Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-23
ton those distinguished reformers, Tilden

| ndemn1tyin tfc Democratic party.
| There was tie old agitater and secession
\ ist, who had harried states into rebellion
land drafted ordinances of secession.
There were the officers and soldiers who
| had borne the Confederate flag upon many
! bloody field, and who proudly pointed to
| their rebel record as their title deed to office
add glory.
! There were the members of the rebel Con-
| gress at aichmomd, who had debated with
| closed doors the question of the black flag.
/ There were the architects and defenders OF
| Belle Isle, Libby, Andersonylle and Sails
! bury, scenes of horror of which the Modocs
4 in their lava fortress had never dreamed.
There were the Northern sympathiZers and
! doughfaces, who had waited and watched
/ over the border, whose hearts and hopes
were in the Sonth while their bodies were in
/ the North.
! There were a few Union soldiers who had
/ carried their scanty laurcls TO a Confederate
market, where decoy signals were scarce and
/ In large demand
| There was the sore.beadcd Republican,,
| whose neglected claims for office had shaken
1 his faith ia civilization and convinced him
! Of the necessity for reform.
! In short, there were assembled the mourn
| crs for slavery, the organizers OF rebellion,
! the Kuklux and White Liner, the Northern
! sympathzer and doughface, the advocate Of
! State Sovereignty, and the representatives
/ VI tNtIN tltHitHb tIlHI Ndu iOlI lut CtuhbiN
with civil war, drenched it with blood, and
/ watcred it with the tears Of the widows and
| orphans
! The prosperity of the country depends
| upon the continued administration of the
! Government upon the true and tried prin-
| ciplcs OF the Republican party. The propo-
| sition of the Democratic leaders To make
! good times for everybody, if the Govern
ment is put into their hands, is like the ad-
yertsements OF quack medicines to cure all
| HE ills that flesh is heir to. The st. Louis
| platform resembles the ycracious publca-
! hons Of Bulls Sarsaparilla and Brandeth's
| Pllls, which are warranted to Kill or cure, as
| the case may be. The political quacks who
| made the st. Louis prescription are among
the most deadly in the profession, and have
| extensive graveyards in all the Southern and
| in most of the Northern States.
| The States of Louisiana, Alabama, Miss
| issippi, South Carolina and Florida are MS
| certainly Republican as are Vermont and
! Massachuset, s, with an aggregate majority
| Of not less han 5000, divided about as fol
| lows: Louisiana, 1900, Alabama, 10000;
| Mississippi, $4,000; South Carolina, $4,000;
| Florida, 5000 Yet the hope of Democratic
! success in the approaching election depends
/ absolutely upon carrying those States, which
can be done only 10y murder, intimidation
/ and fraud. There Is not a well-intormcd
| Democrat anywhere who docs not know that
these States are largely Republican if per-
mitted To have fair election. They count
! with great confidence upon violence and its
! consequences. What has been done sue
ctssfuliy in some of the Southern States
| they expect to be done in all. Murder thus
| becomes fixed political element in the
these States il will he by bloody reyolu-
| tion which no more deserves the name of
election than the murder of the Christians
by the Turks.
Five, ten or twenty negroes are killed, and
sometimes one white man, Is the common
/ report, tut every announcement is followed
| 10y tle stcreotypcd lie that the negroes began
/ tue attack, and the whites were acting in
! seli-dciense. The negroes, poor, unframed,
! almost unarmed and unskilled in the use of
! weapons are always represented as prccipi-
/ tuting themselves upon their well-armed,
| skillful and intrepid enemies, and procuring
! themselves to be shot for no other reason
| than to make a little political capital for
/ their Northern friends.
The murder Il few days since of ten
negroes 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 Il very mean and scandalous
prcteXt about three hundred white men sud
! denly assembled in this little town, inhabited
| almost exclusively by colorcd people, per-
/ petrated the foul murders, sent the women
| and children to the woods in deadly fright
aud searched and sacked their humble
! homes.
Had band of Sioux Indians suddenly
bounced upon pcaceablc white village and
! inflicted such horrors the cry for eXtermina-
! ton would have gone up throughout the
/ land.
1t is openly proclaimed that the Repub-
! To be overcome and the State carried for
/ Tildeu; and this can be done only by fright
cning colored men from the polls or compel
ling them 10y force or fraud to vote the Dem
oCratic ticket.
! In Mississippi, since reconstruction in
1863 the average Republican majority has
been over $4,000. In 1872, Grant carried it
10y 3i,NNi votes. Last year, after a campaign
/ of horrors, the Democracy carried II by a
majority of over - 600, and SO complete and
. ablect was the terror that in the County of
/ lazoo, where the Republicans had a register
ed vote of 2,421, they polled but siren votes,
and these were permitted only that it might
hc said that Republicans could vote. The
White Liners were organized into military
. companies in every County, well armed,
I and marched up and down the country with
threatening demonstrations. Murders,
whippings and every form of violence were
of daily occurrence, aud prominent Repub-
llcauS, white and black. were notified to leave
their homes on pain of death. Leagues were
formed in which the members were solcmnly
pledged TO rent no land, give no employment,
business custom or social recognition
whatever 20 black or white Republicans
The Governor Of the State was compelled 20
dIsband the few military companies he had
tu prevent the massacre, and 10 treat with
The Democratic Central Committee for his
own safety, the preservation OF the peace
and protection Of the public property. The
treaty was generally violated, the committee
alleging their inability to restrain their
savage followers, aud Mississippi through.
out thu campaign was an armed mob, hay
ing all of the license with none of the dis
ciphuc ~ the camp. The result was what
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