The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-14
NEGRO SUPRE MACY.
. Southern Newspaper Discusses
"Renegades."
p.fsrmea Cenfederstes Net to Be
Trssted-They Have Adolf
tion Tendencies.
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NJ, n. Dudley Coleman is a native
oo1theruer and an ex-Confederate sol
a. and there are doubtless many Of
- friends who deceive themselves
- The belief that because of his an
...ncsAents he will never become the adj
yorate and supporter OF Laws aimed at
re south. or fayoring negro suprem-
az OYER the whites. They know well
tbat the Republican party aims at this
.EsY Il would oppress, enslaye ana
asr;canize the South If il were able,
mi Mr.. Coleman, they say. will sup
,o-. no measure directed against his
seetion and his race.
lei no one cherish such wild folly.
f,nr history for the past 20years shows
,hst We can trust no Southern man
vho once deserts TO the Republican
,suks. Not one OF the deserters who
bss zone over and accepted Republican
ofies but has sooner or later ranged
himself with the negroes against white
supremaey and for Africanization and
NJ Coleman viii not do differently
from the others.
We remember how Lougstreet went
over-I,ongstreet, with his grand Fepu-
tation. SoHtberner by several gener-
ati.;as In ideas and education and we
remember how, few years later, that
same Longstreet commanded the
army Of negroes and hirelings which
proposed, upon our leyee front, to
sboot down the citizens Of New Or
leans who had risen against the KeI-
logg infamy.
and in spirit, Democrat in ideas, but
utter he once received Republican
nomination. he drifted over, further
and further, as all the others had
done, and finally became the leader Of
the Mississippi negroes against the
whites.
Through all the war. Malone fought
fer the South, and even when peace
came again, he led the white men of
Virginia against the negro ignorance
10 which it was proposed to subject
them. When he first left the Demo-
cratic ranks, the very name OF Repub-
lean was so odious TO him that he
would not take it. But he drifted
away, and now behold Malone Of to-
day, with his army of negroes behind
him. constant threat TO the grand
"Old Dominion" He has never hest
tated to vote for any Law against the
South, and IL the Republicans pro.
posed laws that would turn over Nir-
einia to the negro rabble behind him,
be would support them however saw
age they might be.
Let no one cherish the idea that
Dudley Coleman is in any way differ
emit from Longstreet, Chalmers, Ma
hone and the host OF Others who have
deserted. No Southerner enters the
Republican ranks to work and bid for
negro votes, but becomes in a very
few months, the supporter OF African
izatiOn. Against his own will, he Is
forced by circumstances, rs Malone
was, 20 become the enemy OF his sec
ton and his race. The voter who
thinks Dudley Coleman will act differ
emily from Chalmers and Malone and
all the rest, need but recall our history
OF the past - years. To see how wild
these hopes are, lie will vote against
the South rs Malone has done; he
will lead the negroes against the whites
II need be, as did Longstreet Once
IN the ranks of the Republican party,
with Demas as his adviser and friend,
with q right 20 ask favors OF him, he
will drift further and further away
until he becomes as bitter a Republi-
can as all the others.