The weekly clarion., 1876-10-18

vote. Now, IL is known that everywhere
each party had its challeDgers on the
alert, they having extensive local ac-
quainiance and watching the identity Of
the voter. the only thing for which chal-
lenge could be made. II ont Of any bal
lot box, therefore, there came single
ballot more than the registration books
showed 'voted" at that election simple
production Of the registration book and
the box would expose the fraul, and yet
with all this machinery in the hands of
our enemies no such case was ever heard
of. So here again, one of your asser-
tons of what was done is shoEn to have
been legally impossible of accomplish
menL But you exaggerate and agra
vate the exposure of your statement Of
belief that we Stuffed the ballot baxes by
following it up with another which you
do not make as matter of belief but as
matter Of knowledge, to wit /: that we did
carry the election by violence aad inlim-
idation. But when you come TO give
your grounds Of knowledge, like an un-
fortunate witness under cross examina-
ton, you say it is based on er-
pdrte hear-say statements of 9TH
ers, and is of less value legally
than Mr.. BoutWelPs statements of his
knowledge, because on his committee
we're some persons who seemed TO have
an idea that they we're bound to pursue
a course Of examination judicial and i'm
partial in its character. Investigations
in the grand jury room, where you gained
your knowledge by narration Of others,
and not required to be anything else
than exparte, where only witnesses called
on the part of the government are heard,
and none on part of the accused. There
is no reason, from all have heard, TO
suppose that the mode of investigation
pursued by this United States grand jury
at Oxford was an exception to the usual
mode.
Now for the exaggeration and aggra-
walton of your exposure of the statement
Of belief that we stuffed the ballot boxes.
Ii you are correct in your knowledge that
we carried the election by violence and
intimidation, then if We afterwards stuffed
the boxes, (Which it was entirely unnee-
essary to do since we had won otherwise
then we are not only perjurers and
knaves, but fools as we'll. Now, l think,
you will have to revise and correct your
mode Of stuffing the boxes, even though
you still stand to the substantive state
ment, on belief, that we did it.
You arraigned the Democratic COnser-
vative party of this country, and that
means, practically, all its white people,
as restive, turbulent, lawless class,
whose only regard for the preservation
of peace is produced by fear of a wrathful
and swift avenging power. That Federal
authority, with its mailed hand of repres-
sion on us, is the only safe governing
power Unfortunately Republican rule
in the Southern States has given State
/ governments, not possessing the protect
ing and beneficent character which COM
mands the respectful obedience of the
wise and virtuous, and the strong and
cruel punitive power which cORstrdiRs
obedience from the ignorant and vicious.
l prefer to give the leading characteristics
of these state governments in the South
as Republican authority has described
them.
Mr.. Hale, of Maine, said in Congress
"For the last few years the infamy anC
disgrace of certain Southern State gov
ernments have been constantly on th'
increase. There have been eorrup
electors and corrupt elections. fher,
have been corrupt legislators and corrup
legislation"
"There have been double Legislatures
double Governors, double Represents
tives in the House and double Senators
year by year, in many States. Their
have been bad men in these States VIII
have bought power by wholesal
, bribery, and have enriched themselves s
. the expense of people by peculatio
i or open-handed robbery. Corruption an
anarchy have occupied and possessed the
unfortunate &Ites."
/ President Grant, in his message
: December, 1874, said: 81 believe, c
t the part of the citizens of the Southel
r States, the better part of them, there is
v disposition to be law-abiding, and to {
j. no violence, either TO individuals or
s. the laws existing. But do they do rig
v in ignoring the existence of violence al
n bloodshed in resistance of constitution
e authority? l sympathize with the
s. prostrate condition, and would do all
IF nv power to relieve them, acknowledge
r that, in some instances, they hare h
is most trying governments to liVe under, a
is very Oppressive ones IN the lOdy Of taratiO
al for nominal improvements, not givi
in benefits equal to the hardships imposed
S, The truth is, Judge, that these Sts
Or governments have sustained a relation
u the citizens thereof, very much similar
that of a garrulous, imbecile old fs
a. market woman, attempting to COVE
r. a. lot of vigorous, enterprising youtl
e. When they are the least disOrderly
le refractory, she can only shout a
5, scream for the Metropolitan Poll
| These State officials seem never to r,
,ol on an exhibition of their own author
e, to punish lawlessness committed,
prevent lawlessness threatened. I'll
of stand contemptibly still, confessing til
ID imbecility and impOtency, and scream
ON for the national army, which they seem
tu- think is maintained for no other purp
la than constabulary force for their l
10, to preserve the "peaes of America" /"
Dol you call it. When these governme
nd have been supplied by a genu
ass government that draws Its virtue, m
ar. and support from the people and uses
er- power and authority in the interest
i'm peace and good government, the nece
on ty Of any extrinsic governing aid SUI
ent intending us ceases.
ro- Note in our own State what the p
md ence of Judge ana Sheriff at HERNIA
nty did on the 18th inst, in .arresting v
Ills, under the weak and corrupt governn
the we have had for some years in Mi
sippi, would have been protracted
on bloody fight. When under the RaC
tic rule We have had prior to last fall,
to- the officers raised on occasions like
last the staff of authority and shown |
You ability to prevent these "autur
on outbreaks ?" The instance is very
was of man so wicked and desperate as
arty to stand abashed in the presence
tion discreet and intrepid minister of the
thus impersonating its majesty and comm
ted, ing him to respect constituted autho
.tiOn Unfortunately Radical rule in NJ
400 sippi for some years past has give
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