The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-06

imperative than to apply the gag OF
public reprobation and contempt to
the mouths of such ghoul-like de-
magogues as Chandler and Ingalls,
Can & patriotic American conceive
of a more unpatriotic and Infamous
course of cOnduct-infsm0us toward
the negro So we'll as the white man
Of The South-than. without other
than a cold -biooded partisan aim. to
arouse the hatred Of both races to-
ward each other, to set tue negro and
white man At each others throats,
while they, in Cowardly safety 10
New Hampshire and kansas, look
on at the bloody results. And such
men, God save the mark are our
Senators and Republican leaders
When President Harrison calls for
" bugle blast" or Depew discourses
solemnly of our duty to defend free
ballot let Us be brave enoegh and
manly enough to tell them that such
thunder is O stage trick which has
had its day OF success. and that the
real point Of danger to free ballot
and to American institutions lies in
the means and methods, which, In
the last election, carried New York
for Harrison. OF the plan proposed
bY some Southern Senators and ad-
vocated by Senator Hampton l DO
not think it necessary to say more
than that it seems to me visionary
and impossible. / do not believe
the passage of Senator Buffers bill
would effect the removal of an APP
preciable fraction of the negro race
In any State. They are here to stay.
The negro Is to-day working out his
own salvation where he is, without
your help.
Let me say another word on this
point. This Government does not
exist to save the negro from the
struggle for his rights. Your rights
and mine, in the last common resort,
are not secured to Us by the Govern
ment of the United States. They
are secured to US by o&r State gov
ernments and State laws, but, more
than all by ourselves, by our in
telligence, our education, our self
reliance, trained and compacted III
the long stern school of experience.
The negro's rights will never be
secured in any other way. What
can be done, let me ask, that has not
been done? Concede for the moment
that feleral election law can be
passed and enforced. What will it
accomplish? 1t will, of course, only
apply TO and regulate elections Of
Congressional representatives. And
what will this do for the negro? Will
1t secure him IN his right to vote in
State and local elections? Will it
give him seats in the jury box, Or,
in fact, any right whatever, except
that of voting at federal elections?
4 nd what good will this do the
negro? Mr.. Hoar cannot, and he
knows be cannot, draw a bill which
will pass any competent legal tribu>
nal which will secure to the negro
any right he does not now enjoy
except possibly the right to vote FOL
Representatives in Congress and
this right will only enable the Re
publican party to keep itself in pow
er. 1t will not do the negro the
smallest benefit. And the pity of il
is that Mr.. Roar knows this perfect>
| ly. better than | do. And Mr.. Dawes
knows it, and your would-be Sen
ator, Mr.. Lodge knows it, aud your
would-have-heeN Senator, Mr.. Long
knows it. | Will give the combined
wisdom and skill of all your Repre-
presentatives in Congress and al
the Republican lawyers of Boston 6
year in which TO formulate a Law
which even they will assert will pro
tect the negro in South Carolioa, ex
cept, possibly as | have said, in his
right TO vote to keep the Republican
| party in power! Out, say, upon
such false pretenses! Oat upor
such men, | care not how rcspecta-
BILE, or learned, or eloquent! In this
respect they are demagosues as bass
as C!eon, as INSCRIPTIONS as Butler
Let the philanthCophY Of Boston, tht
craftsmanship of Massac h1setts, lei
the patriotism Of all Americans tel
the negro plainly that be must hell
himself IN this struggle just as Ire
la1d IS helping herself, just as 81
races have helped themselves that
have made any figure IN history OF
have been wO-.h preserving, an
/ nth thu como hreat n lpt II tnIl Nr