The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
VOL. VI.
THE DANGFR IN TENAS AND IN
THE SOUTH EVERY WHERE.

The fearful compiler of dispatches at
Galveston for the interior press Of the State,
in those sent TO the STATESMAN, does not
even alude 70 Grants proclamation OF war
against the rebellion - in South Carolina.
And Yet martha law is declared and no
man dare open his lips against those in au-
thority, and the last vestIge of freedom and
Statehood is snnihilated in the savagely-
ruled and plundered c mmOnwealth. 1t
so happened that the STATESMAN antici
pated this event. The matter had been re-
lerred TO 4 special meeting Of the Cabinet
and Secretary Fish, the decentcst member
of Grants government, failed 10 attend.
The resu't of MnrtOn's and ChaudieT'5 inter
vcntion 10 South Carolina politics is seen
~ the fact that the negroes have been com
paclly organized in Union leagues, and
armed and melted to violence and murder
| by knaves even wearing heavens livery to
! serve the devil in. The same process has
been begun in this congressional district.
The Victoria AGoocate contains the
forms and oaChs administered nightly to
ignorant negroes everywhere IN the valley
| of the Brazos. The purpose is to use the
blacks here as in South CarolILa and every
where IN the South conflicts will be pre-
c'pitated and, as of South G ,rolina, it will be
said of Texas that innocent negroes are
slaughtered here by the score. 1t will be
asserted and believed that the negro is the
''uld fig" and that he is the Union, that
the rebellion has been reinaugurted, here
rs in 5 Iuth Carolina, that hnJe0s corpuS must
bC suspended and the votes of Texas and
Of the South rel .cted by the Senate. The
killing of few negroes signifies nothing.
The good of the Radical party demands
the sacrifice and Sambo Will die gladly.
Such are Chaudler's and Morton's refec
Jions, and such their purposes.
Can this scheme be thwurted The
rapid organization of unletteIcd negroes of
sugar and cotton-growing districts of Texas
bodies no good to them or the whites. IT,
these secret societies eloquent knaves ha-
rangue excitable blacks and minister to their
worst passions. The negroes forget how
they have been robbed by these adventu-
rers in every town and county in which they
have been invested with off e; they forget
the FIeedmen's bank and never reflect
that the purpose of these progressive or
carnations, rapidly perfected, rs shown by
our exchanges wherever blacks outnumber
whites, is to preciptate conflict of races
rhe negroes are to be slaughtered that
there may be fresh supplies of dye stuffs for
the bloody shit, and that Northern ignO-
rance may be eXasperated and consolidated
against the South and against the pre-
ferred candidates of the South. No intel
ligent white community will lend itself to
the purposes of these preachers and other
Radical knaves now doing MOrton's and
Chandler's work in these States. However
insult .rable the conduct of black Union
leagues and of their members, there must
be no bloodshed. The .ntgrO's mis-
deeds rnd follies should be condoned.
He is only the dupe of those
who construct formulas which the
henighted blacks swear to observe.
Each negro's death gives birth to countless
X ,dical votes, and even if Southern white
people were disposed to destroy or wrong
the black race, there could be no sufficient
inducement pref red at this juncture for
wrong or violence. Every white voter is
advised of these facts, and shapes his con
duct with reference to them, and We read
every day with amaZemcht in Inter- Oceans
and IFibuRes of the North recitais of bloody
| deeds done by whites, SO palpubly and alb
surdly false of themselves, and so false for
the reason assigned, that we cannot comprt- >
| hend the folly of publishers or credulity of
Northern readers. But we have been so
persisteptly misrepresented and abused and
viified by Blaines, Buffers. MortoLs and
Chambers, and by that impious and most
ingenious liar. Bob IngersOll, that
commonplace yankees" believe any alb
-urdity if it only assert our thirst for negro
gore. 1t only remains, therefore, if we
would assure Tilden's triumph, to give
the negro a wide berth, and rememb' r
that however unsufferable his iOllies or IN
suits, that he is innocent. and only the dupe
of knaves sent hither to beget violence and
bloOdshed, and thus votes for Hayes.