Nebraska advertiser., 1876-07-06
Rebel Yillainy in the South.
rom the Chicago Inter-Ocean.


memory of the Confederacy, and
hope for its resurrection. This pur-
pose is disclosed In many ways. The
tenacity with which Southerners hold
to the possession of Confederate
bonds proves il. The care with which
tl,ey guard the title papers to their
slaves, long since freed, proves it.
The persistency In refusal to permit
the ex-slaves 20 become purchasers Of
real property proves it. The remod-
cling of State laws to allow of the
farming out of convict labor proves it.
The social ostracism Of all Northern
Republican residents of the South
who dare to give utterance to their
honest convictions in favor of the
Union proves il. The bold, open de-
fense of the principle on which the
rebellion was founded by eK-Confed-
crate members of Congress proves 1t.
The demands constantly thrust before
Congress for the payment OF rebel
claims prove II. Is is equally plain
that. as a preliminary to the reasser-
tion of the right of secession, 1t is
proposed to nullify the amendments
70 the Constitution guaranteeing
equal civil and political rights to the
negro. A succession of horrible mas
sacres of negroes unparalleled in the
history Of civilization proves 1t. The
violent seizure Of possession of the
government of Arkansas by revolu-
tionary methods proves II. The at
tempt to revolutioniZe the State of
Louisiana by violence proves It. The
intimidation practiced against the
negro voter at every election proves
It. The rigid system of prescription
everywhere enforced against the ne
gro laborer who has the temerity to
vote the Republican ticket proves It.
These are the salient features of the
Southern situation which point un-
mistakably to the conclusion that the
ex-rebel white population of the
South Is disloyal to the core, and that
as q mass Il looks first to the utter
annihilation Of the negro as factor
in politics and second to the rehabili-
tation of the Confederacy. In the
prosecution of this unhallowed
scheme against the nation, the white
Democrats of the South are solidly
united. and they are greatly strength
ened In their purpose by the unwav-
ering support of the Northern wing
OF the Democracy. Nor is this all:
The Conservative-Democratic-Liberal
Republican press of the North have
contributed largely to the growth of
the ex-rebel conspiracy to reduce the
negro to serfdom by sneering at the
story Of his wrongs, and dencuncing
reports of negro massacres, negro as
sassinations, and White League ter
rorism, as tricks to make political
capital out of the "bloody shirt busi-
ness. But the Inter Ocean has shown
how, by means of inhuman laws and
still more inhuman execution of
them. the ex-rebel Democrats Of the
South are actually now carrying out
their horrible, cruel, reasonable pur-
pose. AS they can no longer sell the
negro on the auction block as of old,
they swear him into the penitentiary
and then sell his labor to an inhuman
task master. We have shown that
the negro convict is hired out to be
whipped and tortured, and if he es-
eapes, is followed, captured, and torn
by bloodhounds precisely as he was
4 in the days of slavery.
In this connection we propose to
show how ex-rebel Democrats In Vir-
gInia carry elections, carrying cleo
tons by fraud and intimidation being
q part of the scheme to reduce the
negro TO a condition of serfdom as a
preliminary to the destruction of the
government and the refounding of the
defunot slave confeoeE2cy. The city
OF Petersburg Va, has a registered
Republican majority Of fire h,t'adredj'
and yet the Democrats carried re-
cent election there 6y nine hundred ma
jority! Two years ago. notwithstand-
ing the registered Republican major
ity was quite as large as Il Is now, the
Democracy carried the election by
stuffed ballots; and this is the way
they accomplished their nefarious
pufpose-that is to say:
By iuclosing in an ordinary-sized
ballot OF three by four inches large
number of diminutive tickets of about
O half-inch in their dimensions and
on very thin paper. When, there
fore, the box was shaken by the DEM
ocratic judges these bogus tickets
came out, and upon counting the vote
&c was, Of course, found that the tick
cts In the box greatly exceeded the
list Of voters as kept by the clerks. 1t
became necessary, therefore, In con-
foTmity with the law, to draw out un-
Gil the number YVES reduced to corres-
pond with the clerks book. The
matter having all been previously ar
ranged. of course none were drawn
but the larger ballots, thus the small
Ter, or bogus tickets, which were all
put In by Democrats, being left, they
were counted as genuine. and the
Democratic candidates declared elect.
ed.
ht the late election. in order to de-
feat O repetition of the ballot-stuffing
trick. the Republicans adopted and
put In practice the tally system. They
placed two or three "tally-sheet men"
at each poll TO take down the name
and residence of every Republican
voter. And now we propose to show
how the white ex-rebel Democrats
disposed of the tally-sheet system,
which, when carried out to the end,
offers an insuperable obstacle to bal
lot.stufflng frauds. We quote from a
letter which appeared in the National
Re91,fblicna Of the writer that iOur-