The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-30
OF the New York Times.
THE NEW REBELLION.
STORY OF A MISSISSIPPI DISTRICT.
How Fort Pillow Hero" was Elected
THE South Victorious Shoe
String Distriet"-Its Votes, Popula-
tiOn and subjugatiOn.
WAsHIxGToS, Nov. Is, 1876.

General Lee surrendered his sword to
General Grant. This act was supposed
to mean that the South surrendered IT
General Grant surrendered his chair To
Governor Tilden, "the South" will BE-
victorious after all, and Appomattox will
not be the end. but only the beginning
of the end-it will be the sign of the sub
jugation of the Nation by the rebels
The last election in all the Gulf States
was not a constitutional election. 1t was
only in form an election. In spirit and
in fact it was new rebellion against the
Constitution Of the Union.
The Northern people have so long re
fused to listen to the tragedies of South
ern loyal life that even when the fate OF
the Nation for generations hangs trem
bling in the balance-the beam Of the
electoral scales suspended across a der
ringer-these statements still may seem
to many readers the utterances rather OF
hate than Of knowledge. But no man
who values his character will venture at
this crisis to make any strong statement
that statistics and sworn evidence will
not amply sustain.
Let me take one Congressional district
of the Gulf States to illustrate and en-.
force and demonstrate the truth Of these
opening declarations. select the Sixth
Congressional District of Mississippi.
ii.
Mississippi. when the negroes are pro.
tected. is a stronger Republican State, in
proportion to its population, than Massa-
chusetts or Illinois. 1t never gave us
less than majority of over 10000. until
the shot gun policy was inaugurated in
1875. Since then, il has gone Democrat
ic by from 10000 to 10000 majority. II
is not worth the trouble to find out what
the precise majority is, because Demo
cratic majority in Mississippi can b.
made to order as easily as pair OF shoes
can be made to order in Massachusetts,
IL is simply question OF measurement
Nr. Lamar is an able Southern rhet
orician, but he is as destitute OF humo,
AS the great Northern statesman who's.
memory he eulogizrd Yet, like Sum
ner, he sometimes unconsciOusly utter
-arcasms that would have increased tn.
fame OF Douglas Jerrold. Thy gentl.-
ness hath made me great" was true in
sense that he did not intend. The gen
tlrness of the Nation in dealing wIlh
traitors hath made the bandits, So
great in power that they now dare tu
think Of usurping the National Govern
| ment.
We come now to the Sixth Congres
sional District, to show how the TIldeu
reiormers of Mississippi respect and en-
force the amendments to the Constitu
ton which confer the right OF suffrage on
| the blacks, and to show, also, by thu
character aud record of their candidate,
how Loyalty they have accepted the stu
alton, and how sorry they are that they
made war against the Union.
When Gov. Ames was got rid of and
the legislature secured, the Democrats
made a new apportionment of the State
rhe bottom lands of the Mississippi
River, which bound the State on the
west, by their more than Egyptian fer
tility OF soil are the best cotton lands in
the country, and therefore they have an
overwhelming majority of negro labor
ers. By putting any one of these river
counties into any Congressional District
AS part Of il, the supremacy of the Dem
ocracy would selEevidently be endan
gered. They put them. thrrefore-all o
them-into one Congressional District
IL is the most fragrant illustration of tht
iniquities of gerry ymandering' that the
history OF the United States can furnish
This district follows the tortuous cours,
OF the Mississippi River. IL runs iron
the northern to the southern boundary
OF the State. 1t is several hundred mile
in length. Democrats told me, as gooC
Joke, that il is between five and six hun
dred miles long / have not measured
it. but know that there is nothing lik
it, excepting a wounded snake in nature
or an Alexandrine line in poetry. II
some places it is only twelve miles wide
1t was intended to give it up to the Re
pubIicans; but when the shotgun leader
saw that Senator Boutwelrs report wa
not popularity accepted at the North
that "the State" to use their own phrase