The evening times., 1900-09-25

told that 1t was n institution recognized
and guaranteed under the Constitution
they denounced the Constitution as a
league with death and a covenant with
Ahell.
1T is a fact indisputable that the Re
publican party made war upon the South
in violation of every principle of natural
justice and constitutional rights and
guarantees. Slavery was a mere incident
and pretext. The real object of the war
was to destroy the material aScendency
and influence of the South III the affairs
of the nation.
ITO show the vindictiveness OF the
whole thing. after the war was over the
Republican party. not satisfied with having
robbed the Southern people of their prop
erty in defiance of constitutional guar
antees, decided that the States lately IN
rebellion must undergo treatment or re-
construction, so they disfranehised all the
respectable white people in the South, and
! by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments TO the United States Consultation
made citizens of and enfranchiSed all the
negroes SO recently in slavery, who with
the Northern scalawags held high carn1-
val in the South and came very near de-
stroying forever the material resources
and civilization ef that section. The adoI-
tion of these amendments was not only
| the most gigantic blunder, but the great
est crime that was ever committed By a
minority.
The Republican party has been great
| in its professions OF love and solicitude
! for the negro. but very unsubstantiai
| and most detrimental to his welfare In
| the manifestation of its love and solicI-
/ tude
1T has used him as a political tool,
and this is about the sum and substance
OF the use they have had for him.
This fact has been we'll known to the
Southern whites all the time and now.
after thIrty-1ve years of hypoCTitical
cant and pretence, the negroes are be-
ginning TO find il out for themselves.
They are beginning to realize that their
true friends are the white people of the
Southh and not the cranks and fanatics
OF Boston and other localities of the
North who regard themselves as the
special objects OF divine munihcenee
and dispensations.
Education for the Negro.
THE Republican party tells US in It's
textbook that thousands of Northern
men and women. scnooled under the tn
telage of Republican environment III the
work of philanthropy ana justice, de1i-
I Gated their money, their time. AMI even
| their lives to the education and Iteration
| OF those enlancipated millions.
ITO read these glorious eulogies Of the
| lNSpbtll1al p<il y III 4t7 AS4SiS4SH ~ 'itC
! negro one would infer that Northern Re
! publicans were the only people who had
! done anything for the negro.
I would remind the Republican paCLy
! that some of the most generous CoL Lri-
| buUors Of the North to negro education
| are Democrats.
| 4 would remind them that n3twith-
| standing the South was desolated and al
| most ruined by their war of jnSasion,
heir reconstruction acts. and tha5F pic
tective tariff by which it has been rob
bed and made TO pay tribute TO the North
for thirty-fve hstanGing
all these facts, the South has ii that
time spent nearly a billion iollI.s ior
the education of the negro, wOa doesn't
pay 10 per cent of the taxes AMI that nec
efforts to enlighten and amelioFate he
condition of these people have been
characterized by the noblest self -saerz-
fee, patience, and forbearance.
THE Republicans know that we of the
South are confronted with the most stu
pendous problem that ever confronted any
people; that our material welfare and civ
| ilization is hanging upon its right solE-
! tion. They know that it is difficult and
| delicate task. and yet they have done
| everything in their power to aggravate
| the situation, to create strife and dissen-
/ sion between the races and to handicap
| the South in every way possible.
Even in their efforts to educate the ne
| gro they have shown no disposition to CO.
operate with the Southern whites and
| their efforts have done more harm than
| good. In support of this statement l have
| the testimony Of an eminent negro edu-
| Gator, II. B. Frissell, head of the Hamp-
| ton Normal and Agricultural Institute. In
| his last report he says, speaking of these
| academies established through Northern
aid: The work of these academies is
! often very poor, and they come in di-
rect competition with the public schools
| OF the South, to which Southern white
| people are annually devoting several mil
lion dollars.
The Republicans have been very will
| ing to break down, in the South, all bars
! to the 'negro's hopes and ambitions as
| they call il, but are rather reluctant to
extend him the same courtesy IN the
North. In the South We find white man
! and negro working side by side in the va
| rious mechanical and industrial yocations.
| The negro finds no such opportunities
open to him in the North More and more
| each year every avenue of livelihood is
| being closed to the negro in the North,
/ and | have been repeatedly told by ne
| groes who have been North that de Norf
amt no place for a nigger'
THE Republicans feIIcitate themselves
| upon the number OF Federal appointments
| they have given to negroes. In looking
| over this list l find that nearly all of
| these appointments We're TO positions IN
| the South, and of the utmost Importance
to the Southern people. In the great ma
Jority OF cases the appointees have been
| utterly incompetent and corrupt, and have
| been made in opposition to the earnest
| protest of the Southern whites The re-
| suit of this policy of the Republican par
| ty has been to create bitterness and an
! tagonfsm between the races, and has
| greatly interfered with the South il soiY-
| ing the race problem.
! The question naturally arises. Why is
| 1t that nearly all these appointments OF
| negroes are confined to Southern States ?
| There are more lucrative positions under
| the Government in the North Why not
appoint negroes to fill some of them? The.
| explanation is simple The Republicans
| have no use for the negro except as a DO
litical tool, and these appointments of ne
groes to office IN the Southern States are
| not through any special regard for the ne
| gro, but are made to humiliate the South
| ern people and punish them for their
| sturdy adherence to Democratic principles.
The Republican party has always been
the party Of the dollar. It's unprofessed
| creed Is the dollar first, the man after
ward They made war on the South for
material reasons and considerations, and
| attempted to dissemble and cloak their
real motives by declaring il a war for the
freedom and liberty of the slave.
The Champion of Liberty.
They have now turned from their hy
| pocritical championship of liberty and
have become advocates of slavery under
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