Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-22

The Revival OF BuII-DOzIng.
The Cincinnati Commercial has been look
ing over the letters which il published from
its col respondent, Mr.. II. V. Redfeld, dur
ing the campaign in Mississippi IN 1875, with
a view to tracing the record of the recently
bull-dozed Dixon of Yazoo county. That was
the year when Mississippi was redeemed"
in the language of the Democratic press of
the period from Radical dle, and very
large Republican majority reversed in favor
of the Democracy. The organization of mil
italJ clubs and the frequent use of the shot
gun were the chief agents employed in this
redemption" The counties were regular
ly patro'ed, Republican meetings were brok-
en- up and Republican leaders were shot and
hung without mercy. In Mr. Redfeld's sec
ond letter, dated October %, from jackson,
he stated that Sin the past sixty days not less
than one hundred men have been ki''ed"-a"
the murders being of a political character,
and not single Democrat in the long list of
victims In this letter Mr.. Redfeld states
that on one occasion, when Sheriff Morgan
was addressing the Republican Club of Yazoo
city, he was denounced by an armed ruffian
as a liAr, and Immediately some fifty shots
were fred from the crowd. Mitchell, lead
ing white Repub can, was shot dead, and sew
eral negroes were wounded. Morgan escaped
through window aud fed to jackson. A
day later Mr.. Redfeld writes that "in Yazoo
county alone since the opening of the CAM
paign there have been eight cold-blooded
murders" and then he proceeds to give the
particulars of another which had taken place
that morning. One Charles Fawn, Repub-
can, who had taken Morgan's place as sher-
if, had been shot dead by one Russell, and
in the crowd gathered on the occasion Mr..
RED field mentions H. NJ. Dixon, who took
such prominent paiS in the shooting at the
time Mitchell was killed and Morgan run of.
These scenes were repeated oil over the State,
and the Republican vote was suppressed
Then, few months after the elect on, Mr..
Dixons fellow-citizens, seeking 70 comment
crate his eminent services with the revolver
and shotgun, presented him with n massive
silver pitcher suitably inscribed And it is
this Dixon, Confederate solo er during the
war and distinguished bull.dozer in 1873,
upon whom, four years later, his former po-
litical associates turned his own weapons,
and compelled him by violence to withdraw
from the independent candidacy for Sheriff,
which he had rashly assumed The old ad-
age concei ling curses and chickens that come
home to roost finds a striking fulf''ment in
the case of this Blu -dozed bull.dozer. Some
journals, we observe, see in this incident
cheering C'cation that the race line is being
obliterated. 1t is at least something, they
argue with refreshing smp city, that it is a
white man, Democrat and an ex-bu"- dozer,
and not negro or Republican, who is the
subject of this outrage. The logic is false.
The incident really d'scloses the extreme bit
tie. less of the Southern Democracy, which is
ready to turn even against its own members
if they do anything to impair its solidarity.
1t is or y nAtr al that the YazOo plan should
spread rapidly in Mississippi, and the polti-
cal campaign there promises to be greatly
simplified by the device of inning off a the
opposition cane dates. In Holmes county,
the Corinth Herald joys the memoiy of its
readers by remarking:
IF the Democracy of Holmes should be
oyerthrown by radicalism under its new name
they will have none but themselves to blame :;
for they have the timely and manly example
of the gallant Democracy of Yazoo before
them"
The Democratic organ in RAM n county
recently published the 70 owing:
THE Democracy of Raj hin has made up
its mind to elect ever man ON its ticket, and
it is going to do it in spite of the Radicals,
Independents, Greenbackers, Federal army
United States marshals, u S. Grant. Ruther-
erford Hayes and the Devil. 1t has its war
paint on now, and we advise a. sore headed
individuals get out of the way. The De-
mocracy now have control of the ballot-box
in this State, and they are determined to have
fair election and an honest count"
The reference to war paint, and the signifi-
canoe of "a fair election and an honest
count, are explained by the following item
of int gence, which shows that the Rarkin
Democracy are quick to take hint:
'Iu Rankin county committee of six were
appointed bya mass-meeting of Democrats at
Stems Creek, waited on Major b. +. Sutton
and ordered him TO withf aw from the can
vass and leave the county. He and his fam
lily went to the sheriff at Brandon for protec-
ton. Major Sutton is an old and highly re-
spected citizen of the county indeed no
man stands higher as a man of intelligence,
merit and Christian worth. By Democratic
authority, for no alleged offence except his
candidacy, he was ordered to withdraw and
leave the county. The Governor of the State
has been apprised of the proceeding, but has
not intimated that he contemplates doing any
thing"
There could be, perhaps, no better COM
mentaIy upon the methods and inevitable re-
suits of the new revolution now inaugurated
in Mississippi than these words from the pen
of ex-GOv. Brown of Mississippi himself
Democrat-pubrshed in the Vicksburg Her
aid, the only Democratic paper in the State
which has had the courage to oppose the re-
vived bu'Ldozing;
"Have madcaps and donothings stopped to
inquire what is to be the result of all this? If
one party may Give another from the field
in Yazoo by force of arms, may not the same
palsy with equal justice, be d'iven from the
tieldin some other county? and thus elections
become matters of physical force and ballots be
dispensed with. Sustain the Yazoo movement
emphatically, or what is worse silently, be-
cause that lacks the element of courage which
always inspires degree of respect even in
bad cause, and you insure a Republican tri-
umph in the pending gubernatorial contest in
Ohio, and almost cent tain triumph for that
party in the Presidential contest in 1880. Is
the defeat of an independent candidate for
sheriff in Yazoo worth more to us than the
election of Ewing as Governor of Ohio? Is
it worth more than the election of a Demo-
cratic President in 1880? Is it not better to
a''ow Dixon to be sheriff of Yazoo than to
swell the boom for Grant as the Radical
candidate for President next year? And yet
calmly considered, that is the issue which
our indiscreet friends in Yazoo seem wiling
| to force upon us.
Can it be that any considerable portion of
the people of this country are willing to sub
stitute force and violence for the peaceful
methods of our fathers in the choice of Off
GERS hope not. / think not. But if /
am mistaken, let me say TO az such, correct