The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-25
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Under this captain the Washington
News of q recent date contains the fol.
lowing CONCERNING the negro in politics
in New York State, aud tho treatment
OF his white brethren in their dealings
with him:
Fresh murmurs OF discomfort are
heard among the negroes who take an
interest III politics. In New York pur-
tIcularly there are loud complaints
FROM the leaders that the black voters
are completely ignored.
There are 40. 900 negro voters in New
York. aud as they uenrly all blindly
support the Republicans. i. Is not 10
he expected the bosses Will pny my
attention TO the protests.
1t will probably he the same old
story. Promises will DC made the dis
heariened negroes. but they will just
as surely be brokeu when the pie Is
agaiu passed around. Tho negroes
buye imagined the Republicans set
them free, but even If that woro true,
II amounts to nothing OF this late day,
aud they should remember the cou.
temptuous remark OF All uged negro.
VINO once said: Whats freedom
moro Democrats in the Uniou urmy
from tue North duriug the civil war
twice over than Republicans, uad yet
the negroes. simply because Lincoln. a
Republican President, sued til. eman
cipation proclamation, have beehiurced
To Dellevs they are under cve.last
ing obligations to the party OF which
he WAS II member. They should have
divided years ago. As long as they
vote solidly they can expect nothing
from tho Democrats, mud tho Rtpubii
cans will not worry much over their
complaints, for they know two we'll
that they politically own tho negroes
while they arc SO b!lud To their inter
csts rs to continually train with a party
that denies them recognition"
The thought sometimes oc curs, how
long will it be before tho negro will
realize that his true dwelling place is
III the South, aud TINT his best friends
are the Southern people? 1t 10 not
ment by this that the white people OF
the South will accord him political
preferment any more than will the
white men of the North, but that the
former will at least deal fairly by HIM,
aud while not aillIating with him i'll
politics. will at the came time not dc
ceive him. But it is not alone IN New
York that the negro Is the subject of
Ill treatment ut the hands of those whom
he has learned TO regard Rs his best
friends. a writer in tho Now York
Mail and Express. writing from Illinois
on the subject, says:
"You will be surprised to know TINT
here in ILLINOIS in this yeur of our
Lord, 1895. thirty. years after the
emancipation proclamation, and with
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend.
ments to the Constitution of tho United
States recognized ne the law of the
lind, there are towns in which IA negro
Is not allowed to live. | wns appoint.
ell chairman Of a Committee TO inves
tigate affairs at Spring Valley, where
there was recently murderous as.
snult OF Italians upon negroes We
could not go to Spring Nulley direct,
because the train arrived there in the
middle OF the night aud nobody would
answer Tor our lives. There were two
other convenient stations on the Rock
Island road. either OF which we might
reach Ivy rail iii the daytime aud 70
thence hy daylight to Spring Valley,
but a. one of them, as we were credit.
ably Informed, no negro wonld he al.
lowed TO get oil the ears, while ut the
other even the occasional presence of
negro had not been allowed for ycurs.
Aud this Is said to be the State OF
Abraham Lincoln"
This could not have happened in the
South among people with whom he
has been raised. yet the negro blindly
clings to those North Of ns IN prefer
ence. "Ihe man and brother" after
all, is queer lot