Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — The Last Crack of the Plantation Whip. [ARTICLE]

The Last Crack of the Plantation Whip.

Ths harangues of Democratic Pens-’ tors on the subject of admitting a negro; duly elected by a reconstructed State, to a seat in the Senate, are doing a fine work for the Republican party of future years. Not only does the candidate for Senatorial honors patiently hear these impotent gnashings of teeth, on the part of defeated and spiteful rebels and their allies, hut the futgne voters hear it also. The revilenspf the negro have made their record in the hearing of the race they have oppressed, degraded, and insulted. As the Democratic party gained the abiding good will of the emigrant population Of the United States by its advocacy of liberal naturalization laws, so the Republican party has forever joined to itself t£e votes of the rate It has liberated and ennobled. Had the Democracy been a little wiser since’Jhje war, it might have conciliated at least a portion of this now large element of po-. litical power. Butthat is now impossible. To the very last the organs and orators of that vile, treacherous and wicked party , have poesued the negro with their per-. •eartioM, sneers and- iasqlfS. When , the negro bad no political power, they could insult Mm with impssity. Timfes have changed, however. The contest between ■Me iwafle, «nfl’ US despotic, mis-j named Democracy will not be so heretofore. And fog.M&'ifate.pf infamy and defeat which is before it that party mwr blame Its own vindictive, arrogant and short-sighted leaders Toledo Blade.