Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-23
Stop and Consider.


crate soldier. democrat and bulldozer,
and the weathest planter in Yazoo coun-
! " therefore his taking of with its
attendant circumstances could not be COW
cred up or the truth very easily be per-
verted. as is usually the case when politi-
! cal murders are committed in the South.
Dixon as we have said was democrat,
and a noted bulldozer at that. lie was so
conspicuous in prosecuting the blacks and
driving republicans from the county, that
in 1873 he was presented with massive
solid silver pitcher on which was the in
srriptior 80 the bravcst Of the brave,
Captain Henry VI. Dixon, from his Dem
.'0cratic fellow citizens of Yazoo county,
'as testimonial of their high apprecia
''ton of his brilliant services in the re-
exemption of the county from radical
rule
| Iu June last Dixon announced himself
as an independent candidate for sheriff of
Yazoo county. This step was at once
OI'ItNtu Nv iilt y h'S
istraton began in July, but Dixon men
were not permitted to register. Soon an
attempt was made to waylay and assassin
ate him, but failed. Then he was waited
upon by committee of democrats de-
handing his withdrawal as a candidate
against the regular democratic candidate,
A.. Il . Ins
of his property if he did not comply.
Finally Dixon consented to the terms Of
the committee and formally withdrew as
desired. After this some of the most in
iiuential and wealthy white citizens of the
county, all democrats. waited on Dixon
and urged him to rctract his withdrawal,
promising him that he should not be mo-
Tested if he would do so. Relying on the
strength of their promises he retracted his
withdrawal, believing that he would not
be moested. Last Tuesday morning, the
10Th inst. Dixon was walking along
Main street in Vicksburg, when James
Barksdale, candidate for Chancery-Cl
on the democratic ticket. approached him
from the opposite side of the street with
-barreled shot gun, and shot him so
that Dixon died in the afternoon of the
same day.
Now here is an cxemplfication of de-
mOcracy as it exists in the South. to-day.
Dixon was neither colored man nor re-
publican. lie was IL democrat whose SER
vices against radical rule had been con-
spicuously recognized. But he dared to
set himself up as a candidate in opposition
to the regular ticket, and for this he was
shot to death. This shows that the demo-
cratic organization of the South is Il fear
full despotism. 1t brooks no opposition.
1t delies law Resistance to its authority
is queled with the shotgun or the revol-
yer. Assassination is its open instrument
to defeat opposition, and this is dealt out
to white rs well as black, to democrat as
well asrepublican, when the success ofdem-
plans demands such aresort. Even
the old slave oligarchy, despotic and arbit
rary as it was, never approached in AFRO
gance, cruelty and barbarsm to the demo-
cratic tyranny which now terrorizes the
South Then there were opposing parties
in the South now there is but one and the
shotgun is its emblem.
To the northern people the aspect of the
democratic party in the South is one that
demands most serious consideration
Elect democratic President in 1890, and
it follows that the control of this govern
ment passes into the hands of the shot
gun democracy of the South, who have
just murdered Dixon for daring
to present himself as an Independent can
didate for Office in the county where he
resided The democratic South has the
power to shape, manage and control the
caucuses of its party at Washington, and
through these it will rule the country if
the democratic party comes into power.
Northern democrats are powerless to re-
sist the DEGREES of the Southern democracy.
If Northern men act with the democratic
party they become only the slaves of the
South in case the party succeeds in 1880.
They will have no more power to direct
the organization than Dixon had While
he went quietly along he was not molested,
but when he asserted his independence in
Il small matter he was murdered.
1t must be PLAN to any northern man
of common intelligence that if the con-
troll of this government passes into the
hands of the democratic South turbu-
lence and riot and civil war will follow.
The only hope of preventing such ca
lamity is in Strengthening and supporting
the republican party. Against II solid
democratic South we must have solid
republican North, and then the country
will be safe. We ask men who have acted
with the democratic party, to consider the
situation candidly and let duty and not
prejudice guide them us they cast their
votes this fall. To republican greenback-
ers, however, the call to support the re-