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Democratic NegroesThe Republicans are making a wry face over the fact that the colored official Mr. Matthews has proven both competent and honest. They havecarefully vivisected his record and can*find nothing to object to except that he is a Democrat.As a sign of the times the prominence of a Democratic colored man is portentous to the Republican party. Suppose it should become known throughout the South that the Republicans are not the sole political dependence of the negroes; that the pleasant little fables which were freely circulated in the South in 1881, to the effect that if the Democrats came into power slavery would be once more established and negro children served up on the half shell to satisfy the ogreish appetite of the Democracy, are shown to be false, what then? And suppose that the colored people who are not as easily duped as they were ten years ago should get the fatal notion into their heads that a Democratic Administration will look after their rights, and, as in the Freedman’s Bank swindle, help them to get back the money which Republicans stole from them and which the Republican party refused to make good, what then?—N. Y. I Ucrald*
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Centralia Democrat
Centralia, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 28, 1887
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