The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26

kpereSt a64f1onger to deny the esrocities
that have been committed on the cololed
eo1eifeff tas<s:--f he-i!ss
famous LIS about negro plots ia. murder:
white people have become exceedingly
stale -'ahd ::disgustihg.t; 7'Last' sum
impsl athe5 columns S ,.of j tho South
ern Associated Press for days .groaned
with stupid and clumsy stories that che
negroes had: cUnspired ito murder the
white men and ugly, white women of
Georgia. That this infamous lie was i'm
tended asa Pdrtetsxt for slaughter, there's
kbut, little, fldouht. If appriehensions Of;
qprisingse ever existed they grew out of
tie conviction Of into1erable wrongs in in.
Ihicted upon the colored people, and are
,anoo another. proof Of the truth Of that saying,s
Conscience doth make towards Of Us
ALL" Every year before the war there
}'were stories of plots among the slaves to
rise and murder, their masters and ,.fami-
| lies, which l believe in every instance
turned out to be false; but were Often
! made thePretext for the, greatest cruel
ties: The conclusive answer to all these
foul ca1umnies IS found in the fact that
colered men only arc killed. ~. ..'r:... ::
:, He referred to, the white line policy
adopted by the Democrats Of the South
as the legitimate descendant Of the black
code of 1885, and the revolution of 1875,
was but continuation of the fight
against the principles Of reconstruction
and the CONSTITUTIONAL amendments.
EWhateyer DISCUSSES may be temporarily
adopted, whatever protests may be made
in Washington, the infexible purpose of
the white line Democrats of the South is
the de triiction Of the political rights Of
the. negrol :' r,,;'::>'::: tso:; -: i; ~.
! Referring to- the: report of the commit
f'tee to Investigate the ontrages in Louisi-
ana, Mr.: Morton said. it presented a sick
5ening detail of, horrors that dwarf into
insignificance any Indian, war that had
occurred within a century. Passing to
Mississipbi,} it: is found that the election
Of 1868 was but; the bloody, and fraudu.
lent au totype Of that Of last fall. Git reeks
with. murder, frauds, prescription and in
timidation, and shows that the new con-
stitution of|that year was rejected by the
I'same infamous Observation-Disclosures by which
! the revolution of last fiji was enacted; y
Mr.. Morton referred to-; :the,i atrocities
committed by ku.klux, and said the pass;
age of the enforcement act and the pros.
Eecutidns under it had the efect>to break
up the |ku7klux organizations throughout
! the 'South. and gave, comparative peace
t and security iii Several Of the Southern:
States forltwosor three years! nG .77t'tIhc
! It seems never to have. occurred to those
who5attempt to justify these wrongs upon
the scpfe Of Republican misgovernment ID
the SOUTH that the prescription and hsie-5
T. q h01
themsely Ives calculated to beget corruption
and disorders. ia a:governmeht where
men are perseGuted, not for their crimes,
but for their, opinions, and are made out.
casts from society and their common EN-.
fjoyment IS of lie, they have but little yjuc.
lducement to be honest, and temptation,
fraud and corruption are increased ten
fold: IT is lesson Of history III every
/ age; that where men, are treatedasktryil.:
lains and yagabonds, and, subjected to
wicked oppression from society, because
Of their race or reiigi or poliNical op7H@
ions, they are sometimes thereby made
Villains and vagabonds.
|a' The Question of amnesty, which Has
recently excitedtso much2 tattent,on, isin4
teresting: as s 3 matter of justice, Of leeliqg
anafef example. and q national question
of Param6ahti INTEREST: s ;tt:aAa M
tie presence lef?e great danger oyer:l
ae e &; f $th s9s SSwf2, s E$4
may say se4uaMy} intersstedyE 5Ih many
df'the Southern Skates the: Roliey1is. epen;t
Elyar0wed Of selling all, power into the
hands Of The white race and depHffiv1iihng
;tha colpteta peopleaof their politieab and
Syi Fishts With thjs pesy aSPmen
the. Del nocraey ymrathize !a7n J etesty1
Southern, StatesiandoI fear to- a. considers
:S}S ttsst il S Ss sts}f{
m4jHty by force; and We are no longer
establish a solid South interest Of the
Democrat patty, aind' whissan1 they Shall I
have obtained ccontrolG Of . the, Mationai
M IT, IL sga
EAtrQy tho Republic cam party by making IT
imDOSSihle for man nf, .Rpnn bliol0r eR1rineirtt