Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-09
THE ALARM In MISSISSIPPI.

AhG ALARM IN nAAcSAS5AEA
Private letters from Mississippi in.
form us that the people Of that State are
much excited. Having tasted the
sweets Of peace and perfect tranquility
for eight months, they are shocked and
Mortified st the idea Of being remanded
to the infamous rule from which they
have freed themselves. Boutwell's SLAM
derous report, and Grants bloody Letter
to congress, have impressed the people
with the belief that their present quiet
and harmonious relations between the
races viii soon be supplanted by the jar
ring, clashing discOrds which existed
while the csrpetbsggers controlled the
State. We do not believe the people of
Mississippi will be molested. There are
some things which even INSCRIPTIONS
Radicslism dare not do, and the afro
cious crime of remanding Mississippi to
military rule is one OF them. The report
OF Boutwell,, and Grants lying mes
sage, are intended for electioneering
purposes, aud after the seventh of Nc.
vemoer next, when the Republicans
will have no further use for the negroes,
we will hear nothing more about their
wrongs in Mississippi. Bsyard, in his
minority report, says: "Phere is not,
from beginning to end of this testi-
mOny, single case Of obstruction of the
votec because he was a colored man. In
reference by Federal authority in State
citations and internal affairs, has, since
the close Of the war, frequently taken
place, and never without deplorable and
disastrous Tesults; and, on the other
hand, the applications of minorities de.
feated by popular vote TO be neverthe-
less installed in Office has never been de-
MED by the Federal authorities without
such denial being followed by benefi-
cent results" There are thousands now
in Memphis who were in Mississippi on
the Gsy Of the election who will corrob-
crate what Senator Bayard asserts. The
editor Of the Charleston Journal of Com.
nlerce was in Mississippi on the day
OF the election in November last,
and he asserts that at the polls
which he visited there were fifty white
men and nine hundred blacks, that be-
fore 1875 the Radical party polled about
nine hundred votes. For weeks before
the election, the Democratic club met
regularly on Monday morning in full
force, some fifty, most of them riding
miles from their business to be there.
Shortly before the election, two white
men in the beat, southerners, were re-
ported as not having Joined the club.
On motions, a COMMITTEES Of persons,
friendly, was appointed to wait on them
and ask an explanation. Explanations
were made aud received. Except one
or two Radical mSnipulators, all Joined |
the club. The club rode night and day,
aud left no stone unturned to influence |
the cOlOred people. They had torch
light professions, bands of music, |
etc. They did not spend a dollar of |
money in bribery, nor did any of |
them shoot at a negro. Not q diff. |
Guilty occurred in the beat. But |
the white men were in earnest, and |
were ready for any emergency. On the |
day Of election, every white man spent |
the day at the precinct, from early in |
the morning until the sun set. No liz
quor was drank, and everything passed
off as quietly as Sunday meeting. Not
a fraudulent vote was cast. The Demo-
crate polled two hundred and fifty odd |
votes, and the Radicals about four hun
dred. Three hundred negroes stayed
away, and two hundred voted the DEM
ocrstic ticket. This was the feeling that
the whites throughout the
State, and it was this feeling that secured
victory. Senator Bsyard gives the ken
that unlocks all the troubles in the south
when he asserts that the interference
which Boutwell, and Grant proposes has
always been followed, and very natur-
ally, by local discomfort and disorder, as
in the case of Louisiana and Alabama,
while Tennessee, Virgins, North Caro-
lima, Georgia, Texas and Arkansas are
living proofs in their increased pros
SAAhy NA1N 1AohNAiAAAty VI tuS uOu-lQEeIs |
All the States mentioned by
Senator Bsysrd have been peaceful
Iince they passed from under Radical
'ule. 1t is especially true Of Arkansas,
or no State in the south in SO short a
lime presents so striking a contrast in
he wise, ststesmanlike rule of the
Democratic party on the destinies of the
Wo races as does our sister across the
liver. The Richmond Wing shows that {
rom April, 1865, down to 1884, every
material and moral, social and political 3
interest Of the fertile State OF Arkansas
Tas torn In shreds by that "reign of
error" insugurated under the CLAW. C
1ns, the DOrseys, and Brookses, ct =
onl'ae genus, the spawn OF a
he reconstruction measures of e
ne Republican party Of the north, We n
aW an internecine strife Of murder D
1bbery, arson, and lust, In all OF its u
ellish colors, spread over this fair land
scourge more dreadful In its march D
ian the locusts of Egypt or the dark 10 10