Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-08
ssTell the Truth..

Inc Irankness and charming simplic-
ity that shinein every line of the follow
ing article from the Oxford Miss
Falcon, published at the home of Sena-
tor Lamar, and regarded as his per-
.sonal organ, makes it gem in the politi-
cal literature of this country. Under
the heading of .Clevcland is Elected
and We are Glad of it. But Was His
Election Altogether Fair?'' the article
goes on to say:
Eve must acknowledge that the dis
cussion OF political questions is not as
free IN the South as in some other Sec
tons os the country. That is, the DEM
ocratic party is SO greatly in the major
lty, 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 a majority. Anyone who opposes
the methods of procedure by which our
Democrats carry their elections, meets
with hasty condemnation on all hands
especially perchance he be a colored
man. Mr.. John Il. Lynch has recently
given expression to his opinion as to
how we have elected Cleveland and
what will be the result of his election.
Aud we may now expect the press of
the State TO be all blood and thunder
after John K. Lynch, but hurt how it
may. he tells the truth in that opinion
more than once. He says Mr.. Cleve-
lands election was by fraud, and that
fraud was in the South, that as many as
twenty-six electoral votes have actually
been obtained by the Democratic party
through fraud. =
sit is great pity that the cons.itu-
ton of our forefathers should bleed for
it is the guardian of our peace and our
prosperity. 1t is the boast of an Ameri-
can citizen that as a sovereign he sits
in judgment upon his rulers, and his
magistrates; tho elective franchise is
the foundation stone of our liberties.
And yet we of the South live year to
year IN violation of these sacred rights.
Instances 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 instance the
end we were to attain justified the
means. Calhoun predicted long before
the emancipation that there would be a
civil conflict; that the negro would be
freed; that the South would be van
pushed, and that he wished he could
live to speak upon the relations of the
colored man to the politics of the
United States. He said they would
naturally side undivided and as a solid
phalanX with the people of the North.
and there would be with them a few
''profligate 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 together
and to have control of their offices of
government, 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 tie Anglo Saxon race, will
submit to be domineered over by any
other race of people, and the Northern
people cannot realize the truth of this
fact because their opposition 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 col
ored mans vote has not been fairly
counted, but we do not think he has vet
reared himself to position where his
voice should have equal weight with
ours. -