Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — The Solid Negro Vote. [ARTICLE]

The Solid Negro Vote.

The Republicans would like to break the solid South, but not the solid Republican negro vote in the South ; yet there is danger of their losing a part of this vote, owing to the negro’s frequent disappointments in his eflforts to secure office from the party with which he has acted uniformly since he was made an eleetor. The colored editor of a North Carolina paper counsels the negroes that the time has come for self-interest to show them that independence in politics will best serve their future, and that they will never get office so long as the Republicans can lump the negro vote as a dead-sure thing. The negroes find, notwithstanding murmuring# that have taken the shape of formal protests, that while they are doing all the voting for the Republicans in the Southern States, the few white Republicans step into all the offices. In several States conventions of colored men have been held, and the powers that be have been notified that loyalty and hunger are not compatible. Unless the loaves and fishes are dealt to Southern negroes with a generous hand, there is likely to be an alarming bolt before the next general election.— Chicago Times.