Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-14

lar credulity and supposed ignorance in re'a-
| ton to the eOn6ition3 of business and society
in the Southern States. r. -
When read the lurid pictures drawn by
occasional correspondents of the Repu slicii
I press in the North; and oft-ntimes, ann sorry
4 to say, by Cabinet Minister'S Senator'S, and
4 other party leaders, describing the Southern
scenes of daily and nightly murder 81 an ia
nocent black population seeking shelter in TIE
swampsi by day and creeping back to theiy
cabins at night in fear Of their lives, marvel
at the teinerity of the bearers of falseiiood,
wien the means of rcfutarion lie so near at
i hand. isE.. f.sf<' f-t !3.Stil So ! s-s4sff s.4
Many of the REALTORS of these tales of blood
and suffering are noisy and loud professors of
especial regard for our national credit, but
most fatal to it but that is nothing1f the trick
can induce ignorant and fiIiiid, voters to re-
Against all these maIevolent and fluent
charges place the actual condition of the
south itself in evidence. There are many
| destruction and forces of conservation--and
If hatred and injustice have their disciples ana
apostles, SO. also, thank heaven, have truth
| In PAPER of remarkable ability and inter
pablshaa in SEPARATE , 9orm IN Bosson '
| the Railroads of the United States, and their
Gonny and Greas ar
| Atkinson OF Massachusetts, after careful
and extended personal inspection of the con
dition of the Southern States, and ma steriy
arrangement of the statistics of some of their
productive industries, makes incidentally the
"The total 13roduction of gold and sflverby
| the mines, mountains and rivers of the whole
world (according to Cernurchi's latest state
| ment) for twenty seven years has been 81 AGO.
1 $4,000 and the American cotton crop for the
| last ten years has amounted TO from
ues. Since 1868 AN indu .trial rcvolu-
| ton has occurred in the states made
red on the surface there has appeared to be
| mlsSovernment, fraud, political disturbance,
want OF stability, sometimes violence; but
underlying this surface, apparently so deeply
| agitated great industrial forces have been
| quietly and surely working to the end indi-
! Gated by the great crops of cotton the ten last
| crops marketed exceeding the ten ante. war
| crops by nearly ,500 900 bales, while the crop
now being marketed viii be far the largest
| And then he remarks, with a logic whose
force IS irresistible to candid minds, and which
| constitutes q complete and crushing answer
| to the political slanderers and assailants of
| our fellow citizens of the South: t-
violence and anarchy can not have been
the rule In a section that has produced greater
| crops for sale, and has at the same time been
more self sustaining than ever before in its
| history
| THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE NEGRO.
The speaker also referred to the production
| of tobacco, rice and sugar in the South, and
| to the great revenues derived from them. AS
| to the present industrial condition of the
| South he said But Il fortnight ago { paid
| visit to South Caro- ina to express my deep in
and IN weae OF the Pile q Nn
could have Witnessed the assemblages that 1
| did, and heard not merely the addresses made
to the people, but the manner i'll which every
allusion to the union of the South and the
duty of upholding the honor and credit of
There was a heartincss and sincerity that
could not misunderstood In the professions
members Of the red. shirt ciubs''Itney of
whom SUCH blood -curdliny accounts are
given in Republican, newspapers. They all
looked to me hike plain, hearty, home spun
farmers; resembling in every respect the yeo-
many of the state OF Delaware or of New
York '-+. tt'-t 30 -ft5t ~ ~
But had seen it often stated that the chief
occupation Of the red shirted riders was to
shoot and intimidate the colOred voters, and
as AIMED the ranks of the long procession,
l discovered scores upon scores OF these
dusky victims of imagincry massacre riding
for Hancock and the whole De tuocratic ticket,
with an ardor that was unlniStakable. had
free and friendly talk with some OF these col
ored men, and aScertained they were general
ly the owners OF the animals they were riding,
and had come, some as far as forty miles, to
swell the assemblage and hear the speeches.
They listened attentivcly; and to the state
mentS Of Mir. lfagOod, the candidate for Gov
ernor, OF the relative expenditures in the gov
ernment OF the state, they were especially at
tentlVe.
In several instances these co'ored men had
forty acres of land under cultivation; thirty
acres in cotton ten in corn; the whole labor
was performed by the family and one mule.
The product was about twenty bales of cotton
and corn enough for the mule and the bread
for the family. House rent was nothing; fuel
nothing; cl thing, in that climate, very little.
But twenty bales of cotton worth 1000,
and / could not help thinking how many me-
chanics and laboring men in the North would
be glad to exchange the net proceeds OF their
years toll with some of these colored men in
Carolina.
Fellow citizens, would like to say much to
you on this subject and endeavor to let you
feel, as did, how unjust and untrue are the
Charges we hear made OF the oppression Of the
colOied people. OF the South by the whites.
And sure am ii any man, who was not I'M
willing to see the truth, had been at my side
during my visit to South Carolina. he would
have come away assured that industry was
the rule among the peple and that the rela-
regulating themselves, and but for the devils.
work of selfish and INSCRIPTIONS politicians
of the Radical party, there never would be
any serious difficulty among the people
there. "tr .. ..E
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. g.
The speaker reviewed at much length the
past eleven years, in the course of which he
said: "- .'-l ft Ft,
1t has been the labor and economy of our
country, fnvOred by Providence with weather
that permitted full crops at the time He Wis
tied the British Islands with deIuges, and be-
slowed unfavorable seasons upont the ag1icul-
ture of the continent Redemption of Treas
ury notes has been ma-e possible by what
Iioratio seymour aptly calls 90 the statesman
Let me put the plain question to candid and
Intelligent men. Is not the cotton crop of the
southern States to day, and has it not for years
past been, our chief item of export which en-
ablcs us to maintain the balance of foreign
tTauo IN our favor. 90 not omit our vast
shipments of breadstuffs in the calculation,
but do aver that but for the industry of the |
Southern people and the production OF their
staples. the balance of trade would have been |
against us steadily, and be SO to- day, and that
resumption would have been impOs -ible.
And yet Northern audiences, and here in
this center of intelligence, are taught to be-
lieve the Southern states are inimical to
Northern pro perity, and that II policy which |
discourages their industry and alienates their
affections and sympathies is the safe, proper,
and patriotic one to be followed. l.f 4
So. THE ELECTORAL FRAUD. sf.- |
After referring also at much length to the
manifest tendency of the Republican party !
toward Capitalization; to the infamies of the |
election laws, and of Commissioner Daven-
ports theft of naturalization certificates from |
thousands of voters ana his imprisonment
and intimidation of thousands more to the |
hypocrisy OF the Hayes Administrators |
prctension of CIVIL service reform Swivel !
Service Reform he said he once heard an |
eminent Republican Senator term it-and to |
the great danger to Republican institutions of |
the party in power using the immense army |
of offoeholders as active instruments in aid |
ing to perpetuate that power. Mr.. B;lyard
thus spoke of the events that followed the I
last Presidential election: rFs r. - .zzts +
In the fall of 1876 the American people, by a