The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-12-26
From the n. Y. Tribune.l
The Facts Warrant the Indictment.

men say, was wholly founded upon mere
presumption which he had no right to
make. Without any proof, they say, he
presumes that there. must have been
fraud because every negro did not vote
the Republican. ballot, and ignores the
conv version of great bodies of laborers to
| the side of their employers by "the nat
''ural influence Of education and proper
"ty." There is no presumption i'll the
case. The miraculous conversion" has
been dragged out into daylight, with the
"tool chests" and the "onion-skin" bal
lots which produced it. The Tribune
does not build upon presumption, as Mr..
| Tilden has Learned. = Its. correspondent,
Mr. White, has become known in every
part of the land as most conscien tious,
candid and careful investigator, and his
report of personal inquiries and observa-
tions in Louisiana a few years ago was
treated by the whole Democratic press as
conclusive proof. He has personally as
certained the facts in the counties of
South Carolina where the conversion"
was most complete; has talked with COM
petent witnesses of both races and both
parties, and has reported what he has
seen and knoaOS to be true. 1t is the truth
that active Republican leaders were i'm
prisoned, driven from the country, or
killed that armed troops Of law-break-
ers in red shirts took possession of nearly
all Republican meetings; and that the
colored phalanx still remained substan-
TALLY unbroken. In spite of terrorism
and disorganization, those who did vote
cast Republican ballots. Then the great,
proud white race" asserted its superior
ity by resorting to the meanest and most
Infamous frauds. Voting places were
| abolished so that thousands of colored
| men were dis franchised tissue-paper bal
| lots were substituted for Republican votes
actually cast, and that by the thousand,
all over the State, under direction from a
central authority. Mr.. White hears the
| Democratic admission, 1--WE had to do it,
"or the Radicals would have beaten Us"
He finds that the negroes, almost to q
man, did vote Republican ballots. Nor
is his testimony alone. Mr.. Campbell, a
| Democrat of wide reputation and high
character, and leader of the bar of
South Carolina, has publicly offered to
give abundant proof to any Democratic
editor who will ask it, and not one has
dared to ask.
To absolute proof, the Democrats have
not dared to oppose direct denial 1t
is not presumption, but established and
demonstrate fact, that the miraculous
Conversion" in South Carolina was in
swindle Nor is it mere presumption
that fraud or violence has been at the
bottom of the conversion" of large mass
es of colored voters in every other case.
For in every case armed organizations of
Democrats have opened the missionary
work with massacre. In every case,
leading Republicans have have driven
into Jail, into their graves, or out of the
converted" region. In every case, where
terror and disorganization did not dis
franchise the Republicans, fraud has fin
ished the work. That is the record, foul
with shame and black with crime, which
will be handed down by history.
Pentecosts never occur in politics. The
Democrats have oVerdone the missionary
work. for it was not necessary to convert
everybody. "The natural influence of
property and intelligence they say,
causes the miraculous change. Does it,
indeed At first, everybody knows, it
did not. The land was filled with cries
of rage because the colored men voted,
at every election for years, SO compactly
for the party and with the men who had
given them the ballot. Who has forgot
ten the walls Of Democrats, because "the
property and education of the South
"had absolutely no influence over the
solid mass of laborers;" because their
former slaves had been given power over
them, which it was brutal, cruel and
vindictive thing to do; and because
those slaves were SO sure to remember
the lash, and the years of unpaid toll.
and the separation from wife and child,
and sure, as long as memory lived, to
vote in solid body against their former
masters. Have we not heard the solemn
warning that it was dangerous for prop
erty to be so powerless? Have we have
not heard, after every election for many
years, the howls of rage because all the
intelligence and property could make no
impression upon that solid, unbroken
and impregnable phalanx? Is it easier
now than it was for ten years for proper
ty to work miracles?
In no age of the world in no land, un-
der no circumstances, however favorable,
has such miraculous conversion of great
masses of men ever yet been seen. Has
Russia ever converted the Poles? Has
Britain ever converted the Irish Alsace,
divided in race and sympathy thousand
years ago. with the Teutonic element
predominating, still chooses German
rule, though As 900 Gallo families sor-
rowfully left their old homes in 1872,
preferring migration to submission. Race
asserts itself, after ten centuries, between
white and white; is it silenced in ten
years between white and black? Con
quest leaves scars for fifteen generations
in Scotland. Do slavery and the lash
leave no marks after fifteen years in Car
olina2 The same great gulf of caste still
divides the two races; color still lntensi-
fes the antagonism the negro is still
made to feel every hour that he is des
pissed as an inferior being by the white
Democrat He is ignorant, passionate,
has been a slave, and the keenest feeling
he ever knew was the sense that at last
he had the upper hand, and could tax,
vote down and punish for any wrong the
men whose despotism once was absolute.
Can such people be converted" all at
once, to the willing aid of former masters,
as no race of higher intelligence and
weaker prejudices ever yet was converted
since time began? The party and the
flag which gave them freedom and q
ballot still treats them as men to be pro
tected and educated. The party which
gave them the lash and the bloodhound
still treats them as creatures to be ruled
by force and terror. Yet we are told
they have forgotten slavery, forgotten
emancipation, forgotten the triumph Of
political superiority, and extinguish-
ed natural antagonism of race, infanled
every day by social and caste distinctions,
and have voluntarily bowed their necks
again to the heel of the superior race! 1t
is an absolute impossibility. He who
pretends to believe it puts the label
''liar'' on his own forehead
When Tweed needed respectable apol-
ogists, to put on an Independent and ju-
dicial air, he found them. 1t is natural
that some of the same men think Mr..
Blaine sectional agitator," because he
holds that 10000 Southern ought not to