The Portland daily press., 1879-08-27
The Southern Plan.

time it is Mississippi which presents
fitting supplement to the Chisolm tragedy.
Another victim of rebel intolerance has
gone to his grave, the object of a cool, delib-
crate murder.
1t should be borne in mind that this man
was no prescribed Northerner, no hated and
despised negro, but a Democrat, thoroughly
Southern in sentiment and antecedents,
whose credentials were of the most approved
Confederate type. A former officer in the
rebel army, he had also few years since
gained new and emphatic claim to the rec
ognition of his fellow townsmen through eff
fective service performed, with other kin
dred spirits, in ridding his State from Re-
publican rule, to what purpose is well
known.
Henry NJ. Dixon, shot in cold blood in one
of the public streets of Yazoo City, Missis-
sippi, on Tuesday, August 10, 1879, had
committed what, in the eyes of his Demo-
cratic compeers, was an objectionable error.
In opposition to the regular nominee of his
party, he had announced himself an indie
pendent candidate for the Office of sheriff of
the county. How this act could possibly
have been construed by his neighbors as
crime 50 grave, will appear incomprehensi-
BILE from Northern point of view, but facts
in the ease render the inference natural that
it was feared his candidacy might work ad
versely to Democratic interests by alternating
a portion of the negro vote, then subjected to
complete control. In any event, it is very
evident that the Democracy of Yazoo enter
tanned no scruples concerning the enforce
ment Of the policy by which they were en-
gagged in ''making things solid," and were
determined to maintain it at any hazard.
With what success the Democrats carried
has rung through the land of how the Yazoo
mob, composed of ''the armed respectable
ity'' of the county, arraigned the offender
before its lawless tribunal, and upon threat
of instant death forced him to publicly with
draw his claims. By that act, perpetrated in
open defiance of all legal restraint, the right
of political liberty expressly decreed by the
law to be the natural privilege Of every citi-
zen was trampled under foot, while the out
rage was fifty consummated by the unerring
bullet, which, shortly after, sped its way to
the heart of Captain Dixon, aimed by the
hand of party assassin.
This latest instance of successful BULLDOG
ing by the Southern Democracy points its
own effective moral. While it causes the
pulse II the stalwart North to leap with
righteous indgna ion that the sentiment of
a community claiming to be American, can
calmly sanction and endorse such a foul
wrong, it has apparently failed almost utter
ly to arouse even qualified condemnation at
the South. The country has aW aited eX-
pectant the prompt denunciation of this
abominable murder from Mississippi's rep
resentatives before the people, but it has
been in vain. That State is represented in
Congress by two Senators and six members
of the House. 1t behooves Messrs.
Lamar, Bruce, Muldrow, Manning,
Money, Singleton, Hooker. and Chalmers, to
place themselves square before the country
upon this question. Let us know what they
think, what is their opinion.
We fear, however, that the nation is not
destined to receive much satisfaction from
that quarter In Difference to their constit-
uents, it is most likely they will remain
either non-committal or discreetly silent.
They are, with the exception of Senator
Bruce, thoroughly imbued with kindred
sentiment, and can therefore be readily
counted upon to be tacitlyof the same mind
Our people know, and promptly recognize
the true spirit of the South. For though
the Yazoo murder is crime which in its
nature might be deemed more worthy of
gang of Mexican ''greasers" than of civilized
Americans, it is far from being rare as a
specimen of Confederate handiwork. The
tale of Southern outrage is long and bloody.
1t forms a crimson stain upon the vaunted
scutcheon of Southern honor, extending
from the era of the rebellion to the present
time. The South, unchanged in sentiment,
to-day nurtures a deep and abiding hate
against that Government, which, after four
years of desperate war, the expenditure of
vast sums of treasure, and the costly blood
of hundreds of thousands of its citizens,
poured out as water, finally reduced Southern
arrogance to unconditional submission, and
brought armed treason to its knees upon the
field of AppomattoN.
Since the war the country has had ample
reason to become familiar with the real tenn
per and spirit of the Southern Democracy,
while it, upon its side, has not failed to sup
ply us constantly with some new instance OF
its virulence. 1t is as plain as day that the
South hopes and is desperately striving to
gain through diplomacy and legislation in
the halls of Congress, that undisputed access
to power, and almost absolute control of the
national finances, which, in 1861, it threw
over when it appealed vainly to the arbitra-
ment of the sword. For the accomplish
ment of its ends it has exalted as its present
representatives before the nation, the men
who led the rebel armies, who ran the prison
pens at Andersonville and Belle Isle, who
drew the ''dead line'' at Millen, who engin-
eered the frightful massacre at Fort Pillow,
and who have since organized and executed
the sanguinary butcheries of Colfax, Ham
burg and New Orleans. 1t is these men who
are at the front to-day, and who, forming
with the aid of Northern doughfaces, ma
jority in the present Congress, are doing
their best to reverse the great verdict OF the
war. An urgent responsibility rests upon
the men of the loyal North, who won over
whelming victory in that historic strife, to
strengthen and uphold the hands of the Re-
publican party, under whose auspices that
colossal victory was achieved. What say the
voters of Maine?
Worse and Worse.
New phases of the so-called Democratic
and Greenback fusion in this County, make
the swindle more and more noteworthy. 1t