The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
col ,ua.drow. Answer

Col. Nuldrow, member elect from the
Ist District, has made triumphant an
swer to Gen. Davis notice OF intention
to contest his seat. All the grounds
upon Which Gen. Davis bases his contest,
are answered Seriatim AMI We are IN
duced to hope that when he has PoDdered
them seriously and taken the sober sec
ond thought, he will abandon an under
taking which can result in nothing but
defeat and disappointment. In summing
up his case, Col. Nudrow says:
Having answered specifically sill your
statements or suggestions o. the gtouHds
upon which you propose 10 contest with me
a. aforesaid / come, now, t. state, as spe-
officially as practicable. the grounds upon
whict L rest the validity Of nv election.
/ You will. therefore, lake notice that the
evidence will inc0ureStibly SHOW
LIST. That | received majority OF over
/ three thousand legal votes. cast II an eltt-
I ton, fair. pcaeeable and tree trC IA Intlmiia-
/ ton or fraud.
%. THAT even upon your assumption thaN
every colared voter in the district was
/ Republican and an anti-DemocFat, that IL
was impossible Tor him 10 he induced 10 vote
| for Democrat except By injimid'. l'n anu
force. | was and ought 20 have been eiet tel
{ over Won Nh ft5tU~AlfG IT, IT ttd~'itAN'
as these so-called anti Democratic voters are
| in a minority IN the district II one thousand
or more III this connection. l shall oFlhg
evidence 10 show tbat IL Is neither lmposei-
BILE nor illegal tor colored man 70 change
his political principles, and that many OF
them inclined To vote the DemocTauc
ticket, as is shown by Your evidence before
III Senate Committee which investigated
the election of 1875 in Mississippi.
81. | state and am prepared To show thar
there are abundant and ca2ent reasons y eli
ca iculated to ir fluence, and did actual3y in-
fiuence. many OF the cotGFed voters 10 cast
their ballots tor me and against YOU: and,
in Illustration. W i'll show that some of your
friends urged that you lad been better
democrat than /, and referred 10 the fact OF
my acceptance of the office Of district 6ttor-
ney under AlcCrD, republican, Governor,
to prove If. Surely, upon the hYpotnts 5
with which YOU attempt to present our
case, this a~gum-nt did not tend 70 iutia-
ence this class of people to vote for yod and
ag inst me.
will show that YOU were not the nomi-
nee of the Republicans, and that your
speeches against the negro race had been
more violent and abusive than any Demo
crat in that district. And will show that
their attention was called to the fact thar
you had before a Congressional committee,
under the solemn sanction OF an oath, thus
spoken OF the coIored race;
Il think that the negro is by nature dis
honest. | think the negro by nature deStt-5
tute Oi all ideas OF virtue, and l think the
negro is capable of being induced to commit
any crime, however violent, especially u he
was encouraged by bad white men. This is
nv opinion of the negro"
And | will show that when these facts
We're disclosed to the colored voters of the
district, it did not require any intimidation
or bulldoZing to keep large mum bers on
them from voting TOR you, who had public
ly and in your sworn testimony denounced
them as dishonest and cheating. ungrateful,
superstitious capable OF any crime how
ever VIOLENT and Incapable OF virtue; nor
that Is was impossible to induce diem TO
vote voluntarily for me who had never as
sailed them, but had ever recognized the
rights and privileges conferred upon them
b, law. Indeed, after ali you had said and
DONE had the colored vote been given solid
for you, it would have proven all you had
charged against their intelligence ami indie
pendence.
l will show that whilst the colored voters |
were thus Influenced in large numbers tod
vote against you. considerations equally |
urgent united and concentrated the white |
voters in my support. | had not Ouly re- |
ceived the nomination OF the Democratic |
party-for which you had been two years |
before an unsuccessful candIdate-and |
which You were understood by the people /
To be anxious to receive this year, but it " as |
deemed important for other than party |
reasons (aS | shall prove) that YOU should !
not be elected to represent the people OF |
that district in Congress. They saw that
large class of Intelligent and independent |
eolored men, and twithsCandiag your
protest against being considered an ally OF |
the Repu blican party, you were actively |
supported by class of 4 cpublicaEs regard |
ed "a ch"mieS IN the ps~cs and prosperity
of the people of Missis>iPpi; men who had |
been characteriz d in your sworn te>timo-
ny As mean. low, dirty white men, who are
capable of Hing themselves and their
honor for sake OF having the opportunity to
plumber honest men; they saw, these men I
whom you had un.Ier oath. thus denounced. |
some of them by name, active in their
efforts to throw to you the solid vote OF the
negroes of tha- district. They were CON |
WINGED that your election would serve "a a |
feeder to the hopes of these men that Mis>ls-
sippi might again he given over to their |
and plumber.
This conviction has been confirmed b.
! our course since the eleCtioa, in repr0duc-
ing the oft refuted charges OF fraud aud
violence. which the men whom YOU have
heretofore denounced, when defeated. are
wont to bring against the southern people
which have been recently caught
from your lips or pen by southern reviIers
to feed the morbid aPpetites of those who
hOurished upon keeping alive sectional ami
nsAsty and haired against your people.
viii show that these charges are uutouudeG.
and that You canvaSsed the district fully,
and spoke in every county at various places. i
perhaps more han any man who was ever |
before candidate for Congress in MiSsis- |
5ippi.) where you ventilated your view with
your accustomed free Inm ana vigOr. Your
'peeches We're rec eived quietly by the people
Except Ia two or three instances, when YOU |
were interrupted a lew moments BY mani
estations of disapprobaCon, which were
neither threatening nor calculated To it,
imidate either the speaker or his support {
RS. /
l will further show that of all the public
men in Mississippi, you have the least right [
% complain of violence or intimidation.
Aud. in conclusion [ hereby mott V you
hat before this contest is ended, | lall
efute the charges which the false ''infor-
nation" of designing men, whose political
Existence depends on slanderng the South,
las misled and betrayed you into making ]
Igainst people TO whom you and | should t
De bound by ties of gratitude for the many l
EXALTED stations and high honors they have a
o generously bestowed upon US. :
Very respectfully, t
II. L. MULDRow. O
Ex,PREsIDENT DAVIS letter on the
light of instruction has been received c
With respect and almost universally with