New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-18
TILE BELLDOZER'S Gospel.


bulIdozcr we have seen of late is that made by
Alr. Herman, once the ilrc-catulS EuIl0I u Inc
OkOIoHa States. He says
The Sonth would he Republican to-day the niSecrS
were allowed 70 VOTE but when the Northern Democrats
and ofice-secking Southern Democrats say ulal the
rcer are allowed 10 vote they lie, and they know they
ie The Southern people are determined th"' the Niger
shall not vote They are night They tell the rum
believe I'm the shot gun and the revolver lbcIere In
shooting the Niger when necessary, ard ihe Democratic
partv believes in it, But the Democracy is cowardy IL
is irving o yet into power by lying; has abandoned IT'S
principle. for q icN Offices, The Democratic co"
ards i'm Congle, and elsewhere are trying to deceive the
North They say that tc Southern people are Iowa" ''
the NEGROES are enjoying the fullest rights 81 cule h7p
and dat the old flag j. respected "a highly In Ns--spPl
as in Massachusetts,. It's Infamous. dannahl' out
rtgcol fsl5cbood The Southern people are not 10y
the Niger does not enjoy the fullest rights OF cit zen
NOR Is 10 intended that hc shall, and the people OK 1iIs-s-
,ilpi -pt upon the old hIs
We have no comment to make upon Nr. kcr-
mans declaration that the people Of Mississippi
are not loyal. We should bee sorry to believe
that they 81 spit upon the old Tag but we must
leave him to settle the account with the people
whom he practically accuses. He has lived
among them: he is a Democrat and buildozcr
Ike them; and when he says that they " spit
upou the old flag, he speaks from knowledge
we do not possess. But there is conirmatoiy cyl
deucc of the truth of the rest Of what he says.
He tells ,hc truth when he says that Democrat
lie and know they lie when they say that tine
niggcrs are allowed TO vote 1t Is true that
d" the Southern people are determined that thc
Niger shall not vote and every intelligent
man, Democrat or Republican, knows it. We
all know that the negro " does not enjoy the
,,t.'' i'm, tft. mt buf
Mr.. Herman j, one Of the few bulldozcrs with
the courage Of their convictions, who viii stand
ND and say so. The whole course Of the
Southern press and people and public men on
this question is one Of hypocrisy. In public,
they profess, a, rule the most friendly scntl-
mcIts toward the negro in private, they admit
and freely discuss their belief that the negro
vote must be kept down by force if necessary.
If by accident such sentiments rs these, COM
ing from a Southern statesman-mo>t, If not all,
of whom probably cherish them--get into print,
he promptly denies ever having said anything
of the kind. The contrast between the private
view, of Southern men and their public utter
ances is inst rs great rs Mr.. Herman says II IS,
and every man who has been much in the South
knows il. To use the fire-eatcl's honest words,
they lie
Now and then other lre-eateys are honest
too. Mr.. Dodds, lawyer Of CoDiah County
Mississippi, stated as follows to the Senate
Committee in New Orleans
II YOU should send your biggest man, General Grant
down into our county organize the negroes, he would
be killed at once. . . We would have taken life, II
necessary in order to get rid OF them Ghcndependeuts
In some places deny tho right Of franchise to
the majority.
1t Is hardly necessary for us to reprint those
famous resolutions Of the COpah County meet
ing to show how well Mr.. DOdds represented
Mississippi sentiment. 1t is evident Mr.. Herman
represented it too. When he was editing his
paper in Okolona, the Democrats, finding that
he was inuring them by telling the truth IA to
their feelings and purposes, started the silly
story that he was in the pay Of the Republicans.
The internal evidence of Mr.. Kernans utter
ances shows that he is what he PROCESSES to be
Democrat, fanatical and honest. But the in
ternal evidence is not needed when we see his
declarations echoed by much more conservative
and responsible Democrats of the South. There
is no question of the existence of this bloody
and tyranuical spirit in the South, and it is alb
surd to suppose that what is called the bloody
SHIRT" issue can die out until this spirit has
ceased to exist That is the long and short OF
this whole matter