The Republican journal., 1876-08-31

but pleasure. Coming right on the heels
Of Spencer's demand for q Senate COM
mittee of investigation, nothing could be
more inopportune and damaging than the
letters he is sending up from Alabama.
He positively denies that there was any
disturbance in the State on election day
the nearest approach to it being when q
black man stepped on Il white mans foot.
If the incident had been the other way it
would have been a heinous outrage which
nothing less than the immediate occupa
ton of the State by a regiment of blue
coats would have avenged, but rs it was
a white man who was stepped on the
troops were not called out Redhed says
plainly
The Democratic majority of forty thousand
cannot be accounted for upon the hypothesis
of fraud. violence and intimidation That the
canvass was quiet, also the election. and neither
distu bed by riots or outbreaks, is proof that
we must look further to account for the large
Democratic majority. Alabama is Democratic
upon a full fair vote, for the whites outnumber
the blacks forty-six thousand and there are as
are whites who vote with the blacks. Race
lines are party lines, with such trfing eXcep-
tions as to be hardly worth enumeration. This
has been true since the passage of the civil
rights bill, which lost the Republicans from
eight to ten thousand white votes in North
Alabama, and gave the State 10 the Democ
racy.
That is not the most unpleasant thing
he has to say, though, and other things
he tells must ring in the ears Of the Re-
publican leaders of the North very much
like their death knell He has sense
enough to see and honesty enough to adj
NIT that the reign Of intimidation in the
South is over. So far as Alabama is con-
cerned, he says that the truth Of the
business is the whites have now complete
control of the State and they will retain
it. Nothing short of the power Of the
federal government can oust them. aM
then they miW rcmain ousted Int q &hoH
| tine"
The reports of so-called outrages are in
almost every instance frauds, gotten up
for party effect Upon investigation they
utterly vanish For instance, there is the
case Of Frances Thompson, Of Memphis,
the negress who appeared III 'asllburn's
report as 'the victim OF sixteen success
sive ravishments" by white ruflians in that
city, which negres5 turned out to be a
negro man keeping a disorderly house in
woman's attire; the case of Senator
Twitchel, of Louisiana, who was repre-
| ers of the SOUTH but who was afterwards
declared, by the unanimous report OF Il
congressional investigating committee, to
be a political dead-beat, who had brought
| down upon himself the vengeance OF a
| fellow republican, by whom he was IN
doubtedly shot; the case OF United States
Marshal Perrin, of Alabama. who was dis
covered to have shot his own coat full of
bullet-holes, in order to prove his narrow
escape from democratic assasSins: the case
| OF large numbers OF men who were re-
| ported to be murdered because they were
republicans. but who were afterwards
found by the Alabama investigating com
mittee to be in the best Of health These
| examples should be sufficient to warn an
ordinarily reasonable person from placing
much credence in the bloody, heartrend-
| ing tales which the radicals are now so
industriously connecting and circulating
| for 1T 'fha f,f+ he
| .jority of the committee on Mississippi at
| fairs. made by MIR. Boutwell,. which rep
| resents the lives and liberties of white and
black republicans iii that state to be in
continual jeopardy, aud which recon-
mends the reduction OF the state to the
condition of a territory, has been proven
to be utterly unreliable by Senator Bay
ard, who made Il minority report on the
subject and who asserts that none OF the
| testimony taken before the committee in a
| legally admissible manner would Justify
the majority in making such a report as
they did. To show upon what fragile
foundation the majority report stands, it
is only necessary to give an extract from
the cross examination by Mr. Bayard Of
one OF the witnesses. woman
Q. Did you ever take an oath before: A.
| No, sir.
Q. Do you know the meaning of an oath !:
A. No, sir.
Q. DO you know what the consequences are
of swearing falsely: a. No, sir.
Upon such testimony rs this. and upon
untounded reports, to which some OF the
committee lent a too willing ear because
of their partisan zeal, u lew grave sena-
| tors come before the nation and solemnly
annouce that the state of Mississippi is in
need OF a republican form Of government
| The hitherto discordant admins tration
at Washington is turning its attention to
the sweet influences of harmony. 1t has
sent into Maine sort of director general
| of melody, one Nicholson. whose duty
seems TO be to attune the brethren to the
praise Of radcalism He has his pocket
full of symphonies. solos, duets, psalms,
hymns, ballads and chants This musical
emanation, as soon as he strikes a favor
able spot, begins to inquire into the CON
dition of party psalmody and rhythmical
Republicanism. If it is low he at once
summons all Of the faithful who under
stand the scale and gamut, gathers in all
the harmonious harpers, the fiddlers, tlut-
ers and filters, tells them they must LINE
i'm and help to MARBLE Hayes into the
White House On Friday evening, he
taught the Hayes and Wheeler club that
John Browns soul is marching on, and
sundry kindred anthems On Saturday
this apostle of song appeared at Hayford
Hall, but his Tyre was SO eclipsed by In
gcrsoll. that it seemed insignificant
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