The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-12-18
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ton, "Solid South" had no terror:
for these Radical marplots. Then car
pet-baggery had full swing, and recon
struction was working according to
Hoyie. Things were booming and the
goose hung "altisudelum." but the
gradual Acknowledgement of the whites
and the winning over of the better
class Of bucks has restored mutual
condition of things. Republicans say
that Mississippi, South Carolina, etc,
should be Radical by 10000 majority.
The argument is that there are so
many thousand colored voters and con-
sequently, so many Republican votes
should appear in the boxes. That
would be good logic if all the blacks
voted the Radical ticket; but they
don't. The fact that six colored Dem
ocrats have just been elected TO the
legislature in South Carolina is pretty
conclusive evidence that a tolerably
lively shrinking of blacks vote and
act with the whites. Your correspon-
dent spent four months in the South
last year and saw on every hand ample
unmistakable evidences that the more
intelligent colored men were earnest
active Democrats. 1t is the most
natural thing in the world. Their in
terests, instead of being antagonistic to
the whites, as the lying, scheming car
pet-baggers long made them believe,
are identical and inseparable. Neither
one can prosper without the other, and
left to themselves they come together
in politics as naturally IA two electric
currents, or as readily as the laws of
trade and reciprocity are adjusted: 1t
is the colored man and brother who has
disappointed the Republicans. When
a Radical Congress put the ballot into
the hands of the negro, and added
score or more to Southern representa-
tlves in the Electoral College and the
halls of legislation. it was done to give
the Republican party permanent con-
troll of the Government But the col
ored citizen found radical promises of
FORTY acres and g mule delu,ion and
snare. To revenge themselves upon
a people whose influence with the
blacks and whose honest interest in
them is greater than their own, these
radicals now attept revival of the era
of hate and sectional strife. The gros-
sest of falsehoods and wickedest of in
ventiOns are to be resOrted to, and the
entire public business prostitute in the
effort to infame the minds of people
at the North who are unacquain,ed
with the ficts.
Mr.. Blaine followed Hayes message
with resolution to raise an ''invesiiga-
ton" committee to set the outrage mil
in motion. There may have been IL
regularities and unwarrantable acts in
connection with the recent elections in
some parts of the South. Such things
have transpired in Ohio. and PEN
nsylvania, and even Massachusetts.
But the judicial remedy is everywhere
ample. Democrats North and South
unite in demanding legal punishment
for every violation of the election laws,
but in Congress they will Use every
endeavOr to defeat the schemes of these
radical marplots. And the sublimest
exhibition of cheek ever witnessed is
the spectacle of Rutherford b. Hayes
talking about election frauds to Con-
gress that is in possession of the facts
relative to his own rape Of the pres
idency, while holding an Office to
which he knows another was over
whelmingly elected, common decency |
would seem to render election frauds"
a forbidden subject at the White
House, PROVO