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Show THE GEuEGIA COLJR LINE. A Georgia correspondent of the New York Times, who is writing up the politics of that state, shows that the negro Toters have very little chance to assert their rights and; show their numerical strength at this! polls. He says that in a political sense it would have been quite as well for the colored people "if the war had never occurred, fur they are practically aa far from the ballot-box ballot-box now as they were in the days of slavery." The negroe attribute their political troubles to the apathy of the white republicans. One of them said to the correspondent : "'Taint no u0 U3 niggers tryin' to vote f wo isn't backed up by de white folks. Nijojcri cau'l vote alone, dtit'a sur-V "In wht wy di you wa'.l your whit.-friends whit.-friends to be'p y U ? " I asked. "Ob, wo doe-n't want much," he rtplifd: 'Vf (ley wyjid c une, ft f w of dem and elnr.d roui d by i As 'leulion dy, do boys wouldn't bo afoared; ilnt wou d rnnke a 8 )rt of moral persuasion like, and dey'd all sU-p lode front. Dcy wnnU to.sijrc." "Af.d won't Y"ur wiiil" b-aduri do that mm b fur you?" "No, Sih, no", in d" c luntry; in d i city dey i.n band nil ribt, but in d- country don't no'.e on e:n come round; ske-'-ed I rtcion.', " Why ibuu d lln-y b-. af-a d?'' I a.k-d. " Wal," iid In-, and then fhm k In-h.'Bd In-h.'Bd niy.ri'.vj-:y, "Wal, efyTliv-d d'iwn d' a way, S ih, n-ckon yi.-r'd lu.d O'lt dit twnr'nt b";illliy fur no wliiUi rudi 'aU lo bo round (c.rKi cunlrv '! dayj." "Th-u you in' an lo tell Hid ihntlln) D4'grn'i duii't vule b'.tiiuo lb wlmi; n publi 'in don't try to protect tli'Tn, and tlmttlot wfailn rn-ii tiy awjy lr .ni tlio iilU through tarY" "Ve, b"b," m thn rcji y, ' dal urn ju;di cn-arri in du churn, bolb on em is Bk'.UTcJ." TIhm condition of iitr,iira i an in evitftblc outgrowth of the manngc- ment of the eoutuern republican party. Tho color line has been drawn so strictly in Georgia politics that it has forced all tho whites into the democratic party, and similar results are witnessed in most of the southern sUtes, until all of them, with the exception perhaps ot Louisiana and Houth Carolina, ;ire 1 democratic beyond n contingency. Those two states have been strengthened strength-ened in tiieir republicanism within a : few years by the addition Of thousand of ambitious negroes from Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi Ala bama and Arkansas, though it is not likely that Louisiana will give its vote to the republican ciudidate. The question of race is a practical one, which ii a comtant factor in society, to the demands of which party policy must necessarily yield. The only hope for the negro politicians in this country lies in the Africanization of some of the gulf states by the emigration emigra-tion of all tho available young men and women from the southern states where the whites now hold the supremacy. su-premacy. By tuis process they may drivo out the whites from a considerable consider-able territory and control one or more states. Tboy certainly can make no , headway in politics in direct competi-1 competi-1 tion with tha whites. Whether the negroes could keep up a state govern ment on a repuuiicau ua'ila is question which remains to be tested. The general sentiment would probably prob-ably be in opposition to the trial of such experiments by the colored people, peo-ple, but under our system there are no legal obstacles to its accomplishment, if the African raco hero has sufficient intelligence and ambition to go ahead and attempt to set up for themselves. It they cannot do this, their dojm as politiciaus is evidently sealed. It i already admitted that the attempt to build up a southern republican party, on the basis of the negro lias failed. The presidential election of this fall will probably sho.v the smallest republican re-publican vote east in the southern states since 1SG0. |