Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-09-11
DEMOCRACY'S DUTY.
BULL-DOZING AND BA ALIOT.B STUE
FING HARDLY THE THING.
s'IgrOre the XIVth and XVIII Amend.
ments In TOIO.''
From the Okolona States.

| From the OkOlOna States
What is the duty of the Southern Democra-
cy?
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 precipitate this issue upon the country.
In the meantime, let the negro vote as he
| will, and let his vote be fairly counted But
IF
You are determined he shall NOT vote
IF
You honestly believe and know that his ad-
verse suffrage means death and destruction to
the moral, social and political well-being of
| our Commonwealth, and can not, therefore,
be even temporarily allowed.
If you are thus determined-if you thus be-
| lieve and know, then
Do NOT ride through the night with shot
guns over your saddle-bow;
Do NOT stuff the ballot-box:
But come out like men-like the Southern
men that you are
Boldly,
Bluntly,
AS the old Cavaliers from whom you are
descended would have DONE and IGNORE
THE AMENDMENTS IN TOTO.
Yes.
The amendments were fashioned with
swords out of the black hate of the Puritan
heart, and were pinned to the Constitution by
bayonets in the hands of q usurping soldiery.
They have been declared Revolutionary,
null and void" by our party, and our party
constitutes majority of the white voters of
our State Union.
Ignore them with the superb scorn and
contempt that you would ignore ukase of
the Gar.
How?
Thus:
When the negro steps up to the box, ballot
hin and, tell him to
STAND BACK!
That he is not a qualified voter, and that his
vote can not and will not be counted.
If he persists in putting ballot in the
box, it will become your duty to treat him
precisely as you would treat minor who
would thus dare traverse the laws of the
land.
No difference whether the negro is a
Democratic or Republican, or Greenback-
er, refuse his vote point blank, and give him
to understand that his sphere of usefulness
lies in the cotton-patch instead of the politi-
cal arena. 4, T.
If there is party in the State, county or
town. opposed to the Democratic party, let it
be heard for it's cause; let it's candidates be
treated with all due respect and consideration;
let its white members -AND ITS WHITE
MEMBERS ONLY-enjoy the full exercises
of franchise fair and free.
''But, say the more timid Conservatives
and Democrats, IF we disfranchise the negro
in this manner it will solidify the North"
No, it will not.
The Northern Democrats know full well
that we are their main dependence if they
hope to control the Federal Government.
They have never bad any use for the
Amendments, for those infamous enactments
keep them in the minority in Ohio and
several other Northern States.
"But it will arouse the StalWartS OF the
Nation"
Let it arouse.
The Stalwarts of the ''Nation' Gas you call
the little old humbug up at Washington have
been aroused before on this very question,
and yet in the face and teeth of their Grant
and his Government forces, we captured the
capital of Mississippi in 1875.
How?
By virtually disfranchising the negro race.
In that year of our Lord, in this proud old
the intelligent minority put
down the ignorant majority, and have kept
hem down ever since.
These are facts
This is history.
'But they will send an Investigating Com
nittee here"
Let them send.
A nd if you are summoned to testify, tell
hem that you DID disfranchise the negroes;
That you will do it again;
That you will keep on doing it.
''But they will send an army hither."
Let them send.
Who cares?
Unless our memory cheats us, they had
heir trim and gallant soldiers here in 1875
md 1876, and we carried the State by storm.
Away, then, fellow-citizens of Yazoo, of
Mississippi, of the South-away with bull
lozing and ballot-box stunfig.
Ignore the amendments in the manner we
AVE pointed out.
Or, let the negro vote as he chooses; count
lis vote fairly and bear the horrible conse-
Iuences that will follow, until the amend
nents can be repealed, or until our present
Yankee State Constitution can be changed,
nd our Legislature can pass laws that will
'irtually disfranchise thu negro race
ITO this complexion has it come at last"
The Mrs. Sartoris who died in England
ately was the mother Of Nellie Grants hus-
,and, Mrs. Edward Sartoris, who, before her
marriage, was Miss Adelaide Kemble, and
N 0neratic singer She retired from the