New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-06
MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRACY.

MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRACY.
The Confederate Office seekers comb
nation, known in Mississippi as Demo
Gratis, color line men. white Conservatives
and various other aliases, and under othe'
DISCUSSES, have been in existence IN tina;
State since the parole al Appomattox
Numbers are against the members Of the
combination to such an extent that JET
Davis said he despaifed of ever seeing q
Democratic sedsemef for Republican Mis-
sissippi. The Office skirmisher does moi
despair; be proposes 70 kill and trade
! until he becomes better fixed, and can
live easily without labor. There is nc
principle in the contest. Trading for an
Office is quite as satisfactory as
killing so long - Offices can be
obtained in that manner. Perhaps
no one man in Mississippi has
been more perseuted with less reason than
Peter Crosby, the colored sheriff OF War
rem county. His crime was in occupying
position the White League wanted and
in being eolored. Men who offered to go
on his bond were threatened with death.
His bond, when fixed and accepted by
competent authority, was not approved
by 'the people, and the people became
riotous 10 expressing their opinion.
Crosby held on until approached by
the traders. 1t was temptation for
poor colored man after so long dogd-
| ing bullets to be Endorsed, loved. cherished
and perfected by those who had been
his enemies, and he allowed the
color liners 70 select his deputy,
and took ia exchange for the Office
their signatures on his bond. Mr.. Crosby
is acknowledged to be sheriff by the peo-
pie Who denied him all rights, and the
representative White Lacquer works ami
cably under him, sharing the fees OF the
Office. There is no such thing as prin-
ciple in q shotgun Democrat. The hound
has no natural reason for killing the fox;
he has been trained to do 20 by the hun
ter who gets the skin, and the hounds
can be called of or on at pleasure of the
leader. Let the colored man give up his |
Office. OF the fees Of il, or let him vote the |
Democratic ticket, and he is offered pro-
lection. This is the language of the reso-
lutions adopted at q mass meeting in
Lowndes county a few days since:
1--WE stand ready to offer shelter |
and security TO every true citizen,
be he white or black, who will |
come to and stand with the Democratic
and Conservative party" This is acknowl-
edging the rights Of all men, and indi-
rectly il is an acknowledgment that such
educated colored gentlemen as Frederick
Douglas, John NJ. Langston, Senator
Representative John r. Lynch
and many others, are equal as men to the
long-legged. yellow-haired, ignorant,
whisky-drinking,. grocery store loafers
who white pine in Mississippi. providing
they will vote the Democratic ticket or
give color liners positions in their offices.
Colonel Lamar. the eulogist, in Roston.
IF Charles Sumner, and who is forming a
with General Banks for
bird OF fourth party, tells his people, in
recent speech at Jackson. that the color
inc business will not do. He would
make voters instead Of corpses OF colored
men. Some boys in a Dublin theatre
nee attempted to throw an obnoxious
'erson over the gallery railing on TO the
enches forty feet below. One OF the
Of the pit seeing the move.
,ents Of the gallery league, cried out
Don't waste him, boys: don't waste him.
Ieep him to kill fiddler with" This is |
he Lamar doctrine of soliciting the col I
red vote instead Of killing it. 1t is the Z
avn of better sense. and now the colored .
ian Of Mississippi will only have to see +
no are his friends, and in what party he c
roperly belongs. Under Republican re- t
instruction acts colored men were made
tizens and voters in Mississippi in 1867. i,
he wall Of the color liue was laid then \
the Democrats who opposed recon- =
ruction, opposed negro suffrage, and OPP !,
'sed everything generally which was =
yaf and upheld the United States gov. y
nment. They repealed colored votes r.
I'd made them unit for Republicauism. n
J late as 1868 the Democrats Of Missis- ~
ppi adopted the following resolution in | !.
State convantion:
That BY the constitution and n,
VS. of Mississippi, arhitc males Of the age r,
twenty one and upward aud citizens of 81
Q United States are alone qualified cleo fa
rs, and that no others hare right to vote ~
thin the limits of said State, or to hold ~
ice therein. fC
This is the genuine White League doc
ne which governs the actions and sup is
es the motives of mobs in Louisiana d.
d in Mississippi to this day. White R
lldren grow up in the arms of colored d,
rses, and play with colored children. th
ERE is no quarreling until the colored OF
y comes to vote, and then his white dc
'yfellows organize shotgun ward club
the protection of families, as if the M
gro boys vote was danger. Louisiana in
mocrats fell into the Mississippi in fe,
lity, and called themselves a white tio
ms party at Baton Rouge, and a COM q,
ttee Of seventy party in New Orleans. an
liberate attacks upon colored men are co
'nned and executed, and when colored Ia,