Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-08-29

was strong.
Mr.. w. Fl. Council, colored
man, the Principal of the State
Normal School at Huntsville, and
the editor Of the Huntsville Her.
aid. throws a light upon the mat.
ter which will be interesting to
honest Republicans Of the North.
Mr.. Council has developed into a
dns orator, and participated in the
late campaign OH the Democratic
side, In Alabama. The Herald. of
the 9Th of August, contained the
following striking picture of the
actual state of things in Aiatama:
1--WE went to Lowndes county
week before last to assist in
the canvass. Ga tie night of our
arrival we spoke to small audi.
encs In the Court House. We
never met kinder people than we
found in Lowndes. The white
people of the county are laboripg
earnestly by acts Of kindness to
convince the colored people that
the tales circulated by their vicious
leaders are untrue"
ION Wednesday Of last week
barbecue was given, to which all
were invited, irrespective of party
or race. 1t was the incest affair " Q
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 the COL
ored people in Lowndes were will.
ing to forget the past and clasp
hands over the bloody chasm."
"Up until last month colored
men never voted their sentiments,
because Of the bull.dozing carried
on by the Radicals"
"If colored man voted the
Democratic ticket he was afraid to
confess IL or let 1t be known. Doz.
ems of colorcd men In Lowndes will
testify to this. There may be
places where the Democrats bull
doze, but we have yet to visit q
place that comes up to this. This
Is owing to the wicked teachers in
politics that these poor people have
had among them. A young man,
Frank Hamilton, said in our face
at Burksville, last Saturday, that
any man who voted a Democratic
ticket sis a
evidently endeavoring to provoke a
fuss. Austin Chapel, at the same
time and place, said that If the
other coIored men were of his
mind, they would take the id
traitors (meaning colored Demo.
crats) into the woods and hang
them. 1t is prominent fact that
colored men in that county have
been .dozed and frightened
into sticking to the Radical ma
chine. and until recently dared not
vote their sentiments and make 1t
known. Let Mr.. Hayes send SOL
diers down there to protect these
honest citizens in thu exercise of
the elective franchise. But, thank
God, the sun of liberty has arisen
in Lowndes, and more than a
thousand colored men voted the
Democratic ticket there last Mon.
day, and will hereafter be protected
from the assaults of the bull-dozer."
The Southern States. having re.
turned to their rightful statue as
sovereign members of the Ameri.
can Union, 1t is high time that
they should be allowed to re-estab-
lish their old time prosperity and
social well.being, In their own
way, without being lied about by
Northern Republican newspapers
ana orators. Our opponents are
utterly mistaken In thinking that
they can play profltably upon this
Key. The American people see
With unspeakable disgust the at
tempt to re.establish the old Re-
publican regime OF Northern inter.
meddIing at the South. The tri-
umphant election of Hancock, the
advocate Of harmony and reconcile
laflQn. will ha fhalr ana NOR fo Ahia