The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-02-27

Ored counties. de SAID ne Travelled
with Mr. Muldrow and they made speech
es together. Mr.. Muldrow, Democrat,
was his political opponent. He mention
ed several places where he was not al
lowed to speak without interruption, and
said that he had been informed privately
Of threats to prevent him from being
heard, although Mr.. Muldrow was heard
without any interruption whatever THE
idea prevailed, it was said, that he was
endeayoring to reorganize the negroes in
opposition to the Democrats. After the
election he heard that he had been hung
in effgy and then burned He was
Greenback candidate having been nomi
mated by that party in opposition to his
own wishes, and was voted for by the
colored people, who understood their in
terests on that question.
Senator Garland, of the committee,
asked the witness whether he did not
once make a speech in Congress about
hanging Northern men.
The witness replied that he did make
speech in December. 1859. 1t was dur
ing the consideration of an election case.
In that speech he arraigned the Republi-
cans as rebels, and said if Mr.. Seward
would come South and utter such senti-
ments as he entertained and had fire.
quently expressed, he (the witness)
thought the people would hang him be.
fore he returned to the North. The wit
ness said he had been brought before the
committee as witness without his con-
sent, but he would state the truth in re-
sponse to every question propounded.
Senator Garland asked him whether
he was Republican now but not Rad
ical
The Witness-I am a native born Dem
ocrat 1 hold to the doctrine of the
greatest good to the greatest number,
and wherever this leads l will go. l was
kicked out of the Democratic party when
boy, in 1885. have since been kicked
out on the currency question, and l am
now out of the party by force.
Senator Garland called the attention
of the witness to his testimony before
the Boutwell, Committee in 1876.
The witness said he indorsed every
word then uttered by him. He had SAID
that the Radicals were bulldozers, and
that they operated on negroes by super
stition, threatening to put snakes and
lizards into them. He here added to
that testimony that the Democrats of the
present time are obnoxious to what he
then said of the Radicals; white man
cannot vote in the South against the De-
mocracy without being ostracized. But"
said the witness, II dread the assassn's
knife more than l do ostracism." He
said in that testimony that the white
man is more moral than and intellectual
ly superior to the negro. He was praised
by the Democrats more for that testimo-
ny than for all the other acts of his life
together Yet these very men undertook
to rally the colored men against him for
Iub hn I'D fhot nooasinn He ho.
lieved the great majority of his district
was against bulldozing and ballot-box
stuffing, but there was class of ambi-
tious, aspiring men who sought to render
all persons odious who do not adopt their
views; and it has been openly declared
that any man could express his opinions
within the limits of the Democratic par
ty, but outside he would do so at his per
il. The time was when differences of
opinion were respected, but this is chang
ed, and there are in its place falsehood
and low vulgar abuse. He claimed that
by fair count he could have beaten
Colonel Muldrow by 10000 votes. and in
conclusion said that recent events had
developed the fact that this country has
the weakest government on earth. You
can legislate' he said land yet you can
not protect me; and in case of my death
by violence you cannot give my wife
and children pension. The people can
say, our laws we can defy and scorn,
and yet you compel men to testify on
subjects which may subject them to per
sonal violence"
William H. Vasser, of Mississippi. teo
titled that he was a =
he was
Whig party, an' 20 was
elected on the -oL State Treas
urer. In tb 30 election he supported |
the Greenback ticket. He gave a run
ming narrative of events in the campaign, |
stating that at Oklahoma the political
meeting was very boisterous. Two-thirds |
was quietly listened to, but |
While he was at W est Point he was called |
upon for talk. He was charged with
making radical speech. A crowd came
in, and one of the persons comprising it
demanded what he was reading. He
felt satisfied it was bulldozing crowd.
A good many white people supported
Mr.. Davis. The Greenback clubs were
generally organized by persons living in
the country.
Senator Cameron (of wisconsin,
What do you call radical speech?
A.-What you would call Republican
speech they would call Radical and in
one; everything is called
Rdical in Mississippi that is not Demo
cratic man who makes such speech
s considered a pest, and if the speaker
s man of ability, he is considered
dangerous pest; a mans social and bust
1ess relations are affected by his politi,
,al opinions.
Senator Kirkwood (of Iowa)-What is
/ Radical?
Senator Teller-A man not Demo
,rat?
Everybody not Democrat
Senator Kirkwood-Is it the habit of
oulldozers to go in a crowd?
Ayes But you will find in Missis-
ippi middle-aged men and men advanc
ID in life, moderate and respectful to all
citizens The confusion and. hoisterous
md illegal conduct are confined to young
,r men, the politics of Mississippi being
argely governed by young men.
Senator Kirkwood-I suppose that if
White men were to advise colored men to
tand up for their rights it would be con-
dered insurrectionary?
Al don't think such persons would
,e we'll received.
Senator Kirkwood-It would not be
considered insurrectionary to advise a
white Democrat to stand up for his
lights?
A.-Oh no. That is said on every
tump. white man would lose his So
,ial reputation by advising a Republican
% do so.
Senator Teller-Why cannot the Re-
publican party be reorganized in Missis-
ippi2
A.-The Republican party there is vr
ually dead 1t has had no vitality since
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