The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-20

influence many of the colored voters to cast their
ballots for me and against you; and in illustration
will show that some of your friends urged that you
had been better democrat than l. and referred to
the fact # acceptance OF the position OF District
prove IT, Surely upon the hypothesis with which
you attempt TO present your case this argument dd
not tend to influence this class of people to vote for
You and against me.
will show that you not the nominee OF the
republicans and that your speeches against the
negro race had been more violent and abusive than
any democrat in that district and will also show that
their attention called to the fact that you had
before a Congressional committee under the solemn
sanction of oath thus spoken OF the colored race-
Think the negro is by nature dishonest; think the
negro by nature destitute of all ideas OF virtue and think
however violent especially If e was encouraged by bad
white men. This is my opinion Of the negro.
And win further show that when these facts
disclosed to the colored voters of the district it did
not require any intimidation bulldozing to keep
large numbers of them from voting for you, who had
publicly and in your testimony denounced
them dishonest and cheating ungratefu and super
stttious, capable of any crime however violent and
incapable of virtue; that it impossible to in
duce them to vote voluntarily for who had never
tnem put nau ever recogmzed tne rights anu
privileges conferred upon them by law Indeed after
all you had said and done, had the colored vote been
given solid for you 1t would have proved all you had
charged against their intelligence and independence
THE WHITE VOTE.
will show that while the colored voters thus
influenced in large numbers to vote against you,
considerations equally urgent united and concen-
trated the white voters in my support. had not
only received the nomination of the democratic PARTY
for which you had been two years before unsuc-
cessu candidate. and which you were understood by
the people to be anxious TO receive this year. but
was deemed important Tor other than party reasons
las shall prove that you should not he elected to
represent the people of that district in Congress.
| They saw that notwithstanding you were oonox-
ious to q large class Of intelligent and indie
| pendent eolored men. and Notwithstanding
| your protest against being considered an
ally Of the republican party, You were actively sup
ported by class of republicans regarded rs enemies
to the peace and prosperity of the people of Missis
| sippi; men who had been characterized in your
| sworn testimony as 'mcan. low, dirty white men,
| who capable of selling themselves and their
| honor for the sake of having the opportunity to
| you had under oath thus denounced some Of them
by name, active in their efforts to throw to you the
solid vote Of the negroes OF that district They were
convinced that your election would serve feeder
to the hopes OF these men. that Mississippi might
again be given to their rapacity and plumber.
This conviction has been confirmed by your course
since the election in reproducing the oft-refuted
charges of fraud and violence which the men whom
| you have heretofore denounced when defeated
wont to bring against the Southern people-charges
which have been recently caught from your lips or
| pen by Southern revers to feed the morbid appe-
| tite of those who flourish upon keeping alive Sec
| tional luminosity and hatred against your people.
will show that these charges unfounded, and
that you canvassed the district fully and spoke in
| every county at various places-pcrhaps more than
| any man who before candidate for Con-
| gress in Mississippi-where you ventilated your
views with your accustomed freedom and vigor Your
speeches received quietly by the people, except
in two or three instances when you interrupted
few moments by manifestations of disapprobation,
which were neither threatening calculated to in
| timidate either the speaker of his supporters.
l will further show that of all the public men in
Mississippi you have the least right to complain of
| violence intimidation.
And in conclusion, hereby notify you that before
this contest is ended shall rcute the charges which
the false Information" of designing men, whose
political existence depends slandering the South,
| has msled and betrayed you into making against
| people to whom you and should be bound by ties
of gratitude for the many exalted stations and high
! honors they have 80 generously bestowed upon us
III. J.. MULDROW.