Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-13
The Southern Policy.

We give below few specimen
extracts from Southern Democratic
papers, to show the means relied up
on, and openly urged by the press,
to carry the Southern States for that
party. In the extracts quoted, in
timidation and social ostracism of
Republicans in the South, is not only
acknowledged but justified. The de-
termination by force, to deprive the
negroes of the rights guaranteed to
them III the Constitution, is unblush,
ingly avowed, and this is done in the
interest of Tllden and Hendricks,
who, as their supporters delight to
tell us, stand on platform of equal
rights and reform. We ask our read
ers to examine carefully these speci-
men utterances of Southern senti-
ment, and then say if it is safe to en-
trust the interests and rights of the
people in the hands of men elected,
and likely to be controlled by the in
fluences above indicated:
So the grand result of the color
line has been accomplished in or
ganizing the white people of the
State and placing them in a position
to control the coming election. No
other policy could have effected the
result Columbus, (Mss.) Mden.
We are in favor Of the color line
as principle, a necessity, and pol
icy.-HandsborougA (Niss.) Dem.
Call it what you please. Some
call it the color line. It looks to us
like the white line. 1t shall be seen
who in this emergency can choose to
stand with the negroes as against
the whites. Mark them.-,Shabulo
(Mss.) Times.
The miserable bunglers who have
put the the negro in the Constitu-
ton have certainly written them
selves down asses all.-Mdridian
Miss. Mercury.
In this connection we will state
that the white men who ally them
selves with negroes i'll this conflict
need not expect any better fate than
they; the fact is, they will be the
first to suffer, if the Caucasian can
find them at all when trouble comes.
-Maridiaa { Mss.) Mercury.
A very general system of coercion
was adopted throughout the South
by Democratic clubs and associa-
lions agreeing not to employ ne
groes who voted the Republican
ticket nor to lease them lands, nor to
furnish them with nor to allow them
to obtain for themselves any means
of acknowledgment (Mss.)
Gazette.
The Radical party of Mississippi
contend that intimidation won the
White Line victory. 1t is not the
first time, neither will it be the last
time in which intimidation has been
successfully used. Intimidation is
Legitimate, perfectly legitlmate.-
Okolona (Niss.) States.
There is one thing which might as
well be clearly and finally understood;
and that is that the Southern people
mean to govern the Southern States,
whatever may be the issue Of the
Presidential election Virginia In
den-Appeal,
The negroes, SO far as we know,
are not making any attempt at reor-
ganizing the Republican party In this
county. But we should watch them
closely, and any one, no matter who
he is, black, white, or copper color
ed, who attempts to create afresh
the race prejudices here between the
whites and blacks should be dealt
with severely, and banished from the
country, Such thing shall never
be allowed here again, NO, NEVER !! !
Mississippi Herald,
Sept. l, 1876.
There has not been a free general
election in the Southern States since
the war.-Roleigh Nv CT Neaos.
We got good many honest fell
lows in the first Legislature, but l
will tell you how we got them there.
l will tell you the truth. The news
papers won't tell it to you. We got
them there by carrying the black
vote by intimidation and bribery,
and l helped to do it; l would have
scorned the people if they had not
done it!-Robert Toombs to the
Georgia Legislature.