Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-18

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passes from one plantation lord"
to another before the negro could
obtain employment; they rented
their land to him, charging him as
much per acre, annually, in most
instances, as the land was worth
in some places, be he never so hon
est, industrious and willing, he
could not purchase land at any
price; in others, if he did not
obtain it, the contract was SO made
that forfeiture was inevitable.
After lapse of ten years, Presi
dent Hayes again tried the broth
erhood" policy, but time, which
softens, all things, had no effect on
the Southern leaders. The Home
Rule party, as some preferred to
call themselves, came into power in
every Southern State. The result
was what might have been expected.
The oppression of the poor, de-
spised sons of Ham was redoubled.
His rent was not reduced while re-
duction of everything in other parts
of the country was the rule, and he
was charged double price for his
necessary supplies. When his crop
was gathered he found that, by
some means or other, his employer
had possession of all of it, and he
was deeper in debt than ever.
When he could stand this no longer
and would 60 to a free S ate, he
was met by armed mobs, or the
steamboats,, whose owners were
cowed by the black muzzles of the
planters favorite weapon, refused to
take him and his family on board.
The Constitution, which is popu-
larly supposed to be the corner
stone upon which our whole fabric
of laws rests, says that he shall be
allowed to vote and shall be pro
tected in his rights of citizenship
Democratic resolves, however, are
mightier in the South than the Con
stitution, and he was driven from
the polls either that, or by the
same means so efficacious, he was
compelled to vote the Democrat,
ticket; or, his vote was rendered
HorVbless by stuffed ballot-boxes
by tissue paper and onion-skin bal
lots. So much for the negro who's
liberty was one Of the main cause
of the war.
He is now out Of the way, bu
another element presented II
self-a large crop Of Independ
ents sprang up-are now springin
up. The Democratic party mus
be preserved, ard the wedges tina
would split it in twain must b
removed at all hazards. Shol
shrift must be made of them. {
. it's breyity and the chivalror
=, methods which were employed
y bring about this consummatio
- Mrs. Dixon and her seve
8 fatherless children will be able
speak at length. Mrs. Chisolm, to
;, can tell something, about it, tt
- plan being the same but the caus
different in her murdered husband
case. 49,
The Democratic party came in
y power in both houses of Congress
= Of course they must signali
:, their return to their ''birt
- right of power by som
:; :" thing grandly foolish, and they q
it. Ohio has just passed judgme
on the amount of their foolishneE
= and the Nation will next yea
- This grand climax of folly,
" which we speak, was the revival
~ the old heresy of States Rright
Their press was filled with it; t
d halls of Congress resounded with
es as exemplifed by Blackburn and
be compeers; the cross~road was ma
is eloquent by it; the bar-room mingl
or its praise with the clinking of its viii
ky glasses, deep curses and riba
Is songs. The whole South sent up
~ p@an of joy toward the Moloch tn
cs does duty as their political divinit
at In the very face Of all these fac
lie they have the unparalleled imp
:. dence to pirate about the "Bloo'
70 Shirt" They invoke from The
OF tombs the two causes that lead
ce that dreadful internecine strife; al
he then. when the Republican par
-, 4I;c rohbor1 &c =