Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-27
"a VERY PROLIFIC ANIMAL.y
What the Negroes OF the South Have
Been Doing,


Been Doing.
Judge Allen G. Thurman. the Dem,
cratic candidate for the Vice-Presidenc,
told his audience at Port Huron that 18th
result OF the war was to free about 1000
O0O negroes, and they have since increase
to about 100000, for the negro is yer
prolific animal" This allusion, accordin
to the report, was followed by genera
laughter and applause"
Judge Thurman knew, as a vetera
orator, precisely the language to please
Democratic audience. The difference be
tween Republican and Democrat on tn
negro's status in this country is that on
eontemplates him as human being. Will
the other views him simply as "a YER
| prolific animal"
II was the Democratic party that bough
and sold negroes like so many cattle, ant
ciassed them IN plantation inyentorie
along with the mules, oxen, horses, etc. |
was the Republican party that clothe,
them with citizenship, and in the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution said
Section l. The right of citizens of tn,
| United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States or by an,
State on account of race, color or previous
| condition OF servitude Section 2. TIL,
| congress shall have power to enforce thi.
article by appropriate legislation"
Judge Thurman will not refer to Ger
mans, Irish or Poles as animals in any
sense, because their votes will be counted
In November next, and they are strong
he does refer TO the negroes as auimals, be.
cause he knows his party has nullifed the
Constitution, and wherever in power will
not honestly count the negroes votes, and
they are weak.
During the war, when the great majority
OF the Democratic party sought to destroy
this country in order to perpetuate the
privilege Of buying and selling the negro
as an animal, the 100000 animals were
left on the plantations with the wives.
children and possessions of those who used
the lash and were fighting to rivet the
chains on the negro. 1t is fact none has
ever questioned that property was pro-
tected and wives and children duly cared
for by those animals.
1t Is also remembered that the 100000
animals who carried Union arms and con-
fronted their old masters on the battle
fields OF the war, did not run like sheep at
the first smell of gunpowder, but persisted
IN conducting themselves as if troops of
human beings who had country and their
freedom to contend for.
When the Republican theory that the
negro Is human being was logically con-
summated by granting him the rights and
privileges of citizenship, the Democratic
party persisted in dealing with him as an
animal, and 1t Is the constant exhibition
by the negro of such traits of human be-
ing as tend to annihilate Democratic ira
ditions on the subject which causes the
numerous conflicts in the Democratic
provinces of the South.
The "proliic animals for themselves
and their children have been buying and
using readers and spelling g-books, making
heavy sa' rifices to obtain higher educa-
ton; but the Democratic philosopher Won
ders what an educated animal is good for,
and declines to assist, to any great extent,
in providing human facilities to the ami
mails lately driven afeld. Hence over
S25,0OO,0 900 of Republican benevolent con-
tributions have been used to establish
schools and colleges in the South since the
war, in which the animal may feed upon
the provender of knowledge to his full sat-
isfaction
These animals have become possessed
with strange desire to own real estate.
and have acquired millions of dollars
worth of taxable property in every Demo-
cratic province since the close of the war.
This idea of animals taking thought for
the morrow" and surrounding themselves
with the comforts of life, 'just like white
folks" is so contrary to all Democratic no.
tons Of propriety that partisans of Judge
Thurman are daily employed in masking
their faces and using trusty Winchester
rifles to break up such homes, and cause
the accumulations Of the animals to pass
into possession of less thrifty whites for
triiing consideration. This is the practical
outcome Of the race conflicts reported from
the South.
In every hamlet, at almost every cross
road wherever dozen or less may congre-
gate, these animals have habit of meet
ing for the worship of Almighty God, and
thanking him for their deliverance from
slavery. They pray for protection from
Democratic prosecutors and guidance in
all the affairs of life. Since the war thou
sands of new churches have been built
under circumstances that would honor any
species of animal under the sun. The
negro is decidedly a religious animal, and
Democrats, when not in mood to ridicule
have been known to contribute literally
to the assistance of negro churches as indi-
viduals, while the great church organiza-
tions that minister to the comfort of Dem
ocratic souls are very miserly IN the
crumbs of comfort dropped among the
animals.
Judge Thurman is right in saying that
the negro is prolific The negro popula-
tion doubles every twenty years to the
whites in every thirty ..ear+ This fact
should be regarded as far from humorous,
and teach the Democratic party that for
bearance in dealing with the weakness of
the negro may be essential to its existence.
Negro Democrats in the South are as hard
to find as needles in a haystack," and
their numbers are not likely to increase
under such brutal assaults as Judge Thur
man gave them at Port Huron If he de-
sires TO preserve 4 reputation as states
man or commend himself to the American
people of this generation, he must cease to
refer to equal American citizens as "pro-
Life animals" or in any other terms derog-
aiory to their well-deserved title to man
hood.-Emerson Bentley Of New Orleans, in
Boston Journal