Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-08-31
THE COLOR LINE.
Democratic Declarations from
Southern Democratic
Papers.
A solid south for TiIden.
Forest Register

The body OF the Democratic party
will carry their colors Of the White
Line over the State. Some Of the
auxiliaries In scout or bushwhack-
ing maneuver may use mild con-
sentative face over the flag, but still
IL will rest on a white journal. TO
the radicals we say just superintend
your structure, we Will raise our own
flag and colors.
Speaking OF the State Democratic
platform Of August 8, 1875, the Co
lumbus Indez says
We stand on the color line, be-
cause IL Is tacitly Endorsed by the
platform, and because we believe 1t
to be the only means Of redcemiDg
this and other counties from negro
rule"
Again, from the same paper:
1.-THE necessities Of the State Of
Mississippi recall this Injunction and
give emphasis TO the parallel-put
none but Democrats In office.
I'VE have gained great victory
Bull Run or Chickamauga. Let us
follow 1t up to the securing Of results.
1.-THE white people must be weld
cd into one compact organization.
All differences Of opinion, all person
nj aspirations, must BIO settled with
In our own organization, and from its
decision there must be no appeal.
Otherwise each recurring election
produces Its disorders"
MERIDIAN Bcrcury1
"Our correspondent at Running
Water Mills makes his point well.
Ills positions can not successfully DO
contradicted. Tho miserable bun
glers who have put the negro I'm tho
Constitution have certainly written
themselves down asses all. Whom
wo accept "results of the war" we
do not accept the notion OF statesmen,
but the plumbers OF unreasoning NAL
ice and stupidity, and, Of course, we
continue to accept 1t only so long as
we are compelled to.
jackson Clarion
appeal after appeal has been
made In vain to the colored people.
No more appeals will be made to
them"
Alabama Examiner
"The present contest IL rather a
revolution than n political campaign;
II Ii the rebellion, If you see fit to APP
ply that term"
Forest Registerl
In this connection we will state
that the white men who ally them
selves with negroes in this conflict
need not expect any better fate than
than they /; fact IL, they will be the
first 10 suffer, II the Caucasian can
find them at oil when trouble comes"
In July, 1865, the Raymond car
cite, whose editor Is now a member OF
tho legislature, and which Is pub
lishod only eight miles from Clinton,
where the bloody riot of last Septem-
Der occurred, made this startling dc.
mand:
"Thero are those who think that
the leaders Of the Radical party have
carried this system Of fraud and false
hood just far enough In Kinds coun-
~, and that the time has como when
IL should be stopped peaceably If
possible, forcibly II necessary. And
10 that end II Is proposed that whom
over a radical pow-wow Is to be held,
the nearest antl-radical club appoint
u committee OF ten discreet, intelli-
gent, and reputable citizens, fully
identified with tho interests o! the
nelghborhood, and well known rs
men of veracity, to attend a. repre-
sentatives of tho taxpayers OF the
ncighborhood, and the county, and
true friends OF tho negroes assembled,
and that whenever the radical speak
ers proceed to misload the negroes,
and opon with falsehoods and decep-
tions and misrepresentation, the
committee stop them right then and
there. and compel them to tell the
truth or quit tho stand"
The Clinton riot WAS tho direct out
growth of this demand. What fol-
lows? Tho same paper of date July |
81, 1876, shows that this vicious poll.
cy has been renewed In Kinds coun-
ty, ms follows:
DEMOCRATIC cENsoRs.
"The County Executive Commit.
tee OF the Democrats and Conserva-
lives OF Kinds county held meet
ing at Raymond, tho other day, at
on motion, ii was ordered that
each club In tho county appoint
special committee whose business Ii
shall DO toattcnd any and overy rad
caI meeting ever held in its vicini-
Iy, and that each OF said committee
report TO It's own club and to this Ex-
scu,ive Committee, the action, at
enhance, and general tone and tenn
1er OF said meeting.
A SYSTEM OF COERCION.
A very general system Of coercion
vas adopted throughout tho South by
associations agreeing not
,ot to employ negroes who voted the
ticket, not to lease them
snds, nor to furnish them with, or
low them TO obtain for themselves
nv means OF subsistence.
The proofs Of this are overwheim-
sx. read from the ChickAsaw Ms- ,
,sy<y a communication from Buena !,
'ista, Mississippi
BUESA VTsTA, Miss, Jan. !. rs. !,
Efst0y lMexNs.gey The following
q comprises the freedmen that have |;
zen reported By the members of the I
0ens Vista Democratic Conserva- 4
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