Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-06

and every Republican administration
that has existed since the Rebellion
ended, just as they we're ssairst all Re-
publican rule during the time they we're
lighting to take the life of the Nation.
This white rebel class is iu a minor
ity when compared to the colored peo-
pie, but they repeatedly nearly upset
all government that favored the admin
istrations at Washington BY their play
Of the bully over the colored people.
Troops of the General Government
often had to be sent down into the
South to preserve the rights of the col
ored folks and their friends, such rights
as they bad got by the ballot. The
master race never looked on the colored
race except in the light of a machine,
to be used just as it suited tie masters,
without thought of the rights of any
one, without desire or thought but
for their own advancement. The fact
that they got whipped when they tried
to break up the Government the
fact that they were not punished for
their treason the fact that the coiored
people bad the rights of citizenship
given them, did not raise the slave race
in their opinion, as race, did no, raise
bim in their opinion so high as to get
them to look upon them in any other
light than that of . machine which
u ust run 10 suit them, or not run at
all. That has been the cause of the
whole trouble down South since Rebel
lion. Northern white men went down
there and organized the colored folks
in q way that the old masters did not
wan: politically, and that has been the
cause of the Ku klux and White Line
outrsges. All the National admins
trations but this last one have made it
a point to stand up for the white men
who were acting With the colored peo-
pie in their support of the National
Government. l guess Old Hickory
would have done the same thing, if h.
had put down the Rebellion, which be
would have done had he been in the
Presidential chair. Old Andy could
have done nothing else.
When l last wrote you, things seemed
fixed enough in that way. The hand of
the Government was stretched out over
the majority, which is composed of the
men that the "carpet baggers" organ
lied into a party in support of the Gen.
eral Government. All the other party
down there-which is large too and is
chiefly composed of the old rebel ele-
ment-wsnt, is control of the Govern
ment.
Things, say, seemed fixed enough
in favor of the majority, the colored
folks, with the exception that in South
Carolina and Louisiau, each, a new
State government had been organized,
as against the Chamberlain and Pack
ard governments, and these govern
ments were organized with the under
standing that if Tilden came to the
Presidency they would be recognized,
and the "carpet bag" and negro gov
ernments-the majority governments
would have to pass away. That was
the only sign that the majority govern
lnents we're not fixed and certain in the
South.
Mr.. Tilden didn't get in, aud as far
as the general understanding went,
without having declaration from Pres
ident Hayes, it was believed that the
majority governments would be kept up
by the National Administration, by
giving them the moral support of the
General Government, which Of itself
would have withered all actise opposi-
tion to majority rule. But such was
not the case, and there Is where the
new life comes in there is where Old
Hickory would tell you that the resur
rection Of the master element comes In.
The military was withdrawn that kept
down acts of violence, and Mr.. Aayes
withdrew not only the military but he
also withdrew his moral support from
the carpet-bag and colored government,
and gave the moral support to the mas
ter element, which at any time, on any
day since the war, if LETT alone, could
have brow beaten and bullyed down
the majority of the people in the South,
and set up government to suit them
selves. In the opinion of the master
race, down there, the majority is not to
be allowed to govern, they are to be gov
erned, and President Hayes has given
tine master race the benefit of his moral
influence, and the result is that msjor-
ity rule is crushed cut in the South.
How do you like it, my boy, Presi-
dent Hayes knows as we'll as any one
that majority rule in the South means
negro rule. 1t can mean that, and only
that, for the negroes are largely in the
msjority, and when they are allowed to
organize freely, at their will, it is as
natural as 1t is for a man and a woman
to court that they should organize all
the governments as much in their favor
as possible. The revolution has been