New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-07
The Ripe Fruit of Greeley ism.

The overwhelming triumph of Greelyism,
or rebel Democracy, in Georgia at the recent
State election, is producing in full abund-
:,nce the richest fruits of ku-klux rule. BY
numbering score or. more of loyal citizens
for the crime of preferring the Republican to
the Greeley ticket, and driving sixty thou
sand of the ninety thousand loyal colored
voters from the polls by armed bands of Ku-
klux Greeley assassins, they have created
n perfect reign of terror among the loyal peo-
Pile of the State, and they are preparing to
leave it in large numbers. Republicans,
white as well as black, in every part of the
State are selling their property or offering it
for sale at whatever it will bring, and are
looking for homes in States where some secu-
rity for their lives and property, as well as
some protection to their civil and political
rights, can be had. The Macon Union, which
floats the Liberal Republican" ticket, has
discovered that there is no safety for the
rights of any man in that State who is not a
base, fawning defender of the old slave oil
garchy, and willing tool of Ku-Kluxism !;
and its editor has, therefore, resolved to
abandon his struggle against these influences,
sell or give away his paper, and flee from
the State as political sodom. He advises
all Others who desire to exercise any freedom
of thought or action to follow his example,
and he offers to advertise their farms for sale
free of charge. In an article headed Ere
publicans Beware" he has this rote Of warn
ing, illustrated by his own experience:
"Republicans contemplating a residence
in Georgia should carefully examine induce
ments here. We have lived here since 1860;
we have been Republican all the time, and
we have had to submit to prescription and
persecution all the time. We have not been
allowed to owe anybody anything, while it
has been next to impossible for us to collect
what is owing to us. Over twelve thousand
dollars are now due us, and it is impossible
for us to collect it. We have no showing in
the courts. Our name is equivalent to YER
dict against us-simply because we are Re-
publican in politics. The State Legislature,
supposed to be acting under constitution
which guarantees to every citizen equal
rights, laws, and protection, at its last ses-
sion passed a resolution regulating what the
State owed us to the amount of about 81 800,
and that, too, in the face of an official order
of "a former Governor for us to do the work.
What was this for? Nothing only that we
were Republican. Can any other Republican
hope to fare any better: There is no moral
respect for any mans right, and none what
ever for those of man who announces HIM
self as Republican,
Correspondents of the Chronicle, the New
York Times, and other Republican papers fully
confirm these statements as to the treason
able and murderous spirit of the Georgia Gree
leyites, their bitter hatred for loyal people,
and its disastrous consequences to the state.
Thousands and tens Of thousands Of industri-
Gus, law-abding, and useful citizens will be
driven from the State, and emigration to it
will be almost entirely suspended No man,
foreign or native, who has any regard for his
life, any sef-respect, any real manhood left,
will subject himself to the insults, outrages,
and wrongs to which he will be subjected by
the KuKluX rulers Of the State.
Another article in the same number OF the
! Union from which tie above is taken, still
| further illustrates the hellish dispositions OF
the Georgia Greeley Democracy, and shows
that they are far from being satisfied with
! tntlI cNpioltS 1T the iiist "Ay' w =
use their own language-the ''tun is not
over" The Union, referring to the whole
sale murder of peaceable citizens at Macon
on election day, says:
The Shooting of the negroes at the polls
in this place on election day only served to
whet the appetites of the chivalry, and as no
attempt has been made to bring the murder
ers to justice, they have nothing to fear.
Two negroes have been shot since the cleo
ton, simply because it was in the power OF
craven towards to do it. One case is a most
aggravated one. A man named Holmes was
riding along the road near Macon, swinging
pistol about and cursing the negroes gem
orally, Ga disposition imbibed from the teach
ings of the great Telegraph, y and swearing
that he would kill the next "God damned
niger" he saw. "Whoop--ee God damn
a nigger!" said he. He came to negro
house, and not seeing anybody, he fired at
the house and went on. Then he came to
another house.-the negroes had all fed after
hearing his dire threats. A little child five
years old was overlooked, and left in the
yard next to the road. The bloodthirsty
pupil of the Telegraph rode deliberately up
| 10 tho fence and shot the child in the head,
and then rode off. Of course no arrest has