Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-12-07
General View or Louisiana Affairs.



Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
The great case which is to decide
into the hands of which party the
Government of this State and of the
United States is to be placed for the
next -four years, drags it's slow
length along before the Returning
Board day by day. The array OF
testimony which the Republicans
have gathered, and, indeed, which
comes to them from people who
were driven from their homes for
having voted the Republican ticket,
is
SIMPLY OVERWHELMING.
No one can listen to the stories OF
these unfortunate people and not be-
lieve Thorn. They tell them in sim
pie, straightforward, homely manner,
which carries conviction with it.
There are people who have been
whipped some have been hung,
and cut down again before they were
dead, and told to join Democratic
clubs or they would not BIO let down
next time others have been cut,
shot, and bull-dozed in every con-
ceivable way.
Is it not unnatural that people in
the North should +"
WONDER HOW 1T CAN BE
that in q community whore perhaps
there are twice as many blacks as
there are whites, the black can be
inundated and held in subsection
by the whites. But it is q condition
of affairs which can pe readily IN
derstood by any who ever lived in
the South. There are IN the rural
portions of the South large class of
young men who grow up and never
follow any useful occupation. Their
especial ambition is to ride well,
shoot quick and sure, drink whisky,
and talk politics They spend q
| great deal of their time about cross
road groceries and the traveller
through the South has seen their
horses tied to tho limbs Of trees and
other available places in the neigh.
| borhood of those establishments.
There is always some daredevil
about every neigbborbood, whose
character gives him an ascendency
over the Others and, as they belong
to the opposite party, there is moth
ing more likely, even without any
preconcerted plan or central direct
ion, than, when "Lhe boys" get on a
big spree, that they should go gall
looping about the country at night
"sTIRRING UP THE NIGGERs."
The celored people, on the other
hand, have nearly all been slaves,
and now spend most of their time in
the fields. They are, as rule, do
Gle, superstitious, and easily fright
ened. When they get done with
their days work, they are tired
enough to go to bed. Surprising as
is frequently the case, "the boys, y
when they are having their fun at l
or 2 o'clock in the morning, ride like
mad past the poor darkey's cabin,
and, yelling like COmanches, fire
their revoVers into the cabins as
they pass. This supposititous case is
what may be termed a sporadic
one But when it comes to be, as it
has been in this State during the
past few months, perfect system,
the colored people, if they are ten to
one, are bound to be demoralized.
They are brought up to work, and
not to drink whisky and fight.
Their white Republican friends are
deemed public enemies, aud what
ever efforts they make to excite in
the colorod man proper respect for
his manhood, are deemed incendiary;
and they may, and probably will,
be
DRIVEN OUT OF The COUNTRY.
| have seen good Repu blican pa
pers in the North say that, if the
colored Republicans, when in a ma
jOrity, could be inundated and de,
feated at the polls by white minor
ity, they deserve to be defeated.
That was simply because those pa
pers don't understand the thing. If
it is right that the colored man
should vote at all, it is right that
they should vote as they want to
vote and the law and nation which
gave them that right should protect
them in it's exercise, aud they should
not be compelled to go outside the
law and depend upon their individu-
al powers for protection in that
right. God knows they have suffer-
cd enough. Thousands of colored
men who voted the Republican tick
ct IN this State at the last election
believed thas by doing it they risked
their lives, and many of them did so.
Some have paid the penalty, and
many others are refugees, and have
left their crops of cotton in the field
ungathered,-the result of their la
Dor. There are a good many Re.
puhlicans in the North who would
not like to suffer as much as that for