Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?

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undisguised Threats of Massacre
A Strong Republican County which
"Shan't Be" Carried by the Repub
Iicans-What Southern Democrat.
Call Words of Counsel.
The following extracts from South
ern papers tell their story. Their plail
meaning is death to Republicans an(
victory at the ballot-box by the aid O
bullets and assasinations:
dTHE MISSISSIPPI UsURPATIoN TO Bl
HELD SAT ALL HAZARDS"
Canton (Miss. Mail.
Write it upon your banners, fling i
to the breeze, fiaunt it in the face O
the enemy, that we, the honest people
of Mississippi, havingeonquered glo
rious victory at the ballot-box last No
vember, are determined to hold ou
ra'atage ground at erery hazard.
DEFIANCE OF THE UNITED STATES
| SOLDIERS.
Canton (Miss. Mail.
If the Governor makes no requisi
ton, and Grant sends the troops any
how, will not the people be justified be
fore the law in resisting the interUe,itiO,
OF the military in time of peaces Lei
the Constitutional lawyers of the Radi
cal party "crack this nut"
ANXIOUS FOR BLOOD.
Monticello 0a.) Constitution.
Now, all we have to say is this: The
Democrats are thoroughly prepared fol
any emergency, and if these Radical
hounds want blood they shall have il
to their hearts content.
BULLETS HEAVIER THAN BALLOTS.
Lynchburg (Va.) Star.
The South Carolina negroes are get
ting their backs up. They had better
remember the fate of their brethren in
Mississippi. 'An ounce of prevention
is worth pound of cure"
THE SPIRIT OF THE LATE MISSISSIPPI
CAMPAIGN.
Aberdeen Examiner, July 26, 1876.
God gave the victory to the people
who were contending for Liberation
from the basest thraldOm ever endured
by civilized race, and who would
have been justified in swinging up their
oppressOrs as food for the buzzards to
the bOughs of our forest trees.
THE PRICE OF ToLERATION AND PRO-
TECTIoN-THE ONLY MEANS OF
SAFETY.
Magnolia (Miss. Herald
If the negroes of Pike County desire
to continue the amicable relations now
existing between them and the whites,
to have their rights respected and to
prosper, let them prove it by organiz-
ing Democratic clubs and by voting for
Tilden and Hendricks.
A SUGGESTIVE "MARGIN''-INTIMI A.
TION MADE EASY.
On the 8th of July last the United
States Grand Jury, sitting at Oxford,
Miss, made its report, stating, among
other things, that "the fraud, intimi-
dation, and violence perpetrated at the
lasl election is without parallel in the
annals of history" but also pointing
out some of the defects in the National
Election law, and their failure to find
indictments in consequence. Review
ing this report, the Meridian miss.
Mercury is led to say:
1.-The lesson we draw for our benefit
from this report and action of this pack
ed jury is, that there is quite margin
for intimidation between US and the
boundaries of the law, and we can
govern ourselves accordingly"
HOW THE CAMPAIGN OPENS IN MIssIs-
Canton Mail.
David Jenkins, Alfred Handy, and
some others might just as we'll make
up their minds to ground arms now as
later in the campaign. They need not
try to carry this county against honest
rule. 1t can't be done. They need not
try to excite the passions of the igno-
rant masses against the more intelli-
gent. 1t shan't be done. We tell
them so right now. Let them weigh
Dur words of counsel and be profited |
thereby.
[Canton is in Madison County, Miss.
which gave Grant 2,4OO majority in
1872, and is Republican by that major
ty today
SAVE THE WHITE BANDITTI,
)kolona (Miss.) States.
The Hamburg (South Carolina) riot
8 the latest sensation. The Sioux In.
liam massacre fired the Northern heart
but nothing to compare
With the Hamburg affair, in which
lalf dozen colored militia met the
Usual fate in race conflict. Some of
'ur Representatives in Congress pour
'ials of wrath upon the white banditti.
This may be wise policy, but the prin-
iple we do not like.
THE HAMRITRc MaSS 1NDo,,crD |
The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion, edited
" E. Barksdale, the bosom friend of
eff. Davis and Col. Lamar, the Demo-
ratio official organ Of Mississippi, and
he most influential paper in the State,
as this to say of the Hamburg massa-
re-:
"NO impartial person can read the Is
eports of the affair without approving t
he conduct of the whites, and at the
anne time sympathizing with them in
he misfortune of having been forced to ;
lch an extremity of action in self.de- 9
,nse." r.
FAISEHOUD AND MALIG- t
NIFTY. q
rom the Brandon Miss Republican (Dem. r
Twitchell, the Coushatta radical Y
lief, who was shot some weeks since Il
Y one OF his partners ia crime, whom
g had swindled, has gone North as q q
document" The fellow a
lot both is arms off and crippled him u
one leg, and he is now exhibiting :
imself as a martyr, and telling the !:
eople he was shot by the Ku-Klux of II
He ought to have been II
anged or burned years ago, and it !,
1ly surprising that the people did not II
ang him. n
THE COLOR LINE DEFINED IN ALA. r
BAMA. =
'om the Mobile Register. h
There are but two parties, can be but CT
70 parties with US, the white and the n
aek, and he who is not of the former b