The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-23

II hatrcu ana injustice have their tiscini,.S M =
apnstles, so also, thank heaven, have truth
In paper Of remarkable ability and ;,,.r.
est, prepared for the Fort,ightIy Rer;e,r ard
published IN separate form in Bostnn ,,n
tne kailroads OF the United state. and thei,
Ehects on Farming and Production in tina,
Country and Great Britain" MIR Edward
AthihSon oI massachusetts, after q careful
anu extended personal inspection of tho con.
dltl0n OF the Southern States. and mastery
arrangement OF the statistics of Some ri ,ba;,
productive industries, makes incidentally the
following remarks:
The total production Of gold and silver by
une n,'nes mountains and rivers Of the whole
world according to Cernurchi's latest stare.
menfl for twenty seven Years has been "a 4Ol
8o'.W8, ana tie American cotton crop for the
last ten years has amounted to from
S"U,oUW" to S,Oo,0oo,OOo in gold val.
ues. since 1865 an industrial rpvolu
ZION mas occurred in the States made
free by the war. such as never before. Occur.
req, on the surface there has appeared 10 be
mlsSoFernment, fraud, political disturbance
want OK stability, sometimes violence, but
unaerlylhg thls surface, apparently So deeply
aRitateu, great industrial forces have bee /,
quietly anu 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 will be tar the largest
ever grown"
And then he remarks, with logic whose
force Is irresistible to candid minds. and W hich
cohsthutes complete and crushing answer
10 the political sianderers and assailants of
our Fellow citizens of the South
violence and anarchy can not have been
the RUE III section that has produced greater
crops Tor sale and has ut the same time been
history"
THE PRESENT CoSnyrInv ar rur Cr,pn
The speaker also referred TO the production
OF tobacco, rice and sugar in the South, and
70 the great revenues derived from them. As
20 the present industrial condition of the
south he said, But fortnight ago I paid a
visit TO South Caro- ina to express my deep in
tcrcSt In the welfare OF the people of that
state, and i wish every man Ill the North
could have witnessed the assemblages that
did, and heard not merely the addresses made
To the people, but the manner in which every
allusiOn to the union of the south and the
duty of upholding the honor and credit of
the general Governments was responded to.
There WAS hexrtiness and sincerity that
could not misunderstood In the professions
and meetings were large numbers of mounted
members OF the "red shirt clubs"-they of
whom such blood curdling accounts are
given III Republican newspapers. They all
Looked to me like plain, hearty, home spun
farmers; resembling in every respect the yeO-
York
But had seen it often stated that the chief
occupation Of the red shirted riders was to
shoot ana intiinidate the colOred voters, and
ns scanned the ranks of the long procession,
1 discovered scores upon scores of these
dusky victims ot imaginary massacre riding
upon well fed horses and mules and cheering
tor Hancock and the whole Democratic ticket,
with an ardOr that was unmistukAble. had
tree and friendly talk with some of these col
nV Al,.
~ the owners OF the animals they were riding,
ana had come, some AS tar rs forty miles, TO
swell the assemblage and hear the speeches.
They listened attentiyely; and to the state
ments 0f Mr. HagOOd, the candidate for Gov.
ernOr, OF the relative expenditures in the gov
eminent OF the state. they were especially At
tentive.
In several instances these cOlored 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 are worth ST. 100,
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 eHdeavor to 10; you
feel, rs 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 if any nun, who was not I'M
willing to see the truth, had been ut 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-
tons VI the races were quietly and happily
regulating themselves, and but for the devils
work OF selfish and interruptions politicians
OF the Radical party. there never would be
any serious difficulty among the people
there.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
The speaker reviewed at much length the
financial history OF the country during the
past eleven years, i'll the course of which he
said.
country, favored by Providence with weather
that permitted full crops ut the time He Wis
tied the British Islands with deluges, and be-
slowed unfav0rable seasons upon the asricui.
ture OF the continent. Redemption of Treas.
ury notes has been made possible by what
ship of the plow."
Let me put the plain question to candid and
men. Is not the cotton crop Of the
Southern States to-day, and has il not for years
past been, our chief item Of export which en-.
ables us to maintain the balance of foreign
shipments of breadstutfs 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
would have been impossible.
And yet Northern audiences, and here in
this center of intelligence, are taught to be.
lieye the southern States are inimical to
Northern prosperity. and that policy which
their industry and alienates their
affections and sympatbies is the safe, proper,
and patriotic one to be followed.
THE ELECTORAL FRAUD.
After referring also ut much length to the
manifest tendency of the Republican party
toward centralizatiOn to the infamies of the
election laws, and of Commissioner Daven-
ports theft of naturalization certificates from
thousands of voters anu his imprisonment
and intimidation Of thousands more; to the
hypocrisy Of the Hayes Administrations
pretensiOn 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 OfficehOlders as active instruments in aid.
ing to perpetuate that power, Mr.. Bayard
thus spoke of the events that followed the
last Presidential election:
In the fall of 1876 the American people, by a
large majority Of both the popular vote and
the electoral vote. elected Mr.. Tilden Presi-
dent of the United States. But the Admins
fration mt Washington, swayed by the intern
perate will and interruptions leadership of
secretary Chandler, who was the Chairman of
the Campaign Committee, aided and sustain.
Ed a fraudulent perversiOn of the elections in
Florida and Louisiana by the Boards of can
vass and Returns, and succeeded in defeating
The popular will. This was Il refusal to sur
render power and it must never be forgotten
that James 4. Garfield WAS m active and
guilty participant in this great wrong.
He assisted to put the peace Of the country
IN great jeopardy, and the time for his signal
rebuke has now arrived. For ninety years the
people OF the several States of this Union held
their elections under their own agencies and
without Federal interference II there was
fraud or violence Overthrowing fair election,
the House Of Representatives was the sole
|udge Of the elections and returns Of its own
and the question could be contest.
ed and decided there.
Now. under one pretext or another, al.
though all inspectors and judges of elections
IRE appointed solely by State authority, and
Ind the measure OF their powers under State
laws only, yet existing acts of Congress as
sumo to control them by deputy marshals.
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