Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-09-05
A CONVERTED BOURBON.

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lima, announces himself as an indepen-
dent candidate for Congress. Judge
Mackey was a Confederate soldier, and
of late mas been an active Democrat.
He is an uncle of +. W. NJ. Mackey, an
earnes, Republican, recently seated in
Congress from South Carolina. After
the war he became an earnest Union
man, and was appointed trial justice
under the Military Government. He
was elected State Circuit Judge in 1872
by 4 Republican legislature, and was
reelected BY the Democratic Legislature
to the same position in 1876. In 1876
he took the stump for Tildeu and Hamp
ton. Thereafter he was bulldozer Of
the most approved type. He is repre-.
sented as fearless man; as ready with
his revolver as with his tongue. He has
no superiors in the State as stump
speaker, and promises-if not shot before
the campaign is over-to tell some
wholesome truths TO the ruling powers in
the state, with whose plans and past
history he is perfectly familiar. The
following interesting extracts from his
address, which Is headed The Unholy
Sacrament of Fraud, are specimen
bricks Of those he will throw at the
Bourbons:
Il announce myself as a candidate for
Congress from the 9Th Congressional Dis
,ric,. / make this announcement in
obedience to the wish Of large number
o; my fellow citizens who speak from the
RANKS Of the people. recognize their
call as a protest against the disas-
trous misrule that now upholds itself in
South Carolina under the falsely assam-
Cd name Of Democracy. 1t builds It's
power on broken constitutions and
clothes itself with fraud as with gar
ment. The open and notorious violation
Of the sanctity Of the ballot under the d.
rection OF Democratic leaders has repelled
capital from this state, as the dead line
Of American civilization. Opinion is
power, and American public opinion
controls the movements OF American cap
ital it will not hazard itself in State
where the solemn obligation Of an oath
is deemed less sacred than allegiance to
party, and where perjury at ballot-box
is assured protection at the jury box.
Ii shrinks from a land of perpetual I'M
rest, whose rulers constantly proclaim to
the world that over it is impending the
danger Of negro supremacy and the conse-
quent impairment of all values. =
Colored citizens no not and will not chal-
lenge white supremacy. When this Is
the true issue | shall stand on
the line Of my race and march 10 fate
abreast with it but the colored people
have not attempted to assert their race
majority by even nominating State
ticket since 1876. | advocate for them
fair representation in the Legislative
and Executive departments of the Gov
eminent This is needed as q measure
of repose for the State and is de-
manded by every consideration Of pol.
icy and justice = = = The Bourbon Dem
ocrats sound the false alarm of NEGRO
rule to keep the discOntentented white
workingman from breaking ranks and
trampling their ring rule under foot. = !,
General Hampton, speaking for the
Democratic party, said in his speech at
Chercaw, September 20, 1876: 1--WE
recognize this as land of free speech, a
free ballot, free press, and land OF
free men," Read this declaration in the |
light of the recent election law, which |
disfranehises majority of the colOred
voters and not less than $4,000 white !
voters, nearly all the latter being ex-Con-
federate soldiers.
These causes are sufficient to account
for the fact that although South Carroll
ma is inhabited by brave, generous and
hospitable people, and her genial climate
woos the immigrant to her cheap and
fertile lands, yet, out of her 5000, 900 |
acres of arabic land there are only SIX
million in cultivation. The great tides
Of immigration that are steadily flowing |
into other States never cross our borders.
We have magnificent waterfalls which
should be turning millions of spindles,
that are finging their spray in the sun
light, as idle to-day as when centuries
ago the plumed Indian shot down them
in bark canoe.
In the States of the North money is
borrowed readily on mortgage at per ct.
per annum, while in our rural districts
the farmer pays from eighteen to twenty
five per cent. and the regular bank rate is
one per cent. per month. In the midst
of this money famine the people appeal
10 the Legislature in vain for relief against
the phosphate and railroad monopolists
who are grinding them to powder. Men
who hold office by the grace of the man
ayers of elections, and not by the free
votes of the majority, are not apt to feel
very sensibly their obligations to the peo-
pie.