New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-15

honest convictions and his, as he believed,
best interests. Let us look at some of the
States in the South 9 where # is claimed the
Alabama cast 76, 600 Republican votes in
1858, $1,000 in 1872, 68,0W in 1876 and $3.50 in
1879. Absolute protection to the negro in
1868 and 1872; peace and quiet at the polls;
result, a full vote upon his part, and all the
votes cast Republican. Partial protection to
the negro in 1876, and a fair VOTE 1S7S-Dem-
the black man; result, but $3.50 Republican
votes cast. Less than 1900 of the 80 1000 votes
to which the Republicans were entitled found
their way to the ballOt-bOx. Do you believe
this was an honest electiOn?
MISSISSIPPI.
Eighty-two thousand Republican votes cast
in 1872; that year protection to the negro. In
riot and tumult before and during the cleo
tiOns. In 1873, the Democracy in full control
of the State, shotguns in the ascendant, free
speech crushed out, political opponents MUIR
dered or driven from the State; result, z, 058
Republican votes cast; 1000 Republican votes
cast in the quiet autumn days of 1872; 900
Republican votes cast in 1878 (only $4,000 less
than six years befOre). In the first case law
and order ruled; in the second law had its
fall and order vanished before the fierce sweep
of men who hated the one and abhorred the
other.
LOUISIANA.
l872-T2,0OO Republican votes cast. Peace
and order, men voting without fear. 1876
1000 Republican votes cast. Peace and pro-
187S-28O 600 Republican votes cast. Demo-
Gratis in full control of the State; " BULLDOG
ing" the pastime of the party; murder for pO-
litical reasons 50 common as to scarce excite
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Sixty-twO thousand Republican votes cast in
1868, 72O0O in 1872, 81 900 in 1885, and 49, 600 in
1873 Protection to all men in 1868, 1872 and
1876. Reign of the Rifle Club and lawless-
ness in 1873.
Look now for moment at some of the South
ern States, where, since reconstruction, there
has been, as rule, peaceful elections; where,
as in the North, speakers of all political par
ties traversed the State freely and expressed
their views from the public platform; where
opinion tolerated. We shall find that not only
has the negro voted, but that he has without
exception voted for the candidates of the
Republican party.
North Carolina, with but 10000 colored
voters, polled in 1875 10000 Republican bal
lots. Kentucky, with 44,0O0 colored voters,
gave us in the same year 900 Republican
gave Hayes l45, 600 votes. West Virginia, hay.
ing only 1900 colorcd voters in 1876, cast AZ 600
Republican votes. Tennessee, with her "a GOO
%aau I0t With 4 bSes SSteps poed
72,00O Republican ballots in 1876. Arkansas,
having but $1,000 negroes entitled to vote in
see 1900, Missouri $4,000, West Virginia TO- oOO,
Maryland 5000, and Virginia 1000 more Rep%b;
lican votes in the Presidential election of 1916
than they did in 1872.
What do these facts prove? They prove,
first, what | have already alleged, that the
negro, left to himself, or subjected to only the
usual methods Of politics. Votes ALMOST to
another thing, as certainly as they prove the
black man votes the Republican ticket, viz.
wherever there is peace and order in the
of free speech and free ballot, Republcanisn
increases with strong, vigorous, healthfu
growth. True, the Republican party did not
carry any Of the States 1 have mentioned in
the main fair chance. We did our best. We
failed to bring the people to our way of think
ing: We could not convince them that it was
the control Of the Government In the exer
else of their unquestiOned right they went
peaccably to the ballot-box and voted against
u.s. At the same time they did not prevent
we can or do ask: These States wor
their victory legitmately, and were entitled
to it. Have not established these facts: First
That the negroes are to man Republican ir
politics, and that wherever peace and order
reign in the South they vote that ticket. Sec
Ond-That it is only in those States and parts
of States where violence rules that the black
can party. Third-That in States where there
is a fair chance for argument and fair play Al
the ballot-box, the Republican party increases
steadily in strength and power.
!, The negro is not, as you and understand
dhe but there is thing
and cOmprehends thoroughly-that is the att
tude of the Democratic party toward him. He
knows that this party never willingly con
coded him single right: knows just as vel
as you and I do that Democracy plunged this
Nation into the horrors Of civil war that they
might found an Empire whose chief corner
stone should be his bondage. whose glory
should be his shame, whose pride should be
his humiliation, whose prosperity should
spring from his adversely.
From the throb of the first gun ut Fort Sum.
Confederacy numbered its sullen protest
against human liberty at Appomattox, the
black man watched the contest with anxious
d %od the North out
banners the liberty through which for genera
tions his people had cried to God, never doubt
ing if the South triumphcd he must yet fol
Of his oppressors. When at last the North
burst from the clouds of war with victory
blazing on it's banners, the negro, with faith
like that OF the child in the mother upon whose
bosom it's baby head is pillowed, looked to the
Republican party to see to it that the liberty
that had come to him on the wings of battle
was not wrested from him. My felow-citizens
better than you and l do: He has felt the
awful clutch for two hundred years upon his
throat, Ask him what the Democratic party
was to him before the war, and he will answer
toll from daylight to darkness; whips and
manacles; wives sold from their husbands
husbands from their wives; children torn from
the breasts of their mothers; helpless maidens
debauched to minister to the lust of their task
masters; education denied; Christ quoted tC
prove bondage righteous; holy temples desc
Grated to forge chains upon his soul, days
without sunlight, nights without stars, years
without hope, graves without headstones, woe
sorrow and desolation.' Ask him what he
has found Democracy to mean for him
and he answers, Persistent opposition to his
freedom, unwearied effort to defeat his en-.
franchisemcnt, education still denied him
courts organized to cheat him Of JUSTICE juries
packed to convict him OF OffenseS, bands OF
masked men riding over the country at night
to terrify him on the eve of elections, brutal
rufians lying in wait to drive him from the
polls as he sought to deposit his ballot, school
stroyed, beatings, whippings, Outrages. Hunt
ed down like a criminal, shot like dog
Christian burial denied, his bones left to
whiten in the sunlight. Insecurity as to prop
erty, uncertainty as to life, deaths awful
shadow always across his Threshold
No, my fellow-citizens, the black man does
mot vote o the ce party into place
one further Illustration of the effect of murder
and intimidation in the South, and I will Their
pass to other and perhaps more interesting
or rather misrepresents, a District in Congress
from the State of Mississippi. The district he
comes from has a little over e, 600 vOters-2O.
600 cOlorcd and q little over 5000 white voters
Mr. Chalmers was elected by a little over G. 0(
votes and by little more than COCO majority
A district entitled to cast $4,000 votes casts
only 5000, and all Of these for one man Dc
you believe there was fair election in that
district, my Democratic friends? What be
came OF the n, 600 votes not cast at that cleo
ton? Why were they not polled? Simply
because 1875 to 1876 had taught the negroes OF
General Chalmers district that death stood
waiting at the ballot-box to blast with his lev
Republican ballot. A Republican vote in the
hands of q black man in the election of 1878 in
Mississippi was simply death-warrant, en-,
titling the lOrlly 'bull-dozer' OF that State to
shoot its holder on sight. ~
Now, my fellow citizens, you may say that
0ll am talking about does not concern you
1t is occurring in remote States. You are mis-
taken: 1t does concern you. This Govern
ment is to-day in the hands of the SOuth-ab
solutely controlled by that section. Think OF
it! The men who fifteen years ago with bowed
heads and folded banners surrendered ia
Grant under the trees of Appomattox are to.
day interpreting the Constitution to the loyal
armies to whose resistless valor their legiOns
bowed their battle plumes in homage I do
not object to Confederate Brigadiers'' hold:
ing seats in the House and Senate of the United
States, provided only and always they hold
their seats by virtue of fair, impartial cleo
tons. But do object to any man holding q