Daily Republican., 1883-11-28
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Some Northern men from New York
have lately been writing to General
Bea auregard of New Orleans, In refer
eucc to the security and protection that
would be Afforded 10 Northern men OF
capital who have Republican proclivi-
ties if they would invest their capital
in Louisiana and engage in manufact
urlng. To these inquiries General Beau.
regard wrote as follows
New Orleans, Nov. l4.-Mr. +. S,
Marsh, 81 Wall street, New York City
My Dear Sir Your favor of the 9TH
inst. has been IT ceived, but press OF
business prevented me from answering
sooner. You can assure your friends
that if they come here on business
and TO assist in develnping the com.
mon resources of our country they will
be cordially welcomed, whether Repub
leans or Democrats, and will be at iull
liberty TO vote as they please.
In society they will be treated &C.
c,rding to their personal merits.
At this time, eighteen years aftel
the war, only the worst class OF ro'iti
clans, North and South, are inclined to
keep alive the bad feelings engenderej
by the war.
1.-THE people Of the South, especially
Of Louisiana, want the capital and en-
terprise of the North to come here ant
assist in re- building our ruined home'
and restore prosperity among us. am
yours truly, &C. T. BEAUREGARD."
The New Orleans Times Democra
emphasizes the declaration Of Genera
Beauregald by saying To-day, wLer
man comes among us, no question i'
asked about his politics, but if he Is a
good citizen he is welcomed with the
same cordiality whether he comes from
the North or the South, whether he is a
Democrat or Republican.
What are people to believe in the face
of such declarations =? Why is it to day
that Louisiana, with a majority of IL, 900
Republican votes within her border,
gives that much, and more too, il needt d
Democratic majority?
How Is it that only Republicans are
always killed in the so called election
riots in the South? Look at the vote
cast in the Congressi onal districts and
see il that looks like free voting. Why
is it that an average of p 600 votes are
cast in Northern Con gres>ional districts
and only 1900 votes on an average in
Southern districts ? Who are driven
away from the polls but Republicans ?
Remember Dixon, an Independent
Democrat, who was so bold as to run
for an Office in opposition to the regular
Democracy, and who was shot in the
back and killed in the streets of Yazoo.
Remember the Feliciana murders of
1876 in the Hayes Tilden contiic: in
Louisiana Remember Matthews, who
was shot and killed at the polls on the
sixth of November, at Hazelhurst
Mississippi, simply because he went to
the polls and voted after he had been
warned not to vote. Remember the
concocted and diabolical massacre of
coored men at Danvi lie, Virginia. Re-
member the murders in South Carolina,
in Alabama, in Georgia and in North
Carolina. Republicans all the time
only were murdered. Was there ever
a single man convicted for these mur-
ders? Was not the man who killed
Dixon at Yazoo in cold blood and with
generalization, afterwards elected to
lucrative-rounty tfiice?
Is not the man who shot and killed
Matthews three weeks ago, a peace
officer of Copiah County? Is i not true
that he has not even been arrested
Has a single man been arrested for the
murder of the negroes at Danville ?
How do all these things chime in with
General Beauregard and the New
Orleans Times Haunting lies ? None
know better than they that Republicans
cannot and dare not exercise freely and
safely the right of voting in the South.
Unless General Beauregard can explain
why these murders have been
committed and why the murderers have
not even been arrested, lei him hold his
peace and not entice Nor; hern men
with capital into the South only to be
driven out Of it again, leaving their
capital be hind them.