The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-27
A FRANK ADMISSION.

Democratic newspaper called The Faicon,
published at Oxford, Mississippi in late editorial
headed cleveland is Elected and we are Glad of
it-But was His Election Altogether Fair?" makes
the following very frank and rather startling ad-
mission:
ave must acknowledge that the discussion of
political questions is not free in the south as in
some other sections of the country. That is, the
Democratic party is so greatly in the majority,
and pounce upon and criticise so vehemently their
opponents that they shrink away in fear and dread
and do not express their opinions as freely as
where they are not conscious of being in q minor
ity. Any one who opposes the methods of pro-
cedure by which our Democrats carry their cleo
tons meets with a hasty condemnation at all
hands, especially perchance he be a colored man.
Mr.. John r. Lynch has recently given expression
to his opinion as to how we have elected Cleve-
land and what will be the result of his election
And we may now expect the press of the state to
be all blood and thunder after John R. Lynch,
but hurt how it may he tells the truth in that
opinion more than once. He says Mr.. Cleveland's
election was by fraud, and that fraud was in the
south ; that many as twenty-six electoral votes
have actually been obtained by the Democratic
q ty throz, 9 ~rs 9rr1, ,,,,ns ,
$50 60 r..y -""~ = --.--4-4aAse--n "a our
forefathers should bleed, for it is the guardian of
our peace and our prosperity. 1t is1he boast of
an American citizen that, as a sovereign, he sits
in judgment upon his rulers and his magistrates !:
the elective franchise is the foundation stone to
our liberties. And yet we of the South live year
to year in violation of these sacred rights. In
stances are too numerous for us to deny it. But
it has been a government of misrule which has
brought us to it, and as we believe, in this in
stance the end We were to attain justified the
means. Calhoun predicted long before the eman-
cipatOn that there would be civil conflict that
the negro would be freed; that the South would
be vanquished, and that he wished he could live
to speak upon the relations Of the coored man to
would naturally side undivided and as solid
phalanx with the people Of the North, and that
there would be with them few 'profigate whites,
who would be seeking the patronage of the federal
government. Only too true have his predictions
proved, and the protection Of the people of the
South has been their determination to stand to-
together and to have control of their offices of gov
eminent, although they were forced to sacrifice
some of the constitutional rights of their former
slaves in the attempt. The southern people, and
in fact none of the Anglo Saxon race will submit
to be domineered over by any other race of peo-
pie, and the northern people cannot realize the
truth of this fact because their oppositions
between whites and whites, and not between
whites and blacks. We know that there have
been numerous election frauds in the South, and
that the colored mans vote has not been fairly
counted, but we do not think he has yet reared
himself to position where his voice should have
equal weight with ours"