National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-08-03
SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.
ARRANGEMENT OF DIXIB'S DEMOCRACY
A RECORD OF THEIR DEEDS
LINKED DEVILTRY LONG DRAWN OUT
MORBID TASTE FOB NEGRO BLOOD
TRACING THE BOURBONs BY CORY TRACKS
FACTS THAT MAKE NATION BLUSH

publican Association of Wa hington, D. c.,
held on the LIST of August, the following de-
claration was presented by Mr.. Lucien j.
Barnes, chairman of the political committee,
and unanimously adopted by the association:
Resolved, That we arraign before the coun-
try the Democratic party of the Southern
States, led and controlled by the wicked and
deceitful Lamar, of Mississippi, claiming to
have been elected to the United States Senate
as the legitimate political descendant and sue
cessor of JEFF. Davis; Ben Hill and Gordon, of
Georgia, the former the defender and
APoLoGIsT FOR ANDERsoNvnLE ATROCITIES
and the slanderer of the people of Elmira, the
latter q recognized commander of Ku-Klux in
the work of subjugating the loyal supporters
Of the Government in his own and adjoining
States; White-Liners Penn, Witt and Nc
Emery, the Mexican revolutioHists of Louisiana;
Vance, of North Carolina, who proposed to
send bloodhounds after the unwilling con
scripts who were hiding out to escape Confed-
crate service; Tucker, of Virginia, who holds
that justice of the peace in his State may stop,
open and examine the United States mails; the
unreconstructed Hamptons and Buffers, of
South Carolina, and others who are supporting
Tilden and Hendricks-these are the parties
ICspODslDic lof Iuc dIttnpb W CRUSH OUT liberty
in the South and secure what they well know
cannot be obtained except as hitherto BY vio-
lence, intimidation and outrage. In the Ian
guage of the Declaration of Independence, "to
prove this, let facts be submitted to 8 candid
world"
Scarcely had the armies of the Union re-
turned from Appomattox and Vicksburg, to
the peaceful pursuits of private life, when the
scEool-houses of the freedmen at Memphis
were fred by the torch of hostility to freedom
and education.
This was quickly followed by the attack
upon the Republican State convention assem-
bled in Mechanics institute, in New Orleans,
and the ass: ssinaton, among others, of Dostie
former citizen OF Michigan.
They inaugurated the Ku-Klux campaign of
1865, during which they caused the murder of
Congressman James Kinds and three hundred
Republicans in the effort to carry Arkansas
for Seymour and Blair, and but for the cleo
tion of Grant, the greatest chiefSain of the
age, the South would have secured at that
time greater yittoTy than any lost in war.
They converted Republican Georgia into
reliable Democratic State, in many parts Of
which
DEATH HAS BEEN THE SWIFT
reward for attempting to uphold Republican
principles or vote Republican ticket.
They have shocked and outraged humanity
by wholesale political murders at Vicksburg
and along the Yazoo, in Mississippi; in Caddo
and Grant parishes, in Louisiana; in Pope,
johnson, Drew and White COMMITTEES, in Arkan-
sas, and perhaps in every State south of the
Ohio and the Potomac.
They have CONT oiled Alabama by estab-
fishing a reign of terrorism and viol'nce, and
by Selling the polling places, as at Eufala, and
numbering the election officers while in the
performance of duty, and shooting down Off
GERS in charge of the United States mails.
They levied war against the legal State gov
erDment of Louisiana, peacefully supported
by a clear and undoubted majority of her citi-
Zens. By force OF arms and unblushing fraud
they overthrow the State government of
Arkansas.
They suppressed by
VIOLENCE, osIRACIsM AND INTIMIDATION
a Republican majority of thirty thousand in
Mississippi, and gaining the legislative branch
of the State government compelled, by threat
ened and impending impeachment, the resigna-
tion or abdcation of the Governor and other
executive officers.
They recently attempted to disarm a colored
militia company, peacefully and lawfully as
sembled, and celebrating the nations birthday,
at Hamburg, and, after beseging them, they
captured portion of the company and mas
sacred them while prisoners in their hands.
Exhibiting in innunerable instances a
treachery, tan barism and an atrOcity scarcely
paralleled by the Sitting Bull savages of the
Rocky Mountains, they have been Justly de-
nounced as band til by reason of the outra-
geous and lawlGss character of their designs
and proceedings.
We charge before the country, the Demo-
cratic party, guided and controlled by these
ex-Confederates, with bestowing the patronage
ofthe House of Representatives of the nation,
lot in accordance with the principles of
CIVIL SERVICE REFoRM,
but upon such shining examples of egotism,
worthlessness and treason as "Biggerman"
Fitzhugh and 81. Wilkes Booth" Hambleton,
removing competent men with the experience
of Barclay, and turning out the soldiers of the
Union whose gallantry and patriotism defended
the very Capitol itself in 1861, '62, '63 and 64,
to confer places of emolument and honor upon
the men whose chief recommendation consisted
in never emitting to honor the representatives
of the "Lost Cause"
Having recapitulated but few of the most
notorious and undisputed misdeeds of South
ern Democratic leaders, thi; association, COM
posed of Republicans from every portion of the
South, now sounds the note of warning to our
brethren of the North and the
CITIZEN SOLDIERS OF THE UNION,
whatever may ha 7e been heretofore their po-
litical predictions, to be not deceived by the
plausible Lamar, and trust not the men who,
having in many parts of tie South already
oyerthrown the freedom of the ballot, would
now dig here, in this Centennial year, beneath
the shadow of the shaft rising to the memory
of Washington, the very grave of liberty.
Let US see the Union men of the North, ris-
ing as in former years when the Capital was
IN danger, rally with enthusiasm around the
banner of our comrade, Hayes, and by your
voice, your votes, your press, sustain and en-
courage the patriotic and prosecuted Republi-
cans Of the South, instead of accepting or
repeating too freely the ISLANDERS of the COM
mon enemy, who only waits the opportunity to
pour the same measure of contumely upon
trusted and honored Republicans, whether
they be scalawags of North Carolina, carpet
baegers of Louisiana, or statesmen of Maine,
Indiana Nav York MICHIGAN or Ohin-