Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-09
A GRANGER 10 THE RESCUE.

ana GulOus.
a GRANGER 10 THE RESCUE.
W. H. Chambers, Master Of the
State Grange Of Alabama, has written
a letter to o. H. Kelly, Secretary of
the National Grange, relative to the
Southern troubles. 1t has been printed
in pamphlet form, and is being extern
siyely circulated In the Southern
States. The letter was called forth by
an article which appeared in the Wash
ingtoa Chronicle, representing the de-
plorable condition of affairs IN Ala
bama. The writer says the oommuui-
cation in the Chronicle IS SO lie from
beginning to end. A more malignant
SANDER was never perpetrated on any
suffering people. Alabama is to-day
as law-abiding as New York, and Its
people are as much opposed to violence
and prescription as any community IN
New England. It is not denied that
there are instances Of outrageous and
! inexcusable violation Of the law, but
they are IS completely condemned and
denounced by the people of the State
as they would be any where else in the
United States. Those harpies who have
been fattening upon their robberies of
the South, under the protection of
Federal bayonets, foresee their doom in
the coming election, and as the only
hope of perpetuating their hold upon
the Offices which have given the form
of law to their expressions, they seek,
by lies like that in the Chronicle, to in
fame The public mind Of the North
with such active hostility as viii force
the administration to armed interven-
lion in their behalf. As a general
thing, the negroes are quiet. well-dis-
posed, and well-behaved. Indeed,
they are universally 50, except when
they are instigated by bad white men,
who seek to secure offices by appealing
to their prejudices, and so inhaming
their passions. In some instances,
they have so far misled the negroes as
to incite them to acts of violence and
insolence which, in spite of the utmost
patience and forbearance on the part
of the whites, have resulted in coils
ions In not single instance has a
collision Of this sort occurred. in which
the negroes, or rather their mischiev-
Gus white leaders, were not to blame;
and in almost every In tance the whites
have been forced, for sheer self-pro-
lection to resist threatening demon
strations against their lives and prop
erty.
inasmuch as the writer is not poll
tician, his evidence should certainly
carry as much weight as that of such
Radicals as Spencer and Hays.
THE accumulation of unnatural pro-
fits derived from protection, enables
New England cotton manufacturers to
keep their mills idle half the time. in
order to enhance the price of their
goods and depress the Southern staple,
while starving their own operatives.
Such is the extra pressure and power
that protection gives to capital against
labor in both field and shop. Four
distinct classes are oppressed by this
course of the wealthy mill-owners
First, their own wOrkmen, with wives
and little ones are placed on half IA
lions. Secondly, the Southern planter
finds the staple deprecated at the very
opening of the season, with his debts
pressing on him. Thirdly, the negroes
WHO are interested in the crop must
suffer with the planters. Fourthly
throughout the country the poorer
classes, who are the consumers OF cot.
ton goods, must pay enhanced prices
Such is the practice of protection. II
Expresses millions for the favored few
This Is the system, toward building and
strengthening which, Hora Maynard
has contributed as much as any living
man.
, IT would seem, after al, that May
nard was at fault and Brownlow STRUCK
the E-eyuote for East Tennessee in on