Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14

yards in all the Southern and in most of the
Northern States.
The States of Louisiana. Alabama, Missis-
sippi South Carolina and Florida are as
certainly Republican as are Vermont and
Massachusetts, with an aggregate majority
of not less than 10000. divided about as fol-
lows: Louisiana, 1900; Alabama, 10000;
Mississippi. 10000; South Carolina, 50. 90;
Florida 1900. Yet the hope of Democratic
success in the approaching election depends
absolutely upon carrying these States, which
can be done only by murder, intimidation
and FRAUD. There is not well-informei
Democrat anywhere who does not know
that these States are largely Republican it
permitted to have fafr election. They
count with great confidence upon violence
and its consequences. What has been done
successfully in some of the Southern States
they expect to be done in all. Murder thus
becomes fixed political element in the
Democratic problem. Should they carry
these States it viii be by bloody revolu-
ton which no more deserves the Zane of
election than the murder of the Christians
by the Turks.
sLAUGHTERs IN THE SOUTH.
Five, ten or twenty negroes are killed,
and sometimes one white man is the common
report, but every announcement is followed
by the stereotyped lie that the negroes began
the attack, and the whites were acting in
self-defense. The negroes poor unframed,
almost unarmed and unskilled in the use OF
weapons are always represented as precipi-
tating themselves upon their well-armed
skillfu and intrepid enemies, and procuring
themselves TO be shot for no other reason
than to make little political capital for their
Northern friends.
The murder a few days since o. ten me-
groes in Hamburg, South Carolina, under
circumstances of extraordinary atrocity is
but the opening of the Tilden campaign in
that State. 1t was the beginning Of the
work OF intimidation, a terrible blow TO strike
terror into the hearts OF the colored people.
Upon very mean and scandalous pretext
about three hundred white men suddenly
assembled in this little town, inhabited al.
most exclusively by colored people. perpetra-
ted the foul murders, sent the women and
children TO the woods in deadly fright and
searched and sacked their humble homes.
Had a band of Sioux Indians suddenly
bounced upon peaceable white village and
ton would have gone up throughout the
land.
1t is openly proclaimed that the Republi-
can majority OF 35 600 in South Carolina is
to be overcome and the State carried for Til
den; and this can be done only by frighten-
ing colored men from the polls or compel
ling them by force or fraud to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket.
MISSISSIPPI.
In Mississippi. since reconstruction in 1869.
the average Republican majority has been
over 10000. In 1872, Grant carried it by
"a, SSI votes. Last year, after a campaign OF
horrors, the Democracy carried it by ma
jority OF over 1900, and so complete and abb
iect was the terror that in the county of
Yazoo, where the Republicans had a register
ed vote of Az, they polled but screen votes,
an xuar cd 1v hot fr,t
be said that Republicans could vote. The
White-Llners were organized into mil
itary companies in every county, well
armed, and marched up and down
the country with threatening
demonstrations. Murders, whippfhgs, and
every form Of violence were OF daily occur
renee, and prominent Republicans, white
and black, were notified to leave their homes
on pain OF death. Leagues we're formed in
which the members were solemnly pledged
to rent no land, give no employment. bust
ness. custom, or social recognition whatever
to black or white Republicans. The Gov
ernor Of the State was compelled to disband
the few military companies he had TO pre-
vent their massacre, and to treat with the
Democratic Central Committee for his own
safety. the preservation of the peace and pro-
lection Of the public property. The treaty
was generally violated, the committee alleg-
ing their inability TO restrain their savage
followers, and Mississippi throughout the
campaign was an armed mob. having all of
the license with none of the discipline of
the camp. The result was what
might have been anticipated-a bloody,
lawless wicked. revolution, in which a
large majority was overwhelmed by an
armed and murderous minority. The massa-
ores at Hamburg, Vicksburg, Clinton. Cou-
chatta Colfax, Red river, Mechanics Institute,
and at hundreds of other places that might be
named, are all of the same character, for the
same political purposes. and are generally
attempted TO be excused by the same infa-
nous and outrageous fasehoods.
LOUISIANA.
General Sheridan. while in command in
New Orleans. collected with great labor the
evidence of violence in the State of Louis
lana alone for political purposes from 1866
TO 1874, and reported to the investigating
appointed by the House of Rep
as follows:
hiled
" ouuueu.
This is a greater number than fell at the
battle of Bull Run, and with another differ