Year: 1875

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lican victory, to prote ct the innocent and


helpless from lawless violence Be this as


it may, life has but one value to any man;
| it is that he may be man. Better to die
| as freemen than live as slaves. Better to
add our hearts blood to that shed by those


who on the battlefield freely gave theirs for
liberty, than to have the sacred cause fail
| through our cowardice. Better that the
souls of our pure and innoce Mt children
| should ascend in flame and blood to Him
who giveth all life, and with whom are the


Issues OF life and of death, than that they
should live to pamper to the pride and feed


the lust of our oppressors.


IT the Confederate Democracy carry the
| country in the next presidential election,
we shall have four years of the peace which
reigned at Warsaw when Russia trampled
the life out of Poland The negro will be


"subordinated'-p politically suppressed. The
Northern Republicans living at the South
will flee for their lives, or give up the voca-
| ton of politics and turn their attention to
"business," and maintain a prudent and
respectful silence. The native born white
Republicans of the South will follow this
example. The negro leaders of the colored
people will be disposed of in some satisfac.
tory manner. AT the end of the four years
of this Democratic rule the North, seeing
all this, will either rise en- masse as it did
under Lincoln, and reconquer the South, or


the nation will sink into the lap of ease ,and
luxury and leave the negro to his fate. 1t
is this last alternative which now demands
the immediats attention and best tho lght
of the best men of the African race in
America.


If the North finally abandons the negro
and turns him over TO the political custody
of his former master, what should the negro
do and what can he dol These two cues
tlons we will consider briefly and in this
order:


First-lf thus abandoned by the North
what should the negro do2 The answer is
plain. He should cast about at once for


means of deliverance. In such case he


would be absolved from all allegiance to


the nation. AS it is, America has no great


claim upon the negro. Wendell Phillips


has truly said, that there is not single right


to-day that has not been wrung from this


cruel and selfish nation through necessity.


If the emancipated race is now abandoned


to Its fate simply because it is deemed profit


able and safe thus to abandon it, that race


will be clear in the sight of Heaven and in


the judgment of mankind if it caryes out a


life for itself under new political condi-


tions.


What can the negro do in this direction9


The answer to this question brings promi,


nently into the foreground the Confederate


monarchical party of the South. 1t is a


fact beyond all dispute, that every nine


white men out of ten at the South are


either monarchists or are under the pol


itical control of those who are nor archists,


1t is the conviction of those who control


Southern society, Southern business and


Southern politics, that the representative


constitutional monarchical form of govern


mt mt is the true form of government. These


men will tell you frankly that they think


the English government is better form of


government than that of the United States


1t is hardly necessary to say that Jefferson


Davis was right when he declared that he


had yet to meet the first reconstructed Con


federate woman. The Confederate women


of the South are all royalists.


Keeping these facts clearly in mind, it
only remains for the reader to remember
that the Southern Confederates are pos


sessed with one leading political affection,
and are animated by one controlling po-
litical antlpathy. Their leading political
affection is for the Confederate cause mem.
cries, traditions and hopes. The rising
generation at the South is sucking in this
sentiment with the ''mother's" milk. 1t
enters into the social atmosphere of every
Southern drawing room. 1t mingles in the
prayers of Confederate mothers from Della
ware to Texas. The controlling antipathy
which animates the Southern Confederates
is hatred of American nationality. Now
the vital fact to the negro growing out of
this two-fold Southern sentiment is that the
Confederates love the lost cause more than
they hate the negro, and that they hate
American nationality more than they hate
the negro. If the negro is abandoned by
the North he can build and build securely
on this Confederate sentiment The Con-
federates will make any concession the
negro may demand il he will make COM
mon cause with them. He can add his
strong arm to tha5 of the Southern Confed-
crate and cleave the American Union in
twain. A Southern monarchy or the ally
of England, or holding colonial relations
with England would create a Southern
Canada in North America where the negro
would at least enjoy the blessing of civil.
lied government, where law rules and
where life is sacred.


Ought the Southern negro form this alli-
ance with the Confederate monarchists9 He |
has been advised by his Northern friends to
make "peace" with his former master and |
to live contentedly as his political serf. |
After such advice as this, what right has |
this same Northern "friend" to deny to the |
negro the right to go turthell Each man
will answer the above question for himself |
But there is one great truth which the |
merest child in politics understands. 1t is |
that people are respected just in proportion |
as they are feared. The cause of the negro
has reached point when the nation must
be given to understand that vote to re-
mand the freedman to serfdom under his |
former master is cote for the opertI.row of |
the Union. The nation must understand.