The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-30

respected. This is precisely what is wanted
in the South to-day; and if the colored vo-
tiers would only show a little of the sam
pluck, their claim for the rights of freemer
would be very considerably strengthened
The south is their country, after all, and the,
should fight for it. This would be mucf
better than desertion and surrender to tn,
barbarians who are now in control. Tn,
colored man will never be practically fire,
until he shows some determination to de
fend his freedom. X x X He must prov,
and the moment he does this his enemie:
will soon respect him. Send him Sharp.
rifles"
Secretary of State Evarts, formerly con-
sidered a moderate Republican, made q
speech one day last week as follows:
Chisolm said his last breath. Il die fol
my country, and because | would be a free
man and a Republican," Applause. Now,
gentlemen, in time of war we are willing
to die for our country, that we may be free
men and Republicans. The horrors of war,
and violence against the law we can endure,
but the horrors Of peace and violence, with
the methods Of the law, we cannot and will
not endure. Prolonged applause. Now,
the North, just and patient, waited long to
see whether any movement would be made
to punish that crime, and by the example
OF that punishment to give security to other
people down there that wanted to be free
men and Republicans. Two years passed
without a trial. The trial is had-this law
abiding people always awaits the result
and the result was that with a just Judge
and a faithful prosecuting officer and a jury,
the criminals were acquitted as having done
nothing that that community should wish
punished. And, strange to say, it is made
a subject of some credit as they think, to
the community, that the jury was not pack
ed. Why, gentlemen, if the jury had been
packed, they might have said THAT does
not represent the sentiments of the vicinage,
the people of the country, or the people Of
the State" But it was not packed 1t was
a fair representation of the character and
opinion and wishes and purposes of that
community.
And how many men, do you think, down
there can have a free suffrage? Not when
individual violence attacks them, but when
that individual violence is not resisted, is
not resented, is not punished by the laws,
Mark how this wicked terrorism, that be-
gins by prescribing the opposite party,
makes its progress to discouraging pursu-
ing and Furnishing dissent and independence
in the party itself. In Yazoo county, a cit
izen that was crowded with honor for his
persecution of Republicans, that had re-
ceived a silver pitcher from his grateful
fellow-citizens for what he had done for
them in that direction, becomes an d
pendent Democrat, and is slain, because
discords cannot be allowed in that party.
And thus, step by step, whenever the law
does not prevail; whenever reason and con-
science and equality have their voice stif1ed,
there is nothing left for that community but
its progressive state of terror, horror, sycO-
phancy, abject Submission, till at length
society, the very bonds of whose cohesion
arc threatened and humanity, that is tram
pied on, find no recourse but in violent
resistance of a reign with horror and with
blood communities that have been SO un-
wise as to foster violence and roll it as a
sweet morsed under their tongue. APP
plause.
Now, in South Carolina. Mr.. Price is
killed, trying to get out Of a Republican
meeting. The assassin is to be tried. 1t is
to be hoped he will be convicted, and it is
said there is some assurance that it may be,
if the Northern people don't express their
sentiments too loudly on that subject.
The suffrage is a live institution. It is a
free and intelligent power in the country;
it is the greatest educator of the people; it
is the greatest conciliator of the people to
obedience to laws that the ingenuity OF man
or the assertion of their rights has ever
contrived. What becomes Of that in these
Southern communities? Are they being
conducted tn freedom? Are they being
conciliated to the laws by that method of
sufragca By no means. 1t is a substitu-
ton Of violence and Of terror, and the suf-
frage decays; a dearth of free schools, a
desuctude of free speech, and the decay of
free speech, and the decay of the free sui
frage go hand in hand, and if those people
will save their w suffrage from being
s%ubjugatcd by this dead mass of violent
and d~espotic suffrage, they must bestlr
themselves to see that free schools, free
speech, free suffrage shall pervade every
corner of this land. Applause!
The above are only specimens ana not
the worst by any means.