The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-11
BULLDOsING- NORTH AND SOUTH.

Whlle II Is dlfCult AZ the North 10 conceive
of any provOcation which can justify the peo-
pie OF the South In occasionally going a-gun-
nlng for radical stump orators, yet if people
up here understood the exact condition there
we might be able to regard the bulldozers with
a grain more Of leniency than we do. The
Chicago Times, during the recent trial Of the
Chisholm murdercrs, sent reporter to Missis-
|sippi, and besides giving the particulars of
the trial. he has been looking into the political
situation there generally, and in regard to the
particular case of Judge Chisholm, makes the
following among many other remarks:
The carpetbaggers and the native whites
who turned Republican-Judge Chisholm was
one of thcm-used to lash negroes to the polls
by telling them that the whites were intending
to reduce them to slavery again. They made
declamatory, infammatory speeches of this
kind, and the negro took it all IN. When the
demagogues of the North make snch speeches
to the Irish, who know it is simply political
clap-trap, they take their glass of beer as the
price of attending the meeting, and 90 away
to quiet bed Not so the negroes. They be-
lieved every word of it, and they used to be-
come so aroused and excited that they would
lCuNC luC Hult WI n III tlC inlbot vi
a crop, refusing to toll for so dangerous an enc
my as the planter was represented to be, and
often the whites had genuine fears OF a negro
instruction.
This is the kind of n speech the white has
in mind when he says, I'VE have no objection
to candidate going among the negroes, and
making speeches to them, but we do not want
incendlary speeches made-and we do not
want him to come among the negroes when
they are at work IN the field in the daytime,
any more than you would want him to come
into your factory if you had one" If the two
tickets were made up of Democrats, no such
speeches would be made, for Democrats and
property.owners would hardly resort to them.
We venture to say, at least, with this under
standing of the objection of the southern peo-
pie to "incendiary speeches" there are thous-
and better reasons for driving off stumper
like Judge Chisholm with shot guns than the
stalwarts had for mobblng a colored speaker
in Logan county, OHIO last week, for making
stump speeches in favor of Ewing. The Belle
fontane Examiner gives this account of it:
The mob came along, toward the close of
the meeting, headed by white man bearing
in his hand jug of whisky! There was a
dozen or more OF the scoundrels, white and
black, all more or less drunk, and varlously
armed with stones, clubs and cOrn.cutters,
Their object as revealed by their fiendish
cries, was the blood of the speaker, "Remem-
Der Fort Pillow!" they screamed, -"Cut his
ID heart OUT" etc. The speaker cut short
his remarks, and he and his friends prepared
to depart when fierce rush was made by the
mob for their carriages. Then it was that DR.,
Goodlove and others of the party stepped into
the breach, and, with drawn revolvcrs, held
the wouldbe murderers at bay And thus Lo-
gan county was saved from the deep disgrace
of political murder.
The only sin of this Ohio negro, whose name
was A. j. Davis was that being a negro he yet
dared to make Democratic speeches. Dare
the Ohio ruffians stand up and cry for ven.
Ceance on the murderers of Judge Chisholm?
The spirit actuatlng both Is the same, but no
honest man, comparing the provocation of
these Ohio murderers with that Of the MIssis-
sippians, can say otherwise than that these are
rather justified than those, though doubtless
both deserve punishment