The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-22
From Harper's Weekly.
MAKING A "SOLID SOUTH"

FROM harper weekly.
MAKING A "SOLID SOUTH"
Extensive preparations are making to secure
solid SOUTH and "a free vote and fail
count Readers OF the newspapers will have
observed Ex-Governor Perry's eIhortauon in
South Carolina:
Every true Democrat and every honorable
man should Use up in the majesty Of his
strength, and swear on tne altar OF his country
and his God that this Republican success
shall not be, let the consequences be what they
may. TIE poor, miserable unprincipled white
man who tries to restore the Radical party TO
power in South Carolina should be socially os-
tracsed, and not even spoken 10 on the streets.
He should be treated as an enemy to his race
The colored man should be told that his leaders
are making tool OF him only TO crafty their
pitable ambition and have a chancs OF stealing
his hard earnings. He should be told, too, that
il be will vote to place rogues and scoundrels
in Office and power, no honorable Democrat
will employ him in any way. This should be re-
solved on and adhered to throughout the State
social ostracism for the white man. and no
employment for the colored man."
The Aiken (South CArolina) Journal and Re-
view remarks:
:" The negroes are forming all over the coun-
try. 1t then behooves the Democrats to go to
work at once and forestall the plans of the
Radicals. The first thing to be done Is to re-
organize the red-shirt mounted clubs. Let ev-
cry meeting. Democratic or Radical, be fully
attended by them
body's ears to the pump:
1--WE do not advocate the use of the shot
gun or the bullwhip. We do advocate full use
OF such means as we can use lawfully We
mean that the white-skinned man who. joins
with the corrupt remains OF the party OF cor
rupton IN this State should be social leper-
shunned. despised, and hated. We mean that
the white-sklnned man or negro who deber-
ately enters the fight for Radical State ticket
Will do so with the understanding that he Will
hereafter receive no favors or recognition from
white men. Let them understand that there
will be no employment for them where 1t is
possible to avoid it; that there will be no cred
it given them; that from them the last farthing
will be relentlessly exacted that the kindness
OF masters will cease"
The Red-Shirt clubs aud the general white
Democratic attendance at Republican meetings
are the present form OF Ku-Klux. The more
active and heroic methods of midnight hunt
ing, marrying, ecourging, and ear-cropping of
Republicans, the fragrant terror Of "the Mis-
sssippi PLAN and the shotgun, have largely
subdued and suppressed the Republican voters
in the districts where they are majority, so
that tissue ballots and false counts Will now
generally secure the desired result Bat the
Democrats are still obliged to take some trou-
bic, as appears from this recent special dispatch
to the Columbia Register, describing Repub-
lican meeting at Abbeville
The Radicals are in session. nominating
delegates to the State convention. There was
a slim turnout. The stores are closed and the
Democrats Will attend.
Later-rhe meeting was captured by the
Democrats. Colonel Gotham, and wallingford,
an elector on the Greenback ticket Of Indiana,
made speeches, and the RAIDS dispersed
The usual Democratic treatment OF these
facts is either to sheer that to allude to them is
to wave the bloody shirt and to foster wicked
sectionalism, OF else to dismlss them with the
remark that If q majority permits q minority to
impose upon 1t, there is nothing to be done.-