The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-12
A FRAUD ON Irs FACE.

The New York World L one Of those nm
scrupulous Democratic journals which aims
to secure. and perhaps enjoys. large cir
culation BY oil manner Of sensational pub
locations, which are spread before the pub
lie without regard to propriety. authen-
ticity or reasonable probability. Its latest
exploit In this hne-a flaming report Of
scheme by Senator Quay, Colonel Dudley
and General Huston to colonise indiana,
Connecticut and West Virginia with ne
groes from North and South Carolina-not
only lacks evsry element Of probability and
reason. but Il palpablys absurd upon it,
very face.
Its gotten up on the dime novel and
second-class theatrical style, in which the
principal character recounts to an old and
familiar friend, for the information Of the
reader or spectator, series Of facts con-
cerning which the person addressed must be
perfectly cognizant; how he or she (the mar
rator) was born an orphan and cast helpless
upon pitiless world. the victim Of . cruel
guardian. etc. After this style il missive
which the World eagerly publishes, being .
letter from one Daniel Med Lindsay, Of
North Carolina, to one A. B. Whitehead,
in which he refers to and pretends to
answer pretended letter from Whitehead.
and goes over in dime novel and cheap
theatrical style Q long list of at q true
wrote you as long ago as last June" and
''it is true" that said thus and SO, and "it
is true that I wrote you later that Senator
Quay. chairman Of the National Republi.
can COMMITTEES, had promised me to fur.
nish funds" and SO on with regard to
Dudley, Huston, Colonel Garrison, Ed
ward Mcpherson and others. ALI of
which, strung out to an interminable
length, it would have been ludicrous to adj
dress, with q request to sburn this let
ter" to one to whom, by the very terms of
the letter. the whole had been said before.
In the first place, if the facts were as
alleged. there would have been not the
slightest reason for concealment. In GER
tain states there are . great many native
American citixens. industrious and WELL
disposed, who would make available addi-
ton to the industrial population of any
community. who are politically and socially
ostracized in their place of nativity. They
are constantly the objects OF fraud and
violence, and are inhumanly bounded and
prosecuted. II this were because of their
color, nobody would blame others of their
color. wherever located, to assist their re-
moval If they so desired and lacked the
means. If the persecution were on account
OF religion-as has happened in Turkey and
elsewhere-nobody would blame their CO.
religionists for like course.
But the ostracism and persecution in
this case Is not on account of color or re-
hgion. No matter how black he may be-
nor what may be his religious profession,
II negro in the South will refrain from
voting. or win vote the Democratic ticket.
be will not be molested, and possibly will
be well treated. The persecution is for but
one reason. The negroes who are perse-
cuted are Republicans. and desire to vote
according to their convictions. That's the
whole case in nutshell. Such being the
case. why should not any and every Re-
publican sympathize with them? Such
being the case. and If they desire to escape
from these prosecutions, and desire to get
out of there. and wish to go where they
can enjoy their manhood and their rights.
but lack the means. why should any Re-
publican not assist them to the extent OF
his wiz ana abilitys
1t is therefore clear that if Quay, Dudley.
Huston. the National Committee or any
State Committee had possessed the means
and the inclination to help prosecuted ne
groes to remove from the scope OF their
prosecutions to other points where they
could enjoy their full rights q citizens.