St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-30
The Race War.

HOW THE SHOT GUN POLICY WORKS.
The Washington Republican prints
what purpOrts to he interviews with
Senator Sherman and Murat Halstead.
Senator Sherman is reported as saying:
~ have read Mahone's address, and
think it an honest and manly state
ment. | think when "A chairman of a
democratic executive committee can
shoot man down in cold blood and
then boast of it, and tell the coroner
there is no need of an inquest, because
he was ready to avOw the killing;
when the sheriff don't dare to arrest
the murderer, and when such things as
the murders of those negroes in Dan
vile go unpublished, it is time the old
war cry was raised. The men who are
doing these things are fast stirring up
the public feeling of the north to fever
heat. | am not very eXcitable man
myself, but when learn of such acts
as these | am not disposed to look with
any degree of cOmplacency upon a
prospect of democratic ascendency next
year. | believe that the perpetrators
of these outrages are sowing dragons
teeth. | know that if they continue it
will make the entire north against
them, and that means the success of
the republican party. If we forced a
sectional issue which there was no
cause for, we should gain no advant-
age; but if they force that issue upon
us, as they are doing, it will make us
victorious"
Murat Halstead of Cincinnati says {:
aSl-a | of
manifesto. In the first place | think
| that he has told the truth. That the
facts are exactly as he states them with
respect to the Danville massacre. |
am not sure of the accuracy of his OBJ
servatiOns with respect to the finances
of Virginia. But am not aware that
any important politician of Virginia
has right to challenge Malone as IL
repudiator. 1t occurs to me to be clear
| that the readjusters were i'll majority
in Virginia, and that the bourbOns de-
termined to overcome that majority by
| cultivating race preiudices and causing
excitement, deliberately planning to
commit murder by the wholesale so as
to draw the color line, establish n
reign of terror and carry the state for
the benefit of the democratic party.
| This was done, not merely as Il local
matter, but that the solid south should
be preserved for the democracy and
used to control the national govern
ment. 1t is the purpose of the bOur-
bOns of the south not to permit colored
citizens to vote anywhere"
1t is not alone i'll Virginia that this
! feeling exists of hostility to the negro
race and to republicans and northern
ers generally. In Copiah county, Mis-
sissippi, on election day, j. p. Mat
was shot and killed ut the polls in
Hazelhurst. He had previously been
warned by party headed by the chair
man of the democratic county com
mittee, that he would be shot if he
went to the polls. The Vicksburg
Post, democratic paper, thus men
tons the affair =
A free ballot and a fair count does
not seem to be the motto of the Copiah
county democracy. In an attempt to
cast his vote at Hazelhurst, Matthews
received Il charge of twenty -four buck
shot in his face, killing him instantly.
He went to the polls single handed and
alone, and in the attempt to exercise
his privilege of American citizenship,
was shot down like dog. 1t will in-
jure the good name and material pros
perity of the state. Every bullet that
was shot into Matthews will be worth
thousands of votes to the republicans,
because it will be said, and it cannot
he denied, that he was killed on ac-
count of his politics by intolerant de-
| mOcrats