Year: 1875

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"The negro shuffled out of politics" is
the terse and brief expression with which
the Boston Journal essays to bow the col
ored citizen of the South out of American


political society. If that were "the end
alp in this matter, the affair would not
possess such ugly proportions and danger


Gus possibilities. But to thus politely kick
the negro down the broad stairway of the
nations Capitol while admitting eighty
Confederate Representatives and Senators
into the American Congress does not end
the affair. The danger in this case consists
in the fact that the indignity and wrong
thus Offered to the negro will make him re-
solve never again to. darken the doors of
the Congress of the United States with his
presence. He may like any other man who
haO thus been rudely disposed of, after an
swerirg the purpose of selfish host, stay
kicked out" Thus 'tshuffled'' out of
political life he may elect to remain out


The Boston Journal may ask what the
withdrawal of the negro from the political
life in America will amount to? It will
amount to everything to this nation. With
out giving in detail all the consequences OF
this expulsion of the negro from an active
participation in the politics of the country,
it is sufficient to say that it will practically
add the negro-power to the Confederate
power to be welded by the Confederate
leaders. 1t will furthermore force the
Southern negro into alliance with the Con-
federate. 1t will bring about most init
mate understanding between the two, in
which the Confederate will be the ruler so
long as the Confederate and negro remain
tn the Union.


Now we wish in all courtesy to ask the
Boston Journal two questions in connec-
ton with the matter.


First. Does it suppose that the Southern
Confederate can ever be reconciled to this
Union as the Government of his ''heart"
and of his ''choice 2"


Secondly. Does he suppose that the negro
will rest contentedly under serfdom2-


A candid answer to these two questions
will show the simple madness" of first
placing the Government at the mercy Of
the Confederate power, and then increasing
that power by adding the negro power to it,
by making the fate and future of the colored
race depend on the Confederate power.
Out of this adjustment" will come an en-
tirely new coalition of forces in American
politics. Let this coalition once be formed,
and this Union will exist thereafter by the
of the Confederate power. But
it will not exist long. And when the time
for the Confederate to again strike for po-
litical independence arrives, the man who
has been kicked out of the political society
of America by the North will emerge"
as the Boston Journal expresses it He
will emerge indeed; but will it be on the
side of the Union or will it be as the ally
of the Confederate? Would the Confede.
rate have anything to offer tie negro to
secure his sword? Does the Confederate
hate the negro more than he loves the 'tLost
Causep What would the negro lose by
staying where the Boston Journal would
place him? Would not the cry of 'Life
and manhood out of the Union rather than
serfdom in it % stir the negro's hearth
What would the negro lose by such
changeH


Whom the gods, &c.