The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-11-28
VOL. VIII.
THE PRESIDEST AND NEGRO
.ELLDCZERs.

TUE FRESIDEST AND NEGRO
.gLLDOZERs
Tae law of the United States requires
the President to protect each citizen
in the exercise of th2 right OF suffrage
and certain officers, adjuucts Of Fe,ieT-
al couTe, are appointed especially 70:
the p i'Pose OF executing this Iaw.
Therefore We have seen, since receu,
elections, even here in Aas!in. cases ot
technical bulidozing investigated. No
conspiracy has been shown to exist.
Here and there white and black fr!-
lows have wooded one another, The
white man no more respectable nor
better or worse than the African with
whom he equlliz4s himself, and hy
whom. in such a case. he deserves to
bc beaten. But there are "A dozen
fights among negroes exclusively, and
bar-room drunken deeds of violence.
TO which white men are the exclusive
parties, for each conflict between rep
rescntatives of the two races. Federal
commissioners are not appointed, how
ever, to showcase facts, or that the
two races rar' icountcr each other
The Law con inds ballots when IN
the box and the races are thrust to-
gether when in the act of voting, but
their collisions are less fssH Huent than
OF individuals of either race with one
another. But when representatives of
the races, and ithey are always repre-
sentatives of th e most ignorant and dc
graded, do fight the telegraph is made
to recite the story, the Presidents
agents sent out TO enforce the law are
thoroughly aroused, and the splendid
tormalities OF ';snl Investigation of the
facts are put into costly operation.
There are more broken heads and
bloody fights at any 2onDybrook fair
than distinguished the Course of events
on the late whisky guzzling election
day in all Texas aud yet Zach Chandler
and Blaine and those exceeding good
men, whose bosoms swell with ardent,
irrepressible love fop poor Sambo, Will
have the records of "a thousand shindys
of high and low degree, and all dis
graceful to the white participants,
published in a Thousand Northern
newspapers and investigated by con-
grcssional committees. In the mean
time Conkhng and blaine will shed
copious tears of blood and Zlch Chand-
ler of whisky in all the public places
of Washington. The lamentations IN
Rama will not be circumstance in
view of the wailings of these heart
broken, bowling dervishes of Radical
ism. Each case of bulldozing ground
out before the neat little commits
siOners will eXtort a fresh flood of
tears from the everlasting fountain of
deep human sympathy and within a
month after Congress meets the flooded
Potomac will be the traditional 'Salt
river" of the Democracy.
Such is the law, and such its p1r-
poses. 1t was designed to operate like
q purgativc upon the bowels of human
lcompassion and fill Northern ballot
boxes with Republican votes. Con-
fessedly it is the dirtiest task in all It's
aspects ever discharged by party
leaders, never forgetting to include the
unworthy white man WHO suffers
himself to become the agent
OF the trainers of this law by ,eolliding
with negro at ballot-5ox, or else
where. His tastes aud conceptions of
social rights and duties must Ne Who'll
ly depraved, even as his stupidity is
boundless, who would lend hilh hself to
Radical purposes by doing V IOlencc
even to the foulest Senegambian bal
lot-box stulrer.
But itG Ler scripta est, and the Presl-
dent is compelled to enforce the
law. Chandler and his associates
are busy about Washington in
order to see that this law is
lierceiy executed. In truth, the law
is proper enough if its purpose were at
all defensible. He who would prevent
fair and free election, while existing
codes subsist, Is an enemy of the hu-
man race, of the country and the
South but they who would use these
sudden, unpremedit&ted conflicts, be-
tween ipcongruous races, unnaturally
thrust ihto these close civic relations
for partisan purposes and to degrade
and wrong and punish section of the
Union and to murder States and re-
spect fori law and government, are 4
thousand fold worse than the most igA
norant AID depraved murderer of
blacks. Lecause of these alleged fe-
rocities, \ 4oking black and bloody
enough VII Ia collated and illustrated as
distorted o1 Blaine or the Inter Ocean,
the North will vote against Southern
Pacific railway. Every possible right
acquired by seeding States will be ta-
ken away and every possible wrong in
ilicted uponi the South by law and
by public lopinion, because a few
hundred violent deeds were done at
half millionl voting places where rep
of fifteen millions of
Mites and blacks. by most vicious
laws, were forced in a single day |
into personal and unnatural contact,
and under circumstances which the
Trainers of these laws OF suffrage knew
10 be most dangerous. NAen the
very facts antiSipased blythe framers
OF these laws arise they grow exceed
ingly wrotb, and the thumbscrew of
despotism is to be applied and the
proposed just policy of the Presi-
dent is to be wholly changed.
Such is the assertion that comes
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