The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
To SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS PRE-
TEND TO SEE Us

TEND TO SEE Us.
TO take the Republican papers OF
Indiana and read what the editors
the correspondents and the speakers
say OF the Democratic party and OF
the people of the South would make
us cease to wonder why Northern
sentiment is often so bitter against
us. They will never learn the truth
however, until they come amongst
us, or until the Democratic party aid
ed by the constitution-loving South
are again in control of the Federal
government. Public administration
will then prove to these deluded
people that they have been grossly
lied to, and that this de-
ception has been carried on
for hepurpose of keeping in power
the most corrupt and dangerous
organization known to the history
of this government. y story has
been going the rounds ofthe North
ern press about a poor negro who
had been run away from Limestone
county, in this state, with shotguns
because he wanted to be an exc.
duster; that members of his family
had been murdered after he left
because he had escaped from his
tormentors. The negro was reality
but it is known that he ran away
from Limestone county because, as a
noted thief, he wished to escape
from the law. An evidently bogus
letter is published from Meridian
Mississippi, in which it is said:
! came South in 1868, and have been
South ever since; and feel it my duty tO
write you this letter in the hour of oui
desperate need. There is no free speech
here; no free press.
Again it is written:
They are bulldozing the whole coun.
try, and if they get control of the Ma
tional Government, God help us and the
Nation. Note the capital \.
Again this model manufacturer OF
falsehood writes:
I was ordered to leave Pelahatchie
Mississippi, few days since, because
remarked Garfield was good man.
was informed in Butler, Alabama, that il
WAS not Democrat l must leave the
town. was in both places on business
aud when l left the first place vowed
mentally that never would vote another
Democratic ticket as long as God spared
my life. A man dare not say he is fol
Garfield; it is more than his life is worth
A Southern $50 called) correspon-
dent, in fact some sanctum sancto-
rum liar says.that in certain portions
of the South. if the Garfield men are
found out
We will be shot by private assassins in
our home and in our fields.
A Republican informant, the truth
of whose assertions we will not as
sumo to deny in the whole, says:
1 was in Vicksburg when Gen. Grant
was there. He did not, but did, heal
what was said on the street. He was
cursed and denounced by the vilest terms
III u1u
aristocracy were licking the dust at his
feet. This is characteristic of Southern
Democracy. They will wine and dine
congressional committees, but you &C
through there as private man, and they
will show you another game.
The same writer declares that il
the Democratic party succeeds, that
the Southern whites
VIII organize the militia and prepare
for another war. / am here, an old sol.
dier and an old Democrat (God forgive
me for ever voting that ticket, and
know what l say is true. If any of youI
Democratic editors, or English himself
try and say he is a Garfield man, or a
Greenbacker, should he escape it will be
with different views of the South.
Again:
1t is said it is a solid South. So
it is, and any man who dares to oppose il
in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Ala.
hama, or Arkansas, is a dead man, If he
does not run.
An Indiana editor PHILOSOPHERS
after this fashion:
Republicans must not forget that the
issue has been forced upon them and that
they must now support the principles
which Grant, Sherman and Thomas fought
for as against the principles that Lee
and Jackson fought for" The war of the
rebellion will not be completely over until
the Democratic party shall have been
completely overthrown.
An Indiana editor says:
There are at least seven states in which
the Republican vote can not be freely
cast and honestly counted. They are
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Ala.
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar.
kansas. 3.
An Indiana paper tells this tale:
A dispatch from Abbeville, South Car.
olina, to the Register. published at Co.
lumbus, in that state, says the Republicans
of the county met in convention to Sc.
lect delegates to their state convention.
"The stores at once closed, ;" says the dis
patch, "and the Democrats attended. The
Republicans dispersed" That is the
way they do il all through the South. The
Democrats "attend and the Republicans
disperse.
A General somebody, who is try.
ing to counteract Dick Hubbard. de-
clares that
The Confederate army is marching tC
the polls in solid column, following every
man who lost a cotton-bale, by every mas
ter who lost a slave, by every planter who
lost a mule, by every gambler, pimp and
thief who prides himself on being better
than a negro, by everyruffian whose bust.
ness it was to make merchandise of men
by every brutal Overseer who cut and
slashed the laboring poor, by every cant
ing hypOcrite who taught that slavery was
sanctioned by God, by every cowardly as.
sassin who has raised his murderous hand
to strike down free speech, by every
sueaking scoundrel who has cheated the
popular will by tissue-ballots.
Another orator, aping Conkling,
presents this point:
With the Senate in possession of the
South, what can the North do: The pres
ident may be a Republican; the House
may have a two-thirds Republican major.
ity; the popular vote may be overwhelm-
ingly Republican,; but there stands the
Southern Senate to indicate 10 all, TO re-
wise every law. to bargain about every
appointment, to pass upon every appro-
priation, to demand what il wants for the
South, and obtain IL or obstruct all legis-
lation.
The joint resolution by
which Texas was annexed provides that
Congress may divide the territory en-
braced within its present limits into i've
states. Itwould make five states as large
territorially as Pennsylvania. This d.
vision-and Congress and the President
have the power and the right TO make il
at any time-would. as l have before
stated. give the South eight more Sena-
tOrs-forty in all, and only making IL nee
essary 20 obtain the votes Of one Demo
cratic state In the North TO secure sbso-
lutte control OF the Senate: No obnOx-
ious law could be repealed without the
consent OF the Senate. No law could be
passed without It's concurrence; IL