The Charlotte Democrat

A well known colored man, Fred. Douglas, has written a letter to the Washington Chronicle from which we take the following:

"I am not at all surprised at the State of affairs in the Southern States, among the colored people, when I take into consideration the class of white Republicans who have misled them ever since they became citizens, and for their own selfish ends. The colored people of the South have been made to believe from the start by their pretended Republican friends that there was money in politics, so much so that it has been impossible in very many instances to get good, honest colored men in office, because they could not be used to wink at whatever white Republicans might do that was corrupt. White men have been elected to office by negro votes who scarcely had a second shirt to their backs before being installed in office; a few months later they are sporting fine horses, gold watches and chains, smoking fine cigars, and purchasing fine dwellings, &c."

Verily, (says the Goldsboro Messenger) a true picture of Southern Republicanism. The negroes are cajoled, bamboozled and swindled by a few white office-seekers, who are Republicans merely to get office, and only as long as they can get office. The negro must be satisfied with the privilege of voting for these hungry cormorants. The offices are all for the few white men—nothing for the negro.