Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-17

this, when we demand better representa-
ton for that purloining, and even the
voluntary support given by us, we are
told by our democratic friends that we
are democrats for revenue only. No one
will attempt TO deny that but for the votes
OF at least six southern states, actually
taken by force and cast for the demo-
cratic party in every state and presiden-
tial election, there could be no solid
south, no democratic congress and no
democratic president. Therefore, in the
face of these facts, to ruthlessly deprive
us OF every right, without adequate recog-
milton in some way, is an effrontery pos
sessed only by the democratic party. 1t
is the old doctrine that the negro has
no rights which the democratic party is
bound to respect
"While l have differed in policy and
methods with the Hon. Frederick Doug
lass for the past tifteen years, ! am forced
at last to admit the Righteousness and
truthfulness of his prophecy that the
republican party is the ship, all ellie the
sea, as far as the negro's political future
is concerned. The pronunciamento of
Cows. Tillman, of South Carolina, and
Foster, of Louisiana, is the democratic
sentiment of the south against the negro;
consequently we can find no hope in a
party based upon such sectional and race
despotism.
The south is in the saddle. The
| spectacle of an Afro-American Bureau OF
| Organization, established and maintained
by the congressional committee in the
face of its outrageous and corrupt meth
DDS, is humiliating and degrading to the
negro in the extreme, dispossessing us
not only of our rights and manhood, but
using tn e negro as a cover to pursue cor
rupt methods in violation of what is
called a civil service law, forcibly taxing
republican officials, male and female,
against their wills, and the brigade OF
laborers and spittoon cleaners that have
been accredited to the negro as the only
representation to which he is entitled at
the hands of the democratic party.
"My demand for a better recognition
for the race upon a just and honorable
basis, as the chairman of your executive
committee, has been classed as criminal
excessive and democratic for revenue
MY therefore, L eau see no lurlnei
cause why / should serve the democratic
party. l shall establish, with my imme
date friends and associates, the weekly
journal. called the Negro National De
fender in the interest of the race ant
the republican party. l shall take the
stump, if desired, during the present
canvass in the state of New York, t.
assist in carrying to certain victory the
great and noble republican c~hieitain, Mr.
Morton, as the next governor Of tn,
Empire state, and will work in otheI
states where the party may deem bes
to use my services.
Hoping that you may get a clear in
sight OF the great political cyclone tina
will sweep the democratic party, as
national party, aside forever, l honestl,
invite you to shelter yourselves from thu
devastating march of the trackless politi
cal storm which will speedily overtak'
you and grow in its proportions unit
1896, when a republican president will b.
triumphantly placed at the head OF tn
nation to secure it from further politica
chaos" -tilobe-D Democrat.