The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-20

OF all localities in Alabama, Lowndes
county is the very last one that the Al
tooua Tribune ought to have selected to
show that either force or fraud"
was resOrted to by the Democrats at the
recent election in that State. But it
has rashly placed its reliance on the
vote of that county, and now let us see
what the Tribune has made out of its
choice. It says, and correctly too, that
lin 1876 there were 4, 152 votes cast for
the Hayes electors, and / ,309. for the
Tnden electors and then adds, yet
at the recent election, with Democrat
ic vote which could not possibly have
exceeded 300, and which, therefore, on
an honest count gave the Republicans
a majority of 1000, there was returned
a majority for the Democratic ticket of
], 800" BY way of removing the scales
from the TrjJ,We'S eyes in regard to
Southern elections. we stated last week
what the Tribune very well knows, but
won't admit, that since the overthrow
of the carpet-bag governments in the
South a large percentage of the negroes
have attached themselves to the Demo-
cratic party and vote for its candidates,
and we will now prove the truth of that
declaration so far as LOwndes county is
concerned. There are tJrO Democratic
newspapers in Alabama edited and own
ed by cOIOred men, one of them being
&c
W. II. Councill, who is also principal of
the Colored Normal School at the same
place. He was a slave and during the
days of carpet-bag rule he was a violent
Republican He is thirty years old, and
being possessed of very decided ability
soon saw through the manifold villainies
of carpet-bag patriots. During the late
campaign IN Alabama he was constant
ly on the stump for the Democratic tick
ct and while so engaged visited Lown-
des county. In his paper of August 9Th,
only four days after the election, he
says:
eve went to Lowndes county week be-
fore last to assist in the canvass. On the
night of our arrival we spoke to a small aud
kinder people than in LOwndeS The white
people of the county are labOring earnestly
by acts of kindness to convince the cOlOred
people that the tales circulated by their vic
iOuS leaders are untrue.
con Wednesday of last week q barbecue
was given, to whitehall were invited, irreSpec-
tive of party OF race. II was the incest
affair we ever saw. The first people of the
county were out, and the olive branch OF
peace was offered the cOlOred people, and
we are proud to say that the better class of
cOlOTed people in LOwndeS were willing To
forget the past and clasp hands over the
bloody Chasm.'
"Up until last month cOIOred men never
voted their sentiments, because of the bull
doing carried on by the Radicals
After further reference 20 the bull
doing practices of the Radicals in that
county, he concludes his article by say
ing
"But, thank God, the sun of liberty has
arisen in LOwndcs and more than thousand
COl0red men uotcd the Democratic ticket there
last A0nday and will hereafter be protected
from the assaults of the bu.l-dOZer"
Now if ''mOre than a thousand color
ed men voted the Democratic ticket in
Lowndes county, as this colored editor
says they did, and he ought to know how
it was, the figures Of the Tribune claim
ing a Republican majority in LOWndes
of :, 900 are pretty effectuallY wiped out.
Is the Tribune satisfied about Lowndes
county, or does it prefer to wait until
these same Thousand colored men, as
well as thousands more like them in Ala
bama and in every other Southern State,
have voted for Hancock in November d?
They will do it, and then perhaps the
Tribune will stop its stereotyped cry
about fraud and intimidation in South
ern elections.