Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Aspect Of Parties How the Campaign
Is Now Being shaped.
Plain Truths--Why the South Prefers
the Bayonct TO Negro Rule.
Texans at tho Cap,tal--vlsitors aud
Place Hunters.

weeks ago the Republicans of this city
and the political ahd partisan think
Ing Of the country, ~ all the states are
affected 10y II, converges hero, con- ,
iessed In sadness that the next would
be u Democratic administration. Ohio
had spoken, and the dictum
of this state was accepted ~
final. But the overthrow of Mshone
was that of the tabled giant who gath
cred invincihlc strength from contact
with mother earth. The aith,er, tho
strouger he became, The Danylile
"nassacrcn and slaughter OF some
ccs constituting only the preface to
tho story OF coming blooishod and vi
olcnce, if Ipgcrsoll and Blaine and
s,nlwarts and halfbreeds, IA now nj
lied, have their way, have
consolidated Northern sentimentalism
and Northern dread of rebel domino
ton, ngains, the South, and aud thus
against the Democratic party. The
change In the political aspect of the
country was instantaneous, Demo
cratic victory In Virginia was IA fatal
IVA that In OHIO, for II Inspired hope
and confidence.
THEY poN'r UNDERSTAND IN
The people OF the North
have no Just apprehension
of the condition OF society on
OF the relations OF races In
the South They aseribe each
conflict between white and black
nobs 10 the spirit of aeccssionam,
The negro In Northern eyes Ia the
Union aud "Jen Davlan kills every
negro that falls In any rencounter.
Adherence and dread OF negro eu-
premncy IA only n development OF
nreber devotion To the def,lnct con-
fcdcracy Northern multitudes believe
this with all their hearts. Moreover,
they have no conception OF the tcrrors
OF negro domination, aud do not know
that the south prefers military
doapotism TO the away OF the ne kro, or
of thoac whom the Blacks would In
vest with power aud Office. They
have never learned hero what we do
know, that bayonct rule IL TO bc pre-
ferred 10 thatof carpet-baggcrs or Of
white men deprayed enough Ia
become assoclntea aud icaders of
these blackA and hold office Mt
their hands. They never felt
the weight of the Negroes heel upon
their neclss as upon ours In Mississippi
and South Carolina aud Louisiana,
ana N narrow districts of Texas.
Christianity, patriotism aud more
than Christ Hike mepkness were eSler-
clsed when Governor Moses OF South
Carolina, nov cutting stone In slug
Sing, stnped through Sanlbo's Inter
vention. the destiniea OF South Caro-
lima, and the sanity kellogg and
Yarmouth those of Louisiana. North
crn people know nothing OF
the dcpravity of power welded
by men like Governor scott,
nude governor hy these same
Ing stolen several hundred Thousand
dnllars from thostate treasury, became
n gildcd citizen of Indiana or Illinois,
and only "A few yaurs ngo deliberately
shot druggist 10 death because ho
sold glpu,s of whisky 10 hia Aon as de-
prayed ns the father, Northern poo
po never heard OF The intolerable bur
deus of taxation imposed by negro
legislatures One Of these
negro.ehosen bodies sent II
sort of tariff commission 10 New York
TO contract for carpets for the stats
house and public offices of South Car
ollnn. We remember, M philanthro.
pic Northern people do not, that this
body of negioes and carpet-bnggers,
representing tn state. supplied the
capitol and governors mansion oiiicga
with homespnn rng carpets while each
negro's dwelling place was made
gorgeous by Axnliustor and Turkey.
IN MIssissIpPI
The negroes and their allies, for u
time, were supreme everywhere
In Mississippi Senator Morton then
visited tho state remember that nc
that period, lSG9.T-s, the old
nnstors ol the blacks Htlll
lived. The kindliest possible In
terrace relations still nubslpted, and
the negroes out-voted the whites. The
old masters have slowly disappeared.
The politicians hive done their worst,
and the races lbenpeforwnrd were
slowly but steadily more and more
widely separated from one another
The politicians, finally, and the orders
came down from Washington, organ
lied parties IN the South dis
solely by race TEXTURES.
The question Of uDioni-in or sccosion-
ism was not involved. Every perma-
Dent citizen of the South, whether OF
Northern or Southern birth. unless u
aud thus paid for trenson
10 his convictions OF right, was forced
10 tolerate. however he detestcd II, tbs
lille Of nDemoerapp Southern pee
Die acted frat sdid eailfornians when
threatened with the denomination OF the
Chinese or as would frontlersmen In
contact with Indians. unhnppily
when a white man kills a red
ran, Northern sympathy II with
.ho white man, but when
, negro falls and Ia both cases the rcd
.nd black In each collision 20 down,
md rarely the more Dngnncious white
when "A negro falls the North
i batbed In tears. aud the slayer, In
Northern eyes, is Jeff Davis, and Jcii
Dayia IL the South, and the South u
and the Union hates the
south, and cowards everywhere do
rembe and dread another rebellion,
md Ingersoll llowls and Jim Blaine
cara his hair and the negro,
..nnrn..l and nrninioiIa Ia flada 10 L0.