New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-23
MORE AgoUr TIE BLOODY SHIFT

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MORE ABOUT TIE BLOODY SHIFT
We beg nardon IN advance of those delicate
and sensitive persons who would much prefer
that if negroes and other Republicans are to DC
murdered in the South for opinions sake, thoy
would allow themselves to be murdered peace
ally and without fuss. We dislike to shock
thc nerves of persons so dainty constituted
that they would rather have crimes of this kind
go unrcbul,cd than to be obliged to talk about
them. We give them fair warning. Let them
brace themselves We propoSe-awl"i th"'Sh' :
to wave the bloody shirt
First, we want to add little to the facts al
ready know regarding the Copiah County
murder in Mississippi We have shown that
the Democrats met in masSmccting alter the
murder of Matthews, and warned any one OF
his relatives who should attempt to aycnSc his
death. that they would be considered without
the pale and protection of the law and common
enemies of society" and told the Matthews
family fo "kccp ont Of politics under a
plainlv implied penalty of death. II appears
rro,, tbc statements of Thc jackson Tribune
tbot Matthews. who was the chairman of the
Rcpublicm Executive Committee of the county,
was commanded by an armed body of men on
fine doy before election not to attempt to vote.
At the head of thi, band was Wheeler the
man who. on the next day, as Matthews turned
away from the poll, after casting ms vote sh"t
him dead. II adds littl" 10 the interest ol the
incident 20 know that Wheeler is the "p"ac'
officer" of the precinct. This murder had been
preceded by series OF Outragcs IN that section
bands of armed men riding about at night hrlhs
into houses, whipping negroes, and killing one.
Matthews lived and was killed in llazlcWrst,
the county seat, and we give the proclamation
of the Mayor following the murder. which
ought TO be preserved with the ~ycrdict by
the coroner--not jury-which was published
the other day:
HAIEIHURsT. Ho,cnibrr =. ls-i.
Wiosra A. there has been for the past few days moro
OF ie-, excitement, and women nnd chIrn have De
nl, , alarmed aud hu.luc-- -lI,uIut. the town now
demand, order restored and as Hnyor o. Tie town oi
ull.inri with iho 49,, t1u.' Of the sheriff ~ C'piHh
Couuty ana the chl'ru1u oi tbc Democratic Executive
COMMITTEE we promise aIl protection under the Law
And further ,clu,-l m pence officer, 10 see ut. I'"
and order o.. rr-i"rd, nd c ON citizens IN Tie town io
lt ili ,ur No. competent police force will hc pro
,lcd fog. ion any occasion 10 protect li' liberty ana
property. J.. = "Li'N"'"N' '''''''
II isuot surprising that after The Democratic
citizens of llplclhursr had held q ma.s-mcrling
and announced policy OF continued murder
AGAINST al who should attempt TO punish or
aycusc murder the Mayor should not
feel justified iu promising al protection under
thc law" until lac was auc of the cO-opcraiion
of fine chairman of the Democratic Executive
Corumit,cc"; bat the incident illustrates the
G.aicc Of civilization existing in Copial County.
we do not presume to crticisr IT, however If
yr understand the position of those who dep
rcr;,tc "thc bloody shirt tho-" who condemn
such acts, andnot those who commit them, are in
the wrong.
Take another point Of view. The Chicago
Tribune in answer to qucrulous Southern news
papers, has been at the trouble Of collecting the
statistics Of lynching, and executions in The
South in the past two years. In lSS2 out OF
scvcnty-minc persons hanged fitysiX were
NEGROES out of ffty-tlrcc lyuchcd fouy-cight
were negroes Thus far in 1883, siAty-iom
have been hanged, of whom iorly-scycn were
ncg!ocs; sixty -four have been lynclcd, Of
whom forty-siV were negroes. 4 much larger
number probably, have been killed by whites,
where no notice has been taken of the event.
II is stated that in all these 2GO cases the
charge was that of numbering whites, but in
III eases there WAS no legal evidence, and in
many no trial. THE Chicago Tribune challenges
its Southern contemporaries to name a ease in
those two years, or in the past eighteen years.
where white man has been lynchcd. or
hanged, or in any way troubled for numbering
a negro. It is useless to answer that these fig
urcs merely prove that most of the crimes are
committed by negroes. II is notorious that
many negroes are killed by whites, and these
figures prove that the Southern people are not
in the habit Of furnishing such crimes.
Take still another point of view. The Re
publican Committee Of Buchanan County No.
has been issuing 4 circular for the instruction
of voters showing in striking way the cX-
tent OF minority rule at the South. The APP
porlionmcnt of 1882 fixed a population OF
ijl, 800 rs the unit of representation in the
House of Representatives. The Committee
contrast five States or the North and 1--WE OF the
South, showing the vote cast in each Congress
sional District in 1882. The average vote of
the Iowa districts was 2G.2GG. of the Georgia
districts ii $50; of the Wisconsin districts,
/ 2I,32I. Of the Alabama districts, 1914; in
Ncw-Jclscy 29,37l, in South Carolina,
| 1856; in Maryland, 2G,l7G, in Mississippi,
1927; in .linncaota. 20l25, in Louisiana
! 1876. The average vote in these Southern
States is Just onn-hnlr ihc average vote in Or
/ Noithc,u state; namcd-l3, S53 against 2G.7ts.
/ Ina other words, one voter in The south counts
/ for rs much - two IA the North. sometimes by
means Of frard, sometimes OF Intimidation.
! And there Is no telling I'D what extent fraud has
swellcd even thcao email votes reported from
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