The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-24

promptly broken and declared null and yo;d 70
he further persisted to work in the South, and
the result is that he is again at work In the North
20 fuiai the contract per agreement Ny col.
ored brethren, has that any meaning to us,
Yes; it means that no party which will tend Ia
disturb the Democratic party can exist. Tor ;wa
parties, though originated among themselves
would soon be bidding for the coIored
vote, and thus he would soon be political faeto.
1t means the perpetual suppression OF our vote,
in the South. ii there is any place on God'.
green earth that needs reformation il is soush
OF Mason and Dixon's line A certain influen.
usl Democrat in the South said thst he wa in
favor of tho Mckinley law and really iudors.s
most of the Republican platform, but no plat.
form, nor any plank thereof, was as soothing "a
him as the platform with shotguns, hempen
ropes, fire and sword 10 keep the I'd,
niger under Subsection, and further adds.
This is my only reason for being
Democrat" In every Southern sts,s
We are lsgislated against premiums
is placed on fraudulent and corrupt return,
both in registration and voting. In the state \,
Mississippi the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments are law only in name; their ens,.
anteed rights have become subservienr to thu
will OF the state. Judge Lynch throughout Al
the ex-rehel states is the only tribunal beiors
whom the negro is ever tried. II he is Charged
with murder hs is taken from ia1
oAAV SuoSC bgHtI VdstcS the eeltenra
OF imme iia.e death on him. IL h.
is suspected of rape or even intimacy with
white prostitute, Judge Lynch pronounces thu
same sentence; il he Is charged with rohhe-v
the same sentence; if he is even charged with
forgery OF $40 cheek. as happened in Georgia
not long since. Judge Lynch administers ths
same medicine. Though there are million,
OF coored men in the North only
five cases are on record where thay
AL IN
there have bean since the overthrow of the Re.
publican party in ISIS and IS-6 over SOC mu,
uered without the knowledge OF Jury or snr
OF the rights guaranteed by the law, to say moth.
ing of those that had the form OF trial, Va
have hoped against hope that this thing would
be stopped. but it has been steadily on the in.
crease. For the present year, accoruin,
to careful compilation by a p.omi
nsnt southerner, up to dase there have
been an average of one hundred colored men
mQboed each month III the southern states or
q totai OF one thousand up to date, and one Of
these tied to a STAKE and bu; ned TO death wh;a
q bowling Comanehe-Iniian-.lke mob piled on
burning fgsots. Horror of horror, and this in
times OF perfect peace, while the country is ex.
perienclng one OF the most progressive
periods for century. The equal is only found
IN :he bloody Jacobin revolutionary days OF
oaTkest France. Amid such revolving and
pioou-curdling scenes. you, my colvied brethren
with the etfronsery of the devil himself, are now
patted on the shoulder in Northern states to
vote Tor Great Grover, their candidate, who
tacltly approves every act committed ty
those brutal, heartcss Southeruers-Grover the
candidate demanded by the SOUTH Grover, the
returne- OF the rebel flags and the insuiter of
ex-union soldiers; Grover, the author of the
words. Keep solid South at any cost; il is our
only hone OF winning" Is there man through
whose veins courses a drop OF African blood
that can vote ior party with such record
pracficed on his felIow-mens Is there
a colored man whose personal interest 10
dsarer TO him than the entire interest OF his
race? " nat Is the gain OF even u governorship
oil Washington or some otnern Northern state by
a member OF their rase, to the insasacreiug OF
llO members of the race each month? The tar.
IN, nor Tree silver, nor prohibition, dor the sub
treasury scheme Is any thing to the vita, question
OF life and Death GentIeme1. appeal to you
to remain loyal to that grand old party
whose first corner stone was freedom-that party
that gave to US Lincoln, Grant, Sumner and the
grand Old man, Fred Douglas: that party that
elects judges and juries to serve alike the white
and the black; that party that says ell men are
free and equal under the law; that party that
says free education to all and out OF
American books, that party that says the
the Star and Stripes shall float over the South
as well as the North; that party that guarantees
the right 20 speak ana vote according to your
own right and belief, the same in Copah
county, Miss, as in King county, Wash, and
that party which has nominated that able ex-
Union general ana statesman. BENJAMIN Harri-
son, and will elect him November next by the
aid OF the coiored vote, thus proving him Re-
publican still. H. Il. CAyroN.