New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-11-20
SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.

SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.
The gross frauds practiced in some
ofthe Southern States at the late
elections have opened the Presidents
eyes and it is stated that he has ac-.
knoWledgtd his Southern policy to
be a failure. Wherever the Repub-
licans had ghoast Of a show Of e.
Letting their candidates for Congress
the Democrats repeated their old
game Of intimidation and ballot box
stufing. In the rural districts Of
South Carolina Republican meetings
were dispersed by Hampton's mali
tia and the voters driven away from
the polls Louisiana and Florida
were no exception to this mode of
electioneering. The ballot box in
one precinct in Charleston was stuff.
ed with 24OO votes for theDem. candi-
date for Congress, and the Dem. maj
GRITTY in the city was a great deal
larger than there were Democratic
voters. At recent Cabinet meet
ing it was decided to prosecute all
offenders to the fullest extent Of the
law, and many arrests have been
made. In a recent interview with
Senator Cameron and Zach. Chand-
Ter the President is represented as
having said:
1.-THE time for discu ssion has
passed. It is now too late for any
thing but the most determined and
vigorous action. The determination
was reached several days ago, and
the delibertion Of the Cabinet on the
subject since then have been compa-
ratively brief and confined mainly
to the consideration Of the duty Of
the Attorney General in the premis-
es. When the Southern policy was
originated, it was with an earnest
desire to conciliate the Southern lea.
ders, to round off the sharp angles of
sectional differences and soften the
asperities ofpolitical strife. Noone
will deny that the attempt to en-
force this policy was most earnestly
made, nor that it was carried out
with a conscientious desire to ac-
complish the result for which it had
been inaugurated. Of the personal
and partisan sacrifices | made in my
efforts, and the consequent interrupt
ton Of certain relations which had
previously existed between myself
and some Of my supporters, | have
nothing to say just now; but it APP
pears that the Southern leaders who
made pledges either did not exert
themselves to keep them or were I'm.
able to do so. In fact I am reluct-
antly forced to admit that the expe-
rience was of little value. The first
election Of Importance held since it
was attempted has proved that fair
elections with free suffrage for every
voter in the South are an impossible
ity under the existing condition of
things. 1t is not because the Repub
lican party appears as the sufferer in
these results that [ complain. It is
because free suffrage and the freedom
Of political rights have been inter
fered with that | am called upon to
take cognizance Of these disturban-
ces. IF the facts were exactly re-
versed, and if the Republicans had
committed these outrages upon the
Democrats my duty would have been
the same. It would not be for me
or for any official before whom the
question may come to treat them 9th.
erWise than in non partisan way.
The partisan press will naturally
take a partisan view Of the case, and
I will be held to account for aiding
the Republicans in Haunting the
bloody shirt, as is called, but for all
that | shall do my duty as chief mag
istrate Of all the people, to Dem
ocrats and Republicans alike; and if,
in the faithful execution Of the laws,
justice shall demand the punishment
Of this or that person, whatever his
political connection may be. | shall
not be deferred by partisan criticism.
All that | know is that great crimes
have been committed and it is my
duty to aid III the punishment Of the
criminals. =
ON THE NORTHFIELD PLAN.
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