The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-01
TIRED OF REPUBLICAN TRlCkERY.
Why Colored Florida Leader Leaves
That Party.


That Party.
ORLANDO, Fla, August pa lead
ing colored man of this city, a lawyer
of ability and possessing marked in
lluence with his race, ohm II. Shuttpn
has decided to act henceforth with the
Democratic party. and ne has prepared
the following statements us umDody
ing his reasons for this determination
1t Is an undeniable fact that the Re
publican party, to further its purposes
has never scrupled to appeal to the
passions and prejudices of the negro
as well as to array him against his best
interests in these States. Through the
teachings of its servile emissaries the
national prosperity and progI essiveness
or the race have been set back fifty
years, and the baneiul influence which
IL stlll eXertS over him has placed him
In an attitude which has well-niph
caused his own d!Sfr2nchisement; and
to-day he stands before the American
people a pitiable spectacle of It's dccep-
llon anu dupllcity. 1t has led the negro
IN AL ms ignorance and stupidity
against :he wealth aud intelligence of
the south, thereby keeping up an ire
rre""loit political conflict that must
! ultimately terminate in the practical
dlsiranChisClnnn Of the negro bv his
own act. Thi, is the position in which
the Republican party has placed the
negro III tn" States, and now. in
order 10 pAlliate the mischief
which they themselves have been
instrumental in producing, and
to throw the responsibility upon
the Democratic party, they have come
forward with Il hypocrtlcal Sanctity
AND pretentions love for tine negro
and propose to right his wrongs by
violating the Constitution by setting
aside the rights OF the state.
No Intelligent co0rrd man in the
Nouth h"llcNcS for moncnt that 1t is
d diSintcreSted interest that the Eepuu-
llcan party has iOr the welfare and
prosperity OF the race in the en- inyment
OF It's constitutional rights that has ac-
tuated that party in attempting to pass
the force bill, but rather as the last re.
sort and the only hope left them to Gle.
Vate and place i'll power the remnant
OF that Scalawag element which is still
! lingering upon the brink. But il this
| is their nope and cianGeStine purpose
1t is a torlorn one, for they will never
accomplish it through amy legislation
which seeks to create disorder and An
lnterminaDle sectional strife on the one
hand and to array the strong against
the weak On the other for the advance
ment of their political schemes.
1T Is too superficial to suppose for q
moment that President Harrison ad.
VocateS this course from nero sense
OF right and justice toward the negro
of the South, for he has had Gas we'll as
his predeceSsors) ample opportunity o
putting into operation the So.calle,
equal rights, principles Of the party
But what has been his, and the pole,
OF every other Republican Administr;i
tlon, regarding just and equitable
distribution Of the spoils among its
seven million Of negro slaves? Has he
or any other Republican President
dared to name Il single negro out of
this vast following, during all those
years, for Il Cabinet position, or even
lntimatcd such thing us to appoint a
negro to lucrative position north of
The Mason and Dixon line? And vet,
IN Tie face OF these plain facts, he is
pretending to shed tears over the polit-
lcdl condition of the Southern negro.
ana even proposes to remedy the evil
by establishing il military despotism
over the South. The hypocrite!
The gentlemen who met at Chicago
and severed their connection with the
Grand Old Party" had a perfect right
TO- do 50 without being questioned.
They did 1t for their country's good,
and every other colOrCd man who has
tne moral courage to desert the
tepubllcan party, no matter what
party he may thereafter affiliate with,
has made step nearer toward bring
ing about that feeling of Cancellation
and good will that ought to exist be-
tween Two distinct races inhabiting
the same section and where every in
trrcSL H. Identical