The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26

his rescutpn in regard t6ths iississiP.
pi:oketion. We coadenys the following
from his extended remarks: vi i= =#
Z: Mr.. Morton commenced by saying that
/ if the Information received by him is sub
|7stantially true, the late pretended cleo
ton in Mississippi was an armed revolu-
;tion characterized by fraud, murder and
violence, in almost every form. He re-
viewed the treatment which the Republi-
cans received in the South before the war,
the fruits ofwhich were now being visited
upon the whites, He would that the cup
of bitterness Icoad entirely pass away
from those people, but that is not-possi:-
bic under Divine economy. Those who
have pfactieed African slavery for 200
years cannot hope to- escape the evil con-.
sequences resulting from it. It is tie
nnerest 10nFIlonger to deny the esrocities
that have been committed on the color ed
III the fhr 4!z
famous lies about negro plots to- murder
white people have become exceedingly
stale and disgusting. Last sum-
mer, the columns Of tho South.
ern Associated Press for days groaned
with stupid and clumsy stories chat the
negroes had. conspired to murder the
white men and ugly. white women OF
Georgia. That this infamous lie was in
tended asa pretext for slaughter, there's
but, little doubt. If apprehensiors Of
uprisings ever existed they grew out of
the conviction OF intolerable wrongs in
-fictcd upon the colored people, and are
another proof of the truth of that saying,
''Conscience doth make towards of US
ALL Every year before the war there
were stories of plots among the slaves to
rise and murder, their masters and fami.
lies, which l believe in every instance
turned out to be false, but were Often
made the pretext for the greatest cruel
ties. The conclusive answer to all these
foul calumnies IS found in the fact that
colored men only arc killed.
He referred to the white line policy
adopted by the Democrats Of the South
as the legitimate descendant of the black
code of 1855, and the revolution of 1875
was but continuation Of the fight
against the principles Of reconstruction
and the constitutional Y amendments.
whatever DISCUSSES may be temporarily
adopted, whatever protests may be made
in Washington, the infexible purpose of
t he white line Democrats of the South is
the destruction Of the political rights Of
the negro.
Referring to the report Of the commit
ftee to investigate the oNtrages in LOUISE
ana, Mr.: Morton said it presented a sick
ening detail of horrors that dwarf into
insignifcance any Indian war that had
occurred within century. Passing to
Mississippi. it is found that the election
of 1868 was but the bloody and fraudu-
lent autotype of that Of last fall. zzlt reeks
| with murder, frauds, prescription and in
timidation, and shows that the new con.
stitution of that year was rejected by the
same infamous instrumentalities by which
the revolution of last fall was enacted.
Mr.. Morton referred to the atrocities
committed by ku- klux, and said the pass:
1 age of the enforcement act and the pros.
:ecutions under it had the effect to break
up the !ku7klux organizations throughout
J the South, and gave, comparative peace
and security in several Of the Southern
States for two or three years. '';' -:
1t seems never to have occurred to those
who attempt to justify these wrongs upon
the score Of Republican disagreement in
the south. that the prescription and vie
lence that had been .practiced, are in
themselves calculated to beget corruption
: and disorders. In d government where
men are prosecuted, not for their crimes,
bat for their opinions, and are made out.
casts from society and their common en-
tjoyments of i(e,' they have but little in.
ducement to be honest, and, temptation,
fraud and corruption are increased ten
fold. It is lesson Of history in every
age, that where men are treated as vii.
lains and ,vagabonds, and subjected to
wicked oppression from society, because
i Of their race or religion or political opin.
ions, they are sometimes thereby, made
I villains and vagabonds.
=; The question of amnesty, which has
+ recently excited so much attention, is in
teresting as a. matter: of justice, of feeling
land{ef example, and a national question
| Of paramount interest,": We stand In
/ the presence of "a, great danger over:
1 hanging the Southern States, in which
those of the North are powerfully, and
may say equally, Interested. In many
I Of; the Southern States the policy is. open:
ally avoWed of seizing all power into the
hands of the white race and depriving
tbs colored people of their. POLITICAL and
civil rights: With this policy. common ;
ly known, as the white line, it is believed
the :! Democracy sylnrathize in every
Southern State. and I fear to- consider
able extent in Northern States. State
after State has been conquered from the
majority by force, and we are no longer
f}eft in doubt as to, the purpose thus: to
esta blish solid South interest, of the
Democratic party, and when they shall
have obtained control of the National
! government, to reconstruct the Southern