The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1883-01-19


1t is bad idea to Grub salt on old
Sores" but as the question has been
asked, "where are the Southern out
ragesg we propose to revert to it for a
moment What leads to this inquiry is
the fact that more than two months has
elapsed since an election was held only
second in Importance to Presidential
election, and yet from all the vast terri
tory not single wall of "Southern out
rage has gone up. 1t is well known
fact to all intelligent people that the
Republican party in the South has ex-
listed since the war only by creating
strife and attempting to array the col
ored race solidly against the whites.
This succeeded for the time being fed
by all the vituperation that men irfa-
nous in nfamy could concoct to widen
the breach. A "Southern outrage
was a sweet morsel to roll under their
unhallowed tongues. 1t was insisted
upon by carpet baggers and scallawags
that the colored voters OF the South
were intim; dated and bulldozed until
there was no chance for them to exer-
else the franchise given them under the
law. The people of the South know
that of all classes the colored voter votes
earlier and oftencr than any other. He
has never been deprived of the privilege
of the ballot box, and of all Others he
uses it the most freely. But, as we
have stated, not u single instance of
Southern outrage has been reported,
this too, with the mail and telegraph
lines open to all and the South full of
Republican oflicc-holders, black and
white. From one end of the
country to the other the election
day was as quiet as any other,
and in many places one must have
been told so TO have known that an
election was being held. 1t has been
suggested that past experience has
shown that the bad treatment of one
negro for political reasons is much
more quickly published to the world
than the good treatment of fifty for
any reason whatever. This is true,
therefore the irresistible conclusion is
that the negroes were not disturbed to
any visible extent in the recent exercise
of the right of suffrage, else we should
most assuredly have heard OF it through
the usual Republican channels.
The last election developed the fact
that the negroes of the South have
grown tired of being the slaves of North
ern Republicans, and have thrown of
the shackles which robbed them of their
liberties. They felt that in large de-
gree they owed their liberation from
slavery to the Republican party, but
they also feel that sixteen years Of
cnrvit ,,la ,tpIa,. c,tpb cly as
tiers have compensated for whatever
debt OF gratitude they owed. Those
things combined with the interest that
must naturally attach to being in har-
mony with their white friends among
whom they live, has brought a change
over the spirit Of their dreams. and
they acted and voted with the Democrat
ic party
And, again, the fact is that the copn-
try has become heartily sick and tired
OF the Southern outrage" business,
as worked up by romancers, that it has
ceased to find enough believers to pay
for the time and trouble expended
thereon. The Republicans are natur
ally unwilling to acknowledge this, but
very few Republicans are now will ing
to swallow the stories which, but q
short while ago, constituted the main
portion of the party creed, and, so the
campaign managers have wisely dis
continued the manufacture. What the
next device will lie to "lire the North
ern heart" it is impossible to guess.
but there is a cheerful probab lity that
henceforth the two races will be able tC
settle their own differences in their owl
way, and live together in peace and
harmony, without the evil influences o.
Republican falsehoods. 1t has taker
seventeen years to bring about this con
dition of affairs, but its present ant
prospective benefits promise to amply
atone for the delay. Columbus (Ga.
Enquirer.