Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-08
Why tho Whites Rebelled.

The Chicago Tribune, a Republican paper,
publishes reliable correspondence from the
South showing why it is that the whites, of
all parties, have banded together to resist
negro domination at the poiis-a movement
which certain Radical journals denounce as
"a new rebellion" Under such crcumstan-
ces, it is no wonder that ex,Union soldiers
and ex-Confederates arc standing shoulder to
shoulder in a common cause:
"The fact is that tho white southerners |
have borne insult and outrage long and very |
patiently Mutotis mutaadis. Chicago would |
have long since been in revolt had she had |
unutterable corruption among the rulers, and
havo been howled down when they protested
feebly. They have seen sworn election re-
turns changed, from hour to hour, to meet
tho news OF opposition gains in outlying parts
of tho State. They have seen drunken
indigo backed by bayonets, put into power u
governor whom all America knows was never
elected. Negro insolence has grown with
| white subiection.
Davenport tho colored chancery clerk Of
lVicksburg county, made speech to negro
| audience which loudly checrcd his passionate
declaration that the white race must Yield to
the coming man, tho negro. He named the
daughters of the first white families of the
city, and coarsely predicted their future maj =
riage with men of his race. Similar speeches
have been made in the Mississippi legislature.
Il. w. Cardoza, mississippi State Superintend-
ent OF Education, colored carpet-bagger
iTom OoutH SuIoAAh, puDil5hcu Ill FTCucIlCh
Douglas Era the statement that it is better
that the whole State of Tennessee should be
reduced to ashes than that the civil rights
bill should fail. Such violent language has
been the rule. 1t is natural that the whites,
thus attacked by the blacks, should accept
the issue forced upon them"
/ correspondent of the New Orleans PicGy-
nne gives the following confirmation of the
above statement. which shows that the re-
Ijoicing of the whites over their first political
victory since lS7l ia not without
Heretofore the negroes and carpet t-baggers
had control and involved the city, which has
but six million dollars valuation of property
in debt of over one million dollars, prOstra-
ted its enterprises and increased taxation
enormously In June they nominated city
ticket, and Of thirteen positions negroes were
nominated for all but three. The mayor was
a white man under indictment for perjury and
lblackmailing, another OF the white men could
not write his name, and the third was figure
head. Inc whites saw more taxation, pros
tration OF business and ruin in the election of
such "a ticket, and went to work to arouse the
sleeping energies of the white people. But
everything was done very quietly and peacea-
bly, The negro militia had been drilling in
the city for several weeks, but the white peo-
pie looked at it as merely the negro 8 love for
display.
Some two weeks ago the negro Davenport,
Icounty chancery clerk, llade a violent haran-
que to the negroes; said white people must
give way to the coming man-the negro-and
that white ladies' Of the best families in the
city would marry negroes. This speech in
famed the people, and Davenport left the
city through fear of his neck. The negroes
then paraded the streets in armed bodies
halted citizens at night and stopped car
riages. The whites then organized INTO mill
ltary companies in the different wards put
out patrols, acting in this in conjunction with
the regular police. and the city was kept in
perfect order"
The election was perfectly quiet, and the
ticket OF the whites, composed OF thoroughly
competent, honest and incorruptibie men, all
lcitizens and tax payers, was trium hantly
! elected.
I'll In North Carolina and Tennessee, where
the Republican party has had a very consid-
lerable white element, and where the local
campaigns are active, there is much disorder
in the Republican meetings, growing out OF
tho civil rights question. Frequent fights oc-
cur at the public meetings. The Washington
StaU, a Republican paper, said there was a
Irregular pitched battle at a political discussion
at Beaman Cross Roads, in Sampson county,
in which the most of those on the ground
} both white and colored, participated. The
Star says:
'"The whites, both Republicans and Conser.
yatives arrayed themselves on one side, and
the cOlored people on the other, and the way
, the missiles were projected through the all
was q caution. Ono prominent white Radical
as he commenced seizing fence rails OK yokes
and other such implements of warfare. and
whirling them into the crowd OF colorcd bel
ligerente, shouted at the top Of his voice
I"Civil rights, is itP I'll give you civil rights
"The colored troops fought nobly," but thei'
white allies having turned against them, they
were finally cffectually ropulsed, after having
been driven four times from the field. No fire
Iarms were used, and none of tho belligercnts
we learn, wore seriously hurt, though several
lwerc knocked down anu considerably bruised
lConsidering that tho widest excitement pre-
vailed during tho progress OF the melco. it is
Il Il or nnn 1ua1
| Some of those present at Beaman's Cross
Roads stated that fight was in progress at
} lAverasboro'. Hartnett county. when they left
there the day previous, at which point dis
lnu,.ainn hnl nlso taken nlacn."