The evening times., 1900-09-25

Negroes OF the Southern States.
One Of the most complete reviews of the
Republican campaign textbook, SO far as
in that publication it is set forth that the
Republican party is the friend of liberty,
has been prepared by Alexander Sidney
Lanier, of Richmond, Va This review is
to figure conspicuously as Democratic
campaign material in the border States
and among the colored voters. Mr. La
nier in part says:
ITO one at all familiar with the politi
cal history of our country. with current
events, and the facts OF the Mckinley Ad-
nlinistration, it is evident that the man or
men who compiled this work either never
took an oath to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, or if
they did. they have badly perjured them
selves. 1t is full OF sophistry and its
mendacity would do credit TO Munchau-
sen.
IF campaign textbooks are TO be taken
seriously it is evident that the ReDubl-
cans are pTesuming upon the creduiity
and gulIibility of the American people
However. leaving out its nisrepresen-
tation of facts, its eXaSgeration or events
and perversion of historical truths, 1t does
contain the faith and principles of the
party, and the grounds upon which the
party appeals to the whole country for
support.
In this campaign the Republicans are
appealing for support TO the Southern peo-
pie, as well TO others.
Let US examine for a moment some of
the grounds upon which they make their
appeal to the Southern people and feel
confident that any Southern man will
agree with me that the ground of their
appeal but adds insult to the innumerable
injuries this despicable party has inflicted
upon the South ever since it came into
being and power, and that it would have
been wiser for them 20 have gotten out
special edition OF the textbook for dis
tribution in this section of the country.
''Of the 400 pages of this prt5malic and
bewildering compilation of msrepresen-
tation and exaggeration three pages are
devoted to the glorification of the Re-
publican party the friend of liberty
They attempt comparisons Of the record
of the two parties in their relation to
this question in an effort to belttle and
disparage the great Democratic party
The Democratic party is as cid as the
Government Its creed is written in the
Declaration of Independence and in the
principles of justice equality, ard iber
y,
champion throughout its history.
1.-The Democratic party has never in
its whole history been called upon to
defend itself against the charge of i'm
perialism, the infringement Of constitu-
tional rights or the destruction of the
liberties of any people
To-day the Republican party stands
indicted upon all these charges and is
up for trial on the Indictment before the
bar of public opinion. The evidence is
overwhelming and in the conscfousne SIS
Of its guilt IL is making profess and de-
NAL which in fury and vehemence cen
vince everyone that the charges are true
What was the great event-and the
only one to which they point-that sig
nalized this party as the friend OF lib
erty? It was the unconstitutional, un-
Just and viIIainous war II made Upon
the Southern peopie-not, as thsy assert,
for the emancipation of the slaves, but
to destroy the material and political So
premacy of the South in the affairs of
the nation
Slavery in the North
with that Pharfsaical spirit that has
ever characterized them they assume that
slavery never existed anywhere in Amer
lea except in the Southern States.
With unctious complaCency they say:
In all the years from 1919, when the
first cargo OF slaves was landed at James
town, Va. to 1856 when the Republican
party had its birth both organic and
statutory PAW formed an impossible bar
TO negro hopes and ambitions. But with
the birth of that party a marked change
occurred. 1t is unnecessary tthey say to
recount the causes that led up to the
war of the rebellion
I agree with the Republicans that it
is unnecessary, and for them very mex
pedient, to recount the causes that led up
to the war of the rebellion, for those
causes have been stamped, as with a red
hot iron, into the hearts and minds of
the Southern people, and mere recital
of the facts would in the opinion of all
unprejudiced men, brand the Republican
party with an infamy hardly paraIleled in
the annals of mankind.
They forget to inform the public and
the world that slavery existed in New
England in its most oppressive form,
along with the most revolving atrocities
in their efforts to stamp out what in the
superstition and narrow selfshness of
their Puritanical minds they called
witehcraft
'+They forget to tell the world that on
account of climatic conditions that made
the negro Improbable to them they bar
tered and sold their slaves to the South
ern people at a handsome profit
They know full well that slavery ex-
listed in every part of the country soon af-
ter 1t was settled and that it was an in
stttntion recognized and sanctioned by
the Constitution under which our Gov
ernment was formed, and they knew full
well that they were parties to this in
strunent whereby slavery was recognized
and sanctioned and the rights of the
Shareholder were secured and guaran-
teed.
However. as the South began to in
crease IN power and influence in the af-
fairs Of the nation and there was a pros
pect of her influence being more greatly
augmented through the settlement of her
people, with their slaves, in the nsettIed
Territories of the nation the Northern
conscience, alarmed at the growing inf1u-
ence of the South, experienced a complete
revulsion and their hands were raised in
pious 1mprecation upon the unrighteous-
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