National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-11

SOUTH ERN REPUBLICINIST.
Some Further Views Earnestly Expressed.

To he Editor of he National Republican:
| SIR In my communication published In
| THE REPUBLICAN Of the 18th instant | gave
you the causes why the South was lost tempo
rarily to the Republican party, but said moth
ing of the ways by which this great wrong had
been cOnsummated. Fraud, treachery, and
murder have been the means used to make the
South Democratic, aud boldly assert that they
would not have been used but for tho conduct
of Northern Republicans, which l have re-
lated. No man endowed with ordinary reason
ing faculties can believe that the Ku-Klux,
Lite. Liners, rifle clubs, and tissue ballots
would have been resorted to in the South if
the lately-conquered men, who resorted to
Them had not fclt assured OF the support OF
respectable Il use the word in limited sense)
support from the North among the men who
had conquered them
To prove this it is only necessary to trace
tho course of the Southern Democracy for a
few years. Theyl commenced the eudcavor to
regain their supremacy by cunning. In Nir-
ginia they selected Northern Republican and
seduced him to placing them in power. The
rcspectability of Gilbert Walker was the man
tie under which they concealed themselves.
They used him as tool, and so soon rs he
was no longer needed they cast him aside, and
with him all pretence of deccncy, as was shown
in their tissuo-balot election of John Goode.
Walker served their purpose
In Tennessee the same game was played
: Another weak minded Republican, in the per-
, son of Senter, was found Through him
the State was made Democratic, and he
whom the Democracy laudcd as their savior
and deserving everything at the hands of the
f people, has not been heard from since.
Elisha Baxter was the tool used in Arkansas
when the Same game was played. These three
men, Walker, Sentcr and Baxter have been
| treated by the mon they served as traitors have
, been treated through all time, with contempt (;
looked upon with scorn, and are to-day by
: word and reproach.
This system of buying their way into power
, was the one first adopted and continued by tho
more cautious Democrats like Garland, OF
Arkansas, who served in the Confederate SEN
ate rather than oil the rebel battleiields, and
whose natural feelings and education lead him
n to prefer peaceful to violent measures
y But when the Southern Democracy dis
covered there was growing sentiment in the
= North among Republicans against Southern
II Republicans they became bOldcr, aud the re-
: suit of this boldness was the organization ol
Il the Ku-Kux. That was the conception oil
1t men who wore the rebel uniform instead of the
1t rebel gown. Bedford Forrest, John b. Gordon
- Wade Hampton, Matt Ransom, and others o
% that kind were the projectors Of this organiza
u tion. The Ku-KluX was grand military or
IS der, composed precisely as an army is. Il
n acted under orders from its high officials
and these orders were transmitted by
ie cipher that would have puzzled, If not con
TO founded, the experts who unraveled the elec
- tion cphers. The records of Congressional in
vestigating committees show that hundreds o
L murders were committed by this army (?) o
y. political assassns. Tho result proved that /
at was organized too early, for public opinion il
- the North, with the fact that man of nerve
Va sat in the White House, stamped it out; bu
to its existence helped along in the work of max
IN ing the South Democratic, though its founder
o and leaders (some of them now holding higl
% positions in Congress) had to disavow, unde
IE oath, their connection with or knowledge of il
,E The ISLANDERS of the Southern Democrac,
~ upon Southern Republicans had not at tina
" time reached their full fruiton, so that th
q murder of the latter for opinions sake wa
i" still considered a crime in the North and tn
n warli1e leaders of the Ku-Klux had to step I
the rear and let the more cunning, who onl
us assassinated regulations and not bodies, one
:" more come to the front and work upon North
Nv ern sentiment. The silvery -tongued hypocrite
y like Lamar were called ON to manufacture pull
lie sentiment in the North, by eulogizng th
Or, dead Sumner and slandering the living Repul
en- lcans of the South, Leading newspapers lik
al the CotI'ier-JOUnd, tho Memphis Appeal, an
w others followed in his wake. The hundred
lts OF Associated Press agents, scattered over TIL
a South called the lightning, which in the day
he of Annania5 and Sapphira, would have stricke
=, them down, to disseminate their falsehood
~ Special correspondents OF leaullB ncWSpupel
IN Travelled over the South and captivated by TIL
T. arts of the Southern Democracy, gave CLOWN
pctures of u new acadia that existed only
IT. their maginatons heated by wine. The cum
ming and not the bold men of the South wei
leading. They played bold stroke, howeve
and won. They nominated Horace Greeley f
,e- President. One of the leaders in that NOV
IL mont said TO the writer, "Np one can ever max
uo the North believe that Republicans are ut
ey perfectly secure in their rights in tho Soutl
-al II the South nominates Greeley,for President
ar He was correct.
= They did not expect, care, or want to ele
NY Greeley. They were afraid TO trust him. A
for they wauted they obtained. When the ele
or tiOn was over they said, "Letmurdcr, vlolOnc
-, intimidation, and fraud once more advance, IL
pc North Is safe.' Then came the White Line
,er of Mississippi, the White League Of Lousian
ITO and the rifle clubs Of South Caroline. On
= more the assassns were at work doing the BIZ
Vi ding Of their masters, aud tho North lOOlS'
he quietly on, while thousands OF Southern X
)te publicans were murdered for opinions sake.
,o 1t was this Indifference upon the part OF Il
~ North that made such massacres as that ut Han
OF burg with its resulting Butler aud Hampton
at the United States Senate possible; or such seen
orr as wero enacted in Coushatta aud Tensas, wi
AZ. its blossom Jonas or such iniamles as q
Vlc murder Of Chisolm and the atrocities OF q
St White Liners in Mississippi with Its fra
N Lamar. Northern Republicans may thar
themselves that the South sends a solid phalaI
ue of Confederate brigadiers to the Senate al
ft- House to brow.beat them and threaten the Il
Ity ecutiye.
.oJ Now, sir, have shown as briefly as possit
-" why the South was lost and how 1t was 10
The The Republicans of tho North are arouse
)n- but, sir, fear il is not because they have stu
is. led aud understand the reason why they Il
20 power in the South, but only because th
LIE themselves arc in danger, aud fear for The
er- supremacy in the country. hope / am m
yo- taken. [ know that some of tho Northe
Republicans are beginning to see the mista
or they have made. II is to try and help the
as TO a clearer understanding that / have WI
AS. ten. know that some Northern RopubiCa