Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — OSTRACIZED BY HIS RACE. [ARTICLE]

OSTRACIZED BY HIS RACE.

A Richmond Negro Almost Left to Die Alone Because He Voted Against Mahone. Lazarus Bullfinch, a colored man, recently died- here. He voted with the Democrats in the last election, and afterward was entirely ostracized by members of his face. They refused to speak to him or to let him visit their houses. Bullfinch was a very quiet negro, not participating actively in polities, but he supply expressed his determination to vote with the great body of the representative white people, who, he said, gave his race employment, and were indeed the best friends of the colored man. The negroes had been worked up to a pitch of frenzy by the reports industriously circulated among them by the Mahone agents to the e'ffect that the triumph of the Democracy meant the re-enslave-ment of the colored race. While the more intelligent blacks disbelieved such reports, the ignorant mass were stirred up, and cast a solid vote for the Mahone ticket. Bullfinch stood out against his race, however, and quietly voted the Democratic ticket. Since that time to the day of his death he became a pariah among his race. HA had no companions. His nearest relations had nothing to do with him. Two weeks ago he was taken sick, and a few of his colored friends attended him. The most of the negroes, however, would have nothing to do with him, and he died on Friday. His funeral took place to-day, and was conducted by Rev. Dr. Hatcher, a leading white minister of the Baptist Church, and was attended almost entirely by white people.— Richmond (Fa.) telegram. Sherman and Mahone’s. attempt to imitate Blaine by “stirring up” the Southern members was a flat failure. They are several years behind the age with their rubbish