Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1882 — The Horrified Party of Groat Moral Ideas. [ARTICLE]

The Horrified Party of Groat Moral Ideas.

Some part of Arabi Hubbell’s campaign funds will be expended on a map of South Carolina, showing how that portion of the United States has been carved to make a “black district,” so called. Mr. Horr. of Michigan, flaunted such a map in the presence of the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, and again in the presence of the faithful constituents who have nominated him for re-election. Mr. Horr said he was horrified in the contemplation of such iniquity. The “black district” of South Carolina wires in and wires out, and scoop-nets 155,760 African fellow-citizens, to whom the census adds 31,536 fellow-citizens less colored. It would not be quite true to say that Mr. Horr, of Michigan, was horrified at the thought that no white man could stand any show of election in that bl ick district. Mr. Horr’s horror did not spring from such a contemplation. He had voted to scat a flat-foot from the South Carolina penitentiary, as a member of the House, in the place of a white man. The horror to which he gave expression arose from the fact that so many valuable blacks were to be squandered in one district, when they might have been spread over more territory and made more of. He was horrified, in fact, that any white man (unless it bo Mackey, with a bl ick wife) should Wea show in South Carolina. Mr Horr’s horror is expressive of the feelings of a party of great moral ideas. Such a party has had the apportionment of Congressional districts in a number of States wherein white men predominate. Some of these white men had the misadventure to vote for Hancock. It is needful to guard the country from such as these. The party of great moral ideas, therefore, where it had the power to do so, faithfully provided that the other fellows, whose ideas are presumably not great and moral, should have as few representatives in Congress as possible. Witness the deal: Moral, idea Con- All other ConStates. votes. gress. rotes, gress. Michigan.lßs,ooo 11 Ififl.noo None Massachusetts. 105,000 11 117,000 1 10wa184,00-) 11 138,000 None Kansasl2l,ooo 7 80,000 None In these four States, where great moral ideas are uppermost, 500,000 white men are to lie allowed one member of Congress, on the basis of political calculation. That one conies from the unfortunate Democratic city of Boston. To save the State, and to prevent the sending of two Democratic members from Boston districts, the great and general court of the commonwealth made a “white district,” in which there should be 6,000 Democratic majority, and carved the other portions of Boston into four outlying districts, in which the suburban vote should stifle the city. That is fair, as it goes with the party of great moral ideas. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, is not horrified at the contemplation of one white district in Massachusetts ; it is the black district in South Carolina that fills him with horror. Let the party of great moral ideas look at tlie map and be horrified.— Chicago Times..