Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-01

ooyoey III tnc pursuit OF nap
piness. The true position for th
whites to occupy now, is one of ia
dependence and stern opposition to til
otack race line so long and ruinousl,
opposed to them, and never again t,
make overtures, but be ready to en-
tertain one kindly and considoratel,
when made by the other party Will
an honest purpose.
| therefore it is, that every compac
between the races to secure peace
and good will and good neigh borship
should have q condition preeedea
that the blacks must unconditionally
abandon their vicious and ruinou,
politics, at least, so far as state anc
county government are concerned
LII they want to vote for Grant for {
third term, We would not recommend
that they be asked to stipulate
against it. But in home, county and
state government, no advances from
the negro party should be listened to
that do not propose to unite with the
intelligent, honorable and honest
white men in putting the govern
ment 10 the banda of honest and ca
pahle men and driving out the public
robbers. There should be no peace
between the white and black man so
long as the latter continues to rob
himself, or permits himself used as
the tool of robbers. We think we
see that the negroes about Toomsuba
will become the fashion. Our advice
would be, to not move an inch from
the color line to invite or meet them.
but when they come honestly to treat
them fairly and with kindness, but
with tirmness to demand every pro-
per and needed condition.
PIoKENs COUNTY.
This is county in West Alabama,
where the white men publicly boast
that no white man ever cast a repub-
lican vote and lived through tn.
year. In the days of the former ku-
kluxism, it was regarded as a perfect
hole of murder and crime. The re-
port OF the congressional investiga-
ting committee fully calculates the
former glory of Pickens county. To.
day it is worse than ever, and the
white man or colered man who would
dare TO make republican speech in
the county, would be shot down like
mad dog IN one of our public
thoroughfares. There are hundreds
of negroes in this county who have
never voted, who are worse slaves
than when the chain and the hand.
cuffs were the insignia of their condi-
ton, and the sharp lash of brutal
slave driver was the reward of day
of toll. They have heard of freedom
and liberty, but never tasted its
sweets. Untouched by the civiliza.
ting influences of railroads and rivers.
teo-1-a''A -nt;n i;uin1 md working for
tatlons. "No niger school house
adorns our county," is the boast of
one of it's prominent men. The con.
dition of the black race in this county
is heart-rending and terrible in the
extreme. Outrages in this county
are the rule, yet, from the terrorism
existing in that locality, only an oc-
caslonal murder leaks out. cite
two cases. In Carrolton, Pickens
county, four colore1 men, who were
supposed to be "emissaries," sent to
post the negroes on their rights, were
taken the third eek in August from
their cabins, add hung by the road
side. This deed was perpetrated in
open daylight, by body of IN Z. ask
ed white men.
On the 10th of August, 1874, the
bodies of three men, two colored and
one white, were discovered floating
down the Tombigbee river, dashed to
some logs. When found, the bodies
were badly decomposed, and their
personal identity to this day remains
undiscovered. The white man had a
placard pinned to his neck, saying.
This is the way we treat Dutch mig
gers" evidently abiding to the ma
tivity of the man, who seemed to be
a German. The other two were pla-
carded, "To Mobile, with the compli-
ments of Pickens county"
HALE COUNTY.
At Greensboro, in this county, for
many years the colored people have
had two or three purely benevolent
societies. Their meetings were
originally intended to be secret, but,
acting upon the advice of plumber
of white republicans (myself includ-
ed, this feature was abolished, and
white men were invited to attend
their meetings whenever they chose
to do So This step was taken to
prevent the possibility of the demo-
Gratis crying out that the negroes
and their white leaders were con-
cocting mischief in secret. On Wed
nesday night, August &c, the meet
ing of one of these societies was
waited upon by a tody of white men
and notified that thay must not meet
again-"that they were devising
means to murder the whites" In
stantly and peacefully the colored
men and women dispersed to their
homes, and in this way prevented
another bloody riot, where the "black
man invariably is in the wrong, and
always gets killed"
James Bliss, an inoffensive colored
man, was delegate from one of the
country precincts of Sumter county
to the late republican state conven-
ton. On Wednesday night, August
&c, body of masked men visited his
house, but Bliss had fed. They
searched in vain for the radical mig
GER" but told his family they would
return again. The result is, Bliss has
fed the county.
A few weeks ago, Major John G.
Stokes, formerly editor of the DAILY
Journal at Montgomery, Ala, and
district attorney before the war in
Alabama, himself a southern man and
confederate soldier, made a republican
| speech in Greensboro. Hale county