Nebraska advertiser., 1876-12-07

cause he Is forced In some way to do
So"
This man, as you know, told the
truth. Hence, had a fair expression
of the will Of the legal voters been
given in this State on the day OF
election, it would have gone $4,000 to
80, 600 for Hayes.
Finding that we were not likely to
find our tickets, and that then 1t was
late in the afternoon before the day ot
the election, went TO one OF the
Democratic papers of our town, not
the one employed to print these tick
cts, but the one left out fin the coll"
by its party, and contracted with the
proprietor to print us three or four
thousand tickets right off. de con-
sented TO print them. and when he
had about 200 struck off, the Sheriff,
the Deputy Sheriff, and the County
Clerk came up into the office, and
took the proprietor off and had a pri-
vate talk with him. He returned
confused, and halted on the printing
of our tickets. In few minutes
Colonel Whitfield, a lawyer of this
pIace, came and had a private talk
with him, after which he refused pos
itively to do our printing. Esquire
Dodson, our postmaster, ard myself.
demonstrated with him, and endeav-
ored TO show him the unfairness and
meaDness of such course, and even
offered him double the price yes,
any price he might ask. to print our
tickets, to all of which be replied,
THAT he could not and dared not
print our tickets /; that he was poor
man, and was was unable to do in all
things as he pleased" Think OF this,
that a great national party could not,
for either love or money, get its tick
cts for President and Vice President
printed in a town where there were
three presses. and that peace and law
officers, the highest in our county, ana
Ia" cI hGlC lbC VI 'N' u N,''
ashamed to relate such disgraceful
conduct on the part of our people, for
YOU know that am a Southern man
by birth, education and feelings.
Why, the other day, when we had
hopes of the election of Hayes and
/ Wheeler, we Republicans thought if
! Hayes was elected we would celebrate
the victory. The Democracy had the
night or two previous a torch-light
procession, and went through the
form of burying the Radical party.
They started the report that
the Republicans were going to
/ kill a certain negro man, whom
they forced, as he said, to active part
/ in the burial of the Radicals the night
| before. and lay jessie generally. So
they got up an excitement; men got
their guns ready, and the talk OF kill
| ing the Radicals was freely INDUCED
| in, etc. One man, and prominent
one, too, said That WolfOrd ought
to be thankful that they permitted
him to live here ut all, and should not
attempt TO harrow their feelings by
getting up Hayes celebration" Now
think of this. !. who was born in
this State, whose parents were born
in the South, who lost at least $780,
600 worth of negro property by the
war, and who gave freely and liberal
ly to the support of the South during
| the war, and who, too, went at the
| first call into the war. and fought up
to a colonelcy of artillery, and who
was never absent from duty an hour
without authority during the whole
war, who was in the first and in the
last battle of the war, SHOULD be
thankful that 1 was permitted to live
here at ALL" And why? Not that |
have made bad citizen; they all
give me credit for making law abid-
ing, active, and wide-awake citizen;
but simply because l have been. and,
by the help of God, propose to re-
main, a defender of the government
and It's action toward us since the
war; because | sustain General Grant
and contend that he is not only one
of the greatest but one of the most
! humane men that ever lived Oh,
God! will this state of affairs contin-
ue? Will the law abiding people of
the North sustain it? Will Congress
not take some steps to check their
madness? l am too poor TO leave, or
| | would move from the State in TWEEN
ty-four hours. Poverty forces me to
remain here. and as long as do live
| here | will fight their madness and
their disloyalty. Our Southern peo-
pie dislike, despise, and ahhOr the
government much more now than
they did at the close of the war. /
heard Lamar speak during the can
vass, and while he did not deal in the
low, vulgar slang of most of their
| speakers, yet not one word did he ut
ter, or one sentiment did he enunci-
ate, that would have a tendency to
make his hearers love, respect, or
even tolerate, if they could help it,
the government, the stars and stripes.
| Lamar, | fear, before Northern au-
dience, or in the halls of Congress, is
not the Lamar before a Southern
Democratic audience where there are
no reporters. Will the vote of Mis-
sissippi be counted? Will the cleo
tion of Tilden be recognized when 1t
was procured by fraud, intimidation,
and violence?