The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-08-24

c'rTp ing lnese states, Wnlch can be
done only by murder, intimidation
and fraud. There is not Il well-in-
formed Democrat anywhere who does
not know that these States are large
~ Republican if permitted to have
fair election. They count with great
confidence upon violence and its con-
sequences. What has been done sue
ccssfully in some Of the Southern
States they expect to be done in all.
Murder thus becomes fixed political
element in the Democratic problem.
Should they carry these States it viii
be by bloody revolution which no
more deserves the name of election
than the murder of the Christians by
the Turks.
sLAUGHTERs IN THE SOUTH.
Five, ten, or twenty negroes are
killed, and sometimes one white man
is the common report, but every an
nouncement is followed by the stereo-
typed lie that the negroes began the
attack, and the whites were acting in
selfdefense. The negroes, poor, I'M
trained, almost unarmed and unskill-
ed in the use of weapons, are always
represented as precipitating them
selves upon their well-armed, skIllful
and intrepid enemies, and procuring
themselves to be shot for no other
reason than to make little political
capital for their Northern friends
HAMBURG.
The murder few days since of ten
negroes in Hamburg, S. c., under circum-
stances of extraordinary atrocity, is but
the opening of the Tildep campaign in
that State. 1t was the beginning of the
work of intimidation, terrible blow to
strike terror into the hearts of the colored
people. Upon very mean and scanda.
lous prete-t about 800 white men sudden
ly assembled in this little town, inhabited
almost exclusively by colored people, per-
petrated the foul murders, sent the
women and children to the woods in
deadly fright, and searched and sacked
their humble homes.
Had band of Sioux Indians suddenly
pounced upon a peaceable white village
and inflicted such herrors, the cry for ex-
termination would have gone up through
out the land
1t is openly proclaimed that the Re
publican majority OF $4,000 in South
Carolina is to be overcome and the State
carried for Tilden; and this can be done
only by frightening colored men from the
polls or compelling them by force or fraud
to vote the Democratic ticket.
MISSISSIPPI.
In Mississippi, since reconstruction in
1869, the average Republican majority
has been over $4,000. In 1872, Grant
carried it by 34,SS7 votes. Last year,
after campaign of horrors, the Demo
cracy carried it by a majority of over 49,
900, and so complete and abjest was the
terror that in the County of Yazoo, where
the Republicans had registered vote of
2,427 they polled but seven votes, and
these were permitted only that it might
be said that Republicans could vote.
The White-Liners were organized into
military companies in every county, we'll
armed, and marched up and down the
county with threatening demonstrations.
Murders, whippings, and every form of
violence, were of daily occurrence, and
prominent Republicans, white and black,
were notified to leave their homes on pain
of death. Leagues were formed in which
the members were sOlemnly pledged to
rent no land, give no employment, bust
ness, custom, or social recognition what
ever to black or white Republicans. The
Governor of the State was compelled TO
disband the few military companies he
had to prevent their massacre. and to
treat with the Democratic Central Com
mittee for his own safety, the preserya-
ton of the peace, and protection of the
public property. The treaty was general
ly violated, the Committee alleging their
inability to restrain their savage followers,
and Mississippi throughout the campaign
was an armed mob, having all of the
license with none of the discipline of the
camp. The result was what might have
been anticipated,-a bloody, lawless,
wicked revolution in which large major
ity was overwhelmed by an armed and
murderous minority. The massacres at
Hamburg, Vicksburg, Clinton, Couchatta,
Colfax, Red River, Mechanics Institute,
and at hundreds CO other places that
might be named, arc all of the same
character, for the same political purposes,
and are generally attempted to be excused
by the same Infamous and outrageous
falsehoods.
LOUISIANA.
Gen. Sheridan, while in command in
New Orleans, collected with great labor
the evidence of violence in the State of
Louisiana alone for political purposes,
from 1866 to 1874, and reported to the
Investigating Committee appointed by
the House of Representatives, as
follows:
hilieo.' .'.'... 2,l41
wounded. ........... ........2, ll6
Total. .4,257
This is greater number than fell at
the battle of Bull Run, and with another
difference, that in that battle the slaugh-
ter was not all on one side.
This terrible record, embracing larger
number of victims than have fallen by
the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the
Indians in twenty years, is to be shouted
out of sight by cries of "bloody shirt,
"carpet-bagger," ''scalawag," and all the
slang-whangery of brutal blackguardism,
and as the Indians multilate the bodies of
their slain these men mutilate the mem
cries of their victims by covering them
with charges of every species of crime.
LOWER IN THE SCALE OF HUMANITY.
That these men, their aiders and abet-
tors, are lower in the scale of being than
tie Sioux or the Medocs is a proposition
too plain for argument, and will not be
denied by any good hearted and we'll
informed man. In the South the effec-
tive arguments used against the Republi-
can party are the shot gun, revolver, and
the knife and in the North the charges
of corruption and the cry of reform. The
first set of arguments is sharp and muir
derous; the second set false and hypo-
critical, and both are used indiscrimin-
ately by the same party as the location or
the occasion demands.
THE VIRTUE THAT CoNNIvES AT MURDER
have no faith in that virtue which
assails with fury, fraud and corruption,
but connives at murder, outrage, and OPP
preston. Those who make daily cutlery
about frauds, larcenies, and defalcations,
but turn deaf ear to the cries of muir
dcred men, to the shrieks of victims up
on whom are inflicted Internal outrages,
to the complaint of those who are driven
from their homes and made outcasts from
society for no other crime than their race
or political opinions, are Pharisees and
hypocrites of the basest sort Frauds and