The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-07-04
Radicalism in Washington.

tutelage of Butler Stevens, Sumner and 9TH
or fathers of tho deinopiaca party, the net
groes would have attained by this time to
higher degree of civilization, than the scenes
recently enacted in that city by Radical
negroe mob would lead US to believe
True to their brutal instincts and fired by
the inhamatory harrangues of such demons
as J. W. Forney, these savages under the
very dome Of the National Capitol, and in
bearing Of Grants headquarters, brutaly
murdered and imbued their filthy hands in
the blood Of unofending white men
Voters of Placer, read and ponder we'll The
following letter written by the accredited
Washington correspondent of the Bulletin,
and let it sink deep in your hearts, and in
your calm thoughtful moments, when party
prejudice does not warp your judgment, ask
yourselves, "Where are we drif,ngl"-
" Will not these bloody lawless scenes be re-.
enacted everywhere, when the negroes have
the power?"
WAsH1NGroN, June 8, 1868.
THE WASHINGTON CITY ELECTION.
The municipal election of this city where
iu, for the second time, negroes exercised
their newly acquired rightof suffrage, excited
much interest wheG it came off last Monday;
but events growing Out Of its result bid fair
now TO give rise to excitement Of very
serious and alarming nature. On its becom.
ing known Yesterday afternoon that the Radi-
cal candidate, les J. Brown, was elected
MAYOR by majority of IA Tin total vote
of 2O,OOO) the negro clubs were organized
into procession, which, headed by a number
of disreputabls Whites who are always to be
found on the winning side, paraded the streets
with music and torches. Receiving accessions
every moment from the rabbls drawn 20.
getber by the noise, the .hrong. before 10
O'Clock. sweled to the number of four thou
sand or five thousand negroes. Hating
near the Chronicle cffice, they were addressed
by Col. Forney in an inhammatory bar.
rangue, d-nunciatory Of their political oppo
neuts as people who had employed all sorts
of vile Vaccinations against them and their
candidate, and referring in particularly VIC
lent terms to the soldiers now quartered here
who had almost unanimously voted the Con
sentative ticket. After listening 10 other
speeches of the same sort, they proceeded to
the residence of Mr.. Bowen, and serenaded
him. Then, marching to the vicinity Of the
Twelfth Infantry Barracks, they booted and
groaued the soldiers and finally broke up
into squads of small companies, which con
tinued to rove through the town, making
night hideous with their shouts and yelling
until a very late hour. Excited BY the
speeches and maddened with liquor, it re.
quived little or no provocaton to lead to VIC
lence and the cons equence is this morning
sadly perceptible in the sight of three white
corpses and the probably fatal wounds
Of another white man, all murderously as.
ssulted by negroes in as many different parts
Of The town. Windows were also broken
here and there, and one drug store was
is known at present. escaped without the
slightest injury. Many people not given to
groundless alarms are to-day gravely asking
each other if the bloody scenes Of San
| Dominique or Of the French Revolution, are
to be re.enacted in our own midst; and it
certainly would not be surprising if very seri
Gus rioting and retaliatory outbreaks on the
part of the lower classes of our white popu-
lation were to occur at any moment, aud
lead to a terrible and sickenug slaughter
among the populous negro quarters Of the
town. 1t is believed, however, that the pre-.
cautions which are quietly being taken to.
day will be sufficient to avert this calamity
and disgrace. As a chronicIer of the feeling
of the hour, must nevertheless say that it
is bitter and deep among the permanent pop
uation Of this city to degree of which
most people not dwelling among them have
no conception aud it is not safe to predict
the establishment of harmonious and friend
~ feelings between the two races with their
altered positions, here any more than else
where, until the freedman is given along with
the ballot, the education and intelligence
necessary to its proper use.
Is this not enough to make the blood run
cold in the veins Of every man who has one
drop OF white blood in bis natursl Yet
these are the savages for whom the nation
sacrificed on the bloody fields of the South
one million of its truest and best men! Yes,
these are the black devils for whom we have
burtbened the country With debt as count
less as the stars, and as endless as the universe
ITSELF aud which is grinding the life out Of
you poo- white men, and starving the widows
of the brave soldiers of the nation
These are the demons whom the Radicals
have armed with the bayonet to mob and
destroy white men, and with the ballot to
xii, the whole vote Of the Democrats North
and elevate their tool Hiram Ulysses to the
Presidency
White men Of Placer are you yet in doubt
as to the intentions of this Mougrel party
DO you yet believe that they are not IN favor
of universal suffrage, and when the time