Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-11

Z A1ASoAOA WI OOllN AND
BELIEVED IT RIGHTTOWARD
THE SOUTH, ALTHOUGH HE
FELT SURE CONGRESS WOULD
NOT ENACT SUCH A PROYTS.
ION. This is no prediction, for
zoe read the letter, and therefore
know whereof we AFFIRM"
GREELEY's OWN TESTIMONY AZ -
.g(F THE KU-KLUxsPIRIT IN
~ THE SOUTH.
From H. G.sMemphis letter to the Tribune.
"The Republicans uniformly tes-
THY that there was AN ORGANI-
FED AND ARMED CONSPIRA-
CY, whereby they, and especially
the blacks, were deferred from
voting-that offering to vote would
have cost them their lives-that
the Democrats were determined to
carry the State for Seymour. and
did carry it by SYSTEMATIC
TERRORISM, against which the
poor and humble burst not contend.
Now, the Ku-Klux or.
ganization may be active in this 10.
cality and dormant in that-may
seem dead to-day-AND BE RE-
VIVED TO MORROW - BUT
THE KU-KLUX SPIRIT STILL
LIVES AT THE SOUTH AND IS
VERY FORMIDABLE"
CONDITION OF THE SOUTH IN THE
EVENT OF GREELEY's ELECTION.
From the regular North Carolina Correspondence
OF the Now York Tribune, Greeley's own organ.
"The Democrats Of the South, if
Horace Greeley is elected, will be
the worst disappointed set of men
you ever saw. 1 don't believe Mr..
Greeley has has sold out to them as
they think he has, and there's sure
to be fight unless these secession.
lists down here are allowed to man.
age him. You don't and can't know
them as we do; but mind what I
tell you, this whole country will be
overrun with Ku.Klux within three
months after Mr.. Greeley's inau-
guration. Then if no undertakes
to suppress disorder there'll be
such howl as this country never
heard"
BEREAVEMENT OF THE NEGROES.
From the Chicago Tribune, local Greeley organ.
"Recent events which have trans
PRED in North Carolina in connec.
ton with the State campaign and
elect ion arc already beginning to
suggest the question whether the
political power welded by the ne
gro clement in the South is not a
serious menace to republican in
stitntions." :.
From the New York Express. Greeley organ,
owned by Hon. James Brooks Member Of Con.
gress and supporter Of Greeley.
''The power which few white
Federal overseers in the South, aud
the terror which the negro leagues
inspire, wonld seem 10 controvert
the anti-slaycry avcrment that the
negro was born to be free-that is,
to be free man as white men are
free. The Democrats Of the North
and West now recognize the abso-
lutte freedom of the ex-slave-and
his equality with them before the
law-and they wish now to see him
their equal, and not the slave Of
others-but when they see a whole
race all voting one way, and that
mainly through terror, they must
often feel that the negro himself
loves slavery better than freedom.
We would wish now to share our
freedom and cur equality with that
negro, but he won't be free and he
won't be our equal, and hence the
re-arising of this old discussion,
whether the negro was really born
to be slave or not"
THE LOST CAUSE RECLAIMED THROUGH
GREELEY-DIRECT PLEDGES TO
RESTORE THE REBELS TO
POWER.
From the speech Of General Hodge, Greeley
stump orator. at Louisville. August =.
81 have devoted lifetime to the
principles Of the Democratic party.
l have grown gray in the advocacy
of these principles, and each year
the conviction has grown deeper
that its fundamental principles are
the true foundation. stones of this
Government. / have seen upon the
battlefield thousands throw away
their lives in defense of these prin.
ciples. The graves Of the gallant
Southern dead who sleep upon
every hillside in the South, over
whose graves the night winds sigh,
are reminders to me of the love for
the principles which still fingers in
my heart. The second passage in
Mr.. Grceley's letter means that
JOHN z. BRECKENRIDGE AND
OTHER CHIVALROUS SONS OF
THE SOUTH SHALL BE RE
STORED TO THEIR FORMER
POSITIONS OF POWER AND
INFLUENCE. Looking back upon
the once shattered and fruitless
hopes Of the South, now see that
the equal rights and sovereignty Of
States shall be restored, and my
comrades of the lost cause have not
died in vain. This will be victory
for that for which they fought. Mr..
Greeley promised to do all he could
to aid us when we get majority in
Congress. object to Grant be-
cause he is a Republican; because
he is a member Of that party which
waged successfully the contest
against my brethren Of the South,
whose orators kept the fires burning
that filled the Federal ranks with
soldiers. have heard it said by
some that the Democratic party
shall have no part with Mr.. Greeley
in the conquest; but feel that they
will not be neglected. Not only
will Greeley not forget who helped
him to his position, but pledges,
direct pledges, have been given us
by him that we SHALL NOT BE FOX
GOTTEN IN CASE OF SUCCESS"
GREELEY THE STEPPING STONE TO
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RERE4s
IN POWER.
From the speech Of Colonel W. P. C. Breckin-
Ridge ut tho aboye-namsd meeting.
sour part of this bargain is to
give the Liberal Republicans our