The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-03

casian race as the interiors Of the Airi-
can negro, Is a crime against the ciyiliza-
| tion Of the age which needs only to be
mentioned to be scorned by all intelli-
gent minds; and We, therefore, call upon
the people Of Mississippi to vindicate
alike the superiority Of their race over
the negro and their political power to
maintain constitutional liberty"
The white-line policy here adopted
was the legitimate descendant Of the
black code Of 1865, and the revolution Of
1875. was but a continuation Of the fight
against the principles of reconstruction
and the constitutional amendments. |
here quote a passage from the Meridian
Mercury, Of last fall, as a fair reflex Of
spirit OF the Democratic press in Missis-
sippi and other Southern States, as
shall show by numerous extracts here
after.
But the white man won't come down
to the level Of the negro's conception OF
politics IN this or any other sort OF gov
ernment, and the negro can't come up
to the white mans, and there's an end
OF it. There is no use in all this sort Of
palaver which fools nobody that has
sense enough to be fooled. The recon
struction which put the white man and
negro on the same political level with
the white man, put him in a competitive
antagonism which must and will last un-
til the negro steps down and out, or un-
I'll his Northern friends step in and res
cue him from his perilous position and
restore him to his normal relation OF de-
pendence and subseryiency when in close
contact with that superior race which
never yet acknowledged an equal but Of
h.a 10 ha
two races never can. Political equality
is an absurdity without an equality Of
intelligence and the governing virtues OF
the whole people In the end political
unity will be first enforced, and then the
political rights, which had TO be controll-
ed because dangerous, will be destroyed.
Whatever disguises may be temporari-
ly adopted, whatever protests may be
made in Washington, the inhexible pur-
pose of the e.white-line Democracy Of the
South is the destruction Of the political
rights Of the negro.
VIOLENCE BEFORE REPUBLICAN, RULE.
But it is said that violence and intimi-
dation practiced in Mississippi End other
States have been the natural results Of
Republican misgoyernment and the cor.
ruption of public officers in these States.
That there have been misgovernment
and corruption is not to be denied, and
that it has been grossly exaggerated for
partisan purposes is equally undeniable;
but that this corruption and misgovern-
ment have been the origin and cause Of
the personal violence and social intimi-
dation is utterly untrue. This violence
and intimidation began with the end Of
the war, and, as ! have shown, existed
before the war; il preceded any attempt
upon the part OF Congress TO reconstruct
the Southern States; ats most fearful out
RACES in some OF the States took place
before Republican State governments
had been formed, or while Republican
government was yet an experiment. The
infamous KuKlux organization began as
early as 1866. and practiced its most
fearful atrocities in South Carolina,
North Carolina. Mississippi. Alabama.
and louisiana during the years 1867.
1865, 1869, 1870, and ISL.
The horrible slaughter at the Mechan-
les Institute, in New Orleans, in 1896,
where two hundred and sixty men were
killed for no other crime than attending
a convention, was while that State was
still under n government that had been
organized by President johnson. As a
report Of a Congressional committee
shows, within sixty days before the No
vember election OF 1868, more than two
thousand men were killed and wounded
in Louisiana for political causes, bringing
about a change between the State cleo
tion in May Of that year and the Presi-
dental election in November Of more
than 10000 votes.
General Sheridan. who had been care
fully gathering up the statistics Of the
number Of persons killed and wounded
in Louisiana since 1865 and up to Febru-
airy :. 1875, on account Of their political
opinions, reported to the Investigating
Committee appointed by the House last
winter the number so far ascertained as
follows
hilled...... l4l
Nounded................. 2,ll9
................................ go
This is a greater number than fell at
the battle Of Bull Run and with another
difference, that in that battle the slaught-
er was not all one side.
Hon. George +. Hoar, Chairman Of the
Congressional Investigating Committee,
in his report made TO the House last
winter, briefly recapitulates the history
of the murders and atrocities in Louisi-
ana, and presents a sickening detail Of
horrors that dwarfs into insiguifcance
any Indian war that has occurred within
a century. The horrid massacres at the
Mechanics Institute. at Colfax, at Cou-
shatta, to say nothing of those Of lesser
magnitude, relieve those at Wyoming
and Schenectady Of their historic promi-
nence and throw over the butcheries Of
the Modocs a mellow light.
The report Of Hon. John Coburn, from
the Select Committee on Affairs in Ala
bama, submitted TO the House at its last
session, presents another chapter OF hor-
rors a little less bloody than that Of Lou
isian. but partaking of the same general
character The murders, raids, cruelties
and prescriptions practiced upon the Re
publicans, both black and white, read
like a chapter in the moorish history Of
Spain. These reports, sustained by a
vast body Of testimony taken by com
mittees on the spot. are 10 be found in
the printed volumes on the shelves Of
your library, and may be inspected by
any one who doubts the truth Of the de
scTiption which / have given.
VIOLENCE ~ 1865.
The evidence taken by the reconstruc-
ton committee Of the House, OF which
Mr.. Boutwell,, now q member OF this
body. was chairman, in regard TO the
election in Mississippi, in 1865. presents
the bloody and fraudulent antetype Of
the election last fall. IL reeks with
murder, fraud, prescriptions, intimida-
tion, and shows that the new constitu-
ton Of that year was rejected by the
same infamous instrumentalities by
which the revolution Of last fall was en-
acted. The bloody record shows that
the white.line Democracy Of Mississippi,
who now would have the country believe
that they have been patient and long
forbearing, but were finally aroused to
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