Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1874 — The White Man’s Party. [ARTICLE]

The White Man’s Party.

The Democrats of Alabama in their recent State Convention adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That the radical and dominant faction of the Republican party in this State persistently, by false ana fraudulent representations, have inflamed the passions and prejudices of the negroes, as a race, against the white people, and have thereby made it necessary for the white people to unite and act together in selfdefense and for the preservation of white etHli* zation. In answer to this resolution the Republicans of the same State, in their convention subsequently held, having declared themselves in favor of ** the.eivil and political equality of all men, without distinction of race or color,” proceed to say: We have not made a race issue in the past,

neither do we make or tender such «issue. What we demand for one man we demand for all, without distinction of race or color: and we point with pride and confldenee te every line or our political record In proof of tawdeclaration and we denounce the Mwmwijte we ante made It n ecesaary HF I whole peeple to eelte and act Together ter seu defense am wme preservation or white clvtliaaUoe ee en fer. and an emanation of that seMMt spirit wht<e 1 w me pes* demanded everything IW one-MMO #'*■ was eawilling to concede anything lothest -r. The population of Aloha? . in 1870 numbered 521,384 white ponoM tod 475,510 colored persona. The two races then were and still are nearly equal in numbers; and, hence, both being citizens equally entitled to vote, their political strength is about equal, The colored people of that State, as in the other Southern States, and, indeed, throughout the Union, have had the sagacity to see - that the Democratic party, both North and South, has held and still holds the attitude oi either open hostility dr heartless indifference to their interests and rights, and that the Republicto party in both sections has proved itself the party of equal civil and political rights, without distinction of “ race, color, or previous condition of sfervitude.” The perception es these two opposing facts abundantly explains why the colored people havte so universally allied themselves with the Republican party. They whuld be fools to have done otherwise. Democracy has never done anything for them. It has never sought their elevation. It opposed the constitutional amendments, and has opposed pi legfcffistionfor their enforcement. It has never gone beyond a reluctant acceptance of the emancipation and enfranchisement of the colored man as an, unwelcome necessity. Its principles an# Temped towardwthe negro give tne ife to*its party name. The Ku4£}ux KltosW:ere,«iade up of Democrats; and the “ White Leaguers” that are now taking their place and seeking their ends are also Democrat®. The whole* history of Democracy in respeut to the negro for the last thirty years is fitly represented by calling it the White Man’s party. Politically considered, it is the party of fixed antipathy to the Qqlored race; and, if ever a war of races shall occur, De-

mocracy will be its phief cause. Thfe Alabama Democrats, in their programme of “ white civilization,” have not originated a new idea in the history of Democracy, but simply brought to th* front what has long been thoroughly “ dyed in the wool.” They hope by an appeal to the prejudices of the white men to carry the election in that State this fall, and thus establish thfe ascendency of our “ glorious Caucasian civilization.” For this purpose they throw down the gauntlet of the race issue and seek to draw the line between races. The Republicans, on the other hand, true to the instincts and, history of the party, present the programme of American civilization as defined by the Constitution of the United States and founded on the broad doctrine of equal rights, without any distinction of race. They reject the issue of race against ra< What they demand for one man they equally demand for all men. They propose that both races, in respect to civil and political rights, shall stand on the same footing. Their theory is one of harmony between the races, witl jut any proscription of either. We have hoped and still hope that the issue of races will never in this country develop itself into an active struggle; There is no necessity for it, and it can accomplish nothing but evil to both races. Both are sufficiently numerous to perpetuate their own existence, and exist they will and myst under one common political system. The colored people at the Soutn since their enfranchisement have undoubtedly made some grave mistakes. The wonder is that they have not made more. Yet there is no evidence of any disposition on their part to force the race issue. What they ask and what they ought to have is the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, and because the Republican party is pledged to this doctrine they are themselves Republicans. Let Democracy squarely and honestly take the same ground and then prove its faith by its works; let it cease to be the white man’s party; and then and not till then will it cease to be justly obnoxious to the colored people. Till then they must vote against it or put in serious jeopardy their own interests. Nothing, moreover, is clearer than that the Republican party will not have comEleted its mission so long as Democracy olds to this white man’s theory. It fought the theory before the war, fought it during the war, and has been fighting it ever since; and it must continue the fight until the theory is absolutely dead and buried. There has been no time since the war in which D e *B° crac y could be safely trusted with the rights of colored men. That time has not yet come. The issues of the past are by no means dead and will not be until Democracy shall be dead or thoroughly reformed on the great question of human rights, including those of the colored people. Were the General Government in its hands Ku-Kluxism in some form would speedily be revived at the South* The constitutional amendments and the laws enforcing them rest to-day just where they have always rested—upon; the ascendency of the Republican party. The white man’s party, if in power, would repeal the latter and reduce the former for the most part to a dead letter. It wants a still longer quarantine to rid it of the old virus of negro antipathy — N. T. Independent.

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