The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-27
SOUND LOGIC.
A Colored Minister Believes Cleveland
is the Negroes Friend.

Is the NegrO's Friend.
NEW YORK, Oct. PA colored
minister, of Washington, D. c., Rev.
Garland H. White, late chaplain of
the Twenty-eighth United States col
ored troops, writes a letter in the
New York World urging his race to
support Cleveland. The following are
extracts from it:
"Many friends and comrades have
requested me to express my views as
to how the colored man should vote at
the coming election. / am free to say
that l shall cast my vote for Grover
Cleveland, and / cordially invite 9TH
| first reason for doing so is this: If we
propose to remain in this country and
| share the benefits it affords with all
| other American citizens then we must
be in all respects like other men.
Il am sorry to say that there is no
| other portion of the American popu-
| lation that votes as does the negro ell
ement-an entire race of say 1000, 900
| people, all of them entitled to vote,
voting practically for one party re-
| gardless of changes in national senti-
| ment or party policy. The white
bosses of the Republican party say
among themselves, The negro be-
longs to us anyway; we dont's need to
give him any respectable recognition
II don't care where the negro lives
| North, South, East or West-he cam
al course is dictated by conscientious
devotion to principle and unless he
| thinks and acts as other men.
1.-The State governments in the
South, where the great bulk of the
| colored population is, are now safely
in Democratic hands, and / submit
that it is not wise for colored people
to remain outside of the ruling party
with nothing to prompt them to do sc
except tradition and the memory OF
conditions which long since ceased to
exist. | urge all good colored citizens
North and South, to vote for Mr.
Cleveland, for if Harrison should win
there will surely be no change for the
better. 1t will be four years more OF
broken promises and the same pas
sionate devotion to our interests al
the end of the four years only.
''The colored people have nothing
to fear on account of Mr.. Cleyeland's
election, because he has been once
tried and gave a faithful and honest
administration to the cOuntry-and
will further state that the BLACK
mans freedom was as secure as undel
Harrison. Then let the colored mar
vote for Cleveland. Then the time
will have come in the history O.
American politics when the colore(
mans vote will not be relied upon OF
account of his color.
I Remember it is not true that tn,
war was a party war. A large majori
, ty of the best fighting generals in tn,
J Union Army were Democrats.
When politicians talk about th
Republican party freeing the negro
| fn1l r 10 I1,,4
! the patriotic people of the North, EN-
, bracing all parties, nationalities
! creeds and colors, who fought for tn
| Union.
; | would say to my comrades in In
! | diana where | recruited most of tn
! Twenty-eighth Colored Regiment, an,
! enlisted in the same as a private il
Company D, that upon the bat
5 tle-ffeld we promised each other tina
Q we would never again be slaves to an
s man nor to any party, but foreve
i would vote free, live free, walk free
0 talk free and die free; but in viola
: ticn of this pledge we have bee
: slaves to the Republican party fo
nearly twenty-seven years. and that a
sacrifice of more lives than were los
J on many of the battle fields.
Nothing has been done for us by th
4 q Republican party in all that time.
a solitary negro is nominated for
y respectable Office in the North he
> slaughtered at the polls.
Harrison and his predecessors bac
Il to Hayes have been our warm friend
before election, but have said afte
wards that they could do nothing fC
us, because the Constitution prohibit
ed interference with States right
: After twenty-seven years of slavery
this tricky, false and ungrateful pa
ty, let us cast off the shackles and b.
come in fact as well as name free mel
;, Let us vote for man who did {
4 much, if not more, for colored me
= during his one term as President {
Z any Republican President since Grar
IS has done, and who has never broken
+ | promise to anV man..