Show WHO ARE OUR FRIENDS WE have bave through the columns of the BROAD ax As oo on several occasions long pointed wd out the absurdity of ahe the colored men aligning themselves with the republican party aim simply ply because that thae party was supposed to have hare the credit of freeing the slaves let us for a short time see ii if there remains any good reason why they should do so in the first place the emancipation of the slaves was one of the fortunes oi of war a military necessity it would n never ever i have been done even by abraham lincoln had it not been considered necessary to put down the rebellion the proclamation of the president provided that if the south would lay down their arms by a certain date they should keep and ret retain all i n all their slaves as they had find done before from this alone it is plain that the republicans cared but little for their dark skinned bro brothers illers as they were willing to forge the totters fetters of bondage closer than ever to gain a victory at arms and bring a surrender to the tha party in power during the great political campaign of 1860 mo jio greater insult the republicans than to charge them with ben I 1 9 if adorable lo 10 the abolition ou of a alai lavery cry andl and during the diw VP 1863 te 10 say it ii was waged r ag e simply to ilive free the negroes ajio 6 would be resented in m the jr most violent language and would f ae p ik result s ja in a personal bo ra ba W rth r th e adint an bf f the north fr emr laif that of envy toward the south before the he war and the their e g a i rd for the colored 6 r e d J t 11 man was thet hon spring ng of t that ii J lo 10 w i us az a aikin feeling JL in other W th more sif a f STA 3 S c fiew ss s v f than they loved the negro the threadbare argument that there the republican party freed the sand that hence they were in honor bound to vote with that party is without reason or truth such an argument appeals to prejudice and not to the conscience of the voter it is debasing and enslaving za in its results as the negro while treed freed from their southern masters would become the abject slaves of the republican bosses and dishonest politicians it has been charged that the democrats are unfriendly to the colored race and that the republic cans are their only true friends however the facts and history of the past twenty five years do not verify that statement let us see in 1885 president cleveland apil I 1 pointed C H J taylor aco lorid man minister to bolivia the first time in the history y of this country that a colored man had been sent as minister to a white nation the same gentleman is now no recorder of deeds in the district dietric bof of Colum columbia lia isaiah montgomery an ex slave of gen to jo davis was the only pal colored member of the late constitutional tut ional convention of miss elected as a democrat and ana is now in the treasury department appointed by cleveland mr ashwood a colored man was appointed b by Y president cleveland to a consulship in 1 franco france but a aepli republican alican senate refused to confirm him there are over two thousand colored in men ehnow now holding ablaing poi positions in washington under democratic administration administrate V cheit jon bechir Ben A Hir w rison rison was president lent he ce discharged aried fr nsf tf f coachman hawkins a colored man and a fia g iv T t y mans man in his place abid en president clive was radi elected eca hawkins was 7 C cans aus have never nominated a colored man i korthof nor oi j ie the mason f fi y T i T i and Dix online for a fedora aci y 3 e r W s fred Doug douglass glass in 1887 in a speech before the commercial club of boston said in su substance il stance that while he was iras a republican he was free to say that president cleveland was the only president of the U S who had the bourage coura geto to invite a colo colored reaman man to a reception at the white house that he hi himself m was present and received receive athe the highe highet t and kindest consideration from all present no free colored man was allowed to vote in adv any northern state before the war the he laws in new england states and in new york pennsylvania and new jersey all recognized slavery their earliest hi history tory until afew a few decades ago and in many 0 of f them the laws were crupl cruel and oppressive upon free colored men prom from all this how can an honest intelligent colored man icel feel that the democrats are their natural foes in the south the democrats understand der stand the colored people better than do the republican yankees of the noth they have been raised with them for many years they know their wants and their hearts are in full sym sympathy patEy with the struggles and difficulties of our race there is therefore no reason on earth why a colored m man an should be a republican any more than a democrat the history of the past shows that the democrats iare are as thoughtful of the needs ii e 6 ds and rights of the colored race as the republicans in conclusion ion let jet us again urge upon every progressive coloria colored voter to P strike d down own this feeling of prejudice and vote and aci act as a thinking reasonable being bein gaud and be either a republican Republic aA or a abin democrat i upon logical grounds und and le be governed erne ilby by the principles 2 les and pone policy y of the political pa parties lna aud not by a false sentiment that only de grades you and keeps you vo u m in i po Is lotical slavery T |