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abundant evidence at hand from every section of the country,
that the Negro has an adequate appreciation of the function
of the ballot. It is therefore a safe conclusion that he will not
use his ballot in this campaign to any appreciable extent in
response to the thrills of sentiment, but with grim visage and
serious mien will employ this boon of citizenship, as the re-
sult of sober thought and calm reason, to the benefit of his
home and family, to the credit of his racial kith and kin, and
to the glory of his country and his flag.
                                        New York City


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        THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE NEGRO.
                  By Fred R. Moore.

               THE Republican party came into being because
               of the existence of Negro slavery; the Ne-
               gro helped the party  suppress the  Slave
               Holders' Rebellion and perpetrate the Union
               of the States, answering Father Abraham's
               call for volunteers 200,000 strong; and, since
1868, in ten successive Presidential elections, he the Negro
citizen, by his vote in the South, West and North, has helped
to keep the Republican party in power in State and Nation,
so that it could work out those policies that have made the
United States one of the strongest, richest, and happiest na-
tions of the earth and the Republican party one of the wisest
and most helpful agencies in the government of any nation,
ancient or modern.
    In the broadest sense, the Negro citizen was born in the
Republican house, as the Republican party was born in the
Negro Slave's Cabin; the slave whose hopes and fears were
voiced through the land by Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd
Garrison, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln! President Taft
is the head of the Republican house. The white members of
the party have never done more in their way than the black




			

African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Vol. 29, Num. 2

Republican Party and the Negro

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Volume:  29
Issue Number:  02
Page Number:  123
Date:  10/1912