Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-06-25
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum, in Avance

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believe in qualification to limit the suffrage.
We sae!t it any,cay. believe 1t is moral obH-
70 ., ana af
trouble last fall.
While the funeral procession was en- route to
the cemetery the Democrats jeered and howled,
gathered in the yard Of the Matthews residence
and went through such barbarOus jOllifica-
ton as would have disgraced the Nez Perces
Indians. 49,
But even this is not all. The old negro who
was engaged to dig the grave for Matthews
hold" Democrats, thus carrying the malignity
and brutality of the Democracy past even the
utmost limits of bsrbarism.
Nor is this all. I had lengthy talk With
young Reall, who testified at the investigation.
he was bright-eyed, red-cheeked young man
asked him why he did not testify more fully,
as he had admitted to me many startling facts
not brought out on the stand. He replied that
he did not dare do 80, as he would be killed If
he should. He said he supposed he was Dem
ocrat, but he was independent, not member
pported the Matthews party. II shall have
to sell out at Hazelhurst," he said, ''as can't
do business there after testifying against the
"Tai]-holds.' Perhaps they will kill me anyhow,
certainly they would if I had answered the
questions Senator Cameron asked. I shall t2y
to sell out and get up North or to some point
outside of the South. tell you, no man except
q Southern Democrat can live and thrive in
Copiah or any other point In the Solid South.'
Now, as readers of the WISCONSIN know,
Real is dead. The Democrats killed him, and
killed him because of his part in that investi-
cation.
Wheeler has been cleared and undoubtedly
still holds the Office of marshal of Hazelhurst,
and as the Copiahan said in,ltse first issue after
the killing Of Matthews. .tCoPIAH SHAKES
HANDS WITH YAZOO."
a few other facts brought out by the inyestiga-
tion. Frank Hayes, q very bright and intelli-
gent colored Republican, had his leg shattered
by buck-shot because he had resaived q pack
age of Republican votes to peddle. His wife
was also shot, the bullets piercing her neck
and breast. She was on the Stand and
exhibited the wounds made by Democratic
shot to the committee. Eli Salisbury, the old
slave-hOlding senator from Delaware and
member of the investigation committee, per-
sistently refused to look at the poor woman
whom his party had shot to pieces because her
husband had engaged to peddle Republican
tickets, but turned to his colleague and made
leers and jokes. This act caused much un-
| favorable comment, and more firmly grounded
| the belief that the old man, whose patriotism
| in 1861 was according to his public utteranees,
| of certain character, is like the rest of his
party without political heart or even q
| semblance of political honor.
Other cOlOred men were on the stand, some
| with wounded heads, others to relate how their
sons had been killed by the Democrats, others
bearing lash-marks and others still to testify
that their cabins had been burned, their little
possessions destroyed, their neighbors scourged
or slaughtered and that hundreds of their fe)-
lows had been compelled to hide for weeks In
the forests and swamps to escape the Demo-
| cratic barbarans.
The testimony in this case will soon be in
| the hands of the public. I do not suppose q
single Democrat outside of Congress will read
| it.
defy any Northern man of honest convic-
tions and humane heart to read that testimony
and vote the Democratic ticket at the coming
| election!
What do the facts I have related signify? :?
That the Bourbon leaders of the South are de-
termined to control this Republic again, and to
do it in tyranny, barbarism and blood, as they
did previous to 1861.
Some Southerners advocate the exter-
min 1tion of the blacks and some that they
be disfranchised. Others declare, as they did
at Kizer Hill, Ala, that s'the Southern Con-
federacy still exists and Jefferson Davis is yet
our president" War claims. confederate
bonds and currency and rebel obligations con-
tinue to be purchased, and holders or them
put their claims in such a shape that if they
will have no trouble in establishing clear title
to the proceeds, while periodically ''President"
Davis comes to the front and declares that the
state-sovereignty heresy is destined to triumph
and the young who are now growing up to
participate IN public affairs must be taught
that those guilty of rebellion and treason were
right, that they fought and fell for great
principle which will yet rule this country, and
that they must ''cherish the spirit of liberty"
for which their fathers were willing and glori-
| GUS sacrifices
Is the South loyal7 Is it entitled to participate
in public affairs through representatives elected
by means of fraud and blood2 Is it safe to
place its leaders in control Of the government
jeff Davis declares the "lost cause" will yet
triumph and that if he had it to do over again
he would do as he did IN 1861.
If had seat in Congress. should use my
utmost endeavor to prevent any Southern rep
resentative entering the capitoli until he had
shown that he had been elected without ballot
box stufing, without whipping or bulldozing
negroes, without shooting the wives of negro
Republicans, without slaughtering white or
black Republicans, without false counting, with
out killing tn stock or burning the houses Of Re
publicans- short, without any form of fraud,
intimidation or bloodshed whatever.
The time will come when this must be done.
At present the Republican party Of the North
contains too many towards. They are taken
with quivers and qualms whenever the Demo-
Gratis yell s'sectonaism" or s'bloody-shirt. "
We should shake the bloody-shirt as long as
the Southern Democrats make the shirt bloody.
We should have little backbone, little COM
, mon courage. I say that the blood of the
12,eoO blacks who have fallen in the South =, as m
martyrs to the Republican cause demands that
, we stand by their survivors like men and see
that they can vote the Republican or any other
: ticket and have the ballots, counted without
losing their lives or property:
Civilized history stands without a parallel to
the crimes, frauds and killings OF the Southern
, Democrats, yet large portion Of the people OF
, the North are now gravely advocating the en-
, thronement Of the perpetrators of those frauds,
!, crimes and killings.
If the lovers Of fairness, patriotism, liberty,
safety and purity should do their duty, there
would not be single Democratic congressman
, chosen in the Northern states at the coming
election.
We have tried conciiation, disastrous con-
citation. for fifth Of century, and the South
is as solid, the black and white Republicans as
thoroughly disfranchised as ever, and the rebel
Democrats as1 malignant and disloya' as ever.
Our policy of Cancellation has therefore been
failure, and we must adopt some other.
will have to be done, and the sooner the better.
| 1t will have to be done because it is q debt we
! owe to the dead volunteers, the wounded vet
Grams, and their sorrowing widows ana Or
. phans; debt we owe to the 1000, COO blacks
whom we turned loose unprepared for the bit
ter storm that at, once overlook them; q debt
We owe to the foundation principles of our
form Of government; sacred debt we owe to
patriotism, civilization and right.
The undisputed facts in relation to Copiah
, are best an index to the condition and senti-
: ment of several states of the solid South. Let
, the honest hearts and clear heads Of the NORTH
ponder over them aud say what shall be done
> It is not necessary to resort to force or vio-
lence; but it is necessary that no Democratic
president, senator, or representative who owes
his election to fraud or bloodshed, shall, under
: any circumstances, ever be permitted to take hi
[ sest. 90. FRANK A. FLOWER.
OUT OF THE GRAVE.