The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-07-05

Hon. John F. Dezendorf, a prominent
Republican, has testified with such truth
and force before tho Sherman lnvesti-
eating Committee as to confound Sher-
man and Lapham, and to lay still more
discontinue upon the already heavily
laden shoulders of the surviving waivers
of the red-hannel shirt.
That well-worn garment is about to
be cast aside forever. and the people of
the whole country have learned at last
that it was colored, not by Southern
dead. but by Northern dye. The de-
ception is exposed-Yankee cOchineal
is not negro life blood.
Mr.. Dezendorf told the story of out
RACES in Virginia, as have been perpe-
trated by Coaltionists, in a way that
was at once concise and direct. He
showed how the alliance of Arthur with
Malone had caused the influence of tho
Administration at Washington to be
used for the basest purposes, and how
the name of the President of the United
States had been bartered to win voters
and secure spoils. He described. as
General Wickham had also described,
the persecution of the colored people
who dared to vote against Malone and
his gang and their sufferings in behalf
Of what they believed to be right.
1t was a well-known fact throughout
Virginia long before election day that
these white renegades had preyed upon
the fears and pre-, udices of the colored
people so greatly as to induce colored
preachers to warn their fiocks against
voting for anybody but Mahoneite;
that they had caused resolutions to be
passed in the colored peoples churches
providing for the expulsion of any men,
Der who would not follow the corrupt
and INSCRIPTIONS Boss; that they had
gone so far as to send their party work
ers into the home of every colored man
who was suspected, and to persuade his
wife that if her husband did not vote for
Mahone's candidate she and her chill
dren would be made slaves again, and
that if her husband refused to heed these
threats she must turn hin6fout of doors
and separate from him forever. To
such depths OF degradation did these
base, cowardly, false tongued renegades
descend in order to keep Office and de-
spoil the people.
Does the country know now what is
the "Situation in VirginiaP'' Do
Radical place-seekers want to know
more of itP Let any man hear the
testimony that is given day by day be-
fore the committee for whose appoint
ment Mr.. Sherman was SO imprudent as
to ask. How many ambitious Rcpub-
licans who have been living on section
alism, and who have hoped to live upon
it for years to come, are cursing now
the i'll bird that has flown from Ohio to
perch in the United States Senate.
But sect:onalism is stale. There is
not, and there should not be in it any
substance longer. There are brighter
and better subjects of interest for the
people than war-hate, which should,
and must, be forgotten. The Danville
investigation has shown to all unpreju-
diced men how hollow are the pretences
OF the bitter, unpatriotic seekers of
place, both Radical and Mahoneite.
The testimony of Mr.. Dezendorf is
another link in the chain that will fet-
ter Sherman and his fellow South-haters
to the rocks that they have sought for
refuge, but that they will soon find are
far out in willis where politicians are
not wont to roam.
The absurdity OF Shcrnan's perform
ance is bringing upon him every day .
shower of ridicule. Richmond Sta,e.