National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-17
4 FEW MORE FACTS ABOUT THE.
~ SOUTH


With each recurring political campaign
the Southern outlook becomes clouded with
indications of trouble and positive evidence
Of disconnected and disloyal feeling. There
seems to be well-defined element in our
Southern politics which devotes itself to
the purpose of destroying the good effect for
which the generally good behavior of the
majority is entitled to credit. The indicd.
tons and evidence to which we refer are
not embraced in the columns Of rampant
DemoCratic Journals alone, but come to US
in the form Of letters from every quarter.
For example, a correspondent, writing from
Petersburg Va, on the 12th instant, says:
- The Conservatives have turned out of
" employment every poor colored man who
" worked on the streets, and have carried
" their revenge still further by purging
" from the roll of the fire department every
" man who has ever voted the Republican
' ticket. Some of our oldest and best fire
amen have been expelled from their com
"panies, and no person can get employ
"ment in the city unless he is willing to
never vote with the Republicans. They
" speak of having the tobacco factories to
" close for six months so as to throw out of
" employment all of the colored people, to
prevent them from remaining here to
g vote in the coming fall election.
But these facts, exccrable as they are, do
not give one half the truth. They are but
the results of the bitter feeling which has
always existed on the part of the white
Conservatives against the Republicans of
either race OF any color. In Georgia, as in
Virginia-as well as in all the Southern
States-the Confederate flag is still upheld
rs the emblem Of sacred principles, and the
results of the war, the war amendments to
the Constitution, and the conditions and
terms of amnesty for rebellion are alike
ignored or plainly delied. In the language
OF the True SOutRr0n, leading Demo
cratic journal published at Sumter, S. c.,
90 the State governments of the South must
"be controlled by white men, whose inter-
tests are identified with the South in
other words, by men who are in SYM
pathy with the Democratic party.
To accomplish this end, the
True SoutLroR advises that the coming
elections shall be carried by force. EVERY
respectable honest Conservative white cit
''izcn in the State" it says, "knows the
'lact that if he will use his power and au-
''thority, avail himself Of the means in his
possession and at his command, he can
control absolutely from one to ten negro
voters, and force them to cast their suf-
''rrage in conformity with his will" 1t
proposes to carry the elections in this way
in spite of General Grant, Summers ghost,
John Browns soul and the devil" and
threatens that in the event of failure, sit
will become our bOunden duty to annihi-
''late them (Radical office-holders) with the
''pistol and the dagger.
No wonder that the South does not pros
per; no wonder that her industries remain
undeveloped, and that Ku-klux murderers
so UNPUBLISHED. 1t is not to be denied that
many misdemeanors have been committed
in the name Of Republicauism, but they do
not approach the wickedness and barbarity
Of those which are here so boldly suggested
and sustained in the name of Democracy.