The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-18
SENATOR MORTON.
81 eech of the Indiana Statesman
at Indianapolis.
Graiz Brown and Thomas A. Hendricks
Answered.

Inc hon. -. Oratz Brown, the present GOv
ernor of Missouri, and the candidate on the
Democratic ticket for Vice President, re-
Gently made speech in this city, and one
at Springfield, H., and these two speeches,
though somewhat contradictory in their
character, / shall consider as one for the
purpose of a reply. But before l come to
that beg leave TO notice a pretense whicL
Gov. Brown has put forward, ar which was
also made by Senator Carl Schurz, that Mis-
souri, presented a remarkable example Of the
>happy effects of reconciliation. BY "recon-
ciliation" they mean the Acknowledgement of
those in Missouri who were engaged IN the
rebellion, and who were disfranchised by
special clause in the Constitution of that
State in 1864, but which was repealed in
1870. By reconciliation" they further
mean the elevation of the Democratic party
to power in that State, the expulsion of
nearly all Republicans from Office, the cleo
ton OF Gen. F. ank Blair to the Senate and
the Inauguration of a state of disorder equal
in many respects to the disturbed districts
in North and South Carolina and Texas. II
We are to credit the reports of the Associated
Press from various parts of Southern and
Western Missouri, and the generally receiv-
ed statements Of newspapers in that State,
tbs to-day one OF the worst-goyerned States
il the Union. In many parts of it there is
no security for the life, liberty, or property
z preme, and the authority of the civil power
is set at defiance. If the ability and fitness
Of Mr.. Brown to serve as Vice President Of
the United States are to be determined by
his success as the Governor of Missouri, we
must entertain great doubts in advance.
For while he has been peram bulating other
States making political harangues aud cleo
tioneering for himself and the holy coalition
Of which he is an originator and acandidate,
respectable citizens of Missouri, whose only
fault is that they differ from in politics,
have been cruelty scourged or outraged and
driven into exile.
Both Of Gov. Browns speeches contain
many charges against the Administration
and the Republican party, all of which |
have not time, nor would 1t be profitable, to
attempt to answer. Both of them are dis
izing and philosophizing upon political
affairs.
THE coLoRED PEOPLE.
From the long and somewhat rambling
discussion upon the condition and relations
OF the white and black races in the Southern
States, and the dangers of the future, several
distinct propositions are evolved.
First that unless the colored people Of the
Southern States give up their separate or
CARNATIONS and their political hostility to
their old masters and enemies, and fraternize
with them in the government of the States,
war of races will be engendered, in which
the celored people will be exterminated,
driven into exile, or reduced to condition
which he does not name, but which means
slavery. The meaning OF his proposition is
that colored people can have peace and Sc
curity by submitting to the political domi-
nation of their late masters, and that per-
sstent refusal upon their part to do so, and
the assertion of their rights and character
in connection with those whom he desribes
as carpet baggers and scalswags" will re-
suit in disaster and ruin. The proposition
is developed as a threat against the colored
people Of the South
Again, he asserts in substance, and in d.
rect terms, that the Administration and the
Republican party are endeavoring to com
bine and consolidate the colored people in q
separate organization for the purpose of OPP
pressing the white people of those States
taking away their rights and reducing them
to subordinate position. These allegations
are unfounded in every particular There
is not sin"le circumstance upon which
they can be supported. They are among the
wild and reckless dec larations of desperate
minority who are struggling by every mean!
that may impose upon the public mind u
break down the party in power and seize
upon the Government
Again, he asserts that the colored peopl,
OF the South have been formed into secre
leagues and societies of a dangerous char
acter for the purpose of subve.ting the rights
security and happiness of the white people
and that unless these secret organization
are abandoned civil war and desolation will
intervene, in which the black race will bit,
the dust. Now, where is the evidence 4
sustain this statement? Numerous investi
cations have been had and witnesses on boil
sides have been examined, but nothing o
this kind has ever been proved. The col
ored people have had their organizations
and some of them have been attempted TO b
concealed, though they could not be, but in
vestigatons have shown that they wer
harmless IN their character, contemplate
no violence, no invasion OF the rights Q
others, but were mere iHs.rumentalites 70
the purpose of concentrating their own in
fuence, and disseminating their opinions
and for instruction.
THE KU-kLUx.
But this pretense of dangerous organize
tions among the people was first invente
and has been kept alive as an excuse an
justification for Ku-Klux. 1t mas never i'm
posed upon any intelligent man who wa
acquainted with the facts, but has bee
brought forward as bugbear to confuse an
impose upon the ignorant.
But now come TO what must be regarde
as an astonishing TACT In speech OF q car
didate for the Vice Presidency, who desire
the country to un6 erstand that he is ph
losopher of candor and high moral ton,
which is, that in his speech at Springfield
be wholly failed to recognize the fact OF tn
existence of the Ku.Klux organization i
the South, or to refer to it in the remote
degree, and in his speech in this city refer
red to 1T very remotely and only as "cru,
disorder" What are we TO think of thi
political discussion which attempts to SUI
press The existence of an internal organic,
ton, which for bloody atrocities and Grim,
without name has no parallel in histor,
which looks nothing less than politics
revolution, which embraces at east eigl
States within its limits, and whose exter
and history are established by the combine
evidence of thousands of witnesses; an
among the loudcst and most bitter in h
denunciations was his own associate on th
ticket, Horace Greeley? Mr.. Greeley, in h
speech in New York, last year, on his retur
from the South, spoke as follows:
But have been asked, are tn re any X
Klux down South? Yes, gentlemen, the
are. They didn't come up TO me and te
me they were Ku-Klux very often. The
did not undertake to perform any of the
delicate operations upon me. | should ha,
had vary much more respect for them