
statehood which had been forfeited by
treason and open rebellion, that such re-
Mobilization was under condition. That
condition was as much part Of
the new order as was the or
der itself part Of the ma
tional condition, and one was as binding
as the other. OF this fact the average
southern democrat is perfectly oblivous.
The mark worn for q time 10 thrown
aside and the southern democrat now
announces that he has no intention of
obeying or regarding the constitutional
amendments giving suffrage rights to
colored citizens. Not only Is this
avowed openly by Watterson and
O'Grady and others who are accepted as
the mouthpieoes Of public opinion, 1t is
proved beyond successful contradic-
ton by the returns OF the elections held
in southern states, where moro votes
are counted for democratic candidates
than there are adult residents In the vo-
ting precincts.
Not alone is this the case. The sancti-
ty Of human life when clothed in colored
skin is disregarded. The political right
to disfranchise a negro at the will Of q
white voter soon changes into the
natural right to kill "nigger" when he
interferes with the plans and purposes OF
white man. The killing of a negro by
white man is not regarded as the kill
ing of q white man by white man.
There is one law for the one, another
law for the other. The hanging Of
white man for killing negro is thing,
unknown. The most cold blOOded and
atrocious murder OF innocent colOred
men is made the occasion Of fippant
political editorial pleasantly on the part
of democratic journalists, and such
treatment Of the case regarded as a mat
ter of course. Even the Cuero Star,
quiet country journal, cannot repress its
natural feelings aud voices the general
sentiment. Referring to the recent
abOrtive attempt TO convict the Wash
lngtOn county murderers, the star says:
THE killing of few negroes is a |
small matter after all, it seems, and the |
further ventilation OF the case at this
time might have some effect on the No
Vember elections, and then, too, there ia |
the Wharton county matter which has |
come up since the Washington county |
outrage, and there ia enough fuss being |
raised over the killing OF those seven |
negroes to eDsanguine shirt apiece Tor !
all the republican candidates in the |
country from president down to con-
gresham"
Can the force of cold FLOODED inhuman |
indifference 60 farther than this? What
hopes is there for race, a state, a party |
dominated by such views? The solid
south is built upon this substructure Of
inhumanity and Internal race antago-
nism and will stand there until some
breath OF hot judgment and national
indignation blows 1t away.
JAY GOULD, in a recent interview In |
New York, expresses himself concerning
the management of his railway proper
ties in Texas. He says that the suit of
the attorney general ofthis state, If sue
cessful, will absolutely destroy the value
of the International and Great Northern |
stock. That the International was
amending $500, 600 more per annum than |