Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
THURSDAY. ..........JULY II, 1888

We move that HALSTEAD, CHANDLER, REID,
BourKLLr. SHERMAN, and FORAKER be APP
pointed committee 10 investigate the trfst-
nent the negroes in the northern States are
receiving. and that The editors OF some OF
the Independent Republican papers-say the
Providence Journal. the Pbiadelphia Tee
qraph, snd the Springfield Rept5licon-be
requested to act as secretaries TO the COM
mitiee and report the result OF the invesll-
cation. From all accounts the parties
named for committeeman would find fruitful
fields for the exercise Of their genius as IN
yestioaiors, particularly In the States Of Ohio,
Illinois, and Nebraska, while the secretaries
, suggested certainly would afford guarantee
that there would be no embarrassing either
one way or the other. For some time past there
have been outcroppings Of the truth regard
ing the buldozing OF Democratic negroes
at the North. But the whole truth should be
brought 20 the surface, and a. the Repue-
hcsn party Is the seli-conStituted guardian
Of the rights Of the man and the brother
81 leaders owe TO themselves and to the
country the duty Of undertaking that humane
aud patriotic task. A western paper, after
broadly intimating that colorcd Democrats
ct the North have a harder time than
pcgroes OF either party do at the
South, and that Democratic negroes in
Ohio and adjacent States are the victims OF IN
Organized system OF buildozing, adds: ain
Illinois attempts have been inside to shoot
and assault colOred Democrats, and Judge
Of AabFoS aka lQInnOrQFV
chairman oil the late Republican Convention,
In recent speech advocated the assassina-
ton Of these black citizens who exercise the
freemsn's right Of voting for whom they
please" Ponder this, all ye who love the
negro. What spectacle! The man and
the brother buldoZed right under the nose
OF MURAr IIALsTEAD, who never ceases TO
pirate about the "suppression OF the negro
vote at the South" and who in his excessive
and gushing affection for the "natlon's
wards" advocated, until bis eyes were
opened TO the true Interpretation OF the
f0urteen41 and fifteenth amendments. the
Furnishing OF the southern States for the
alleged acts OF individuals by depriving
those states Of portion of their representa-
ton 10 Congress. While the Field Mar
shaI's gazo was liked upon the South and
his fertile Imagination was coniuring up
election outrages In this section, real election
outTages were going on all around him. Its
well for HALsrEAD that be got the amend
ments aforesaid Strengthened out In his
mind before tie papers Of his section began
20 call attention TO the Suppression OF tue
negro Democratic vote in the North and the
West; else he would have been In a very
awkward position. But after all the e1poSe
Of Republican oulrages upon and efforts to
arouse feeling against the Democratic negroes
In Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska. and other north
ern States Is a story that has had its parallel
I'm the South for years. 1t only affords an
other proof OF Republican hypocrisy. The
Republican party thought that by the
amendments they folsted into the COnstItu.
ton they had bound the negro forever to
their car and could depend upon him for all
time to drag 1t. That was the object OF the
amendments. Republican love for the negro
X the thinnest sort Of yeueering, as is shown
whenever the negro refuses TO obey the party
whip or bauks in his chains. lie (the negro
Is the man and the brother only so long
as he votes the Republican ticket. Let
a negro refuse TO vote that ticket
or refuse 10 vote at all, aud bis own race, IN
stieated by their white Republican "pro-
toetors "-God save the mark will turn
upon bin and rend him. According TO the
Republican creed aud practice negro has
no rights il he votes the Democratic ticket.
This has been southern experience, and the
attitude OF the Republicans towards the
NEGRO ut the North does not differ in the
slightest from their attitude towards the
negro here. He must be the slave Of the
party or take the consequences; and that
the consequences are not likely TO
be pleasant, especially in OHIO and Illinois,
will be readily understood when It Is stated
that the former State has over g, 1000 and the
latter over lS,0 900 negro voters. No one ac-
quaia,ed with the record Of the Republican
party enterians doubt as to what would be
meted out to these voters should they show
sign OF breaking on the eve Of a close fight
In their respective States.