The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21

! Vista democratic conservative cluo as the
third that would be refused to recon
tract for the year 1876. You are re-
! ouested by the club to publish their
names in the Messenger.
Respectfully yours,
G. A. M. PULLMAN.
| Secretary B,iena Vista Dem. Conservative Club.
erred Grow, Frank Williams, Dairy
hoffman, John Doss, Wade Pulliam, Gull
vim Gladney, Joe Moore, Henry johnson,
Anderson Williams, Bramlett, John Pull
lam, Ben Valiant, Gay Brand, Ed. Kyle,
Calvin Gray, Wash Chandler, Jake Wal
ker, Henry Woodland, Lawson Pulliam,
w. Huddlestone, Martin Pulliam, John
Buchanan, Dan. Funds, Albert, Coner,
Ed. Nathan, Jim Pulliam, Simon Baskin,
Bill Pulliam, George Gates, j. Feather
ston, Shadi Love, billiard Fields.
We are not familiar with the names of
all the leading darkies in Buena Vista,
but it occurs to us that many OF them
them do not appear upon the list sent to
us. We may not understand Alright the
action of the Buena Vista club, but our
impression was that one-third of the
laborers were to be discharged, and that
one-third should include such turbulent,
vicious rascals as Fred Mcintosh,
Prince Huddlestone, and others who once
held high carnival in that section. Let
us have no whipping the devil around
the stump friends, but let us carry our
pledges both in spirit and letter"
HoUsToN, January, 1876.
Pursuant to a call of the president, the
club met at the courthouse at l / o'clock
a. m, w. s. Bates presiding.
On motion of Captain Frank Burkitt,
the following resolutions were read:
l. That we solemnly declare our pur-
pose to stand to and abide by our pledges
made during the canvass, and that we
viii hold in utter detestation any man
claiming to be conservative democrat
who by any equivocation shall in the least
violate the sacred promises made by us
previous to the election, either as a club
or as individuals.
2. That at no time and under no cir
cumstances will we employ those who are
regarded as leaders in the radical party.
8. That we will not employ any la
borer who has been discharged by any
member of our club because of his past
political course.
4. That the members of this club are
requested to send into the secretary the
names of all persons turned off by them
under she above resolutions and that the
executive committee of the country is re-
quested to publish their names.
5. That every other club in the coun-
ty is requested to take like action.
6. That our papers are requested to
publish these resolutions and the names
of persons sent them by the executive
committee.
I. That colored men are invited to
join this club.
s. That this club meet the first Sat
urday in each month.
j. b. GLADNEY, Secretary
From the Okolona (Miss.) States, Nov. Is. 1875.
The radical party of Mississippi con-
tend that intimidation won the white-line
victory 1t is not the first time, neither
will it be the last time in which intin,ida-
ton has been successfully used. The
white men have been intimidated in
times past, and we wonder which has the
best of the bargain. We are SO situated
that we are obliged to fight the devil with
fire. Let white men not be afraid to
intimidate evil-doers. Intimidation Is
legitimate, perfectly legitimate.
Ex-Governor Benjamin G. Hum
phries, of Mississippi, made a speech
at reunion of the Thirteenth Mis-
sissippi Infantry, at Meridian, on the
22d of November, 1875, in which he
said:
We haze surrendered none Of our con-
victi0ns and still claim, the right of vindi-
cation In looking back at our past actions
and motives, and the wrongs we have suf-
fered and are still suffering, we confess
that we have no regrets for the choice we
made between the "higher-law" license of
majorities in the Union and the sacred
security Of self -government in the States,
between the Federal and confederate gov
ernments. We are not conscious of a
solitary dereliction of duty, either as
citizens or soldiers, and feel that truth,
reason, and religion exculpate us from
wrong doing. We know we were right,
and though crushed to earth weshall ever
remember and teach our children to
remember our cause ,cds gust We are
still proud of the cause and glory in the
fight we made
After the election, the Meridian Mercu-
ry of November 20, 1875, says:
We have to contend with the blunder
of the fifteenth amendment while it stands,
as best we can. Ridiculous appeals to
the reason and judgment of the negro have
been the cause of incalculable injury in
the imitation of his vanity and making him
believe he was of real consequence as a
| governing element in the body-politic.
Now that the negro in this State is down
| and his personal self conceit well knocked
out of him, it is probably fit time for the
white people to impress upon him that
the white people will in future control the
| politics of this State, and that he should
keep himself in his proper sphere and
leave to the intelligent white man the ex-
elusive use of statecraft for the best inter
est of both races. Impress him continu-
ally with the idea of his unfitness for the
ballot and his proper place on election day
away from the polls.
Here the hammer fell.
The CHAIRMAN. The time Of the gen.
tleman has expired.
Mr. SAVAGE. move that his time be
extended.
Mr.. HALE. l hope that another hour
may be given him.
Mr. GARFIELD. l could fill many col
umns of oar RECORD with evidences like
those above quoted from the gentleman s
own State. In the light of this
testimony, is it possible for us to believe
that the transformation had occurred in
the gentlemen's own State in the election
of that Legislature that made him a Sena-
tor?
If the testimony of the Democratic
press of Mississippi is to be credited, the
late election in the State of Mississippi
was tinted with fraud and managed by in
timidation unparalleled by anything in
OuI pUlltiCel ulolols. LIEU thC SCuCiS
man explain this striking fact:
There are many more thousand colored
than white voters in Mississippi. In the
election Of 1873 the Republican party had
22,976 majority; in the election last fall
the Democratic party had 30,922. How
came this change of more than $4,000, in
the short space of two years, if there was
free and uncoerced vote of the electors
of that State?
The President of the United States has
sent to the Senate letter addressed by
him to Governor Chamberlain, under date
of July %, 1876, from which read a
few words of high official authority, bear
ing upon the point l am now discussing.
He says:
The scene at Hamburg, as cruel, blood
thirty, wanton, unprovoked, and as uncal-
L lad for. to <&t.lxr .,f