Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-19

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while the PrIf1ci pie of the Democratic party is
the reverse. 1t has not q line in its history
tIf the last sixteen years but what its intelli-
geaI leaoeTs are ashamedtof. What has the
Its leaders afe proud Of? Which should they
s1pToTt, the Democratic or Republican party?
port? The Democrats are say1Lg they will
have a solid Democratic south. How will
they carry the sout d? They will carry 1t with
the pistol and the halter. by force, intimida-
lion and violence, like they did in Mississippi
la, year. That was a carnival OF violence,
outrage, blood and murder. They had the
colofed man in Mississippi SO much intimi-
dated there that when q colored saw a white
man be would Bneel in the road and take off
hIs nat The acts of the Democratic party in
Mississippi m ade every intelligent man, even
Democrats blush with shame. The fret car
dinal principal of the Republican party
was freedom of thought snt act. How do the
Democrats propo e to carry Mississippi and
South Carol!na7 Already every Democrat in
outh Carolina is enrolled in some rifle COM
paDy, some sabre company, or snme artillery
com Oany. Toe whole Democracy, IN fact, of
South Carolina is under a. ms, They get un-
der arms aod demand division of time
when the Republicans get up meetings. If
Republicans don't divide time, the Demo-
Gratis break up the meeting. II the time Is
divided, the Republicans are insulted and
bla 7kgualded This is not the worst of 1t;
there was sample of Democratic tactics 81
hamburg recently, in South Carolina. What
did the Democrats of Ha nburg do? A coIored
militia company, while marching along.
Of the democracy. The coIoTsd % peos
pie asked them to drive aside.
Any gentleman would have done this, but the
young Democrats demanded that the COM
pany get out OF the way. Although the de
mand was impudent and atr" "cIous, yet the
colored company did 1t. The Democrats, how.
ever, resolved to drive the company out of
town. The company sought refuge In build
ing; some were Suot down while running,
and the Others surrendered. What las then
done? Five OF the company were taken out
and shot; murdered by Democrats. This was
done to intimldate colored Republicans and
deter them from the polls The "solid south"
south shall be stopped. That's what means
this securing of guns. ["Dou't give them any
gun cried out colored citizen.l Mr.. Lewis
here read what he claimed to be the ReUtelO,
Democratic paper published at some
little town in Louisiana: This pa.
per sid "tae right of the negro
he Mobile Register, he said was the leading
paper in the south, and this journal asked
How they are to get lid OF the negro as
Mississippi and South Carolina are now en-
deavoIing to kick the negro out OF politics,
10 disirancnise MIN, and, II necessary, to
ReotSteT said that they were to get rid of the
negro with the least confusion possible.
This means shotguns. The effort will be made
right mere TO get rid oil the negro as voter.
lat this juncture an old negro man came
from behind the scenes and deliberately
walze ed across the stage aud between the au-
confused, as the wCoe crowd cheered
end teered.1 Mr.. Lewis resumed his speech
ana ss!a II the negroes WISH 70 De driven out
OF politics let them JOIN the democratic party.
Mr.. Forsyth, and the Mobile Re9fSteT teach
that the negro must go to the wali peacefully
IL he will and IL not he is to be shot out Of
politics This is the docrine that the Demo-
Gratis o. Mississippi have taught and this the
Democracy OF South Carolina teach and prac-
uce, The Democracy of the south are pre-
pairing to so settle the question of suffrage in
the same way in November, and are bowling
because General Grant is going to send SOL
dter down here. They abuse him because he
is going to protect us and prevent Democrats
shooting d Iwn men who wish TO vote. If d.
mocracy stand in the way Of any mans right,
then the Democracy must go 10 the wall. You
are warned by Colonel Forsythe, a distin-
gutshed leader of the southern Democracy, n
leading authority, the son of the leading
Fors, thu, of Georgia, who was minister TO
France under Van Buren and jackson. He
says when the Democrats get into power in
1876 the darkies will have to get out Of the
power. Why, the party thst says four NIL
hon five hundred thousand people, who are
quiet a noble band of people, who remember
now they got their liberIy-under the blessing
of God and the leadership of Ab-aham Lin.
coin and the Republlcans-the party that pro-
poses to \ ut the fetters on four million five
hundred thousand people; to strike the ballot
forever from their hands; 10 put them back
into their iormer condition; to rob them of
their right TO vote, Gnd to rob them of protec-
ton, is not 1T TO live. Such party as this,
which seeks 10 rob the colored race of every
privilege and right of the American citizen,
Is a shame 10 humanity and disgrace to the
universe of Got. A united south means that
you colored people shall be robbed of the
right TO vote, in 20 far as can bs done.
Give the Democracy control OF this state for
ten years, and do you believe you would nave
any ri hts as voters, or privileges? The same
will be true If the congress gets in full power
and control OF the Democrats. How are they
going to get a "uuited south?" The north
Rnows how it is going to be done, and hears
the raDble and mutterings. The same cry of
'sunited south was heard In 1861, and the north
knows what IL means. The speaker digressed
here and spoke of noble old Whigs, Union
men, Tennessee rebels and original JEFF Davis
He said when JEFF Davis or
isham q. Harris marshaled their forces over
this State they were patriots; tn y were hea.
sons Of freedom. But when Grant
sends a lew soldiers here, with the flag OF lib
erty and rigbt, the DEM cracy term Grant
tyrapt He gave the usual Radical account OF
the war, its origin and O1ginql secsssionisls,
and sad that samuel ]. Tilien, the present
Democratic candidate, drew up legal paper.
and stated that every Union soldier who went
south 10 fight could be sued for trespass. A
united south meant united north. and the
same thing would result as did in 1881. They
are not going TO have any Io0ling about this
10 atte-, for they were going % send the Demo-
Gratis 10 the wall, not with bullets, but with
ballots The Democrats at Fort Sumter II ed
on the flag OF The Union, and spIinkled blood
in the lace Of The people OF the norTh. The
Democrats In Mississippi and south Carolina
are now spT1nkling blood in the face Of the
Iorjh, but they will get whipped out now
cleaner than they did twelve years ago. The
Dc ople of the south, when they realize their
poverty and see the face OF their starving chill
dren, curse the Democratic leaders and re-
member that they brought on the war, and
caused this poverty and despair. The French
did not fawn and kiss the hand of Louis
NspOlean whea he plungei them into ruin
au0 bioOdshed, as the southern people have
JEFF Davis and their other leaders who caused
them peveTty and ruin. The people OF France
were not suuken so low and beneath an hon.
o able manhood, as TO still follow the men ss
leaders who had already led them to ruin and
poverty. A time was coming when the col
ored people would touch not, handle not,
taste not the Democracy as a cursed
thing. He said the Democrats
aIe Trembling and alluded TO the late election
in vermont. The people there did not believe
in driving the negro 10 the wall, and with
majority in Vermont and Maine was a great
had almost as many Democrats there as Re-
publicans. THAT is that there was one De ~
ocrat to every two Republicans, and the DEM
ocratic editor fe!t as If he onghi TO thank Gt
for il, or / should have said the devil. In fact
l don't know TO whom the Democrats pray,
for believe they kueel 10 the old fellow be-
low. They get on their knees, aud say: "Oh
let US TO thRt place where IshRm G. Harris
and JET Davis 20, but, on do not
let us 90 TO that place Of bliss where
Barbour Lewis goes" He stated tnat
the elt ctiony in Maine and Vermont
disappointed the democrats, and even the
New York Tribune estimated tn ~ the Repub-