The morning call., 1891-06-21
THE CoLoRED VOTER.

a person representing himself as
cOlored voter asks the New York Herald
to tell him and those he represents what
col0red voters have received from the Re-
publican party as a reward for their al
legiance. The value of the HerdlfS reply
may be estimated from the following para
graph:
The Republicans have done mighty little for
you as race, but you have done great deal for
them. They have played you for dupes very
successfully during the last thirty years, and
would like to do II thirty years more. SO long
as you are silly enough TO be used they viii use
you.
The eolored voter who was so unfortunate
as to turn to the Herald for advice is also
informed that the emancipation proclama-
ton was a military necessity; that the slaves
were made free by the exigencies OF war,
and that the Republican party had no more
TO do with it than the Democratic party.
While the cOlored voter is bordering over
these assertions it might be we'll for him to
let his thoughts turn back to 1856, when the
Republican party made its national appear
anCe. The Democratic party at that time
had asserted the right Of Slave-Owners to
take their slaves into the Territories Of the
United States. The Republicans held that
all national territory should be free. The
issue had been made in Kansas, and the
administration Of Buchanan was fairly COM
mltted to the Shareholders right to emf
CRATE with his property, whether it was in
men or beasts Let the colored voter now
suppose that the Democrats had succeeded
in 1860. 1t would then have been held
that the people had decided that the
STAKEHOLDER might take his slaves into
national territory aud there hold them
Under such rule what chance would
the slave have had ever to become voter !?
Admit that the emancipation proclamation
was military necessity. the colOred voter
may inquire how the necessity came to
exist? Would it ever have been possible
had the Democrats been continued in power
W as it not the Republican party which set
the ball in motion that reYolved and re-
YOlYed until it had accumulated a weight of
public opinion which made the emancipa-
ton proclamation possible? There was no
more law for the proclamation in 1865 than
in 1860. But in 1868 the people had become
convinced that emancipation was an essen
tial condition to national life, and the sup
port OF tie people gave TIE President power
to enforce it. The Republican party created
INC EblQlL4O1i n IiN4l IducGN kubiAS OpAAiluAA
to move so rapidly between these two
dates, in figures SO close to each other. The
colored voter may therefore reply to the
Democratic Herald that if the emancipation
proclamation was military necessity, it
was the Republican party which created the
necessity.
Still, we quite agree with our Democratic
contemporary that the colored voter should
- H.
Rep ub.icans made him a voter does not
imply that he must support the party against
his judgment. This would be only a change
in the form Ct his slavery. The people who
removed shackles from his limbs did not
desire to place sbackles on his mind. But
before the coloTed voter determines to OPP
pose the party that made him voter, he
should be reasonably we'll satisfied that he
will better his condition by 20 dining