Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-10-16
Adam Powell And The
Republican Party

In recent weeks the press and other news sources
have been giving much space to the statement coming
from Rep Adam Clayton Powell Negro Democratic Con-
gresham from New York for his praise of the Repub
can Party, which he the only hope for the
Negroes of this country, especially as regards civil
rights.
How Congressman Powell could arrive at the sudden
conclusion giving the Republican Party credit for Public
Housing, public works, and honest attempt at the
tutiment of the civil rights hopes of the Negro in this
country, after having sat in the Congress through all
the years while President Roosevelt and President Tru
man were initiating everything he mentions, is beyond
the thinking of everyone except the congressman him
SELF and those who know and understand his sometime
uncomfortable desire for public notice and attention.
In regard to the Republican Party any intelligent
and honest study of its history since the death of Lin
con will reveal that it has osered everything that has
been detrimental to the Negro in his quest for full civil
rights and first class citizenship
In the first place it was the Republican Party which
accepted the Hayes-Tiden DEAL almost Immediately
after Lncons DEATH which withdrew the Federal Troops
from the South before the newly emancpaed slaves had
gained firm footing as free men, following almost i'm
medatey by the "UnWrltten Compromise" which
brought about the total dsfranchsement of the South
Negro the enactment of the exraegal segregation
laws, and the oneparty system of politics in the South
and the revival of the Doctrine of Slaves Rights.
The Unwritten Compromise, the total disfranchise-
ment OF the Negro which followed and the onepary po
tca system responsible for all of the evils from which
the Negro in the South and in the nation today is still
suffering.
What the Republican Party has been doing all these
years is use the Negro dupe, which plainly evil
dent to this writer during the last presidential election
While Mr.. Eisenhower was running a campaign of
can campaign agencies spreading of the worst
propaganda ever printed about Negro White relations
IN the South in the hope of winning the Northern Negro
vote
What Congressman Powell doesn't seem to know after
all his member of the House of Representatives
is that the doctrine of States rights originally forth
by Calhoun IN order to protect the institution of slavery
revived after the unwrtten compromise entered into
by the Republican Party leaders with the former slave
owners is responsible for the coalition of Northern Re-
publcanS always in the majority and Southern Demo-
Gratis which is responsible for the continuance of Sen
ate Flbuster which has prevented the enactment of
civil rights legislation by the Congress of the United
States
In all the years since the Unwritten Compromise
and all it attendant evil effects the Negro and the
South his natural habitat, only the Democrat Party
under President Truman has been charged with moving
toward its abrogaton.
If Congressman Powell is naive as to be abiding
to the decision of the United States Supreme
Court in the school segregation as an example
of Republican sincerity it is only necessary to point to
the continued silence of President Eisenhower the
subject while the opposition mounts in the South
condition due only to his states rights campaign in the
SOut