Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-28

| publican BIO q professional man, nc
Democrat will will employ Elm. Ii
he be merchant, no Democrat will
| buy his wares, and if he has the au-
dacity to take an active part in poll.
tics be 3 very likely to be run out OF
the country, or shot, or hung to the
nearest tree. On account of this
state of affairs it is not to be wonder
ed at that nearly all the whites call
| themselves Democrats.
THE MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICANS.
The Republicans of Mississippi
have q sure majority at a tree and
fair election of from 10000 to 10000.
At the election held in November
last. for members of the Legislature
and mem bers of Congress, the DEM
ocrats carried tho State by 10000
majority. 1t was alleged that this
result was obtained by fraud, intim-
idation and violence on the part OF
the Democrats; and it was to inquire
into this grave and serious charge
that the special committee, of which
Mr.. Cameron was member, was
raised by the Senate and instructed
to proceed to Mississippi. This COM
mittee had ten or a dozen sessions IN
Washington for tho purpose of ex-
aiming witnesses who were mainly
political refugees from Mississippi
and some twenty-five sessions were
held in Jackson and Aberdeen in
Mississippi. They examined about 100
witnesses and all those witnesses
were legally sworn, and all were, or
might have been subject to cross ex-
animation. Mr.. Cameron stated that
the committee did not have sufficient
time to investigate all the acts of in
timidation, force and fraud alleged TO
have been perpetrated by the Dem
ocrats upon Republicans, especially
upon the colored Republicans in all
parts of the State; during the politi-
cal canvass of 1875; but the commit
tee did investigate many of these
outrages committed in some thirty
three of the sventy-three counties in
the State. The Republican majority
in the State in 1875 and for some
years previous thereto was from 25,-
900 to 10000. At the election held
in November last for members ofthe
legislature and for members of Con-
gress tho Democrats carried the
State by upward of 10000 majority.
lie alleges that from the testimony
taken by the committee it appears
that this result was brough about by
force, fraud and intimidation.
HOW TIE DEMOCRATS CARRIED THE
STATE
In the summer Of 1875 the Den O.
cratic newspapers very generally
throughout the state began to pub
lish violent and inhamatory political
articles. The following are few OK
amples of this choice Democratic lit
erature. An extract from the Ray
mond blinds county, Gazette lead
ing Democratic paper published in
the month of August, indicating o
policy that was afterwards pursued
by the Democrats in almost every
cou nty in the state:
There are those who think that the leaders
| of the Radical party have carried this system
of fraud and falshood Just far enough in Kinds
county, and that the time has come when it
!, should he stopped pcaceably if possible, fore
! iblv il necessary to this end il i proposed
| that whenever Radical pow-wOw Is 70 be
| held the nearest ti-Radical club appoint
| committee OF ten discreet intelligent and rep,
ntablc citizens, fully Identified with the inte-
rests of the neighborhood and well known as
men Of veracity, to attend as representatives
of the tax payers Of the neighborhood and the
county and true friends Of the negroes assem-
| bled, and, that whenever the Radical speakers
attempt TO mislead the negroes and open with
| falsehoods receptions and misrepresentation
the committee stop them right then and there,
| and compel them to tell the truth or quit the
stand.
The Forest Register keeps the fol-
lowing standing at the head of its
editorial column.
A white man in a white mans place.
| A black man in a black mans place
| Each according to the eternal fitness Of
things.
From the Canton Mail: at is
useless to talk of the races living to-
gether free as American citizens 1t
cannot be done, and justice to forty
millions Of whites demands that four
millions of blacks be separated from
them
From the Westville Netcs: "Vote
the negro down or knock him down.
Does not the very thought of it boil
the blood in every vein? Will you
still contend that we must not have
white mans party? Away with such
false doctrines. We must and will
hive white mans party. We have
t.;oa poliey Ie"o ~-0-5L. ci~- -
negro his place aud make him keep
it. IT we cannot vote him down,
we can knock him down and the re-
suit will be tho same"
Mr. Cameron says the committee
had their attention called TO many
similar extracts in Democratic pa
pers published in oil parts of the
State, but the above will suffice TO
show the general tone and temper
of the Democratic press at the com
mencement of the canvass and du-
ring its progress.
oUTRAGEs, MURDERS, FRAUD.
In Mr.. Cameron's speech were &C.
counts of some Of the numerous out
RACES, murders, and frauds that had
been perpetrated by the rebels
of the South against would be
peaceable citizens. The most strik-
ing of these riots of which Mr..
Cameron spoke occurred at Clinton,
where the Republicans, prior to Sept
ember 4th, had given extensive puplic
notice that they would hold grand
public barbecue on that day. Gov
ernor Ames and Captain II. f. Fisher
were announced as speakers, and ex-
tensive preparations had been made
for the occasion. Notice OF the meet
ing had been given by the Republi-
cans alone, and it was intended to be
q Republican meeting, and not
meeting for Joint discussion, but on