Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-18

the working classes. 1t is well enough
to pay taxes for the support of Poor
House paupers but | object to tax
for the benefit OF Palace owning mill
lionaires.
Republican Prescription in 8. G.
do not mean TO say any more at
this time about the South Carolina
troubles, except to tell about the per-
secutions of democratic niggers" of
which the Northern Democratic pa
pers have so loudly complained. The
Democrats of South Carolina, under
the lead of IViid Beast Butler Gas the
Hamburg slaughterer is sometimes
called TO distinguish him from anoth-
er General Butler) are trying to prove
that the only political persecution
known in their State is the ostracism
of colored Democrats by the black
Republicans Every black man who
has been snubbed, or hooted at or
sneered at or hustled by colored Re
pnblicans is eagerly sought out and
brought forward to testify. There is
evidence that, as a rule, negro Demo-
Gratis are thoroughly despised by their
own race who remember slavery and
remember what party it was that de
stroyed it. But no threats, no vic.
lence, no dismissals from employment
and no assassinations-the four chief
agencies of political conversions on
the part of Democrats-have been
proven against the back Republican
voters. All the black Democrats say
that it is the women who are their
chief "persecutors One CID darkey
testified that his wife left In instant
w, and refused to come back to him
afterwards, because he voted the
Democratic ticket. His son, he said
lost his wife in the same way. The
old fellow seemed very jolly over it.
1t is said in South Carolina that sever
al negroes voted the Democratic tick
ct in order to get sure and cheap
divorce. The remedy was always
successful. Another negro testified
that the women "nearly pulled his
clothes off," as he came from the polls
after voting for Hampton. Colored
girls las the Southern phrase ISL
everywhere declare that they haint
got no use for Democrat niggers no.
how" Married women all over the
State have been heard to threaten
that no Democrat colored babies shall
be born in South Carolina! And they
mean what they say. This is the Re
publican form of preference not pro
scription."
One colored orator, who had been
hired to stump his country for Hamp
ton was dismayed when he came back,
to find that no blackwoman could be
found 10 wash his clothes! When he
did induce them to yield they charged
double the usual price. He made his
formal complaint to the Senate Com
mittee and asked their advice in these
words:
IF got to pay rs cents shirt,
aud you pay dollar month for
your washing, and | pay 25 cents a
shirt, and change shirts as often as
you dol want to know how rs
agwine to keep up wild de times ?"
The grave and reverend Senators
were unable to tell him how
"Who sows the wind reaps the
whirlwind 1t was women who were
the chief sufferers from the crime OF
slavery. Everything that women val
ne most highly was remorselessly
snatched from them by the hungry
hands of slavery. They had neither
homes, husbands nor babies, that
they could call their own; for slavery
seized them all and sold them all,
whenever it had craving for more
gold. They did not even own them
selves; for, body and soul, slavery
cooled itself around them. And wo-
men never forget and they cannot for
give such wrongs.
JAMES REDPATH.