Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-11-29

MALONE ON BOURBON CAMPAIGN
DOINGS.

| MALONE ON BOURBON CAMPAIGN
DOINGS.
The Race Issue-NegrOes WantOnly
= Butchered-- Success
ful-Mahone's Defiance.
The address asserts that the Re-
iuster party came into being as the
expression of the popular will con~
corning the st tie debt, the rights
| of citizens in the matter of suffrage
and free education, the protection
of all people under the laws, and
the relations existing and to exist
between the state and federal gov
ernment'
The assertion is then made pos
sitively that the recent election was
not a fair and unrestralned ,e ex-
preston of popular will: The
adoption of the ''coIor line as the
Bourbon campaign cry, after its re-
lection by the Lynchburg Conven>
I ton, when it was still hoped to
/ profit by the votes of colored cltl>
zens, is ascribed to desperation.
THE RACE ISSUE PREDOMINANT.
The bourbons ''seized upon the race
issue. chanted, chorused and IN
toned it until, wrought up TO fever
heat, it became their sole, only, and
absorbing theme-screamed in
threatening frenzy, fierce and be-
wildering as the dance and song OF
the Carmagnole in the days OF the
Sans,Culotte. As early as Septem-
per leading bourbon editor an
nounced to member OF our party
| in a public piece that the bourbon
plan of campaign was to buy all
they could and bully the remainder.
How faithfully this programme was
| carried out the sequel will show
What was at that time regarded as
a sententious piece of badinage has
now been realized as the dim fore
sEadowing of a bloody truth"
PRELUDE TO THE DANvILLE TRAGEDY.
After stating that impassioned ap-
peals were made by the Bourbon
speakers against the alleged read
iuster purpose to elevate blacks
above whites, the address continues;
'Contempol aneous with these appeals
sensational circulars from Danvllle,
Cumberland and elsewhere, filled
with false statements OF wrongs
committed by blacks; cartoons de-
pictipg negroes plnishing white
children; pictures Of negro men with
white child ON one knee and a
Black child on the other; Infamous
periuries as to the utterances OF our
public speakers, and lies, great and
small, calculated to infame race
prejudice, were spread broadcast
through the white districts Of the
state, backed by corruption money
without stint, while they were stu
diously suppressed in the black dis
tricts and their absence supplied by
doubled funds Of money to buy or
bully" the blacks. As the excite>
ment. thus begotten became more
lntenss-as fhe buyiSsTap blacks
inpractjcabfe-tile violeGnt policy
became the mG necessary to in
timidate blacks ann 1nhame whites.
Arms began to pour into the south
side regions, the supply of small
arm arms in BUR larger cities was e1
hausted, and the demand extended
as far as Baltimore. until one DEM
oci attic headquarters within twenty
miles Of Richmond had forty stand
of muskets and the Danyllle region
was a walking arsenal. The cry
that "white men should rule or die.
the announcement that a war OF
races was upon us, swelled in vol
ume and ferocity. Threats OF the
lives of our leaders became more
common than any other argument
THE DANv:LLE MASSACRE.
Murder in cold blood came IN
Madison County. Days before 1t
was repeated in Danvilie rumors of
the shipment of arms filled the air,
and during the fair week at Rich
mond-long before any outbreak
occurred-the knowing ones were
heard to whisper and mysteriously
predict what might be expected at
the proper time. In due time 1t
came. Who perpetr;.ted it? Let
the Bourbon journals themselves
testify. With what purpose it was
perpetrated let the thousands OF
false circulars turning it to political
account, spread broadcast by the
Bourbons almost before it occurred
and the effect they produced, speak as
10 argument can. The massacre In
DanvilIe is dignified By bourbonism
with the name of riot. The facts,
as gathered from all sources, are that
upon Saturday evening preceding
the election, just after Danvllie
negroes had received their weekly
pay and were buying their Sunday
supplies in crowded market place,
a white man appeared, had an al.
tarcatlon with a negro, and whipped
him. The fight was ended, and no
other negroes came to the rescue OF
the punished man. But the pro
gramme Was not interrupted by,
this circumstance. An armed
gathering Of the ''best people OF
the chest and bravest" was conveu>
iently near, and in moment a
murderous throng poured out OF
the building where they were as>
sembIed, opening a deadly fire upon
the unarmed, defenceleSs and flying
negroes.
UNARMED Negroes SHOT IN THf
BACK.
How many were killed no one
) knows, and no one will probably
learn the truth, for the condition
of things still in Danville is, suct
that the truth cannot be learned
; That they were shot in the back;
t like dogs while running away; that
: no pistol shot was fired by black
a man; that no white man was IN
jured, saye by his own friends; tina
for days the poor victims were fount
T dead IN alleys, in warehouses, an'
under houses, like poisoned rat;
that had crawled away to dieI that
the negroes fled to the woods, t.
to the State of North Carolina, t.
the four winds Of heaven-thes
J. are a few of the facts of this blood,
n wholesale murden which was tele
: graphed far and near by bourbon
., as an irsolent uprisino of the black