The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-10
GRANTS Multiplication OF MIS'
SuSSuPPu

Hon. f.. Barksdale. of Mississippi,
member of the Democratic national COM
mittee, has. written letter TO the editor
of the New York Herald in which he re-
plies TO the allegations concerning MIS-
sissippi affairs contained in the recent
letter of President Grant 70 Gov. Cham-
bcrlain of South Carolina, and comintini-
Gated by the president. with other papers,
to congress. Grants reference to Mis-
sissippi is as follows: ,.... ..
The scene ut Hamburg. as cruel, blood
thirsty. wanton, unprovoked anu uHca'
ed for ms il was. is only a repetition OF
the course which has been pursued III
other Southern states within the last few
wears notably in Mississippi and LOUISE
ana. Mississippi is governed to-day by
officials chosen through fraud ana Nio-
lence, such as would scarcely be accrcd,
tied to savages much less to clViiizeu
and christian people. How long lhese
things are to continue. or what Is 10 DC
the final remedy, the great Kuler vi inc
universe only knows.
Mr.. Barksdale charactcrizes this as
saut as untustiliable and unprovoked'
and declares that at this time, under the
administration of the Democratc-Con-
servative party OF the state, Mississippi
presents an unexampled condition OF
peace. order and obedience to law.
In regard to the canvass OF last year,
Mr.. Barkstlale says that Gov. Ames, OF
whom Grant was the friend and patron
| made repeated calls on the president Tor
national troops on the ground OF "do-
nestle violence The president dis
patched special agent to Mississippi
this agent was i'm daily intercourse will
Ames for weeks before the election, am
he was assisted by skilltul corps O
detectives, but he failed to see or heal
anything in the conduct of the Demo
cratic and Conservative voters of MiSsis
sippi that would justify the president IL
furnishing troops to GOV. Ames, and III
| go reported. On the day OF the election
this agent was domicilcd at the capita
of the state, rs he had been 70
weeks, where a military pos
| has been established since s til
war The troops were held in READINGS
to move to any point where their sci
vices might be required to preserve Tia
peace, protect the voters and secure
| fair election. The county in which thi
| garrison is located has colored votin
majority of eighteen hundred. At til
precincts stationed immediately undc
the guns of the garrison, large number
of colorcd people who had hitherto bee
controlled by the carpet-bag politicians
went to the polls, and, with open ticket
| in their hands, voted Tor the reform can
| ddates. The county was carried for thi
| ticket by fifteen hundred majority. Tn
der the circumstances Mr.. Barkselale yer.
| Justly observes II could not be assumes
| that the result was due to "violence,
nor could it have been due to fraud,
| inasnucl as the entire election machiiI
| cry was in the hands of the radicals.
Mr.. Barksdale recalls the fact that eN
| United States Senator Revols, colOrcd re
PUBLICAN, wrote 10 ITtSlucHJ GRAN
| "A letter the president now has in his pos
| session, in which Revels declared tn
election was fair and the Republica
state administration had caused its defea
by its own misconduct. Further MI
Barks,lale adds that "a now Hayes an
| Wheeler clector of Mississippi
formerly Republican attorney-generai c
the state, had predicted in 1874 that tn
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., corruption and in
becility of the Republican state authoirt,
would bring defeat and disgrace npo
them and their party. t..l-s
The prediction has been verified an
with that defeat, violence and disordt
have been driven out of Mississippi. +,
penditures have been reduced one-thir
and taxes proportionately The whit
and black citizens OF the State live t.
gether in peace, and the only disorder
and disorganizing element in it is the di
placed Republican Office holding eli
: ment.
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