Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-21
MONDAY EVENING. NOV. 81, 1875
THE ORGANS of President Mckinley


the white people in North Carolina to
free themselves from the rule of horde
of ignorant, vicious and insolent negro
Office. holders. Their idea seems to be
that if these negroes fire on the whites
the latter should run away, aud that il
they fire back and kill some OF these
black brutes, it is a clear case Of muir
der. This is what happened at VII
mington. The right of vile negro
editor to hold up the white women OF
the South as being eager to be para
nous to negroes is regarded By them
as so sacred that to run the wretch oil
and destroy his newspaper establish
mens are deemed little short of treason.
a community subjected to such insult,
they pretend to think ought to be patient
and long suffering and smile like the
villains who ignore or make light of
such crimes in order to obtain negro
circulation. Accordingly, we have
flood of lectures from these parasites 0!
the President and their correspondents,
all full OF m alice for the white people of
the South. So far there is not oae
word of condemnation by the organs
referred to for tine outrsges and inso-
lence of these negroes, no denuncia-
ton for the black bru5es VINO commit
rapes, cut great horror. on the contrary,
when one of them is lynched for this
crime. Nor is there g word OF com
plant against the white miners of Hi
nois who refused to allow the Alabama
negroes to work in the coal mines and
put some of them 10 death for attempt
ing to work. Yet bread is as import
ant to the negroes as the ballot. If
these organs are sincere, aud wish to be
consistent, there are several things
for them to consider. First and
foremost is, if the negro's right to the
ballot is so sacred, if his right TO hold
Office over the white race is vital mat
ter, then his right to vote and hold
Office in Washington city is just as clear.
Woy is it that we DO not see a popular
municipal government in Washington
city, and universal suffrage without
distinction of race or color? Are the
negroes and mulattoes of Washington
city so inferior in character and intelli-
gence to the men Of their race in North
and South Carolina that their vote in
Washington must be absolutely sup
pressed? Is it not an absolute fact
that the people of the District OF Co.
lumbia are denied a popular represen-
tative government and all elections
done away with, in order to get rid c!
the negro vote? Did not the white re-
publicans in Congress aud the white re-
publicans Of the District of Columbio
participate in this complete and sweep
log disfrauchisement Of the negroes 6?
Why is it that in ell these long years
no negro has ever beer made Comm.s-
sioner of the District, or police judge.
or appointed to any important local
Office there? We are rot advocating
negro suffrage in Washington. Far from
it. 1t would be a curse there, we think,
but not greater curse than it is to the
Southern States. But, if negro suffrage
be necessary evil, theu all the State
and the District also should help to
bear the burden. II it be blessing
and right, as the Presidents organs
seem to think, then it ought TO 90
round and the District of Columbis
should have its share of the bless
ing. Now if negro suffrage in Wash.
ington were once tried and found
to work we'll for social order and prop
erty values, who can tell but that the
Southern States might be induced to
look on negro suffrage more favorably?
Example always works more power
fully than precept. Again, we do not
know of a case where a negro in the
South has been refused 40 opportunity
to work for living. He is not killed
there for going to work. He may fairly
compete with the whites in any of the
labor markets. But at the North, not
only are the negroes shut out from the
trades unions, and thus prevented from
working at trades, bat the other day
when number of these negroes went
to Illinois to engage in work, their
white employers were threatened and
bull-dozed and the negroes themselves
were killed in numbers and driven of
The Governor Of Illinois, republicans
Governor, refused to give them protec-
ton; he denounced them for coming to
Illinois and said if any mora came he
would meet them ct the border with CAT
ling guns and put them to death. Now
here is matter that deeply concerns
the negro race. 1t is simply the question
whether the labor market in over two
thirds OF the country, among forty mil
lions ofNorthern people including large
republican States, shall be open to the
black race. Now, here is grand op-
Oortunitv for the Mckinley oroans tn