Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-25
S urhern Society.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l.

WASHlN6TON, aug. IL
j. II. Randall, one of the speakers
whom the Greenbackers sent TO Alabama,
has written an account of his adventures
National Vieu, the Greenback organ
published here by the Secretary of the
Matte nal Greenbsck COMMITTEE: A grand
barbecue was held at Kiser H,.l, it being
understood that the time would be divided
between Greenback and Democratic
speakers. One OF the speakers, with
whom the audience seemed to be in
sympathy, included in his speech the fol-
lowing:
The Confederacy still exists, my friends, and
JEFF DAVIS, the best friend ever had, ts yet
our President and devoted to our interests and II
Hancock is elected, and we have no doubt he will
be, you will be paid for all the property you have
lost through radical rule, and you must stand by
the great Democratic party, for solid South will
now give Us entire control of the general govern
ment, 8 ID we can redress all our wrongs.
In this strain he continued for thirty
minutes. When Randall attempted to
speak, some In the audience cried out,
1--WE don't want any damned Yankee to
come here and talk to US. We had better
shut him up" AS soon as these men had
been Quoted, Randall attempted to pro-
coed. He had talked about twenty
minutes when brass band from Missis-
sippi, which had been hired by the Demo-
Gratis, began to play and drowned his
voice. The Democrats told Randall
that they could not control the
band, and the music continued.
At last Randall got another chance to
talk, but the band soon played again, and
there was such confusion that he was
compelled to stop. "Our treatment by
the Bourbons," says Randall, made
70 <hav,
greenback speech that any advocate of
our cause could deliver The Demo.
cratic speakers were not interrupted. The
band came from Shubuda, a neighboring
village in Mississippi When Randall
had filled his engagements he went to
Shubuda to take train for the South
He walked into the business part of the
village to get drink or water, and there
he was surrounded by men who cursed
him and declared that
HE OUGHT TO BE KILLED.
On his way back to the depot he was
| approached by well-dressed and sober
man, who gave him the following note:
AUGUST /, 1880.
DEAR SIR: We will give you and your party
thir y-ave minutes to pick up your buds and get
''' - '' THE BOYS OF sHUBUDA.
Mr.. Randall expressed establishment at
the intimation that peaceful and law
abiding man could not stay in the place
until the next train LETT, but was informed
that he must go to the next station. '"You
had better get out" said the bulldozers,
"while you have chance. Your time
Is passing. You'd better get right along,
or you'll catch hell" Randall appealed
to other men for protection, and at first
thoro ccononH fo no como no hill hat
he would get it, but as soon as the bull
dozers had explained that he was Green.
back speaker,-"a white man with
black heart, come down
here to divide the Democratic
party,"-the conversation took another
turn. The bulldozers withdrew for ten
minutes, and then returned aud told Ran
dali that his time was up. He again pro-
tested and found some bystanders who
took his part, advising the bulldozers to
let him alone. The bul,dozers again
withdrew, and soon alter Randall went to
the depot and bought his ticket. While
in the depot, the bulldozers again appear.
ed and surrounded him, saying that if be
ever came to the place again they would
fix him. They demanded the note of
warning, and Mr.. Randall gave 1t up to
avoid trouble. Mr.. Randall says:
Every man except one constituting the bull
doing I'D was sober, well-dressed, and as
firm In their demands upon us as any crowd of
It's disposition and intentions could be. Hence
there Is DO excuse Tor them or the town upon the
basis OF lntoXtcstlOn.''
In reviewing the situation, he says:
We do not think the respectable people of
Shubu "a lncorsed the conduct of these bull
dozers, but We do think them respons Bile for the
lack OF spirit OF liberation through that Bourbo
rid IN country and that this il difference breeds
ar6 y
condu It as leads halfdozcn q dozen to attack
| one, or behind mask to shoot or stab enemy
| In &c dark. The fact Is, while Democrats as
rule do not approve of this conduct, vet all thos,
| guilty OF IT. are Democrats, and they want no
me nut Democratc meetings., nc rSie but
Democratic rule, and prefer that everything els :;
should keep out Of the country. The effect Of
this rule is to corrugt pubic sentiment stultify
| the feelings OF manhood and humanity, and TO
| get men minglipg in local and state IS well as
| national politics in such a condition, with the
| feeling that they are born rulers that there ia
| nothing in the way of fraud, dishonesty, bull.
| DOING or even murder, that they cannot be
brought to commit and even Justify in the courts
| In the South. Solid South, and the election of
| Hancock means os racism AMI destruction of the
| Independent and Greenback parties in the South
as wei as the Republican party and no votes to
| be counted opposed to Bourbon laws, Bourbon
administrations and county rim rule.
Speaking of the manipulation of the
| returns, he says that the Sheriff gave GER
tifcates to two Greenbackers emitting
them to admission to the final count, but
that they were passed out. After writing
at some length upon the condition of the
South, and declaring that it is in the
hands of an unrelenting star.cham Der
Bourbonism, which inevitably will under
mine and ruin our government, he con.
cludes as follows: "Considering that,
taken as whole, the northern and south
ern states represent two entirely different
civilizations, the simple question for the
people to decide Is: Which shall reign
the inferior or the superior?
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