Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-16

largely Republican il permitted to
have fair election. They count with
great confidence upon Violence and
its consequences. What has been
done successfully in some of the
Southern States they expect to be
done in all. Murder thus becomes a
fixed political element i'm the Demo-
cratic problem. Should they carry
these States it will be by u bloody
revolution which no more deserves
the name of election than the murder
OF the Christians by the Turks.
| sLAuGnTERs IN TIE SOUTH.
Five. ten, or twenty negroes are
killed, and sometimes one white man
is the common report, but every an
nouncemcnt is followed by the stere-
otyped lie that the negroes began the
attack, and the whites were acting in
sclf-defense. The negroes, poor, UNI
trained, almost unarmed, and unskill-
ed in the use of weapons, are repre-
scented as prccipitatlng themselves
upon their well-armed, skillfnl and
intrepid enemies, and procuring
themselves to be shot for no other
reason than to make a little political
capital for their Northern friends.
The murder a few days since of ten
negroes in Hamburg, S. c., under
circumstances of extraordinary atroc-
ity is but the opening of the Tildcn
campaign in that State. 1t was the
beginning of the work Of intimida-
ton, Il terrible blow to strike terror
into the hearts Of the colOred people.
; Upon n very mean and scandalous
. prctcxt about 800 white men sudden
: ly assembled in this little town, in
habitcd almost exclusively by color
cd people, perpetrated the foul muir
, der, sent the women and children to
the woods in deadly fright, and
: searched and sacked their humble
, homes.
Had a band of Sioux Indians sud.
4 denly pounced upon peaceable
i white village and inflicted such hor.
j rors the cry for determination would
J. have gone up throughout the land.
a 1t is openly proclaimed that tho
It Republican majority Of $4,000 in
e South Carolina is to he overcome
l. and the State carried for Tilden
4 and this can be done only by compel
al ing them by force or fraud to vot'
ID the Democratic ticket.
ID In Mississippi, since the recoDstruc
oil ton in 1869, the average Republican
N majority has been over 10000. Ii
Ig 1872 Grant carried il by 3l,SS7 votes
he Last year, after campaign of hor
or rors the Democracy carried it by
I'd majority of 1900, and SO complet
en- and abject was the terror that in tn
in county of Yazoo, where the Republi
as cans had registered vote Of 2,42I
In they polled but sesen votes, and thes
ed were permitted only that it might b
n said that Republicans could vote
ry The white Liners were organized in
to to military companies in every coun
a ty, well armed and marched up am
ed down the country with threatenin
Vi demonstrations, Murders, whil
res pings, and every form of violene
sy, were Of daily occurrence, and prom
Vi nent Republicans, white and blacl
he were notified to leave their homes o
IN pain Of death. Leagues were forme
ny in which the members were solemn
or pledged TO rent no land, give no en-
Sc ployment, business, custom, or soci'
re. recognition whatever to black {
I'D white Republicans. The Governt
of the State was compelled to di
band the few military companies
hs had to prevent their massacre, and
m treat with the Democratic Cent?
h Committee Tor his own safety, Il
no preservation of the peace, and pr
=, lection of public property. TT
az treaty was generally violated, Il
, committee alleging their inability
ing restrain their savage followers, al
all Mississippi throughout the campais
:. was an armed mob, having all the
Gus cense with none Ut the discipline
g a the camp. The result was VIII
in might have been anticipated =
M bloody, lawloss, wicked revoluti0
I'm which large majority were owe
whelmed by an armed and murde
rel GUS minority. The massacpes
'ar- Hamburg, Vicksburg, Clinton, Co
ivil chatta, Colfax, Red River, Mechani
, of Institute, and at hundreds of 9th
the places that might be named, are {
md of the same character, for the sal
Ors political purposes, and are general
md attempted to be excused by the sar
I'M infamous and outrageous falsehoot
rm- General Sheridan, while in col
attic mand in New Orleans, collected wi
in great labor the evidence of violen
lest in the State of Louisiana alone t
.ity political purposes from 1866 to Is
and reported to the investigate
viii committee appointed by the House
,tic Representatives, as follows:
ulu Alileu. ......, 81
can Wounded ...,........ 81
md 49,
yht. Total. ...........,,,,.... ~