The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-27

danger. We were arrested by the olli-
GERS of a vigilance committee and by that
committee ordered, upon penalty of
death. to leave for the North within
ten hours from the time the order was
given.
At the North we were n Union man.
and at no time justified the course of the
people of the South. with whom we had
lived from boyhood and from whom we
had been separated by our refusal TO sur
render DIR devotion to the Union.
We opposed many of the policies of
the Republican party in the conduct oil
the war. We voted for Mcclellan. and
were all the time a Democrat. OF what
ever errors of judgment wewcrc guilty, the
party was also guilty. for If We made
mistake ut all in reference To the war, ii
was in following the lead Of the party.
We always opposed the policy OF
many Democrats, who would have none
| but '.iaithful Democrats for candidates.
| and never. as the Jo,anGt has charged,
| Y
the Democratic party We always
urged upon the Democrats, that the Re
publicans had succeeded by taking men
| formerly Democrats. and putting them
forward. and that the Democrats being
n minority party. should not repel Re
publicans who desired TO come into the
party by telling them to take Il "back
seat" Mr.. Potter does not tell the
truth when he asserts the contrary.
We supported President johnson ~
against Congress.
When the congressional policy of Re
construction had been enforced upon the
Seeded States, we resisted the sugges-
ton that it should be ovcrthrown 10y the
sword. and insisted that the Democracy
ought TO recognize the results of the war
and accept accomplished. facts. among
which accomplished facts was universal
suilragc-negro suffrage. This was the
New Departure, for advocacy of which
Mr.. Potter and other Mound City Demo
Gratis complimcntcd Us.
The negroes having become citizens,
we asserted that the only safety of the
Republic was in educating the race at the
| expense of the public. We were and are
| opposed to mixed schools" but voted
in the legislature to punish by fine school
officers who refused to give colorcd chill
drcn school facilities, and TO fine any one,
who by violence prevented colored chill
drcn from attending the schools they
have the right to attend. When Mr., Pot
ter asserts that this law mixed the schools
he does not tell the truth. The mixing
mischief was done by the constitution.
and by the school law passed before we
were member of the legislature.
We opposed the civil rights bill as an
attempt to compel the social equality of
the races, an attempt which, explicitly
and with much emphasis. we said, was a
crime against both the white and the
black man-an attempt that would and
ought TO tail. our speech ut Mound City
was "A somewhat elaborate argument to
| prove. that While the prophecy Of Jcf-
fcrson that the slaves would be cNterini-
mated when they had become free, would
not be realized. the social equality OF the
races prophecied by Warren, in Black
woods Magazinc, in 1870, was lmpossioie'
and that the Anglo Saxon race III A'herl-
en- must be preserved pure III AL 'tsNI3oT'
Whca Mr.Pottcr attempts to tWlst Il pam
and strong argument against the civil
| rights bill Us an attempt to compel
social equality, into advocacy of amalga-
nation, he proves himself to be exceed
ingly mean. We are anxious to consid-
or him an honest man; but his persistent
assertion of tins charge, in the face of the
! most conclusive evidences OF its ialsity,
is leading lis to believe he is not.
We have meyer concealed our political
| opinions, and will not. We have almost
always been in conflict with certain Dem
ocrats who hold back until they have
been pushed up. and we have sometimes
| been compelled To dissent from the party
| and to denouncc its action upon certain
questions. We have done this with full
knowledge OF the fact that the course
would ruin us a. an office seeking polti-
| clan, but we have never wanted any of
| flee and are not now n candidate for any
position the people have in their gift.
We will do and say What We please,
and those who do not like us for our i'll
dependence can dislike Us, and in any
way they see proper give expression to
their dislike. The evident tear of GER
tain gentlemen at Mound City and in
jackson county that we may be an OBJ
struction TO their advancement has no
foundation in fact. We are not candi-
date for any Office, and do not intend to
be. The Congress seekers of jackson
| and ruaski may therefore rest easy.
| The Pope has issued an order, or II per-
mission rather, to Catholic farmers and
all other Catholics who may so desire to
join the society Of Changers. The an
| tipathy OF the Catholic church to all Sc
| T. II L.