New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-08
WADE aAMPrON's CRUSADE.

How They Talk In e0uth CaEo"no'
GENERAL" M. w. Gary. a Confederate
hripadier, few days since delivered =
speech at Aiken. South Carolina, IN wnlca
the following advice 10 the southern peopio
was offered:
and now let me tell you wha: to 90 on
a,ecfion day. Go in masses, armed, ana Try
and force the negroes to vote our ticket;
IF thew don't do il, shoot them down ana
ont off their ears, and l warrant You this
will teach them q lesson; aud even II we are
not elected, we will 60 to Columbia IN force,
and if not allowed 10 take our seats, we Will
surround the State House and tear II Gown
and show them we will rule What say You,
men: can't we do i,!' Loud cries OF u es,
d-n it, yes.'J
The speech was reported verbatim, and
published in the papers at the time. but
certain of the Democratic leaders, fearing
that the General was putting it rather
TOO strongly, wrote to him, advising that ne
prepare q card, in which to tone down his
fire-eating utterances. Ooedlent 70 tneis
dictates he has published in the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel version OF the
speech, which simply confirms what had
already been published, and adds come i'm
portant particulars not before made puoiic.
The General" first states that he de-
liyered his speech off-hand, and can not,
therefore, give the exact form OF what ne
did say; bu he remembers that he ADVISED
the shooting OF the Radicals" ana snR
gested that in the butchery the following
order be observed: First, Chamberlain.
Elliott, Patterson, and such other corrupt
carpet-bag ecalawage, and lastly, the black
leaders," He further states that he told
his hearers shat if the Radicals went
armed to the election precinct, to 60 armed
also, and if the Radicals attempted to force
the Democrats from the ballot box, az they
had done ON previous elections, to use sut-
ficient force to remove them out of the
way, and if it became necessary, In order
to remove them, 70 shoot, to do 80, rather
than be prevented from casting their votes
for Ti!aen and Hendricks and Hampton
and Simpson"
He closes his card with the advice that
they do not submit to the decision OF the
ballot box, but 60 up to the capital OF the
State and insist upon taking their seats IN
the Legislature, ETC., even though defeated.
The great value of this card lies in the
fact that we now have, over the Generals"
own signature, and Endorsed by the papers
OF the South, the policy which he is advo-
eating in his speeches. The speech as first
published and the version which the "Gen-
ersl'' has Matched up are nearly enough
alike to show the correctness of the
former. There can be no longer any doubt
but that the most strenuous efforts are
and Confederate passions of the people,
and through race-hatred, intimidation
and force to obliterate the Republican
majority in the State. This is shown by
the uttersnces of Gary and others in differ
emit parts of the State. In a speech which
he delivered at Anderson a few weeks
since, he said. according to the report of
the Louisville Courier-Journal: 1.-The peo-
pie of this State have resolved to follow
the example of their twelve sisters. The
galaxy of the South will not be complete
until this State takes her place in this
splendid cluster"
This is the determination of the rebel
Democratic leaders, encouraged and
claqued on by the Democrats of the North.
A solid South is the only hope of the Con-
one OF the States which has large Repub-
licsn majority when honest voting is per-
mitted.-Cleceland Leader.