Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-25
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Editor Gazette: A division of
the negro vote is his civil, political, edu-
cational and industrial salvation.
A division of his vote will make all
parties his friends, as all parties will
then solicit his vote, as they do that of
other nationalites. Negro franchise
solidity is the cause of his suffering.
The potentiality of mans ballot is the
doubt and secrecy with which he
enshrouds his political opinion. For a
mans color or clanishness to be SYM
boi of his politics, is an anomaly in II
republican form of government, as it
breeds political slavery. The negro has
suffered, agonized, and died too long
now for sentlmentality. ..-
The sound of the lash, the yelp of the
bloodhound and the piercing wall of
the slave have long since died away in
the sayannas of the southland. The
South, as the North, has been, will be
governed by motives of self-interest.
This is true of all peoples, except the
negro, who is driven by his party.
The barbarous and cruel mobbing of
the negro Of the South has its sole
cause in the political action of the
negro, from reconstruction times down
to the present. and it will continue as
long as the negroes, as a whole, vote
great burdens of taxes on themselves
and on the white people, for the party
of high protection in the North. Hon.
Frederic Douglas, whose clarion voice
has long since blown "harsh discord"
for the want Of proper and BETTING
theme, could point out to the negro the
real cause of his suffering in the South,
If he had the moral courage.
He knows that all the antagonism be-
tween the negroes and the white people
of the South is the direct result of the
negroes voting against the dominant
party and the interests of the commu-
nifty in which they live. He knows that
when the cry is made mob the Niger,
that the white Republican, for whom
the poor deluded negro votes, will be
among the first to string the negro up.
If he did otherwise there would be two
hangings instead of one, and they would
not both be black. Ii the negro had
been voting with the people, rather than
! the carpet baggers, the people would
have been divided on his case when the
mob was seeking his life.
When negro is charged with a
crime there is not single white friend
around to say, don't do that, gentlemen,
give him fair trial, we have got ali the
law in our hands, if he is guilty he shall
be hanged,
Why is it, that the negro has no white
friends around when his life is at stake !!
Simply because the negro has voted
persistently against his own interest and
the interest of the people who have all
the power-and it is human to get rid
Of an unrelenting irrational and deadly
political foe.
| Let the Southern negro stop aiding
the party that robs him, the section il
which he lives, and those people will
protect him. The negro as a slave, wa:
not mobbed, neither were his rights as a
slave imposed upon by the "poor white
trash" if they were his master knew
the reason why. Now the negro is the
seryile slave of political party-G
party that contends, that it bought him
and paid for him, when it "freed" him
and still we never hear of that party
trying to defend its slaves, as the South
ern master did his physical slave
though this same party had the contro
of the government for 21 years.
Let the negro divide his vote and vote
for his own interest and the interests Of
the community; and then mob law a
rule of action, will fold up its tents
and silently steal away. The cause O
the negro's suffering in the South i;
political, and the antidote must bl
political. Divide the negro vote and ,
friendly relation of the whites and the
negro will follow. w. Ii. BANKS.
FREDERICK, DEL, Oct. 10Th, 1894.