National Republican., 1882-07-05
The House Pctting the Bourbons.


On Monday in the House of Repre-
ecntatives, on motion of Mr. Manning, of
Mississippi, who ought to have been
voted out of the scat he usurps months
ago, the rules were suspended and bill
passed appropriating $4,000 for the erec-
tion of public building at Oxford, Miss.
We call this the most audacious demand
ever made upon Congress, and the most
sickening subserviency ever exhibited
by Congressman. In the good old days
of slavery, when Boston mobbed her abo-
litionists and when Doughfaceism was
the willing servant of the Fire-Eaters,
the line would have been drawn at such
proposition as this bill. Oxford is the
home of Senator Lamar II is the seat
OF learning in the State of Mississippi.
Its classic name is appropriate in
view of the fact that it contains the
University of Mississippi. In that insti-
tuition Senator Lamar, as its professor of
law, formerly taught the youth of his
State TO reverence the law. There he
trained them in the science of govern
ment. There they drank in the doctrine
of Jefferson that call governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed" And from quafiing that high
atmosphere, Mr.. Lamar foated into the
Senate in 1875 on Democratic majority
of 10000, as against Republican majority
of a like number the year before. The
Mississippi plan," then inaugurated,
was exceedingly simple, consisting of
substituting the brutal will of the few for
the votes of the many. 1t cost many
lives, and subverted Republican govern
ment, but it was success. 1t has pre-
vailed in Mississippi ever since. There
has been no election in that State since
that time, although Bourbon bulldozers
and ballot-box suffers 60 through the
motions and make such returns as they
please.
At the November election in 1880, al
which Mr.. Manning claims to have been
elected, there was highly interesting
performance at this same city of Oxfoia
The voting was taking place at two poll.
ing windows on opposite sides of the
courthouse. This building is inclosed
in public square. Although the two
races did not vote separately, they were
reaching the polling places through op-
posite gates into the public square. That
is to say, by common consent the
negro voters used one gate and
the whites the one on the opposite
side of the square. No negroes APP
preached the gate used by the whites.
The colored voters were out in great
numbers, the voting precinct extending
back into the country. If these negroes
were allowed to vote the Bourbons would
be unable to elect () Mr. Manning. The
remedy was not wanting to avert such q
disaster. The negroes were waiting in
orderly manner for their chance to vote.
They were great crowd. The whites
were not crowded at their gate. Then
some Bourbon Democrats found it very
necessary TO enter into the square at the
same gate with the blacks. They were
not afraid of "negro equality" for that
purpose. They complained of the crowd
at the gate. The Bourbon mayor ordered
out the Bourbon cannon, which had
been in use with the party for the
purpose, some said, of soaring negroes
into the belief that there was going
to be violence, and had the mur.
derous weapon aimed at ths crowd
Of negroes, LOADED, and FIRED. Ofcourse
the crowd did not remain in range of it.
The firing was kept up for hours, and
great numbers of the Republican voters
gave up trying to vote and went home
The cannon was fred by Bourbon
alderman, who swore to having done SO