The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-23
THE SOLID SOUTH OGRE.

Mr. }. Mantrop, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
editor of The Thistle Of that city, being on q
visit to this country and having read great
deal in the northern papers about balldozing
and other outrages in the south, concluded to
purchase a revolver and go down and get q
glimpse of the beast for himself He spent q
month in the south and thus reports his eX-
perienccs to the Chicago Times:
"On my arrival in Louisville, Ky, the first
southern city, put my revolver IN my pocket
and started to see the bulldozing and killing
of the negroes, butt my surprise found none,
and, lnquirng Of a grave and worthy colored
parsonage, was informed that the bulldozing
and Ku.Kluxing and barbartles are not prac.
tlced IN Kentucky against the colored people
for it is border state, but if | would go to
Tennessee, there | would find it, On my fur
ther travels arrived IN Tennessee. There |
also sought the acquaintance of worthy old
colored gentlemen who all informed me the
colorcd people are well treated in Tennessee,
possessing and exercising an equal right of
franchise, that there is no bulldozlng, neither
Ku.Kluxlrg IN Tennessee, but if | would visit
Georgia. l might see it. TO Georgia went,
and, on my arrival in Atlanta scarcely had
time to register my name at the hotel before |
heard band Of music playing the familiar
air Dixie Land / saw to my amazement a
colored procession Of some magnitude with a
band bearing transparency Upon It was
written Down with Norwood the salary-gra
Der; we will give Gen. Colquitt %, 900 MAORI
ty.' then inquired, Who is Gen. Colquitt?
was answered that Gen. Colquitt was the
democratic governor and candidate for re-elec-
ton, and on further inquiry of the colored peo-
pie about the bulldozing, Ku-kluxing, and the
barbarites practiced IN that state, was In
formed no such thing existed
travelled throughout Georgia and found
the colored population IN prosperous COndi
ton. | visited also Alabama the scene of the
recent elections and the renowned republican
and greenback cry of election frauds | need
not describe to you the dlsgraceful scenes
which found were there enacted during the
late contest for governor by republicans and
greenbackers united. 1t Is fresh in my mem
Dry, the speech of General Weaver, the green
back candidate, and comparing that speech
with my impartial investigation, ! now pro
nounce Gen. Weaver unworthy of belief.
derive my information solely from the colored
people, who all say they have no use for re-
publlcans or greenbackers, as they had de
celved them in time past. They would vote
no other ticket but the democratic. BULLDOG.
ing, shOtguns, revOlveTs, bowie knives were
not introduced at that election. The large ma
jority which the democrats received in Ala
hama was due solely to the solid colored vote,
which was cast by them for the democratic
ticket.
"On the 18th Of September was IN Atlanta,
Ga, and had long conversation with Gen.
Robert Toombs, in the course of which asked
him about the attitude of the southern people
about the rebel claims. He rldiculed the idea
that any in the south had notion of urging
those claims, and said that the serious thought
Of such thing had never entered the heart OF
any southern man.
II travelled all through the south in search
of bulldozing, and interviewed many men,
both white aud black, on the subject They
all told me that bulldoZing originated and
ended in the efforts of the southern people to
extermlnate carpetbag rule, and never was
used for party purposes. a little of it was
seen when the negro and carpetbag legisla-
ture of Mississippi raised the public debt from
$4,000, 600 to $50, 100000, not dollar of which
ever was spent for improvements for which 1t
was incurred"