The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-05-27

lbe election outrages- perpetrated last
Fall, in the city of Baltimore upon the
colo1ed voters of that city, to prevent its
political control falling into the hands of
the "niggers and Radicals, indicate the
true feeling of Southern Democrats towards
the "newly enfranchiSed," their pretended
acquiescence in the Constitutional Amend
ments to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The desperate attempt of the "unrecon-
structed element in the State of Maryland
to kill Off the votes f" of the Black Radi-
GALS has been so successfully accomplished
in nearly every Southern State, that to-day,
with scarcely an exception, the colored
voters of the Southern States are to all
practical purposes as far away from, and
as completely debari ed the privilege of the
ballot box as they were in the days of
slavery. Under the general understanding
"that it is not healthy for them to be
around on election days. enforced by
endless instances of personal violence per-
petrated upon them by their loving white
Democratic brethren, the attitude they
have been forced to assume in most of the
States South, particularly in Georgia, Ala
bama, Arkansas and Mississippi, is that of
unresisting political neutrality.
By regular system of intimidation
practiced in the rural districts of those
States, where the colored voters constitute
nearly the aggregate Republican strength,
the Democracy under the distinctive title
of the White Liners have succeeded in
making themselves masters of the State
governments, and rely upon the same
means to carry their States in the coming
Presidential election. Their success in
securing majority in Congress has hast
ened the development of this proscriptive
and unrelenting spirit. until it assumes
such form idable proportions that the atten-
ton of the country at large is being at
tracted to it. BY no other means can DEM
ocratic supremacy in the Southern States
be maintained. Left to exercise their own
choice as to parties, the vote of the entire
now disenfranchised population is against
Democracy. Its leaders South. failing in
the attempt to divide the negro vote, have
resolved in their political desperation to
nullify it. That they have succeeded is
attested by recent political events in those
States, and is fully corroborated by testi-
mony on all sides.
1t is in view of the present political con-
dition of the South that the question pro
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Presidential canvass. Much as sectional
agitation " is to be avoided, yet the South
ern political task masters, whether in or
out Of Congress, may as well understand
now and for all time, that the people of
this Nation, in every section and corner of
it, intend to give full force and effect to
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution, until they
citizens Southern included) as any other
portion of it. They may as well make up
their minds to another fact soon to be dem
onstrated. That the people of this Nation
will not entrust to other than Republican
hands the enforcement of these same
amendments. One branch of the Govern
ment in Democratic hands is a sufficient
foretaste of complete Democratic suprem-
abused and outraged as they are, are not
alone in their dread of Democratic restor-
alton, the aggregate white voting popula-
ton of the country having too many inter-
III
to risk so dangerous an experiment.