The Portland daily press., 1876-08-30
How the South is to be Carried.

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How the South is to be Carried.
If the Democratic party succeeds at the
coming Presidential election it will succeed
only by the aid of the South, if Mr.. Tilden is
chosen President he will owe his elevation to
Southern votes. The party and the candi-
date will be indebted for success to the late
rebels Of the South, the administration will
be in the main made up of Southern men,
the executive will be dependent upon a
Congress controlled by Southerners for sup
port, ard will be able to accomplish nothing
In opposition to the views of that body. In
word the negro killers, the shotgun Democ-
racy, will control the government. 1t is pre-
tended that these men have experienced
change of heart, that they have entirely
given up the objects for which they fought,
that they frankly accept the logical results of
the war, that they are bubbling over with
loyalty TO the Government and goodwill to
the negro. We can only Judge of their inten-
tions by their acts, and the occurrences at
Hamburg and elsewhere are sad illustrations
OF their insincerity. Nor even in words do
they give evidence of reformation. Encour-
aged by the promises of the Democratic party
of the North and by the indisposition of Con-
gress to take measures for the protection of
the black man, they have become open and
audacious in their declarations that no
power shall prevent the success of the Demo-
cratic ticket this fall in any Southern state.
They proclaim to the negroes that they must
vote the Democratic ticket or vote no ticket.
"If the negroes of Pike county," says the
Magnolia (Miss.) Herald, "desire to continue
the amicable relations now existing between
them and the whites, to have their rights re-
spected, and to prosper, let them prove it by
organizing Democratic clubs and by voting
for Tilden and Hendricks" This means, of
course, that if they do not organize Demo-
cratic clubs and vote for Tilden and Hen
bricks, amicable relations will not be contin-
ued with them, they will not have their rights
respected, and they will not be allowed to
prosper. The Canton Miss Mail, paper
published in county tMadson) which gave
Grant 400 majority in 1872, and which, if
no reign of terror had existed, would poll the
same majority for Hayes and Wheeler, ad-
dresses couple of Republican leaders thus:
David jerks, Alfred Handy, and some others
might just as well make up their minds to
ground arms now as later in the campaign.
They need not try to carry this county against
honest rule; 1t can't be done. They need not
try to excite the passions of the ignorant
masses against the more intelligent. 1t shan't
be done. We tell them SO right now. Let
them weigh our words of counsel and be prof
tied thereby.
This same paper elsewhere employs this
astounding language:
Write it upon your banners, fling it to the
breeze, faunt it 10 the face of the enemy, that
we, the honest people of Mississippi, having
conquered glorious victory at the hallot-box
last November, are determined to hold our can
tage ground at e0ery hazard.
And it defies the Government and its mill
tary power, and hints at new rebellion,
thus:
If the Governor makes no requistion, and
Grant sepds the troops anyhow, will not the
people be justified before the law in resisting
the intervention Of the military in time of peaces
can party ''crack this nut"
The Vicksburg Herald follows up this line
of argument thus:
Governor Stone is the commander in Mississ-
ippi and when troops are needed in this State
4he or the legislature will call for them Until
such call is made the troops commanded by
Colonel Brooke are trespassers, and Governor
Stone will be justified in ordering him to attend
to has oaon affairs. If General Anger is anxious
to do something, let him send Colonel Brooke
to the Indian Territory. His presence in Mis-
sissippi Is not needed and should not be toler-
ated.
The Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner, COM
menting on the late Mississippi campaign,
regarding which the Senate committee have
recently made their report, says:
God gave the victory to a people who were
contending for liberation from the basest thral-
dom ever endured by a civilized race, and who
would have been justified in swinging up theil
oppressors as food for the buzzards on the
boaghs of our forest trees.
Even as far north as Virginia we find
the tocsin of extermnation sounded, the
Lynchburg Star remarking:
The South Carolina negroes are ge ting then
backs up. They had better remember the fate
of their brethren in Mississippi. San ounce Of
prevention is worth pound of cure.''
And the whites of Tennessee, though
slightly less sanguinary, are effective in thei
proposed methods of compulsion. Th,
Brownsville States Of Aug. 3 says:
Let it be known before the election that th
farmers have agreed to spot every leading radi
| cal negro in the county and treat him as an en-
emy for all time to come. The rotten rim,
must and shall be broken at any and all costs
| The Democrats have determined to acithdraa
all employment from, their enemies Let thi
fact be known.
| Starvation or determination. 1t is all one
OF course the papers which counsel thi
procedure in the future, make no bone'
about endorsing the horrors of the past. Th'
Okalona tMiss.) States, in commenting upol
the Hamburg massacre, brutally remarks:
The Hamburg Is. C.) riot is the latest sensa
tion. The Sioux Indian massacre fired tn
| northern heart somewhat, but nothing to CON
pare with the Hamburg affair, in which half
| dozen colored militia met the usual fate in
race conflict. Some of our representatives i
Congress pour vials of wrath upon the whit
banditti. This may be wise policy but the prn
ciple ge do not like.
And the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion, who's
editor, Barksdale, is the intimate friend an
associate of Senator Lamar, whose paper
the official organ of the State, and leads ant
follows its sentiment, says:
No impartial person can read the reports O
the Hamburg affair aoitbout approving of til
conduct of the Uhites, and &C the same time syn
pathizing with them in the misfortune of hay
ing been forced to such an extremity of actio
in self.defence.
Finally, the Brandon (Miss.) Republican,
a prominent Democratic journal, fatty ez
presses the feeling of all the whites of th
South towards any and all northern peopl
and soldiers, by saying:
Sitting Bull, the chief of the Sioux Indian
has a summary way of dealing with the carpe
baggers and military satraps. He recently DC
to death 200 odd of them.