The Washington bee., 1888-12-08

vitnde." Just here we allege our
political grievances and lay charg.
es that that distinction, which was
forbidden by the constitution, was
made by legislative enactment.
through local influence of a COM
mittee of one hundred white men.
What for? Is it natural for men to
deprive themselves of equal rights
with other citizens elsewhere? Do
not all Americans love voting priv
ileges? Yes, and it is also known
that this city is a republican CITY
with the colored vote of the party
largely in the majority.
The old Jefferson DavidsOnian
expression of the unfit-to-be Con-
gresham, Oates, of the South,
said in his interview with the Press,
that the whole trouble about the
American politics in the South,
will be the cOlored vote. "We
will never submit to the return
of the negroes to power. Negro
rule means ruin. We have exper-
fenced it, and know what it is.
A new generation has grown up in
the Soutb-young men who were
not in the war, and they will not be
as submissive as we were at the
close of the war;
They will be more SO, for the
rebels held the negroes without
suffrage, with the aid of the Con-
stitution, and could not keep it
away, and the young men, who did
not grow up in the war, found the
negroes with suffrage with the aid
of that same constitution as amend
ed, and can never take it away.
He says again that "the only hope
l see, is the total elimination of the
negro from our politics." Then |
can see more righteous remedy
than his wicked hope, and that is
his followers, such as he represents,
including himself of course, will be
ruled by this irresistible hope, a
legal majority if they will, or a
horrible Dayonet if they must.
He spoke of the young men of
the SJuth as though he had for
gotten that all men, others than
tools, profit by others loss. lie
spoke of the wneiulIness OF nat
ional office holders among them,
who Will be Ostraclsed rrom com
pulsory social relation they sustain
to the coored people. That is
just The reason that the South is
ostracised to day, because of too
much of social equality With the
negro race, for, in all other re-
spects, was that of a brute. Anu
certainly there is no pc pile oD
the face of the globe anna gamat-
ed so much with the colored race,
as the South ern white people, and
there is none who pretend to
have more virtue and horror for
their own crimes. He told you
that he loves the negro; he wants
him to stay among them, but
eliminate his suffrage. Great
God! Eliminate such man from
the world through the prayers of
thy people. He says that the
negro is not capable of governing
himself or anybndy else, much
less people who are, by nature,
his superiors Iu what, for God
sake? Do the Southern white
people appear superior to the
colored people? They are weak
er in their morals because they
have been committing adultery
with both races for more than
three generations; they are less
religious, because their ouly fixed
principle is to ignore the golden
rule, and they are far more rebel
lious because they are not willing
to submit either to the law of God
nor the constitution of their own
government.
His object ls to eliminate the
suffrage, leave the negro power
less, and give the Southern white
people a greater opporlualty for
unlawful ANAL lgamatlon with the
colored, that he may perpetrate
our immortality; but he bellies his
conscience in any attempt to
practise it.
Yours for God, for Justice and
humanity,
r. S. LAWS,
3l6 ID st. s.w., Washington, D. G.