Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-04-26
Khot Good Has Come From IiS


ment of the cOlored man as q means
to an end, which every friend of
the colored race, should earnestly
desire and seek, viz: his removal
from politics. There seems to be
no other method Of accomplishing
this result, and this resdlt should
be reached, brought about in some
way, by all means, or any means,
legal and no: immoral. The dis
reimbursement of the negro, { anda
certain class of white men too,)
would do more TO elevate aud ad-
vance these aud improve their
moral, financial and social condi.
tion than any other means. the
schools and churches not excepted,
for an iusuperable barrier 50 the
efficiency of these methods would
thus be removed.
What real objection can there be
to the acknowledgements o. the
negro, anyways Will he be there.
by injured in any manner. IL so,
howl Wilt his progress along any
avenue be blocked, or even imped-
eli Will he be thereby deprived
Of any divine right or privilege to
which he is naturally, or otherwise,
entitled? Let some opponent of
Acknowledgement answer.
What good has ever come to
him, or to he nation, in any man
me-, by the bestow rent o: this
right to vote? None whatever.
The Republican party has never de-
rived the smslles profit from it. In
the North his vote was not and is
not reeded. Even is so, he is not
there TO vote. Has the party in
the South ever derived one scintilla
OF prOjt from negro suffrage? Ger.
ia My not, for the South has always
beeL, and more so now >an ever,
s0iidlv Democratic. Has the colOred
man, by virtue of his right to vote,
contributed more largely than he
otherwise could have done, to the
wealth Of the nation? Is the gov
ernnent stronger, richer, better Oh
account of the 10th Amendment
What good has come OF if Not
one particle. The same question
and the same answer apply if we
seek the good that has come to the
colo' ed man himself, by being al
lowed the privilege Of voting.
On the other hand, as we see it,
and, we believe, the Leading minds
Of the country see it, that harm-
nothing but harm, and that con-
tinua;ly-has been the outcome, to
all parties concerned, OF the be-
stowmen6 Of the right OF suffrage
upon the colOred people. Certainly
ham has come thereby to tbe
Republican parry. This the leaders
now acknowledge. They see now,
that this act, the principal element
OF which were revenge and hate,
was q great mistake. 1t has made,
and will keep forever, the South |
solidly Democratic. So long as the
ignorant, corriptible Colofed vote
has equal rights and weight at the
polls with the intelligenB leading
whites OF the Sou;h, jest so long
will the Republican party be shut
out. The Republicans see this
themselves, and in truth, none will
be glsdder to see disfrsnchisement
brought about than the Republi-
cans themselves. They have car
ried the burden until their Shoulders
are sore and their backs bent aud
weary.
/
Harm, thereby, has also come TO
the Democratic party. The neces-
sity FOR self protection has forced
the adoption of questionable meth.
DDS in order to carry elections, and
to keep the ignorant and corrupt
from trying to I'LL places for W 1ich
they we're in no wise qualified to
Ill. The momentum of a retrograde
movement is not easily nor quickly
overcome.
But most of al, and worst of all,
hAs beeii the injury 20 the colored
man himself by giving before his
times the right of suffrage. The