Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-15
WoRCEs &.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1879
Ie.,on for tbe "LibcraIs.Y

ing of 2O4 colored voters. Such clubs are rare
at the south; but, at Macon, this number of
colored men had been persuaded to put faith in
Greeley and the democratic party. This club
has now been dissolved and every member of it
will vote for Grant and Wilson, on the fifth of
November, if the Ruklux terrorists shall permit
them to vote at all. This intelligence comes in
letter from citizen of Macon, addressed to
the republican national committee. The sudden
and emphatic conversion from Greeleyism 10
the republican party was caused by the
outrageous proceedings of the democratic
special police" so called, against re-
publican voters on election day. A. Macon, q
crowd of colored voters who sought quietly to
approach the polls, were assailed violently, i'll
treated, and at last fred upon by the rufflans
Several of the colored men were killed, a con-
siderable number wounded, and most of them
kept from voting. These proceedings appear 10
have brought every member of the Greeley club
to his senses. They had not bargained for this
kind of "reform;" and they resolved to abandon
political association with the party by which
these outrages were tolerated and encouraged.
Therefore the club was dissolved and its mem
bers fed to the republican party as the only
party which honestly defends the rights of col
ored men.
This case presents several considerations to
which all Greeley "liberas" should give atten-
ton. We see in it that the members of this
Greeley club at Macon had never lost faith in
the republican party. We suppose they were
induced to organize the club because it furnished
a change and variation of their activity. TWAS
a kind of holiday matter, playing at politics
IN new way, in which they were not much in
fuenced by reflection. There are men, white
and black, who are easily Influenced by novel;
ties of this kind, without undergoing change
of their convictions. These men, probably, made
speeches against the republican party, eulogizing
Greeleyism without taking pains to understand
it, and demonstrated bravely as assistant demo-
Gratis. But, when they saw colored men beaten
and shot down on the streets, merely because
they were trying to vote, they began to think;
and reflection led them to hasten back to the
party which they knew to be the fast friend of
freedom and equal rights. There, and every
where else in the country, it is understood, that,
in this matter, the republican party can be
trusted, while it is equally well known that
the democratic party has no claim TO such
confidence. 1t is only because there is
republican party that the colored men
have any recognition of their rights whatever.
There is not ''liberaf republican in the country
who does not know this, or who does not believe
with these colored men at Macon, that the re-
publican party can be trusted. 1t does not sur
prise our "liberaP friends hear of the despotic
outrages perpetrated by the Georgia democrats;
but it would astonish them beyond measure TO
hear of republicans doing such things Will
they ask themselves, seriously, whether it is or
is not a political crime, in friend of freedom
and equal rights, to participate in movement
which aims TO destroy the republican party?
One of the most criminal frauds of the present
canvass, IS the brazen representation that the
national government exercises "despotism" in
the reconstructed states, and that everything
there would be lovely, if the kuklux spirit could
be left to have IT'S own way without interference
The only despotism that can be heard of in
those states, is that which persecutes republican
voters and tramples under foot the rights of
coored men. Georgia is not the only state
which is full of this despotism and the "des-
potic centralism" of which we hear so much,
consists of legal and constitutional efforts of the
national government TO suppress kukluxism.
The slave states were always local despotisms,
more or less oppressive. There is now relent-
less determination TO re-estabish the old spirit
ard practices; and those who cherish il would
re-establish slavery, if they could. Meanwhile,
Greeley orators and organs seek to divert atten-
ton from this grave and troublesome fact, by
falsely accusing republicans of ''hate," and in
ssting on what they call reconciliation" Ac-
cording to their talk, we are all wrong, and
these ex-confederate malignants are all right.
We must be "reconciled" to them, which means,
of course, that we must approve their despotic
policy, and be willing to have them do what
they please with the rights Of colored men. Mr..
Greeley, who has sold his reputation for luna
tic dream of being elected president, goes about
the country preaching this kind of "reconcilia-
tion." He says nothing Of these despotic pro-
ceedings of his southern supporters, but he seeks
TO please and encourage them by talking as if
there were some great wrong in disgsalifying
two hundred rebel leaders for holding office I'M
der the national government. There was a time
when he and the Tribune would have Numbered
fearfuly against the recent outrages in Georgia.
But that time is past; and the change be has
undergone shows thathe has become democrat
in spirit, although it docs not make US certain
of what he will do next. 1t is certain, however,
that he can not recover his lost position
The New York Worlds Boston correspondence
is sure TO yield some amusement. 1t is politi-
cal, of course, and is always full of-informa-
ton is not quite the word for it-of things we
have not heard before, and are not likely to nnd
elsewhere. of the "refom party" in Massa-
chusetts the correspondent makes some extreme
ly cheerful statements, which the members of
that party hereabout would be glad to believe,
if they gould. 1t numbers, he says, at least
sixty or seventy thousand voters, sees no cause
for encouragement in the result of last weeks
elections; is, in fact, stronger now than before
those elections were held, and believes the way
TO final victory is yet within reach. He then
goes into an abstruse calculation, through which
only the students of the higher mathematics
would care to follow him, or be able to test his
processes, but the result Ineligible if not ered
Bile, proved, as he says, by mathematical
demonstration. is that the actual Grant
strength in this state, when shorn of all
corrupt influences is less than SO, 900 votesp AS
he claims at least sixty or seventy thousand
votes here for Greeley, we must apparently re-
sign ourselves to see the electoral vote of Massa-
ehusetts cast for the late editor of the Tribune So
sure is the correspondent of MASSACHUSETTS and
OF as many more states as are needed, that he
CONTEMPORARY says: "of course nobody cares
about the vote OF the state, so far as the elector
al college is concerned" OF the nominations Of
new men for congress, this accurate and anus.
ing correspondent contrves to make the singu.
larry inappropriate remark that they are all
"eonlessedly weak" and "if elected will look
after their salary with commendable prompt.
tude." To say Of Judge Hoar, for example,
that he is a weak man, and will occupy himself
with collecting his salary, is to show marvel.
Gus aptitude not only for missing the truth, but
for getting farther from it than would be posi-
BILE for anybody else.
The Greeley organs show a commendable de-
gree OF eheeriulness under peculiarly trying cir
eumsiauces. The news Of the elections last
week staggered them at first, as was natural.
Anu many Of them were surprised into the adj
mission that Greeey's election was no longer