The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-20
4 PROTEST FROM TIE Y ROADS.
MIR. Massey uTTERs A PROTEST AGAINST THE
"HowLs' or THE NORTHERN REPUBLICAN
PRESS OVER THE PREVENTION or NEGRO
VOTING IN THE SOUTH.
from the Toledo Blade.
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December ~, 1878.
foresce trouble. My prophetic sole
LOOKS torrcd year or two, and prrcccves "a
c!oud loomin up in the iucher, witch
bndcs us Nv the South no good iorCsec Il
raid wicl will he made onto the suiiun
south, and possibly it may be successful.
iorcsec a renewal Of the ho,tilities wich led
10 a i'ratricidal struggle betwiXt the sen
shuns in 1854, and possibly gore.
The north is not content with things ~
they are The north persists in bIeevin that
the rights nv the niggers in the south hcz
bin violated, and that they hey bin dcpriy-
od nv the priviigis- Of treemen. witch they
iortily by ussertin ez II fact that in tie
Cross roads alone seyenty-tivc niggcrS wus
killed, for insis,in upon Yoting the Republic
kin ticket, and that 600 was kept away
t'rom the polls 10y force
At lcas, let the people Nv the north hcv
the truth. Our enemies will find that no
thing Kin bc gained hy misrepresentation
and false statement. | will give the exact
facts.
There wuA only scycnty-two killed, the
Pl'itl i"lNV ''Ii htlclI NbuHbINi. Wv wv
the woundld may hcvdicd since, hut am
not Crrtin.
There wuznt 500 druv away from the
poles; the exact number was 49l.
1t is by siCh talschoods that the sufrin
South is BEN prejCodist. 1t isby mems Of
SIGH lies that Congris will be Influenced
agin giyin Us SIGH appropriations ~ we de.
sire, and payin the Southern war debt, and
penshunin Southern soljers. 1t is by such
stuDenjus lies that the RidikcIs hope to
elect President in 1880.
Neither will the subsidized Radikel press
give the troo reasons, or ruhcr the philoso-
ply Nv our ackshcn in this matter.
The fact is, we do not deny the rite Of
the niger 10 vote. No sich thought ever
entered our heads We desired EN- to vote.
We went into thcr settlements and implorcd
EN-, e2 they loved Kcntuck, to come and
deposit their ballots like freemcn, We re-
minded EN- that many OF en- had the best
blood Nv Kentucky in Their vanes, that Their
wuz those among en- who could proudly
point to the Bascoms, Gavtts and Pograms
cl ther ancestors We askt EN- to jine us in
an effort to save the South from hOOmi ia
shen, 10y scndin up 4 clean DimccratiC dele
gashun, and by SIGH maiorities cz wood
tecch the Nandal North that the Stat wuz n
yoonit agin ther unholy skcems Nv subjoo.
gashen.
We reminded EN- that they had an ckal
interest with us in pr0Coorn appropriations
ut is trOo," we sed to Gu, that you will
no. have contray on the ship canal, or ON
the Custom House at the Corners, nor will
700 be penshund for scrvis in the Contcdrit
army, but the money will come here, and
ez 700 furnish all the pervishuns, We not
bein fond Nv labor, it will git around to
700 in time.
And We reminded EN- ov II great many
more things.
They come to the polls on our invitation,
401, wich wuz majority. They come un-
armed, save with that weapon wich Is firm
or SCI and stronger than the bayonet the
ballot. To our horror we diskivered that
every last one OF the black cusses he'd Re
pobcin tickets and perposod to vote en-!
Nv course, this woodnt do, We wanted
EN- to exercise the rite Nv suffrage, but they
must exercise il ez we wanted en- to.
We closed the poles immcjitly, till we
Good hasten home and git our shot guns
and reyolvcrs. Then we opened the poles
agln and demonstrated with EN- agin this
outrage. We felt that we wuz being CO.
creed into pcrmitIn unholy Rndikei ma
jority at the Corners, wch hc2 alluz bin
Democratic. and witch shcl aluz be. We
told en- they shood vote, but they mus,
vote the Dimccmtic tikkct like free men. II
they felt they cood,n' '. hey he'd bet
ter not nliml III N'G. tNd plWoke
blood by stayin around q po'"
One Nv EN- demanded nu rite NV votin
cz he pleased, when lssakcr GMl'i, Nlch is