Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — What the Republican Party Has Done for the Negroes. [ARTICLE]

What the Republican Party Has Done for the Negroes.

It has freed millions of them from slavery. It has placed in the fundamental law a provision that they shall never be enslaved again. It has raised thenr to the dignity of citizenship, and given them for their protection the privilege of suffrage. It has established schools for their children in all parts of the country. It has adopted legislative measures to secure for them in public places and in public vehicles such treatment as should be accorded to all decent human beings. It lias elected them to State Legislatures, to the United States Senate and to the House of Representatives; it has placed one eminent black man in a high place in the treasury, and it has sent black men abroad as its Ambassadors. It has defended the negro from fierce persecution in the South, it has fought his battles in the North, it has espoused his cause everywhere, and it has always found in its front when it entered such contest but one enemy, namely, the Democratic party. — Philadelphia Bulletin. •