The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-27
XIII 'em D Them.

There is a Democratic politician in
Connecticut who, during the war, when
adraft was about to be enforced in that
state, was asked what he should do in
case he was drafted into military ser
vice and a provost marshal's guard
should call for him to take him to the
camp Of instruction. "Kill 'em d
them, +" / would, said the valiant copper
head. mo minion of this usurping
government shall pass alive over my
Threshold
Kill EN- d. them, calculates the
Southern Democrat, when he is asked
how the party is going to prevent the
colored citizens from voting the Repub-
hcan ticket at the next election.
In a policy Of determination of col
ored voters lies the only hope of
Southern Democrats. They Inaugural
ted this policy at Hamburg, South Car
DINA, and are carrying it out to-day in
Mississippi and Georgia. Yesterdays
dispatches from Aiken County S. &C..
announces the killing of over a hundred
negroes at Rouse's Point, and the break
ing up of a Republican meeting by kill
ing the colored citizens who dared to
attend.
The Democratic party Of the South
seems to be thoroughly organized for a
policy of intimidation by ~bloodshed. A
newspaper correspondent, writing from
SpartanburgS S. c., says:
The programme is to have ssrife
clubs' all owe the State, and, while
avoiding actual bloodshed as much as
possible, to so impress the blacks that
they, or a certain number of them, will
feel impelled to vote with the whites out
OF actual fear. The blacks are timid by
nature, timid by habit, timid by educa-
ton. A display Of force unnerves them.
The whites understand this, and the
immense marching about at night, and
appearance at every Republican meet
ing to .sdivide time, y is with a view to
impress the blacks with a sense of dam
ger of longer holding out against the
white rule.
Add to the number they can scare the
number they a buy, and they hope to
have enough united with the solid white
vote to gain the day, elect Hampton and
secure the Legislature.
The whites are so united and deter
mined, and have so many rifle teams''
that they would certainly win were it
not for the large Federal force in the
State, well scattered, and with positive
orders that the blacks have all the rights
guaranteed to them by the Democratic
platformsand Scott Lord resolutions. As
1t is,they may win any way. One day l
think they will, and next day think
otherwise, and am all the time of opin-
ion that the chances are pretty evenly
balanced.
As to the Federal troops ''intimida-
ting'' the whites, the very idea is SO posi-
lively ridiculous that / cannot write
about it with patience. The stuff which
appears in Northern Democratic papers
about the army being used to intimidate
the whites and prevent a fair election, is
idiotic. Every Federal soldier, and every
musket, and every cannon in. the service
might all be moved into South Carolina
and it would not keep n white man
from voting, not one Everybody here
the South Carolina editors have to say
about it is for effect up North, and not
because they fear that all the troops IN
creation win keep a single white man
from voting.
It'll by these means that the Demo-
Gratis hope to consolidate the South in
favor of ''Tilden and Reform" Rifles
and cartridges will be the potent argu-
ments used by these "reformers'' wher-
ever they promise to be effective in pre-
venting a Republican majority upon an
honest vote.