The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1877-01-11
70 the Editor Of the Irish World

Z To The Editor Of the Irish World
MISSISSIPPI, Dec. 27.-BeIievlnI
I tbas the columns of the Irish World
are always open for voice in the in
tsrsst OF oppressed humanity, I Re
quest space to give your readers
true statement touching the political
condition of the negro in the South
give you my name in 4 private note
| its publication would endanger my
Hfe. For the same reason / leave
/ blank the names OF persons and plac
e 10 this letter, but you will finC
them indexed in the private note
which will also probably satisfy you
that have had ample facilities fol
seeing and hearing both sides, ard
forming an impartial judgment. In
your issue OF the 9th Inst, in leadel
headed "Party or Country-Whieh %
sAs 70 intimidation and violence,
let that story 20 by. We don't credit
IT,"
HsdyO Travelled recently in the
South q / have done, seen what
have s5sn, ana heard what J. have
lheArd, you would not write thus
THE negro here, as rule, knows moth
ing in regard t. politics but "intimi.
kdaIionn md violence" He had no
rights thit the white man considers
himself bund to respect, OF that be
would repect were il not for the pub
lie opinin of ths North. The planter
will tellthe negro that he can not
stay on lis land, eau not have his
mules work, can not have his bread
and met to eat, il he votes the Re-
publIca ticket. The whites are all
o.ganiad in clubs, and have the
mmesof all the prominent Republi-
Rn DgrOes in the district. They
iotify.hese to leave the country in
30 may days, and the colOred men
tafraid of being waited upon some
inightAbout or O'Clock by q COM
mite with q rope and six-shooteri
aban6n the home OF their parents
where they have been raised and
their sires before them. l know 8
case low of an industrious negro who
was rntiug fifty acres of land on o
plantation belonging to NJ. -.
IHe hsd TO leave on account OF the
,Wne. notifying him that he would
lot rent him any more land and he
vent to live on the plantation OF q
pominent Republican politician, MI
.et me give yoa some Of my own
exerielce. On the night OF Nov. Il
1S7, (eecti0n day being on the 2Ii
mysIfand felloW-trzveler put up at
a hose Of entertainment in q village
in tbs State, -, about 30 miles
from here. After supper we were in
the,itIug-room with mine host and
his after, Mr.. -, when our at
tenton was directed to somebody cal
linRat .he gate in front OF the house:
MIN lost rose from his chair and
wen oft, Snd remained eQnversinG
Will the party for about fifteen min
uLes PRESENTLY the door opened, he
walIedin and told US thSt some black
menOuside wanted to see as. We
keptOu seats, and told him to open
the dor and let them In. He did so,
andtht two men who were standing
ssie tie door came in front and look
ed q a. US, be at the same time pick
I'D he lamp that was on the mantle
nice in order to show them light.
Thy aid we were not the men they
watei, and Immediately turned
aYy from the light. We saw plain
Iy rom their countenance that they
weH white men, dressed like negroes
viii their faces painted, and lips so
red.hat they told the whole story. 1
askd our host who they were, and
he eplied that he did not know. i
t5ld hm that I believed they were
white men.
Early on the morning Ian /
.S7s, met u party Of movers on morse
back, about five miles from here, tha'
attracted my attention. First came
boy with quilts and blankets on hi'
saddle 10 front of him next young
negro woman sitting on her bed tless
aud last, = young msu, her husband
holding his trunK on the pummel o.
his szddle-all making towards tn'
railroad station. l passed on ant
came to q plantation on the roadside
where I met an elderly negro woman
who asked me If l met q party o
movers on the road. 1 said yes, ant
asked why they were moving IN ths
way. She replied:
"rhAt is my son and his vile, Whi
were lately married He was "spot
ted oy tue Democrats, and hss L
leave the country"
Spotted" for whst?" l asked.
She answered: "for belonging I
8 Republican club"
instantly my thoughts were carrie
back to the scenes OF my ehlldnooa
and could not but think that the NJ
sroes were the Irish OF America an
the victims Of the same policy.
WTrans-Atlantic's" article on "lr'
land IS it is" published in the IRIS
World about nine or ten months ago
is really true Of the blacks in "th
South as it Is" to-day.
/ wish that I were possessed OF b
talent, how 1 would try to portray II
grief of an OLD grey-headPd man, aoot
sixty-fiye or seventy years OF age,
saw a few days ago, sitting In b
i cabin Ismenting over the loss OF n
crop, which he claimed to be s~indie
out OF. He was sitting on stool ca
i ing a piece Of dry corn-dodger. ID
daughter was after coming from q
"WHite folks house." where he ser
ler IOT BOLu6 lullhs ~ 7HO
he asked her: "Did you get any
she answered: "No, it's not turnt
yetr-and, with q long-drawn sig
added: "No! nor it never Will D
Never will turn for me H' Nor Is tn
ali. / have come across where the
is as high as four and five famili
living together, not one of the mt
OF whom even registered or vot'
through the dread Of being nOtihed
leave where they were doing We
Had YOU travelled as have, and hea
the opinion OF the whites in discus
the political situation, you would NJ
! / believe. have written I'VE ion
credit it.D 1t is not long since l hes
: an intelligent man say: "Well,
we win, and the troops are WITHDRAW
! from the South, every white man "
, 90 to the polls with club and dri
the Niger away, unless he votes Q
Democratic ticket" Positively 500
of these terrorists care no more for {
t8ss liar Of 4ejtt b black man than | care
At this last election the whites We
better organized and more determin
I, I farF0F fnfO 4