The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-05
YAZOO.

, General Wright for attorney general.
YAZOO.
BuIl-DOzing and BaIlOt-Isox Stufnng-
Our Plan the Only Plan That viii
From the Okolona States Democratic
The race question was recently sprung
in Yazoo county, Miss.
A white man named Henry NJ Dixon
wanted the office of sheriff
He sought it in the Democratic con-
vention and was defeated.
Thereupon he announced himself as
an Independent candidate.
There was no radical in the field, and
therefore he received the unanimous
backing of the blacks.
4 Anything to defeat the Democracy -
is the shibbOleth of Squash, Pomp and
Sambo.
The people of Yazoo had been sub
ljected to the rule of the African race.
They knew just what it meant, and
when they broke their yoke and letters
III 1915 they swore by the Almighty
that the negro should never hold the
upper hand in that county again.
When Dixon began to mass his dusky
hordes, the wealth, the culture, the
worth, the bone and the sinew of the
county rose in the royal strength and
majesty of their Caucasian blood and
commanded him to withdraw from the
contest
He withdrew, and Yazoo county was
saved from a long, bloody, internal
epoch of savagery and crime.
| And good men here and everywhere
on earth will thank the God of Justice
and of mercy that it was SO.
But the stalwarts Of Yankeedom-the
Blind,
Baffi9d,
| Beastly,
Besotted
Stalwarts of Yankeedom, gave the GO
ry shirt fiercer shake, and with eyes
aglare and hearts aflame with hate, they
began to defame us with recruited fury
to damn US with redoubled ferocity.
Right here and now, before we enter
upon the argument, we wish these Stall
warts to distinctly understand that their
birthstone threats and blisterlng Oaths
have no terrors for US.
We defy them to do their worst and
their wickedest, but would caution them
to have a care how they interfere in this
YaZoo coup detGt.
1t is no concern of theirs.
! Nor will they be permitted to make it
their concern. We say to them, and to
all who sympathiZe with them:
| HANDS OFF!
Mississippi is a nation, and no foreign
state shall lay finger on her royal robes
without suffering the consequences.
No outside intcrmeddling will be toll
Grated not for ten minutes
Mind that!
Turning now to the people of Yazoo
county, of Mississippi, of the whole
broad south, we ask:
Where in the name of high Heaven
is this thing to end?
Must we forever submit to negro su-
premacy on the one hand, or wink at
bull-dOzing and ballot-box stuff1ng on
the other?
Is there no alternative by which we
can solve this political problem, with
out subjecting ourselves to the demon
inatiOn of Yankee desperadoes and cot.
ton-patch hands ON the one side, and
without undermining the cornerstones
of law, order and morality on the other ?
We hold that there is.
Let us see:
In the first place, it is settled for all
time and forever that MississippIans
will rule Mlssissippi; that our people
possess the old cavalier pride of blood
and race, and will revolt with hot, grand
hauteur against the subsection of virtue
and intelligence to ignorance and vice
that they will die the death before they
will surrender
1.-THE keys OF power
And the seals OF place.
into the keeping of alien scoundrelS and
African serfs.
This much, if nothing more, is settled,
and all the armies of all the earth can
not change it, for il bears the stamp and
benediction ofthe Most High.
True, the black race has a majority
in many towns, counties and states of
the south.
True, as rule, the first, the last and
the whole of them are radicals at heart,
and will vote the radical ticket whenever
they have half chance.
We all know this, and admit it.
But these facts make no difference
no difference whatever.
They will never be permitted to grasp
the reins of government in any depart
ment-siate, county or municipal.
This fact is decided, eternally, world
without end, and the Yankees must be
taught that il is decided that it is Just
as useless for them to fret and curse
about it any further, as it would be for
an Englishman to fret and curse about
the results of the American revolution
of 1776.
But can we afford to resort to intimi-
dation and irregularities as a regular
thing in order to maintain our ascend
eDcy over the superior numerical
strength of the blacks?
The States says, MOI
1t has forever said, Mol
1t has pleaded and protested with the
people on this point until Its very
Democracy has been questioned by those
who could not or would not see the
awful drift and tendency of their coun-
sells.
We have been criticised as holding too
conservative position on this issue, by
the more emotional and unthinking fol-
lowers of our party flag, and our judg-
; ment IN the premises has hoen set aside,
time and again, by hotspurs who will
not pause to consider that the illegal
means by which they secure the ends of
law, peace, justice and liberty TODAY.
may become instruments in the hands
of our adversary, and bring unwhisper-
able woes upon our people tomorrow
/. We have said before, and we repeat 1t
here, that the present attitude of our par
ty in respect To the freedmen is untena-
BILE and hurtful to the last dangerous de-
gree.
1t is undermining the reverence of
both races for the law, and is sapping the
very foundations of our civilization.
What, then, is the duty of the southern
Democracy:
This:
Let US unite as one man and demand the
immediate and unconditional repeal of
the XIVth and XVIII amendments.
. Let US force the northern wing of our
party to pFeGipitate this Issue upon the
lcountry.
In the meantime, let the negro vote as
he will, and let his vote be fairly count
ed. But
IF
You are determined he shall NOT vote
II IF
You honestly believe and know that his
. adverse suffrage means death and de
! struction to the moral, social and poliIi.
cal WeII-being Of our commemorative
and can not, therefore, be even tempora
rily allowed;
If you are thus determined-if you
thus believe and know, then
Do NOT ride through the night with
5 shot-guns over your saddle-hoWi
: Do NOT stuff the bal1Ot-box:
But come out like men-like the south
ern men that you are
Boldly,
e Bluntly,
AS the old cavaliers from whom yoa arr