The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-02-03
The Inevitable Results.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean. ]

From the chicago Inter ocean,
The Atlantic Monthly for February pub.
fishes an article on ''The Political COndi.
ton of South Carolina, +" written by South
Carolinian, whose name is withheld. The
writer is certainly not partisan; he 10 dis
posed to dwell on the weaknesses and faults
of the two parties rather than on their good
deeds, and personally he seems equally
friendly to Chamberlain and Hampton. But,
contemplating the situation from this non
partisan standpoint, his description Of how
the Democrats carried the State shows that
the stories of intimidation and fraud on the
part of the Democrats were not overdrawn.
Terrorism reigned supreme previous to the
election, and for election day a coup d'etdt
was contemplated. The members. of the
rifle clubs were to guard the polls and sys-
tematically patrol the public roads In q
menacing manner, SO as to brighten off the
negroes and keep them at home. The &C.
ton of Governor Chamberlain and Presi-
dent Grant in ordering the rifle clubs to
disband interfered somewhat with this
plan. The deliberate purpose OF the Dem.
Ocrats to prevent the negroes from voting or
to compel them to vote for Democratic can
didates is clearly shown, and the writer as.
serts that the white population was aroused
to secession or notification madness. The
determination to carry the State by the
method known as the Mississippi plan was
not concealed.
Should the Democrats triumph, it is ar
gued that certain results are inevitable.
Whenever they dare, the whites In the
Southern States will disfracbise the negro
outright, and by law, and in the meanwhile
they will, in the States they control, prac-
tically disfranchise them. The negroes will
resist reinstatement to the death, SO this
is deemed not wrong, but inexpedient; but
the whites will 70 as far as they dare in re.
stricting colored liberty by black codes or
detached laws; by prohibiting the negroes
from stirring from home after some curfew
hour; by prohibiting all colored assem-
blsges; by placing their churches under pc.
lice espionage, to prevent the discussion Of
political themes; by enacting laws as to
schools, education, and contracts that will
deny the cOlored man any right as citi-
zen, and reduces him as near as may be to
his old condition OF ignorance and servi.
tude.
These are enumerated as the logical re.
suits of Democratic rule in South Carolina !;
and yet such men as Judge Trumbull, who
claim to be the friends of the freedmen,
favor the return of the Democrats to power.
The atlantic article is written by q man
not friendly to the colored people; by a man
who believes 1.-THE colored men have no
more capacity for government than crowd
of Irish roughs, picked up promiscuOusly
in the streets of Northern city;' and yet,
by his own admission, the South Carolina
whites are worse than the negroes, and his
whole effort is, in effect, plea for justice
to the colored man. While he does not SO
declare, yet the facts he gives lead to the
conclusion that the Democrats are deter.
mined to undo all that has been done for
the colored people, and that in hiding their
time they have the patience only Of diplo.
mats, desiring to be sure of accomplishing
their purpose.