Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-10-28

didn't know anything and then they
said they had the right to do it. But
that is not all. They disregarded the
rights of the white people as well as the
negroes. Emigrants went down there,
our own people; business men who went
down there to cast their lots in the south
and the white people who were born
down there were
/ osrRAcIsED IN THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS
/ WAY.
/ Why, my countrymen, one Of their great
confederate generals by the name of
James Longstreet, who came over and
joined the Republican party, was ostra-
cised like leper and driven from there,
and / could read you here from the doc
uments l have a bitter denunciation
against James Longstreet because he
had become Republican. And so with
others. | would like to read you a sin
gle paragraph from a governor of a state
not from an unknown character-about
the way in which Gov. Perry, of South
Carolina, advised the Republicans should
be treated down south, to show how they
We're ostracised. Here is what he said
this very year-in the presidential can
vass in making speech there:
every true Democrat and honest man
should rise up in the majesty Of his
strength and should swear on the altar
of his country and his God that this Re
publican success shall not be allowed LET
the consequences be what they NAV.
The poor, miserable, unprincipled white
man who opposes Democracy should be
socially ostracised, and not even spoken
to on the streets. He should be treated
as an enemy to his race. This should be
resolved on and adhered to throughout
the state. Social ostracism for the white
man and no employment for the colored
man.
That is their idea of politics, and, my
countrymen, they had proceeded upon
that idea. There is not township or q
precinct in this broad land where every
Democrat may not fully exercise every
political and civil right, not one. There
IS not voting place or a town in the
United States Of America where a Dem
ocrat's rights are not as safely and am
ply secured as that of any Republican.
Go to Vermont, where they have got
three Republicans to one Democrat. and
there the Democrats are noisier. good
deal, than the Republicans, although
they are one to three; and everybody re-
spects their rights. Take any commun-
lty in Wisconsin, and the right of a
Democrat is everywhere respected; but
III the south the rights of Republicans.
white and black, are utterly disregarded.
The whites are ostracised and driven out
of society, while
THE BLACKS ARE CHEATED AND DE-
FRAUDED
of their rights by the meanest form Of
ballot-box stufing. There is the differ
ence. The Republicans everywhere re-
spect the rights of Democrats. The
Democrats of the south do not respect
the rights Of Republicans. Why is that,
my countrymen? 1t is because accord
ing to this doctrine of state rights they
claim that state has the right to regu-
late all these things; that a state may
control public opinion, may ostracise,
may disregard the laws of congress and
the constitutional amendments; and so
these amendments, which were the only
conditions imposed upon the people at
the end of the war, are now practically
nullified in all these southern states.
Slavery may not exist in name as it did
before the war, but in substance it has
been restored, and the civil and political
rights of Republicans are totally disre-
garded, and the right to vote down
south by Republican is mockery.
Our Greenback friends had little ex-
perience of that this summer. Laugh
ter. The Republicans had been cheated
and driven out by fraud and violence I'M
til they got tired of voting and said there
was no use in it, and they told the Green
hackers to go in. And the Greenbackers
sent Mr.. Weaver, their candidate for
president. down to Alabama to make
Greenback speeches there and said Ala
bama was all alive to the Greenbaclz
ticket. The Republicans were going to
help the Greenbackers. Well, the Re-
publicans, in order to try them on, did
help them. At one poll there was 500
and some odd Greenback or Republican
votes cast, by actual count. The men
went up and showed their tickets and
put them in the ballot box-or put them
as they supposed in the ballot box
stuck them up IN hole in the wall-and
there were GOO Democratic votes put up
in the hole III the wall; and when they
came to count them up the Democratic
ticket was elected by about 700 majority.
And thus in precinct after precinct and
county after county these
FALSE RETURNING BOARDS
cheated the Greenbackers as WELL as they
have the Republicans. In all those
states there is nothing like Republican
form of government. There is no lib
erty, no equal rights, no open discussion,
no manly freedom; and the condition
now of some of those states is worse
than it was before the war. Why is it?
1t is because those people disregard and
nullify the laws of the United States.
Let us go a little further. We passed
an election law to guard the ballot-box
and that has been disregarded and tram
Piled under foot; and when the Demo-
Gratis came into power in the house they
tried to repeal that law. The only thing
they have tired to do since they did come
into power in congress was to repeal the
election law. They did not propose to
reduce taxes or to remove any evils but
simply tried to repeal the election law.
They sent bill repeating the election
lava law which was passed in plain