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

ICY Oh the SOUTHERN AD010OCr6cy-O1SxO
xensh1p outraged and the Nation
Dened lBy the Rebel BOurbOns-G:en.
eral Sherldan,s Speech at Fostorla,
Ohio.
The following is extracted from a re-
cent speech delivered at Fostoria, Ohio,
by General George A. Sheridan, of
louisiana:
Whenever Republican attempts to discuss
q ~ IN ne IS at
country with avoiding the legitimate issues of
the campaign, and seeking to rouse the pas
sions Of the North by waving the bloody
shirt" So far, as l am concerned, have no
wish to rouse passion in the minds of Northern
men. God knows pray for peace and har-
mony between the lately warning sections ! IS Of
dstasteful as to the veriest 8 Bourbon in the
land. I want to see it buried, and shall hail
with delight the dawn of the day when it is no
beg to call your attention, my Democratic
friends, to the fact that it is not the Republic
can party that is responsible in this campaign
cratic oppression of men for mere political
opinion in the South within the last year, you
would have heard nothing of this garment of
lions, would have formed the basis Of discus
sion but for the red-handed murder that has
stalked abroad in the sun of MONDAY in sec
tons of the South, striking down without
cause or justification citizens of the Republic.
am not here to-day, my fellow:citizens, to ar
raign the whole South for political Persecu-
| country where political freedom exists. am
here, though, to say that in fifteen parishes of
| Louisiana, the whole Of Mississippi, one-third
of Georgia, all of South Carolina, and one-half
of Florida, such thing Us the political liberty
you enjoy here in Ohio is utterly unknown.
Here, il q man chooses, he can be a Democrat,
Independent He can discuss his political views VS.
in every city, town, village, and hamlet in the
State; he can vote the ticket of his choice, and
word, the citizen Of Ohio is really free man
in all respects, exercising and enjoying to the
fullest extent the rights and privileges Of citi-
crat win stand by his political opponent, and,
! if need be, with his strong arm, defend that
opponents right to vote. The Republican is
friend, if his right to vote is denied him. This
condition of affairs does not prevail in the sec
| tons Of the country to which have alluded.
and free ballot except at peril Of life limb
and property. Organized opposition to the
Democratic party is not tolerated. Peaceful
to to or G
lence and murder are unhesitatingly sum-
moned to accomplish what reason and argu-
ment have failed to secure We have recently
| had an illustration of Democratic methods in
Mississippi It appears that in Yaz9o County
concluded to run as an independent candidate
| for Sheriff. The regular Democratic Organiza-
| ton resolved that there should be no indcpend-
ent candidate in Yazoo, and Mr.. Dixon was i'm
duced to withdraw from the canvass. Here
an American citizen is robbed of two of his
| dearest and most sacred rights-the right of
individual opinion, and Of independent action.
let the aS P@g waye
mated and unchallenged," and the best cit;
the "planters," shout themselves hoarse in
Since Mr.. Dixon was compelled to with
| draw from the canvass another chapter
has been written in this shameful history.
placed his wife and little ones in Il place OF
safety, and then returned to Yazoo, announced
that he had RECONSTRUCTED his recent decision,
and would run for Sheriff as an ''Independ-
ent." A few days after this declaration Mr..
Barksdale, one of his political opponents,
hailed him in the streets, and, as he turned,
shotgun into his body, killing him then and
there. And now the glorious old flag of the
Democracy, with an added lustcr and serene
glory, waves "uncontaminatcd and unchal.
| lenged over the glorious old county of Yazoo."
Tell me, my Democratic friends of Seneca
| County, you who from the time you became a
voter, have voted just as you pleased, some
times for your party nominees and sometimes
for the Republican candidate, how do the pro-
| ceedings in YaZoO suit you? Hundreds of
Democrats in this county for years past have
hundreds will vote for him for Governor this
autumn in preference to the Democratic NOM
inee. Has ever Democrat in voting for Fos-
ter had any fear that he placed himself in per-
sonal peril by 80 doing? Do any of you who
expect to vote for him next October have the
rcmotest idea that any man will dare lay his
right Of choice as to who shall be Governor of
Ohio? Docs the Democratic farmer who votes
! for Foster fear that his house or barn will DO
burned s sef Se gea 1r his n
| cratic nominee? Do any of you, my Democrat
ic friends, expected to be wait ed on by a com
YOU vote for Charley Foster you M must 81
leave this county and make for your
self ~ home elsewhere, that they are
determined there shall be no OPPOSE
you vote against your party at the peril Of
your life and property? Not at all. You do
not look in the face Of mortal man with fear.
| own Judgment. Tho Democratic party in Ohio
! recognizes your right to vote for whom you
please: Woe betide the party that dare in Ohio
means as are in daily operation in Mississippi
toned.
What crime did Henry NJ Dixon commit
when he announced himself as an independent
candidate for Sheriff of Yazoo County? He
did not like the Democratic party or the Re-
publican party; the Greenbackers, the Ma
| party OF his own. For simply exercising an
undoubted right he was shot down in cold
blood, in the light of the MONDAY sun; What
behind the bars of a jail, awaiting trial for his
crime? No, he is to-day walking, the streets of
Hazoo under paltry bond for his appearance
at some future time for trial. Is Mr.. Barks-
dale looked upon with horror and pointed out
as IL man whose hands are red with the blood
OF I! fellow-being? Do the people of Yazoo
crime under the ban of God? Not at ALL Mr..
Isarksdale is hero worthy of honor a model
for the young to follow, q chivalrous gentle
considerations. TO plain, simple, law-abiding
| Got-fearing, libcrty-loving men and women in
the North Mr., Mr. Barksdale appears simply a
what subtlety of logic, what Interpretation Of
| divine Or human law makes him anything
else to the a. people among whom he
tine of
| OF the great command that ages ago thundered
! from amid the smoke and flame of Sinai,
"Thou shalt not KILL How many Democratic
condemned the killing of Dixon? Very few
| indeed. The people of Yazoo justify Dixon's
murder by SAYING he himself had, in times
cratic party True he was guilty of this great
crime Equally true is it, that the very peo-
| pie who now glory in his death crowned him
with honor for doing in 1875 just what they al
!ege as q justification for his death in 1870 If
in 1875 the law of Mississippi had been enforced
as 1t ought t to haye been MI Dixon would not
| in 1879. He would have been tried, condemned,
and hung for the crimes of which he was
guilty. When Henry M: Dixon shot down Re-
publicans he was committing crime and ought
to have suffered the penalty due it. That he
was guilty of murder in 1875 is no excuse for
his death at the hands of a political opponent
in 1879. He was wrong in 1876, and Mr.. Banks
dale is wrong in 1879, and ought to suffer for
his crime; but mark my words, my fellow-citi-
zens, no hair of his head will be touched for
this great crime. =.
Sometimes hear my Democratic friends
tel me that public sentiment in the South does
not Justify murder and violence in politics.
actions, why does it not punish the
sentiment that IS powerless to hold in
check the lawless elements of the COM
munity is of no value. If public senti-
ment did not justify murder in politics in Mis-
sissippi murder would soon vanish as an ele-
ment in politics. Public sentiment, when
thoroughly aroused, is resistless; it sweeps
through a community or a Nation with the
force and power of the storm; before its CON
Stunning fire the wrong withers and it's authors
perish: When 1t is understood in the sections
Of the South of which I have spoken that MUIR
der means death, that the gibbet is the sure
doom of him who Stays his fellow-man; when
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