The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-01-15
: MORE INVESTIGATION NONSENSE.


the last word, is the victor. From the stand
point of a tcrmagant or fshwoman that may
be correct, but not, VIC believe, according Il
the commonly received principles OF logic
A brief article IN last weeks TRADER In ref
erence to the proposed Morton investigation
! in Mississippi has brought out reply o
nearly two columns IN Thursdays Repub9'ca"
Two columns. to show that the Inter.Ocea'
dispatch, alleging the commission Of Ger
tam outrage in Mississippi, was at least a.
reliable as the editortal mot dispatch) We
copied from the New York Ecenth9 P0a
DENYING the truth of the l. o. dispatch. Well
what of It? Suppose several young men,
on the evening before Christmas, IN drum
ken spree, actually did threaten to scalp 9
revenue collector, whereby he was badly
scared but not hurts that any proof iha
the November election was carried by irauc
or violence, or does it afford any occasion FOL
sending a congressional! committee TO Missis
sippi to cXpend 100000 of the peoples
money investigating frauds the existence OF
" to affirm, which net one negro in MiSsis
slppi of the $4,000 alleged victims, has com
blamed of, and which Senator Revels Of that
state, a negro himself and a man whose word
neither republican or democrat will question
in a letter to President Grant solemnly affirms
never existed. And to whatpurposcS There
is no contest arising out Of that election in
reference to the seat Of any member of the
L. 5. senate or house, and no defeated cand!
date for the Legislature even IN Mississippi
questions the election.
But" says the Republtc0H, "the FREE IRA
DER declares, after implicitly conceding the
fraudulent manner IN which the election in
Mississippi was carried by the democrats
1t would be blessed consummati0n for the
state, Ii, by the same means, whether fair or
foul, the democrats could get control also of
South Carolina
The FREE TRADER simplicity comedies"
nothing of the sort here alleged as to the
fraudulent election in Mississippi, for it
knows, and 50 does the Republican, that there
were no such frauds. But as to the hope we
expressed that South Carolina, even though
foul or illegal means may be necessary,
may be wrested from the hands Of the present
thieves that are railing that state with an iron
rod and robbng its people as no government
on the face of the earth ever before robbed Its
helpless people, the aspiration is cordially
seconded by every honest man outside OF the
state who knows its condition, and by every
decent man in the state, including It's negro
elected radical governor Chamberlain him
self Talk about the punc,ilios of law when
hemmed in, tied down and hand bound by a
band of Cutthroats and robbers! There has
confesscdly been no honest election in South
Carolina in ten years. The case is like THIS;
A county, city or parish has three or four
TO elect TO the Legislature.
There are 500 voters in the district, of whom
$50 are negroes and ~ whites All the cleo.
ton officers are negroes. A carpetbagger
rutiian is at the head OF this negro mob, and
all vote one way II one, or twenty OF the
negroes, propose to vote tor any man except
such as the mob has selected they are beaten
like dogs, If not butchered outright. The
voting goes on. No white man goes near the
election, for though his candidate might get
the most votes, he knows the opposite party,
having possession of the ballot box, will stuff
il to suit themselves. The ruGans thus elect
ed to the Legislature, owning not a dollars
worth of taxable property themselves, levy
taxes equal to confscation on everybody c!se's
then borrow all they can on the
credi, of the state and steal the money, And
1t is raplne and plumber like this the people
must forever submit to lest some punctilios
of law may be violated!
But happily this carnival of radical thiev'
cry 10 South Carolina as well "a in Nissls'
sippi, is doomed. Gov. Chamberlain realizes
il and has already deserted the rotor radical
hulk. Ames, in Mississippi. less sagacious,
undertook to combat the inevitable, after the
government at Washington got ashamed of
him, by organizing the local militia. But
The militia wouldn't organize, and finally
committee OF the white men went TO him and
gave their solemn pledge that the election
should be peaceably and fairly conducted,
and they redeemed that pledge Thus was
presented in Mississippi the novel and hu.
spectacle which ayear hence will
be repeated in South Carolina, of govern
ment elected by al overwhelming majority of
the people unable to secure peaceable and
fair election except by the leaders of the op.
posing inconsiderable minority assuming 10
assure itwith apower the majority are forced
to admit they alone possess; and then, as 10
Mississippi, the reins of state power will
quietly slip into the hands Of the SAID minor.
ity, never again TO be wrested from them.
And what are congress and the Republican
party going to do about il? Not only in
Mississippi and South Carolina, bu, in Louisi.
ana and Florida, We shall see the same thing
Not southern state will be Left TO sweet.