Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-06-09
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1877.
THEY WANT THE ARMY BACK.


During the late Presidential canvass
there was great cry made about the ar
my being employed in the south to con-
troll the elections. The fact that there
was only aIsquad Of soldiers here and
there throughout the whole southern
territory madeline difference. They were
there,and this answered the pusposeof the
politicians to raise their hue and cry
about the army being used for that pur-
pose. So loudly did they proclaim this
that many, doubtless, did believe that
the army was being used for this ex-
! press purpose. Since the Inauguration
of President Hayes, many of the. troops
have been recalled from the south, and
what few remain there have lost their
terror to the Inhabitants. There is no
fear of Intimidation now; on the con-
trary, there are indications from that Sec
ton that they are anxious for soldiers to
be sent down TO protect them against a
possible rising of the colored population,
driven thereto by outrages from the law
less whites. The tact that the colored
voters of the south have acted with the
Republican party has been enough to
bring down upon them the hatred of the
Dbl whites OF that section. and produce the
reign of terror that has prevailed through
i9yout the south, almost without exception,
until the whites are beginning to fear
that the blacks have suffered beyond en-
DURANGO, and win now arise and avenge
themselves of the long series of wrongs
b and countless murders that have been
fheaped upon them and their race, and
they are anxious to have the protection
OF the army. There is no cry raised
now about their being used to cont oil
elections. They think their lives en-.
& dangered by the much abused colored
~ citizens of that section, and all other
feeling is absorbed in the one idea Of hav-
ing some means of protection. ,ot d
y A Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, in ref
erence to this, says; 70 Those who
resided in the south for 4, the
three Christmas seasons-the Negroes
holiday week-preceding the war, and at
the time of the John Brown raid, know
'd what terrible uneasiness prevailed in
nearly every community throughout the
cotton States. 1t was subject that men
were careful not to talk about in the pres |
i ence of servants. They were times of gem
eral and, ! in many quarters, of intense |
suspense. The signs here now are that |
this feeling is coming back. If there |
was reason for it then, with the severe
plantation discipline, and the rigorous
black laws, what shall be said Of the con-
ditions now when the Slaves are free and |
citizens, aud where so many among them
have learned the use of arms. and know
that the sympathies of the national gov
eminent ana of the north are with them
and against those who outrage them /?
And if insurrection comes, and hangs its
black pail, lurid with flames from burn
ing houses over every blood cursed sec
ton of the south, revolving as the thought
of it must be ut the north, the stories of |
its horrors Will be sOftened somewhat By |
the feeling that in the Lords own time,
and by the terrible instruments which He
sometimes uses, the long, long series of
countless murders Of helpless men. and
women, and children have been avenged. /