National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-02-11
HON. JOHN n. LYNCH.
a Prominent Coiored Man who Favors Mi.
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The Hon. John II. Lynch, Representative in
the Forty-third aud Forty-fourth Congresses
from the sixth district of Mississippi, arrived
in this city from Natchez, Miss last week.
Mr.. Lynch is q clcar-hcaded far-soeng, rep.
rescntative colored man, aud the record he
made during his four years in Congress is well
worthy OF the emulation of the Bourbon White
Leagucrs, now illegally representing Missis'
sippi.
Calling upon Mr.. Lynch on yesterday THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, requested his opinion
as to the general views of the colored people
Of Mississippi regarding the migration scheme
ne foreshadowed by the resolutions Of Senator
Window.
Mr.. Lynch replied that the migration and
colonization of the colorcd people meets with
the hearty approval of the colored people gem
orally in Mississippi. My information is that
large numbers of them are now leaving the
State, and many more would leave ii they had
the means to dcfray their expenses. In the
county Of Adams, Mississippi, where reside,
there is not much disposition among the col
ored people to leave the Satc, as the practice
OF bull-dOziug has not rs yet been thoroughly
inaugurated in that locality: but in other
counties, such as Wilkinson, Jefferson, Clai-
borne, and Warren, whore mob law is the only
law that Is known, recognized or respected,
there is q general disposition among all the
colorcd and many white people to migrate to
some section where tho rights of citizenship
will lie protected aud respected am opposed
TO emigration from tho United States
to any foreign country, aud | would
be opposed to have the colored people
leave the Southern States If we could be pro-
tectcd In the enjoyment of life, liberty, md
property. But rs these rights are denied to us
and to q large number Of whites in many local
itics IN nearly all of the Southern States, the
scheme to promote migration commends itself
to my appreciation, aud will use whatever in
fluence possess to carry it into practical opcr-
alton The colored people of many Southern
States have been to all intcnts and purposes
reegatcd back to state of scrflom. We are
denied every right guaranteed us by the con-
stitutional amendments The Government has
| failed to enforce the law In our behalf ard has
shameiully denied us that protection in the
free enjoyment Of our inalienablc rights as
citizens that the Constitution and the law
guarantees that American citizens shall receive
and, unless the laws are enforced in the behalf
Of the oppressed colorcd people of the South
our only hope for peace and prosperity is to
take up our abode in some other section of the
| Union and leave the South in the sole posses
sion Of those who so falsely claim, in Congress
and out Of it, that they Gown all the land, pay
all the taxes, and are the possessors of all the
education to DO found in the South, and are
therefore alone entitled to govern"
N. R.-From your experience, do you find
many cOlored people who ut every election are
fairly "yearning" to vote the Democratic
ticket as is claimed to be the case by the
Southern Democrats in Congress?
Mr.. L.-No, sir; but on the other hand they
vote the Republican ticket with as much
unanimity as ever. when the Democrats are
so gracious as to permit them to vote at all.
n. R.-Did the Republicans make any effort
last year in the Congressional election in your
State?
Mr.. L.-They made no organized effort in
any district, as they knew beforehand what
the result would be. In two districts there
were Independent candidates against the
Democratic nominees for whom the colored
men voted in all the counties in their respect.
i've districts in which they voted ut all. In
counties where they failed to vote for the In.
dependents they did not vote, but staid away
from the polls.
N. R.--Mr. Lynch, if General Grant should
be the Republican candidate for the next Pres
idency, and the Republicans of Mississippi
were protected in their right to vote, and the
ballots were fairly counted, would tho State
give Republican majority?
Mr.. L.-Yes, sir; unquestionahly. With an
election in 1880 free from intimidation, mur
der, and the most shameful frauds General
Grant or any other good, stalwart Republican
can carry the State by from 10000 TO 30 00(
majority.
In further conversation Mr. Lynch stated
that it must be apparent to all thinking mer
that the salvation and perpetuity of tho Amer
lean Union demands that every citizen shal
he protected in all his rights as citizen and
that white and black Republicans in Missis
sipp and the South generally must be as secure
in their rights of citizenship as is the whit
| Democrat i'm tho North