Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-05-17
It is True to its Principles.

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It is True TO its Principles.
The Republican party has been dcnounc
ed by its political opponents as being
kypo,rit when il asserts that it IA
vors equal political rights for the negro
Of this country II has also in some
sections, especially in Maryland, bees
denounced 10y Democratic leaders, aud BY
RE press Advocating the principles o
that party. NJ favUring mixed schools
for the children Of bath races In fact
in one portion Of the euaniry they are
decried for one ding, and in another
section that drnu relation is contradicted
Is prove seine ether theory Eut all
Republicans. white and colnrcd know
that the grand Old party whose record
of great achievements attained, M
egualled in history. faeors now, as it al
ways has in the past, equal politicn
rights aud equal justice to all men, no
matter whether the subject be native to
tlfc manor horn, or an adopted citizen
Who having fed fron tyrancal oppres
rion in his native lard has sought this
land Of freedom where he can work lfe's
problem as he peases, and worship God
according to the dictates of his own con
ssience The attempt to divert the
Iain4s Of the peorae from the grand and
glorio'rs achievements and the great aims
# the Republican party will not anvil
il is too we'll known, and needs no ret
crstion, that whrnever any attempt ha-
hecn made to abridee the rights Of any
citizen, no matter how humble, or what
over may have been his past condition,
the Republican party has stepped boldly
10 the front and demeadcd that equal
righto and justice should he accorded him
A quarter Of century ago as military
necessity, that greatest of statesmen,
Abraham Lincoln, issued. his emanclpa
ton proclamation and the sLacklcs Of
slavery was stricken from the limbs of
four million slaves in the 3tate., at tina
time in revolt against the
General Government. After the
close of hostiIlties those States
who had not joined in .he fight for seces-
sion passed laws liberating all slaves
within their territorial limits Those
liberated freeman were then in position
to accumulate property by their own ex
eFtions. which property was subject to
like tax Of theirformer masters. 1t was
at this period that the Republican pa. ty
in furthcrance Of the grand ideas which
brought it into existence, emphasized
the declaration made famous by the
founders of our government, that taxa
hon without representation was tyrrany"
by insisting thai the liberia ed slaves
should be enfranchised Having the
majority who favored this act of justice
j, was speedily carried into effect, and
this country for the first time in its his
tory became in truth, as III name, the
home of the freeman. As resultant
consequence the negro, although igno-
rant, was filed with gratitude that noblest
of all traits of character. for those who
had accorded him freedom from slavery.
aud, from that day TO this, whenever
permitted to do so unmolested, the great
bulk of them vote the Republican ticket
Because Of that persistence upon his part
10 stick by his benefactors, the negro
has raised up hosts Of enemies and many
and varied have been the PLACES devised
by political opponents, to keep him from
the polls or to confuse him when there,
as is the case in South Carolina, by the
eight ballot box system Recently "a
learned and prominent Virginia Demo
crat. declared in favor of disfran-
ohising him entirely. THE South he
says will never have peace while the
negro is voter 1t will remain the
bad land-thc ireland vf America-for
tho next ten thousand years, if the ne
gro remains voter that long" Such
declarations by eminent Democrats, cou-
pied with the past actions of that party
toward the negro, should convince all
lovers of justice that that party cares
more for political advancement, than for
constitutional rights. and that knowledge
should forever prevent colored men from
casting their political fortunes with that
party. They should continue to stand
BY the Republican party. which to-day,
sS in the years gone by, favors not only
their rights, but the political rights of
every citizen and also adhers
TO the same broad national poll
ey. adopted by them. which
has made our country the richest and
most prosperous on earth.
The friends of Robert r. Llncoln be-
fore he left Chicago for London