The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1874-10-31
RedneN O the Effects of the Civil
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The civil rights bill has killed
the Republican party in Tennes-
see, in Texas, in Arkansas, in
Georgia, in Alabama, In North
Carolina and in Virginia. 1t has
crippled it in every other Southern
State. Since a theory-crazed SEN
ate passed the bill, we have had
elections in Tennessee, North Caro-
lima and Georgia. The result Is
what we might have expected, and
what 1 warned the country 1t
would be, II the Senate passed that
Internal firebrand and threw It In
to the South. In North Carolina,
the Republicans elected but one
Congressman, and he negro. 1t
was the "color line", . line that
has been drawn by the civil rights
bill, ably assisted by the Demo
Gratis. In Tennessee, at the August
election, the Republicans carried
but three counties in the State-a
State that to-day has seven Repub-
lican to three Democratic Congress-
men! This win enable you to un-
derstand what the civil rights bill
has done for the party in Tennes-
see, Notwithstanding the Republic
cans denounce and repudiate 1t
in their platform and speeches.
But they cannot take the smell
from their garments. Let me give
you a few figures. I have given
them before, but they will do to
ponder as a steaiy thing. Knox
county, Tennessee, has q total Of g.
212 white votes and S7s blacks. In
1872, ,sthe Democratic candidate for
governor in Knox, received 1,706
votes and the Republican candi-
date, S,308 votes. You win see,
therefore, that nearly 5000 white
men voted the Republican ticket,
for there are only S74 colored voters
in the county, If every one should
come to the polls. Very well; stick
a pin on these figures, and com.
prehend what a revolution there
must have been in Knox, to give
the county to the Democrats by
nearly one thousand majority last
August. This revolution was the
effect Of the civil rights bill, and
nothing else. As 1t was there, 1t II
and will be in every county, town
village and hamlet In the South
where there are white Republican
voters.
In Georgia, last week, In ths
election for members Of the Legls
lature, the Republicans carried but
three counties In the State. Tht
Legislature elect Is Democratic, by
a majority of fifteen to one. Mex
month, they will carry every Con
gressional district In the State
Ex-Governor Joseph T.. Brown
heretofore the ablest Republican
in Georgia, advises every white
man In the South to get out Of thu
Republican party; for, he says, tn,
passage of the civil rights bill
means the absolute destruction and
ruin Of both races. And they are
getting out like rats leaving a burn
ing barn. We see the effect n
last weeks election.
If is any satisfaction to the Re
publican Senators who voted fol
the civil rights bill, and threw thai
red-hot firebrand into the South
ifit is any satisfaction for them tt
know that they have driven the
Republican party here, upon tht
pixies Of destruction, and stirred ur
an autagonism between the race.
more bitter, more appalling, more
destructive than ever before expe.
rienced in all the phases Of wal
and reconstruction--lf this infor.
nation is any satisfaction to them
let them take It and enjoy It
When they had their firebrand un
der consideration in the South
they were warned by faithful sen.
tinels In the South, what would b.
the result If they threw It into thii
section; but they laughed at the
warning and sneered at the preju.
dices which are bone Of the bone
and flesh of the flesh of the South.
orn people. They propose to dc
away with a law Of Almighty Goo
and the customs and prejudices o
three hundred years. growth, BY
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