Year: 1875

q Democrat. and the Republ'cs vote win thus be
entirely ineffective. They fear to make


EDUCATION OR PROPERTY QUALIFICATION
for voting. 1t would disfranchise nearly half Of
iesisiate the contract between employer and en-
ployee, as has been done In Arkansas and Texas,
and thereby put the negro back into virtual


The Democratic party has had control Of the
legislative branch OF this government since 1870
rsad to % S1 70
power. Fortunately they have division in their
own ranks, and the Prospects at present are that
they will meet with an overwhelming defeat.
The people are already worn out and impover-
ished by burdensome taxation, and many who
are Indifferent to any changes that may be made
are unwilling to tax themselves with the sddt-
tional expense Of protracted session Of conven-
tion. They will, therefore vote for Republican
Gisteiy aftsr ii she % ASSEMBLING Of the @ convention
The election Of the Republican candidates is "a
consummation deyoutly TO be wished"


time, in unmistaksble language that they want
no change, and that mslcontents and demagogues
are the greatest evil in government. The real
cause of all these Democratic movements Ii that
the


SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT HAS BEEN DECEIVED
By the successes Of the Democratic party in the
East and West


They take this as an admission on the part Of
the section North Of Mason and Dlxon's line
.'that negro suffrage is failure, and that it is
willing 70 join hands with the Southern whites
in opposition to national legislation Tor the


We have confidence in the liberty loving people
Of the North that such is not the case; and We
think that the South will md that though the
Nsrth is willing to ill up the bloody chssm, It
will not be trampled upon and debase It's own
manhood by filling IL up with the lost sig htof,
long-oppressed and long. suffering race.


The dormant malice Of the Southern Democrat
has been aroused by the passage OF the sclvfl
rights bill. and he only needs an expression OF
Northern sentiment In his favor 70 break out In
open and violent opposition TO the enforcement Of
any and all the laws guaranteeing to the negro
equality before the law"


The South fears the North to-day as much as IL
did in 1855. Let the North but scquiesce in the
movement among the Democrats In the South,
and in few years the negro will have sno rights
which Q white man is bound TO respect"
LIBERTY TO CONTROL AS IT PLEAsEs
its own affairs, without interference the part
Of the North, is what the South means BY recon
| ciliation."


As we said In the beginning OF this article, their


hostility TO the colored man fs confined to, for the
most part, the Democratic leaders and those
whom they stir up BY an insane prating on social
equality and the demagoRue's appeal 70 the low.
est passions. If the "poor white" man could only
be made to understand that the men who thui
address him are not his real friends; that tue
negro is the white mans inferior only In oppor
tunities: that he was as much benefited by the
results OF the war Is the negro, and that every
poor mans interest is one and the same, the day.
Of the hre-eaters would be numbered, and thu
South would bloom as the fsirest garden on the
globe.


Respectfully, CHAs. N. orKY.