Newton County GaArchives News.....A SUGGESTIVE LETTER May 2, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise May 2, 1889
     Rev. R. T. ADAMS, colored, of Covington, Ga., writes a long and 
interesting letter to the Atlanta Constitution, from which we take the 
following extract, and invite its perusal;
     “I have been a republican all my life because I thought the best interest 
of the colored race was with the republican party. But now I see that this poor 
old stranded wreck, that is now run in the interest of the northern shylocks, 
is a poor thing for Negroes to invest their interest in. The negro is disgusted 
with the republican party because it has been lying to him for more than twenty-
five years, more than Sampson lied to Delilah. And now let Harrison with his 
southern policy ignore all colored men and build himself up a party among white 
men wherever he can find one unprincipled and to use enough to barter away 
principle and political convictions for spoils and office. For the negro will 
revolt and vote solidly against such an exclusive white man’s republican party. 
The negro is a free trader in politics, and he is certain in the future to be 
found voting with the party of tariff reform. The money lords of the republican 
party will never be able to control the colored vote in another election.
     Any colored man who will disgrace himself by condescending to stoop so low 
as to go to Washington to beg Harrison to recognize the colored men in the 
republican party, and his southern policy all go, and let the negro cultivate 
friendly relations among the people with whom they live; for the interest of 
the two races in the south are co-related, and the colored race must either 
remain in the south or else go to the devil. There is no negro problem here in 
the south; you find that seven headed beast only in the southern newspapers, 
and in the feeble imagination of many of the would be philanthropist who are 
scared of a negro a thousand miles off. 
     It is plain to any intelligent mind who has watched the trend of northern 
sentiments relative to the negro that the northern white people are getting 
tired of the negro, and that they are going to put him down, too. And that is 
just what Harrison’s republican administration is now doing. The colored vote 
is ripe for the revolt and everything indicates that in the future the colored 
vote will be found to be as solid against the so-called republican party as it 
once has been for it, for the interest and well-being of the colored race, 
especially in the southern states, demands it.


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