Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1880 — Page 1

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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS Coonty Ticket Sheriff II arry C. Adams. Treasuror Lke Mothf.rshead. Recorder J acoh L. Beilkr. Judge Superior Court Bvrox K Elliott, County Commissioner John H. Smith. Surveyor II. II. Fatout. Coroner Alliwos Maxwkll, M. D. Twenty Anti-Grant delegates from the State of Illinois, with good right will contest for admission to the Chi cago Convention. We suggest to the Indiana delega tion the propriety of casting the vote of this State for Senator Brace for Vice-President. That would bo a Hplcndid thing to tell at the ratifica tion meeting in this city, on the 7th proximo. There was a split in the Louisiana convention, and as a consequence the State sends contesting delegations to Chicago. Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback and Gen. Taylor Beattie head the Grant del egation, and Senator Kellogg and JI. C. Warmoth the other, which, as to preference is divided among the three candidates, Grant, Sherman and Blaine. The Itepublican Natioual Convention will assemble in.Chicagoon next Wednesday and,' we confidently trust, will name the next President of the United States. It is within the power of the delegates to do it, if they listen to reason and the voice of the people. "The Shadow of the Negro" is the caption of an excellent article which we clip from the current number of Scribner'8 Magazine. Wo call the attention of our readers to this article. It is worthy of thoughtful perusal. It is good reading for poli ticians. The conclusions drawn by the writer are eminently logical and just. It is the general impression that the "unit rule" will be "busted" at Chicago. It ought to be in so far as it attempts to control the action of the district delegates. It is legitimate for a state convention to instruct the delegates at large and possibly require them to vote as a unit, but for a state convention to attempt by a bare majority to control the action of district delegates is unrepublicanand should not be countenanced. HONORABLE RECOGNITION. The universal demand now being made by the colored people ot this County for honorable official recognition at the hands of the Republican party is a high compliment to the intelligence and aspirations of the race. This demand and the persistence with which it is made are the expression of a manly independence and honorable ambition without which the race would be unworthy of respect. To discourage the worthy aspirations of the race and refuse to acknowledge their reasonable demands for recognition would be a fatal mistake on the part of the Eepublican party. It could only end in the alienation of a large class of its most loyal and devoted adherents. - On every hand, however, we hear from Republicans who ought to bo enthusiastic for the nomination of a colored man, the argument, "I am opposed to nominating a colored man, simply because he is a colored man." The colored people do not ask anything of the kind. They simply ask that color be not nude a bar to the .advancement of men of their race. The colored people will present candidates who are the peers in every re spect, and the superiors in many, of the opposing white candidates. It is demagogism for Republicans to oppose the nomination of a colored man becaifse it would be recognizing the demand of aclasä. Do not the-Re publicans do this every year? Do they not place a German on the ticket every year because the Germans demand such recognition, and the de mand is reasonable and just? If it were not complied with does any one suppose that any considerable nam ber of Germa ns would support the Republican party? Nor is this policy of recognizing tho German and other class elements confined to the Repub licans of Marion County. It is prac ticed by both political parties, and by s.11 departments of the Government, from the Executive mansion to the

street force of the country hamlot. So successful have boon tho Germans,

the Irish, and othor classes in obtain ing honorable and substantial rccog nition that it is not now uncommon to hear colored men declare that the race will never be recognized until the colored people "do like the - Ger mans do;" and it is a well-known fact that party harness hangs loosely on German shoulders. There is nö use denying tho fact that color 'Jjas .bon heretofore a bar to the advancement of colored men in thafltepublican party. We want the party, to nominate a colored man to show, that this obstacle does not now exist! The refusal to nominate a colored man under present circumstances would be proof positive not only that thifif prejudice still exists within the party, but that the party is willing to recognize every other class except the colored. Within a month alter Mr Hayes was nominated for the Presidency, ' it was known all over the land that the Germans would have recognition in tho Cabinet if tho Republican party succcodod. We do not object to tho recognition that ha been awarded the Germans. On the contrary we arc glad to see it not only because their political strength en titles them to it, but because the great mass of German voters have.uniformily arrayed themselves on tho side of rcdom and equal rights. We only demand that the colored people shall bo dealt with in the same spirit of airness,and that they shall not be de nied just recognition simply for the sake of pandering to a vile prejudice hat should be fought and crushed. SENATOR BRTJOE FOR VICEPRESIDENT. The announcement of tho fact that Lhc colored people of the country will present the name of Senator Bruce to he National Convention at Chicago, a3 a candidate for Vice-President has created intonso excitement, not to say consternationamong a certain class oi politicians, wo can see noining alarming in it. It is tho complexion to which we must, as a Nation, come sooner or later. It is not in the nature of things that a million voters should adhere solidly to any political party without demanding honorable official recognition.- The cordiality; "and enthusiasm with which the 'suggestion that the colored delegates, to : the National Convention, cast their votes for Senator Bruce for Vice-President, has been received by the colored press and people; f the country is 'grati fying evidence of a healthy growth of race pride; i Senator Bruce's career in the Senate has been one of spotless integrity." ; His independent and dig nified bearing has won him the re gard and esteem of his associates, ir respective Of j party. His advocacy of the rights and. interests of his race merits this, recognition by them of his services. ' . . Let the colored j delegates lead off with a solid front, and they .will be backed by hundreds , of white dele gates, and if the ticket which leading colored men; of Washington have en dorsed Blaine , and . Bruce is put into the field, it will be triumphantly elected. This talk about änjr consid erable number of Republicans desert ing the ticket rather than vote for a thoroughly r upright and competent colore ! man, is the merest ' kind of twaddle. Abundant evidence is not wanting to prove that the Republican party is strong when it stands up boldly forthe grand- principles of liberty and . equality upon which it was founded; and weak when it bows aown io me . laise goa oi prejudice. Let every colored delegate in the con vention vote for Senator Bruce. ". 1TO BXCUOE. All of tho" colored candidates for the Legislature Jiave now withdrawn except J. S. Tlinton and R. B. Bagby. These are tho only names thatfwill be presented to - the Convention, unless some political, hack and trickster pre sents other natnc3 simply to scatter the votes of the delegates and prevent the nomination of a colored man. Be tween thesi gentlemen and their -re spective frpnds there is 'nothing but friendlinecj and honorable rivalry. The old excuse that "a colored, man would have been nominated 'if there had not been so many, candidates" no longer exists. The delegates must meet the question of color prejudice and must conquer it or be conquered 1 !i , mi ' 'i ' . ' i ' ' 1 J oy iw xney mus nominate a coiorea I man and thus proclaim to the world

that the Republican party is still the advocate of liberty, equality and justice and that within its ranks tho gates

to the goal of the highest ambition are barred against no man on account of the mere accident of color; or they must confess to tho colored voter that the barrier of color prejudice is enthronod in the Republican party, and that it limits tho coloredllepublican's ambition to menial aspirations. This would boa bad impression to go abroad. It would have a jnost unwholesome influence on the two thousand colored voters ol Marion Couuty. We believe confidently that the Convention will recognize the. demand of the colored people and we, shall be totally unprepared for a contrary re suit. We repeat, not the shadow of an excuse for refusal now remains. THE PRESIDENCY. Before another issue of the Leader the contest for the republican nom. ination for the presidency will be settled. We hazard no prophecy as to who will be the successful candi date. In our opinion the chances are in favor of Maine's favorite son, James G. Blaine. General Grant will go into the convention with the larg est number of delegates and, if at all, will be nominated on first ballot. Wo believe, however, that General Grant will fail of the requisite majority on the first ballot and that on the second ballot, the delegates will vote their individual preferences, in which event Blaine would undoubtedly have a majority. We adhere to the often axpressed conviction that the nomi nation of General Grant wonld be unwise and unsafe. Blaine can poll overy republican vote that Grant can and a great many votes that would bo cast against General Grant on account of tho third term. Wo trust that tho delegates will thoughtfully consider the situation and then be governed in their action by what the best inter ests of the party demand, regardless of unit rules and othor gags upon the undoubted sentimont of the people. There is no question whatever but that the masses of tho republican party are overwhelmingly opposed to the renomination of General Grant. If his nomination is forced at Chicago by the unfair methods that were prac ticed in the Illinois state convention, we fear that there would be a formid able revolt which might end in the disastrous defeat of the party at the polls. Blaine, Sherman, Washburne or Edmunds would lead the party to a glorious triumph in November. With either of these distinguished leaders we shall not only elect our presidential ticket but we shall re gain control of Congress and place tho Republican party in a position to control national affairs for tbe next quarter of a century. Let the dele gates lay aside personal bias and act for the common weal. editorial Chaff. Florida by resolution has Settlefd) the third term. The (Lugenb)eel was too slick for the old Christiancy. DecreDit old centlemen with lnmr nnrsps well filled are quite successful as heart-i-cultarists-As goes Maine, so goes the Union. She is going it isu ajine tnis time, bee echenck's manual for farther particular?. Senator Ben Hill can devote four davs to Louisiana affairs, but not an hour nor a minute to Jessie and "little Tommy. Riffhtthiawav. Mr. NihilisL WW.Pnini wants to be blown h 1 west and rrnnlrod and we want you to boss the job you have naa experience. Col. In?eraoll navn Havph cnnld nnf Ko n j J v.v V fw V - - - w V J V.ing candidate, as there would be enough scattering votes to defeat him. rts-tsieuLeii jrreHiueiiL 11 iik iih.ii n n rtrmrta. t a ria a i a n . a. state i a öiate: unr nnnnr fnr a State!" is the Democratic concrresflinnal m when thev think of the tofwibl failnrA nf an election lor resident by the people a . m v . . Messrs. Cameron. Conklinc. and TWan are the engineers of the Grant boom, while nreman jar irouia is trie cfintipmnn whn has the reputation of oiling the wheels of Senator Christiancv now thinks that a match between Decemher and Nnvpmbor - V VIM wonld be nrpfprahl tn Anril onrl fVfntur Correct, Älr. Senator, but a learned judge ought to have known that before trying it. The Presidential nomination in tho Democratic nartv ianarrnwint itaolf to a question of "barrels." If any man can oat barrel Mr. Tilden, he can have the nomination: if he can't Via vnn't rf it That's the whole situation in a nutshell. It is said that Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, has "seen" the Tilden $500,000 bid for the Democratic nomination, and "raised" him a half million. Tilden will not "call" the nutmeg Yankee, but will come down with a solid million, and let the nutmeg Yankee put up hia entire pile. A man was struck down by paralysis in a Michigan sawmill. Re fell across a log which was being gawed, and was carried with it slowly but surely to the saw. He - - J oa rv iiv waa AnamAna Vi 4 44.1 1 t i . mi I Mw had cut haU way through Ss arm

when his awful predicament was discovered. The adherents of one of the Georgia's Ex-Senator are Gordon-ers. Uneasy rests the heart of the young man.

who has two strings to hi3 prospective uiai(imuiiiat uow. The United States of Christophe Co! umbe, have gently informed the United States of Amerigo Vespucci, that they will have none of the hitter's interference in their isthmus affairs. It now remains to be seen what Amerigo is going to do about it. The Shadow of tho Negro. (Scrlbner'a Magazine. The history of Negro slavery, extending from its beginning in Portugal over a period of fonr hundred years, and involving the exportation by violence from their African homes of forty millions of men, women and children, is one of excreding and unimaginable bitterness. It is too late to criminate those who were responsible for beginning the slave trade, and for perpetuating the system of bondage that grew out of it Many of them were conscientious, Christian men, who worked without a thought of the wrong they were doing. Some of them, as we know, really believed they were benefiting the Negro, by bring ing him out of a condition of barbarism into the enlightening and purifying influences of Christianity. For many years xsegro slavery prevailed in this country, and greatly modified the institutions and the civilization of a large portion of it. It became, at least, the exciting cause of the greatest civil war known in the history of the world; and when that war brought abolition, it gave to the black race in America not only freedom but citizenship. The question as to what all these centuries of wrong and of servitude have done for the fiegro is not a dimcult one to answer, but what they have done for the enslaving race is net bo evident without an examination. The black man bas been a menial o long that he has lost, in a greatlegree, his sense of manhood and his power to assert it. The Negro carries within him the Be&se that his blood is tainted that he is something less than a man. in conse quence of the blackness of his akin. He may be whitened out, so that only the most practiced eye. can detect a trace of the African in him, but the consciousness of the possession of this trace haunts him like the memory of a crime, and to charge it upon bim is to abase him and cover him with a burning shame. The readiness of the Negro in all the States to be content with menial offices in the service of the white man, comes undoubtedly from the fact that such orhces relieve him from all antagonism. They put him in a position free from the pretension to quality, where fee is at peace. We hear it eaid that the Negro is a natural menial, a nat ural servant, but the truth is that if the Negro were only relieved from the burden of contempt in which his blood is held, his special adaptation to menial work would disappear at once. The harm that slavery did to the white man was one that toughed him internally and externally, at most important points. It vitiated his sense of right and wrong. Through its appeal to his interests, it made a system based in inhumanity and standing" and working in direct contravention of the Golden Rule, seem to be a humane and Christian institution, to be maintained by argument, by appeal to the authority of the Bible, and by the sword. This, of course, was an immeasurable harm, from which only a slow recovery cau be reached. Another evil result of slavery to the white man was the disgrace that came to labor through its long years of association with servitude. No people can be prosperous who despise labor, and who look upon it as something that belongs only to a servile class. Any people that, for any cause, have lost the sense of the supreme respectability of labor any people that, for any cause, have come to regard an unproductive idleness as desirable and respectable, have met with an immeasurable misfortune. The shadow of the Negro not only rests upon the white man's sense of right, not only on the white man's idea of labor, but upon his love of fair play. There is something most unmanly in the disposition to deny any man who has not harmed us a lair chance in the world. Are we, all over this Nation, giving the Negro a fair chance? It was not his fault that he was born to slavery. It was not his act that released him from it. Notwithtsanding all his years of servitude and wrong, he did not revolt when his opportunity came, but bore his yoke with patience until it was lifted from his shoulders. He did not wrest from unwilling hands his boon of citizenship. Now, however, as we look into our hearts, we find that political rights were conferred upon him rather from an abstract sense of justice than for any love of the Negro, or any equal place that we have made for him in our hearts and heads as he stands by our side. The North, to-day, is true to the Negro rather in its convictions than in its sympathies. It never in its heart has admitted the Negro to equality with the white man. It may consent to see the white man beaten by the Negro in a walking-match atGilmore s Garden, but at West Point she smallest measure of African blood places its possessor under the cruellest and most implacable social ban. So long as this fact exists so long as the Northern white man utterly excludes the Negro from his social sympathies and refuses to give him a fair chance in the world to secure respectibility and influence, it poorly becomes him to rail ot his Southern brothers who do the same thing, and are only a little more logical and extreme in their expressions of contempt The shadow of the Negro lies upon the North as upon the South. It has obscured or blotted out our love of fair play. We do not give the Negro a chance. It was recently stated in one of our metropolitan pulpits, by a minister of wide experience and observation, that he had never heard in any country better speeches made than were recently made in this city by four colored men, who spoke on behalf of thefreedmen. He gave them the highest place in all the powers and qualities that go into the making of eloquence. At Hampton, the negro is proving himself to be not only most susceptible to cultivation, but to be possessed of a high spirit of self-devotion. Under the charm of this most useful institution the African ceases to be a " nictrpr" and achieves a self-respect and a ense of manhood that prepare him for the great missionary work of elevating his race. It cannot be disnuted that the creat ohstai that stands to-day in the way of the Negro is the white man. North and South. The white man in this country is not yet ready to treat the Neero as a man. The nrein. dioe of race is still dominmt in every part of the land. We are quite ready in New York City to invite Indians in paint and feathers into social circles, from which the

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