Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1880-09-16

ian, Mississippi, to the Indianapolis
Journal:
Il feel it my duty to write to you
this letter in the hour of our desperate
need. There is no free speech here
Everything is under the control of the
old secession leaders. | was
ordered to leave Pelahatchie (MiSS..( a
few days since because I remarked
that Garfield is good man. l was
informed in Butler, Alabama, that if i
was not Democrat 1 must leave the
town. was in both places on bust
ness. The old Thirty-fifth
know me and / ask the boys to vote
the way they fought. 1 will never
vote another Democratic ticket so long
as God spares my Ffe.'
Every intelligent Democrat must
know that free speech, free expression
Of opinion and free, fair elections are
not permitted in any of the Southern
States: and every intelligent Democrat
who claims, as we often hear, that
there is as much freedom in those
States as in the Moth, knowingly and
wilfully utters falsehood. 1t is the
strangest thing to Us that Democrats
who are apparently honest and truth
irul upon other matte:s, will stand up
in the face of truth as clear as the noon
day sun and wontonly lie about the
condition of the people in the South.
They certainly know that a cause de-
pending on the most palpable false
hood, while it may meet with temper
arv success, must be ultimately over
thrown by the honest masses who have
been deceived and wronged.
Here is more testimony from an Ar
kansas paper, the Helena Yeonaa, of
late date:
"Tbe man who thinks he can lead an
opposition agar st the organized De-
mOcracy of Phillips cOunoy is not only
presumpt;ous but extremely bold. He
will require body guard equal to the
whole number of voters in the Demo-
cato ranks, and Cibra' tar in his rear
on the day CT election"
What does such a waning mean
1t certainly carnot be construed to
mean that every man, every party, may
freely present their claims and p-in-
ciples to free and unbranded constit-
uency? No, the man who dares ad-
vOcate anything but Democracy will
not only be 't1ores,snpt,tous but ertreme-
ly bold" and The presumptuo.is fellow
who is so bold as to claim his rights
as an American citizen 10 be a Repub-
lican or a Greenbacker, and advocate
his principles, will need "Gibralter'
to back him up. Ca Tyirg out the I'M
democratic teachings of the Yeoma7a,
which is the Southern idea, plan and
PRACTICE eve; ywhere is how the Green
hackers in Arkansas were defeated on
the 9Th inst, by more than forty thOus-
and majority. Weaver had been down
there, and there was real danger that
the State would elect the Greenback
Governor, hence such presumption"
was nipped in the bud, and fair cleo
ton denied.
Here is another rich morsel for De-
mocracy, taken from the Memphis 40
q a7lche:
I'VE do not advocate (any longer the
use of the shotgun or the bull whip,
but We do hold that the white or black
Republican should be regarded as a so
cial leper to lie shunned, despised and
hated-that, in future, he should re-
ceive no favor or recOgnirion-thatt the
last farJbing should be relentlessly ex-
acted, and that all kindness of manner
toward him should cease"
is not This pretty advocacy for a
leading city and SGate paper. The 40
cIGncne is to the city of Memphis and
the South what the I:1ter Ocean and
the New York T.. sV,t1ae are to Chicago,
New York city and The North. What
would the readers of those latter pa
perS in the Republican North think if
they should print such inhuman recon-
mendations? They would regardit as
insult to Their loyalty to Republican
government, and their education which
has imbued them with principles of
justice and the sacredness of every
mans right to think and vote as he
pleases. But the Aot Ia1ache, lack ing
such eonObliDg pr nciples. touches re-
spoDsive cho d in the hearts of it's
thousands Of readers who also lack
such principles, holding the success of
party above all human, lawful or cou-
Stitut;opal rights.
The following is an extract from the
speech of an Alabama Democrat, made
in joint discussion with Randall, the
greelbacEer:
1.-THE confederacy still EXISTS, my
friends, and JEDI. DAVIS, the best friend
we evec had, is yet our president 2nd
devoted to QUO interests, and is Han
cock is elected. and we have no doubt
he will be, you viii be paid for all the
property you have lost through Taiica
rule, and you most stand Dv the great
democratic party, for solid south
will now give us the entire coatrol of
the general government, and we can
redress all wrongs"
The democratic crowd present ap-
plauded these senseless remarks, and
the greenbacker was disCUrbed aad
compelled to leave the platform before
he had finished his speech.
And so we might go on aud Ell our
columns with such extracts, proviog,
beyond all question, what the leading
Democrats of the South preach and |
their followers practice.