. Crisis. THEELECTIOK So far as the colored Americanis concerned the late electionmarks an epoch. For the firsttime since emancipation the Negxo vote wasan unknown quantity. As the New YorkHerald says: It has been assumed in the past that theNegTo vote may be counted as solid for theRepublican candidate. Such does not appearto be the case this year. The fact seems tobe that this year the split in the Republicanparty has induced many members of the raceto drop their allegiance to the Republicanparty, perhaps for good, and to turn to theDemocratic candidate. The attitude of the press toward the
. Crisis. THEELECTIOK So far as the colored Americanis concerned the late electionmarks an epoch. For the firsttime since emancipation the Negxo vote wasan unknown quantity. As the New YorkHerald says: It has been assumed in the past that theNegTo vote may be counted as solid for theRepublican candidate. Such does not appearto be the case this year. The fact seems tobe that this year the split in the Republicanparty has induced many members of the raceto drop their allegiance to the Republicanparty, perhaps for good, and to turn to theDemocratic candidate. The attitude of the press toward the Demo-cratic triumph and its relation to the Negroproblem is very interesting. Some of thecolored papers, like the Boston Guardian,treat it with triumph: Taking the advice of that lifelong South-ern Democrat, Col. Henry Watterson, thatif the white South saw that a presidentialvictory was assisted by the intelligent col-ored voters of the North, it would make fora better racial understanding, and with twocan
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