The colored American., 1900-06-09

gives fair warning te.the exc usive and
sensitive whites of the South that the
people of the North are not going to
put up with sheIr nonsense or take any
stock in their cowardly OPT Osition to
the Negro whom they are seeking to
permanently distranchise In The IN
terest OF white supremacy. The Sun
devotes column and half 10 this SUBJ
Ject and its mighty cOmf0rti0g read
ing showing that there is some tall
thinking going on In the Yankee mind.
Ii column editorial today, June
srd, Goa Negrs sdlsfranchisement, and
the republican party" the cl sing
paragraph reads as follows: 1t is the
duty ofthe Republican Party to enforce
,hese constitutional provisions whether
it gains or loses ia the southern states,
and even If thereby it makes southern
white men ashamed TO belong to il.
No political party deserves to exist in
his Republic which negIects to guard
jealousy the equality Of the suffrage
for that is essential to the preservation
of our political system. whenever and
wherever blow is struck at it the
American Republic is struck in iee
most vital part"
The soIndness of this reasoning will
not be questioned by aEy lover of jus.
tice and fair play. In this paragraph
The Sun has summed up the case with
Its usual clearness and Iucidity of
statement, and has left nothing further
20 be said. The argument is unans wer
able. The Negro being a citizen, he is
entitled to all his rights as q citizen.
The white supremacy bug bear wIH
have to crawl into its hole and pull the
hole IN after it. All this talk about the
Negro keeping. out of politics and allow.
Ing the whites OF the South 10 have
full sway is mere rot. Tue moment the
Negro surrenders his political birth.
nght-tEe ballOt-hs will cease 10 be q
part Of the body p.lito AID he Will
never be permitted to regain it. The
white folks OF the South understand
this perfectly well and this is why the
Cockrars and Murphys ct al are shoot.
ing so?history Into the ears of the pub.
I:c aud urging the repeal OF the XVIII
Amendment. No man living will re
member when this Amendment is re.
Fealed, for 1t will never be repealed.
a very prominent and DISTINGUISHED
lady-an authOress-Whose rame I am
not permitted to use, in q letter to me
under date of May 81, writes:-
Your people will not want for
iflehus III sry direct attem pit is made 10
repeal ihe XVIII amendment. But I
90 not imagine that this is going to be |
an issue very soon. l rather lock for
trouble smorg the white people the NJ
seiVes--betweeO those who believe in |
the consent Of the governed and those
who do ob-bet ~eeR I'm periaIism and |
Democracy. There is bouod to ba a |
clash some day beCWeen these wide 1v /
Giffere ut ideals of government. The
Issue Will net be forced by the lovers of |
liberty, but by those VINO believe In |
might governing right and who wasn't |
government by force. You dark peo.
pie havea way of getting mixed 10 in |
the white mems qusrrels. and tue first |
thing he knows ne js fighting for Won |
tnstead of himself, much as he may
profess to de- pise you This was the |
way In 1861, when a war to save the
Union without disturbing slavery, be-
came 3 wsr 60 destroy slavery and |
Ta.sed the Ne gro to citrZapshjn MI