The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-09

mere orderly and intelligent negroes from
exercising their free right of franchise All
these disturbances were then blamed upon
the whites by the government satraps VINO
were keptf,here for the sole purpose OF DING
ing them about and to send exaggerated ac'
counts OF them to the northern republican
press AS democratic outrages-as the work OF
the Ku Kluy and White Leaguers.
The above is true sketch OF what has
been. and, IN some respects, still is the condl'
ton of affairs IN the south, gathered from
personal observation. Terrible as it may ap.
near it is but mild statement OF the case. /
might parricularize and call to mnd hun,
dreds of instances where the means referred
TO have been applied by republican polit:'
Clans to carry elections, but It would occupy
too much space. Every investigation has
demonstrated the truth of what have written
and every impartial traveller in the south VIII
attest its correctness The fact that wherever
republican rule has been broken up and the
state governments have passed into the hands
of the democrats or more properly the naive
whites peace and harmony prevails, proves
it, Look at Arkansas While under radical
rule she was constantly in state OF turmoil
and at times involved in actual civil war,
with her opposing armies in the field. The
moment the democracy came into power all
was peace and quiet The Ku klux and
White League vanished. Whites and blacks
all went to work and prospercd ever since
The same has been the case in Tennessee,
Georgia, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina,
and will be in all the southern states as fast
as they unload the republican incubus. Getrid
rid of Spencers, Caseys, Packards, kelloggs
and few hundred others of the same stripe
and all will be well in Dixie. When the pro.
perry owners, whose interest it IS to encCur-
age and maintain peace and good will, take
hold Of those state governments there Will be
no more work for the outrage mills nor tor
the bloody shirt flaunteTs The north has
been too willing to attach blame to the whites
of the south for allowing themselves to he in
weighed into SO many ARRAYS with the blacks;
but they do not understand the real situation
OF things there. They make up their minds
without proper information, But very few
of the atIrays between tie two races have had
any local political significance. Most of
them have been RAIDS upon desperadoes,
black and white, whose determination was
demanded by all good citizens Of both par
ties and colors, the same as gangs of robbers
and thieves are not unirequently broken up
by an exasperatcd community in the north
ern states. Imagine, for instance, one-fourth
of the population OF the state Of Illinois living
among the hills and in the forests preylng
upon your gardens, your orchards, your corn
fields, your cattle, hogs and sheep, dctying
the laws OF the state, and threatening your
farmers with urder and arson if they op.
posed them How long, think you, the PEG.
pie Of Illinois would submit TO it if no redress
could be obtained through the aid of the pub.
lie officials or the courts? Not one day
They would rise as one man, irrespective of
party, and with guns and ropes eXtermnate
those miscreants from their midst, and all
good and honest men would applaud them
for it, No one would be mean enough TO
seek TO make political capital out of it. Then
why blame the south for what the north
would co under like circumstances