Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-29

Every member of this osth-bound
and midnight association should be
marked. Many black men were de-
| ceived in this matter by the black and
white agents of the Leagues; while
many others, with the venom of the
devil in their hearts, accepted and en-
braced the scheme gladly as a means
to degrade and Cypress the white people
of the State. A distinction should be
made between these two classes. The
leaders and Influential blacks, members
of the league at the different precincts,
are known, and should have from this
time, no fsVors granted them. Exist
ing contracts should be most faithfully
carried out, but with end of the year
all communication with them should
end. We owe this not only to our own
sense of honor, but certainly to those
honest freedmen who came up and
stood by US in the hour OF peril. We
refer in this matter to the leaders
those negro men. who against all argu-
ment, persuasion and eVen their own
judgments, chung not only themselves
to the foreign scalawsgs, but to the last
urged their more simple minded fell
lows, to vote the Radical ticket-those
who took the advice of Emanuel Han
dy, and determined TO live on black
berries and lizards rather than vote
with the democrats. To the great
mass of those blacks who voted the
Radical ticket, 1t becomes not only as
magnanimous men, but as a mere mat
ter of political and domestic policy, to
encourage them to publicly to renounce
the league, and associate themselves
with US. If they refuse to do so after
the argument is exhausted. then let
them be ostracized-let them hunt
their blackberrles and lizards, for no
man can longer feed them saw st the
expense of his feeling of self respect.
In Copiah, i've hundred and fifty
negro men voted the Radical ticket
Two-thirds of these, we doubt not,
slresdy feel that Radicslism deceived
them and that it is nothing more nor
less than q cheat and a sWindle.
Proper treatment will make of this
two-thirds good democrats-we could
readily do without both in politics and
in our domestic affairs. Reason with
all however, before harsh measures are
resorted to.
Eight hundred and fifty negro men
voted the democratic ticket in Copiah;
and three hundred and fifty, or proba-
bly, some less, did not vote at all. Of
those not voting, we can count eight IN
ten as democrats.
From these figures, it will be seen
that there are not more than three
hundred black voters in Copish, out of
seventeen hundred registered, that can
be set down as certainly active and
Jealous members of the loyal league
At the end of this year, if they still
cling to the rotten carcass of radical
ism, let them seek more congenial
homes-they should no longer be fed
in the country.
The spirit of the foregoing article is
unsdulterated satanic Democracy
That party has no mercy for q black
nan who votes the Republican ticket
all such it would starve, rob and MUIR
der. 1t is the same old dominering
spirit that enforced its will by the lash
and the bloodhound. The black dem
ocrats are to be cajoled and iattered,
until like the poor fly they shall find
themselves in the meshes of the polite
and deceitful spider, who will devour
them. The Union men of the South
are destined to come up through great
tribulation, +" and should and must have
all possible encouragement and assist
ance from Northern Republicans, to
enable them to Withstand the tide of
opposition now sweeping over them.