The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-08-29

political element in the Democratic
problem. Should they carry these
States IL will be by bloody revolution
which no more deserves the name Of
election than the murder Of the Chris
tians by the Turks.
SLAUGHTER IN THE SOUTH.
Five, ten or twent negroes are killed,
and sometimes one white man is the
common report. but every announce
ment is followed by the stereotyped lie
that the negroes began the attack, and
the whites we're actipg in self defense.
The negroes, poor, unframed, almost
unarmed and unskilled in the use Of
weapons, are always represented rs
precipitating themselves upon their
well-armed, skillful aud intrepid enc
mics, and procuring themselves to be
shot for no other reason than To make
a little political capital for their North
ern friends.
HAMBURG.
The murder a few days since OF 10
negroes in Hamburg, 3. O., under cir
cumstances OF extraordinary atrocity is
but the opening Of the Tilden cam
palgn in that State. IL was the begin
ming Of the work of intimidation, a ter
rible blow to strike terror into the
hearts Of the colored people. Upon a
very mean aud scandalous pretext about
900 white men suddenly assembled in
this little town. inhabited almost ex-
by colored people. perpetrat-
ed the foul murders, sent the women
aud children to the woods in deadly
fright and searched and sacked their
homes.
Had band Of Sioux Indians suddes-
ly pounced upon peaceable white viii
lage and inflicted such horrors the cry
of determination wOuld have gone up
throughout the land
1t is openly proclaimed that the Re-
publican majority OF 80, 600 in South
Carolina il to be overcome and the
State carried for Tilaen; and this can
be done only by frightening colored
men from the polls or compelling them
by force or fraud to vote the Demo
cratic ticket
MISSISSIPPI.
In Mississippi, since reconstruction
in 1869, the average Republican major
ity has been over 10000. In 1872,
Grant carried it by 81 1897 votes. Last
year, after campaign Of horrors. the
Democracy carried il by q majority of
over $4,000. and so complete and alb
iect was the terror that in the comfy
OF Yazoo, where the Republicans had
registered vote OF 2,427, they polled
but Z votes, and these were permitted
"a A.
licans could vote. The White-Liners
were organized into military companies
in every county, well armed. and
marched up and down the country
with threatening demonstration. Muir
ders, whippinga, and every form OF
violence were of daily occurrence, and
prominent Republicans. white and
black, were notified TO leave their
homes on pain Of death. Leagues were
formed in which the members were sol
emnly pledged to rent no land, give no
employ ment, business. custom, or SO
cial recognition whatever To black or
white Republicans. The Governor OF
the State was compelled to disband
the few military companies he had to
prevent their massacre, and to treat
with the Democratic Central Commit
tee for his own safety. the preservation
Of the peace and protection of the pub
lie property. The treaty was generally
violated, the committee alleging their
inability to restrain their savage fol-
lowsr-, aud Mississippi throughout the
campaign was an armed mob, having
all Of the license with none of the dis
cipline Of the camp. The result was
what might have been anticipated
IA bloody. lawless, wicked revolution.
in which large majority was over
whelmed by an armed and murderous
minority. The massacre at Hamburg,
vicksburg, Clinton, Couchatta. Colfax,
Red River, Mechanics Institute. and at
hundreds Of other places that might be
named, ara all Of the same character,
for the same political purposes, and
are generally attempted to be excused
by the same infamous aud outrageous
falsehoods.
LOUISIANA.
General Sheridan. while in command
in New Orleans, collected with great
labor the evidence Of violence in the
State of Louisiana alone for political
purposes from 1866 to 1874, and report
ed to the investigating committee ap-
pointed by the House Of Representa-.
tives as follows:
Kiiled............... xl4s
wounded. ed........................ ..s...'...a'i
ro,ai.................................4,9so ,9so
This is a greater number than fell at
the battle of Bull Run, and with anoth-
er difference, that In that battle the
slaughter was not all on one side.
This terrible record, embracing a
larger number Of victims than have
fallen by the tOmahawk aud scalping-
knife OF the Indians in 30 years is to
be shouted out Of sight by cries Of
"bloody.shirt." "carpet-bagger. "'scal.
awag," and all the slangwhangery OF
brutal blackguardism, and as the In
dians mutilate the bodies of their slain
these men mutilate the memories OF
their victims by covering them with
charges OF every species Of crime.
LOWER IN THE SCALE oF HUMANITY.
That these men, their aiders and
abettors, are lower in the scale Of be.
ing than the Sioux or the Modocs, is a
proposition too plain for argument and
will not be denied by any good-hearted
aud well-informed man. In the South
the effective arguments used against
the Republican party are the shotgun,
revolver and knife, and in the NORTH
the charge Of corruption aud cry OF re
form. The first set Of arguments IL
sharp and murderous; the second SCI
false and hypocritical, aud both ARE
used indiscrimipately by the same par
" as the location or the occasion de
mands.
THE vIRrUR THAT coSSrvRs AT MURDER
, 1 have no faith in that virtue which
assails with fury, fraud aud corruption
but oonnives a murder, outrage anC
oppression. Those who make daily
outcry about frauds, larcenies and de
falcati0ns. but turn deaf ear To tn
cries 10 murdered men, the shrieks o
victims upon whom are inflicted infer
nal outrages. to the complaint of thos'
who are driven from their homes an
made outcasts from society for no 9th
er crime than their race or politica
opinions, are pharisees and hypocrite
Of the basest sort. Frauds aud larcen
les are infamous crimes, and deserve
the execration OF all men; but they ar
inferior in enormity to the crime G
murder. The taking OF human lif
save in self-defense is the wickedes
deed under heaven and among men
and the murderer need not be expecte
to hesitate at the commission of an
inferior crime. He will commit peril
~. forgery, arson or any deed.
WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANNOT n
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