The Colored People

For gome time past the eolored people of Uiis 9tate have feit tbat they onglit lo be recognized by the pnrly wliicli they support by tbelr votes. Their fathers had received liberty for theniñelref and tor all their posterity for all time to come from the bands of the Republlcan party, at the expense of thous.mils of lires, millions of dollars, and years of pain, anguish anj grief. Sucli a hnroic act, done in sucli B gamarpoi way, plueed the downtrodden race under a debt wbteb can never be paid. The emanclpation was cftected ut au incalculable sacrifice of life and limb. It can not be paiU for by a few yean of fealty In voting-, whieh costs no sacrifice of time, money, ease, or favor. The eolored voters have n-alized this, and have faithfully stood by the party which gave tliem their freedom. Bnt of late deoiííniujr Democratie demagogues have attempted to stir up sedition among them. Even the party which enslaved tliemand fouglitto keep them in bondage, and whicb, after their liberation, bas bpn drlving tbem from their homes, sliooting them down, despoilino; tlieir property, refusing them thdr righte to free speech and an education; yf, even this party 3 now whliperlng lies la Iheirearsand calling thfin "iiirrers" only behlnd their backs Inetead of their faces as formerly. This vcry polilical coalltlon, alwnys tiie eolored man'g enemy, is now fawning about him and tryinsf tieacheronsly to seduce him trein liis alleiance. The eolored man is u;irm hearted and likes big f liends, and we lielieve he can distinguisli wbo they have been and wLo they still aiv.