Year: 1876

suit his white Southern advisers In every matter exceps
politics. and how studousy ho will avoid their advice
a%Ser SpUn that has 'qosSs Hi, family banker
must all be old Virginia gentlemen. As
Virginia gentleman himself he would feel de-
graded by employing any but his equal But, presto
change, when he wants advice in pocs he goes else
where And this brings me TO the point where began
Ine color line IN politics Is marked as ever speak
OF the bulk OF the blacks OF course you will find few
who will cooperate with the white conservatives just
about as many you will find native whites who are
republicans and the one and the other act from much
the same motive Ny observation Is this, that t Will
be discovered IN cases out Of ten as the parties
In this State are now organized that the native wnitc
republicans and tho black democrats from one or
two causes-to wit. nrst, either they have been
pqued by their old associates for not rccog-
nziDg their sef-supposed merits; or, second, they
found the other sido paid best In the former class
Garland H. White (coloredJ, Of North Carolina, and
others who are now making great hurrah for Tiden
and Hendricks In the latter would place the coored
BARRIERS who are as class, professcd democrats. II
would be difficult white natives who would
I'LL the above descriptions, but there Is not corporate
guard Of either The instances OF such "crossing of
breeds" as may say in Southern parlsncc, are SO
rare aud are regarded as so peculiar that everybody
knows them Why the races stand in such solid
phaanx politics II IS impossible to say; but the
state OF affairs mention is not SO marked In local cleo
tions.


THE NEGROES IN LOCAL CONTEST


The negroes split up quite promiscuousy Ia local
contests where the fight between democrat and an
independent Then they consult their personal friend
ships their fancy scatter. But let ono of tho
candidates be designated republican, and Cu1ee
marches 10 HIM in tody. oven against his most tried
and trucst friends. The blame, II blame there bo lies
partly upon the whites, undoubtedly. Whether II 10
the old slave tho lack OF tact or sense
do not know, but certain It is that every enort 80 far
to fuse the races politically has JAILED. Those who are
close observers have often been struck by the lack Of
tact not to say sense by white men OF position and re-
puted intelligence in their Efforts to enlist the blacks In
the democratic cause.


AIR pATRoylzIxa


There n knowing air supcri.
ory and dcprecatng condesccnsion toward the blacks
that can never be successful with .soveregn" be ho
black or white. 1t may do for q talk with mans
lawyer or DOCTOR or that sort OF thing but never In
political haranguc. The sovereign" is natural born
coquette; he must DO coaxcd little be he white or
black II you patronize him he Is gonc especially II
he is your ignorant inferior Tho black Is jealous and
comes tho dignity OF a "sovereign" He wants
none OF your airs condesccnsons; no as good az
10 his incapacy TO discharge his high functions to his
late condition, Is reflection which he resens an
satisfied that one great cause OF tho failure OF the
Southern orators to make greater impression on the
blacks is the very style and manner refer TO- which,
however kindly meant will be futile 1t Is, Of course,
difficult for tho old politicians, such as Juba Early or
Tom Bocock or that set to discard their patronzing
to the negro however apt they may be with tho
class OF voters among the whites but they have
to realize the importance Of 1t succeed They
will, however, and 1t will be better Tor tho public good
when that class OF Southern politicians are In
Heaven.


RESPONSIBILITY OF THE RLAcxa


There is doubt, the other hand that the blacks





accounts for their politics. They cannot reazo
that parties change their principles and practcss TO
their simple minds the republican party OF today Is
the same thing whom they were emancipated.
They creatures OF emotion and superstition. 1t is
shrouds the whole history OF their emancipation IN
mystery and tins, coupled with their naturally super.
stous natures has invested tho names and characters
OF the leading actors in the struggle for freedom With
attributes little short OF divinity. They cannot realize
that tho republican party Of to-day is not the same
that gave them freedom and political equality the
party OF Lincoln, of Chase, OF Sumner of Stanton and
OF Greeley Lapse OF tme change OF tenets corruption
decay the party has nought to them Their
aieconate and timid natures still cling to that party
the givcr OF all their good gifts and 1t s halowed
by the memory of their hearts idol l undertake to
that orator earth could address appeal TO
the intelligence Of the negroes that would withstand the
shock OF appeal to their affections and emotions.
Let him peal forth eoquence such as never man spoke,
let HIM be known from Maine to Florida for honor,
truth and everything that goes to make men great,
drum, an American flag, with picture OF Lincoln and
..he great republican party" it. and you will leave
him without an audience IN ten minutes time


PROSPECT CHANGE.


Whom and by what means the present array OF races
against each other politically will is beyond
the ken OF tho average statesman to guess predict
however, that in Tho coming Presidential election in
the South they will vote solidy for Hayes and
Wheeler as they did Grant and Wilson in 1872 The
nrouds that have been made upon them in local poll
tics since that time will be OF avail In this contest
Tho national watchwords and paraphernaa viii rally
them to the republican party as sure as II into the
field When their ignorance Is taken into considers
tion their faith to tho party to which they consider





reprehensible Their unwavering fidelity through
good and evil report rciues the charge often BAN
died from mouth to mouth that they have gratitude.
OF course would DO infinitely better If their intel-
gcnce rather than their gratitude guided their iran-
chise; but their united action has not one-tenth tho
sinister purpose toward the whtos that malicious per-
attribute to IT, One thing is certain, that tho
whites Of the South so far, seem to have failed to
discover the secret whereby they may be induced to
abandon their solid support OF the republican party.


SECRETARY TAFrS ORDER.


The military headquarter manifesto of Secretary
Taft ias Stubborn here His marshas will be without
any work to do, and tho people, white and
black, feel no interest In his bugle blasts,
for they know they will not be answered
here Perhaps the Secretary is initiating Grants old
tactica Whenever he intended 70 abandon position
front OF the enemy he opened heavy fire all along
the line set all his buglers to sounding charge and
retrcated under cover of the noise he made. II the
negro problem the South Is solved will have
the consolation OF knowing we under obligation
to any statesman politician of the present day.
Government has seemed TO delight In bundering Tho
whites utterly without tact In the matter, and the
negroes seem happily unconscious that there is such